Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-06

untrue, and that the white race in tht
South had been the guardians, the pro-
tectOrs, the beuetactors of the black man
that they had elevated him in the scale OI
rational existence; that they had Chris
tianiLed him to n state to which he had
never before attained. lie only desired
Englishmen to listen, not to opinions NOT
to nisrepresentHtiOns, but to facts. When
the American continent was discovered
and occupied by the European race, il
came into contact with two savage
races. One was the noble Indian race,
the ancient occupiers OF tho continent,
aud the highest type OF savage man
hood; the other race was one brought
there, not by agency of the Southern peO-
pie, but by agencies which he would not
then discuss. II was the African race,
which all philO sophers and historians pro.
nounCed TO be the lowest type OF natural
man. II was a race without God, with
out rational ideas-cannibals not attaining
even TO the civilization of the fig leaf
"Hear," aud a laugh. What had been
the history of the two races he had deserib-
ed? The Indian race-the noble race in
capable of domestic life, of anything but
its wild and nOmadic life--had been driven
back to continually narrowing circles, with
constantly diminishing means of subsis-
1CuSNt huu az AhuRCI NOLuPlGk Ca
tinctiOn before the advancing wave OF
civilization. But the other race, the negro,
with all his foulness and barbarity, being
naturally servile race, had become do
mesticated, and in spite of the institution
of slavery, if they pleased, but still with
slavery, had risen higher and higher in the
rational scale, until now it furnished he
roes and heroines for modern romances,
pSemS for modern songs, while some had
been deemed by statesmen fitted to enter
within the charmed circle of social and
political equality. Hear. An institution
that has done so much for the race must
be considered carefully. He might be told
that, having brought the negro up to the
point of civilization, the South owed 1t to
ChristendOm to emancipate them. Hear,
hear. 10 answer, he would refer to the
opinions of British statesmen, British trav-
elIers and philosophers, who were united in
the opinion that the emancipation of that
race at the time, and especially in the
mode pointed out by those in the North,
who were SO enamored of constitutional
government, would lead to an appalling
crisis for both races. Hear. But,
that were SO or not, he could safe |
ly say that if that race had risen to the
rank of christian and fellow men, and If
the time should ever come for them to be- |
lisVe that liberty would be "a boon and not
a curse, then the South would be prepared
to confer that boon upon them. CheeEs.l
If that time should ever come they would
be capable OF asserting their own claims,
and the whites could Tot if they would
the boon. Hear, hear.1 Mis-.
had been constantly made |
to the English people upon the subject,
aud it had been said that in the South the
II 1,, mud |
that be bad no legal rights. But that was
not true. The laws OF every sovereign |
State awarded the penalty of death for the |
rsugdaE. ola .slNRe, and impFiBonpent, In the |
pebitvgtiary was the puuiShmentIor maims |
Ing. fHere, and ''time."