Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-08
WlOttester 4ailg Spy,
The Curious Negro.

The Curious Negro.
Were it possible for an inhabtant of some
of the planets to visit our part OF the confed-
eracy of the solar system, he would doubtless
be able to find many very noticeable objects
upon this lump of revolving earth that we call
the globe. Among the marvela which,-if
they could be transported thither,-the Bar
mum of one of those other spheres might
fancy he could make fortune from, is the
modern negro-hating Christian. Another is
that renowned inconsistency, the pro-slave-
ry democrat. But the prodigy pre-eminent
above all others would, likely enough, be that
man-anmal or animal-man called a colored
person by abolitionists an African by con-
sentative reigionists, negro by scientific
men, and a niger by those whites who fancy
him to have becn created to be their slave
The color of this image of God carved in ebo-
ny is, as we used to be taught, the mark
set upon Cain ''lest any finding him should
kill him" and so, perhaps, prevent his pos
terity from becoming bondmen to the other
descendants of Adam. But, unfortunately,
this bit of historical teaching leaves
us none the wiser, since the children
of the first murderer did not survive
the flood! Another lesson of our infancy was
that the wretched flight of the modern negro
is the hereditary curse invoked upon Canaan
by Noah, after the latters unlucky experience
In wine-drinking. But this theory, like the
other, avails us no longer, now that no evil
dence can be found that the African people
are descended from Ham. Besides, the COM
pleXion of the vast majority of our American
slaves argues large share of common blood
with their masters, blood which might be
easily traced back to those Anglo-Saxons of
the mother-country, around whose necks their
lordly Norman conquerors were accustomed
to solder the brass collar of servitude. TWEEN
ty-tive or thirty years ago, the purists of
Boston dragged Mr. Garrison along their
streets, with a gallows-looking halter about
his neck, for the crime of having applied the
free-and-equai doctrines of the Massachusetts
bill of rights to the extraordinary crea-
ture we are now writing about. This
also seems strange, now. Another pecu-
liarity of our wonderful specimen of animated
nature is the very remarkable philosophical
fact, that, while sitting beside us as an equal,
his body emits an odor so offensive that we
can hardly eat our dinners, whereas, if equal
ly close to us in the character of q servant
this same bipedal monster smells as sweet as
any rose from Araby the blest The same
planter who declares that this human orang-
outang will not work except under the lash,
points out to us scores of slaves who have
bought their time of their masters, gone out
for wages, and earned enough to buy them
selves, their wives and children out of that |
servile condition in which they are all said to
he contented to remain. And we have been
fools enough TO DeIlcve III rnIs innate lndo-
lence, and especially in this contentment, as
if any man or any animal, or any thing else
that breathes, ever was, or ever will be con-
tent to submit to a master! But these Great
ures, even when contented, are still SO dis
contented that no fugitive slave law has been
strong enough to deter them from escaping at
the rate of over thousand year! o We
Barnums of the moon and elsewhere! don't
you wish you had this sublunary wonder?
Again, the negro is so cowardly that there
is no fight in him, Notwithstanding what
we have read about St. Domingo, Nat Tur-
ner, John Browns followers, &C., &c. And
more than this, the presidents proclamation,
denounced as harmless thunder, villas we
are told-cause this contented cowardly race
of beings to spread indescribable slaughter
and desolation throughout the whole south
If freed, too, this natire Of africa, who Gas
his ancestors before him) was born in Ameri
ca, will come north and underworld our la
borers here down to the starvation point;
while at the same time he will continue to re-
main in the sunny land which he loves, and
we whites shall be obliged to support him, as
miserable pauper! o, Barnum of the moon,
where are you? How blameless, during this
rebellion, has been the conduct of the colored
population of the revolted states, Ignorant and
ensaved as they are! And yet their eXpatri-
alton seems to those in power as the only
price of their emancipation. Another thing
we used to be told. 1t was that no white man
could work ut-doors, at the south. But the
brave old democrat, Butler-as London Times
Russell before him-has assured us that white
men can work in Louisiana (where is the
worst climate of the whole south) just as well
as the negrol
But enough of this. We grow quite sick
of the lies which we have heard all our lives,
from pulpit and press and platform and legis-
lative halls, in defence of that accursed system
of oppression which has well nigh destroyed
this entire country. The day of its final ex-
tinction has now, at last, dawned, and-come
what may-we say, God speed the glorious
proclamation which is to remove this foul blot
from our American civilization! ~
For the Worcester Daily Spy.
An Anonymous Letter.