The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-02-21
Why, then, in the face of this we'll

authenticated fact, do the Abolition
lists, fanatics, and many leaders of the
Republican party, persist in their
wild and reckless theories, whose
development has brought the Union
to the very verge of the precipice? Is
it for want Of hobby-a plausible
story--a Sympathetic tale of woe, up
on which to ride into power?
But let us suppose this party to be
honest and conscientious in its belief
that its policy is for the good of the
negro-that its ultimate object, to
colsnize lim-to place him in a coun-
try to himself, where every favor,
liberty and right, social and polltl-
cal, shall be allowed him; still is there
acisdom in it, yea, is there a credlta-
BILE amount of common sense? Do
not the pages of science and history
TEEN with great facts in reference to
this policy which show it to be who'll
" absurd? Facts which may be
sneered at, but from which there is
no rational and logical escape. Facts
which a morbid philanthropy may
attempt to pervert, but which stand
ou 80 clearly and distinctly, that no
SCI lble and unprecedented man will
deny them. They show that the ne
gro is of an inferior race, deficient in
Judgment, and incapable Of self-gov-
ernment. We had but a few days
ago, in published article, the testi-
mony of Admiral Foote, whose vast
experience and friendship for the ne
gro, render his testimony invaluable.
He tells us that "the African in his
native land has never reached a high
err rank than the King Of Dahomy.
No philosopher among them has
caught sight of the mysteries of ma
ture. No poet has illustrated heav-
en-, earth or the life Of man. No
statesman has ever done anything to
Tighten or brighten the links Of hu-
man policy. In fact, ii all that ne
groes in Africa, before the settlement
OF Liberia, have accomplished, were
to be obliterated forever, the world
would lose no great truth; 10 profit
able art; no exemplary form Of life.
The loss of all that is African would
suffer no remarkable deduction from
anything-but the earth's black cat
alogue of crimes. " Where then, we
ask, is the prudence, the object, the
consistency, the foresight. the Wis
dem, the common sense, in this great
Abolition platform-this omniscient
and irrepressible scheme upon which
they base their "hopes for this life,
and the life to come THE Coloni-
cation of the Negro Who is to
make their laws? who to eXpnund !?
who to execute? Did ever mind pro-
Jet scheme Of government for a
race among which there was no dig
nifty of intellect, no leading class, no
Development of Judgment and mind
sufficient upon which to rest its Of
fces2 Would you hive s,Oarm Of
bees without a king? That must in
deed be a novel and a superior sys-
tenn Of government to any yet devils
ed by man, which is to be supported
and controlled independently of the
directing power of mind. How can
the humble subject be loyal to a gov
ernmont whose forms he cannot com
prehend, nor its leaders expeund?-
We might gather together the phys
ical force Of an entire race Of such a
people; we might congregate a mass
of humanity whose brute force would
turn the earth from its orbit; yet
even amid such force, without the
controlling influence Of intellect at
its head, the simplest form Of gov
eminent would be of no more effect,
than system of laws to the eagle on
it's eyrie And yet it is upon this one
seemingly worse than absurd object
this foolish though repeated expe-
rimeut Of colonizing the negro, that
the party in question avow them
selves to be established.
We recollect reading from a phi
losopher who was accustomed to sum
up his experience of human nature
by saying-"Mankind is a id
rascal" But were the entire race Of
mankind Abolitionists; and were we
called upon to estimate the intellec-
tual worth Of the race, from their po-