North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-10-05

and idle drea IN, hich brief contrast Of the I
progress and pecuiarities must dispelI from O
avery thoughtful mind. Z aEsaJaBs9 ~
A little more than. two. centuries since
when our fathers firSt plantea few germs Of
our race at scattered points along the North
American cost, the whole number Of that
race in the old world did not exceed six mil
lions. England, Scotland and Wales then
numbered fewer Inhabitants than New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio do now. Mark the
progress in North America at this time lin
ctudirg wholesome Celtic in(uslon,) there
are at least thirty mil lions, and in the whole
world (confessng therealso the same infusion
from eighty to ninety millions of peosle, sub
stantllly Anglo Saxon in their origin. We
are everywhere thus dsplacing the more
sluggish races, or hemming them in on every
side and at this current rate Of increase, in
one hundred and fifty years from this time,
will run up TO eight hundred millions Of hu-
man beings-all speaking the same language
rejoicing in the same high intellectual culturr
able characteristics .-.
On the other hand, the African race has
never, anywhere, gwen any proof Of its capa-
city for self sustained civilization. Since
the sun first shone on that continent it ha>
remained IN the same state of mental gloom
CIpeI, brutal, voluptuous, and indo!ent by
notnpa he fricon hos npyar ad sim
lie step beyond his own savage original
Ndrery has erer been and TO this hour con
times to be- his normal condition, Mrough-
ou erery cline he can call has oUn And
vet they have had as many opportunities o.
Improvement as the inhabitants of Asia or OF
Europe. Along the shores Of the Medlterra-
mean was once concentrated the Llterat urt
and Science Of the world. Carthage, the ri
val nt imperial Rome in all the arts Of com
nerce ard cvillzation,exested for many years
on the African border. The Saracens, the
most polished race of their tune founded and
maintained for centuries contiguous empire
Sull. for all this, the African has continued to
prowl on through his long right Of bar barism
and thus, in all human probability, he Will
continue forever. Tell US not that his want Of
progress In civilization is the result of lorg
established bondage. So, for centuries, vas
our own race bound 10 the earth under varl-
Gus notifications of predlal vass iage. Bu;
the white soul expanded, and mounted above
all lis burlhens and trammels, aud finally, IL
this Country, reached The full frultlon of re-
publican freedom.
We grant this mental inferorltY of the AZ
rIcanw Sc forbear, in The spirit OF sobrlciy,
any physical contemplation or contraS)-
does not give a dominant race the right TO
convey him from his own benightcd land to a
foreign bondage, even under the forms Of a
purchase from hls African master. Bat thu
natural intrriority must bg considered by the
statesman In framing laws, and adopting Con
stitutions for human government. In Penn
sylvania We have always affirmed this nleri-
ority in our fundamental laws and the same
has been in almost all the free States Of the
Union-generally excluding the African from
the right of suffrage. This necessity of duly
regarding the law of races, is thus forclbly
commented upon by Lamartine(a scholar and
a statesman, always in favor Of mans largest
ll6sr'y Gn o recent work sR sEF ,gs-
The more Ihsve travelled, the more am conyiu
ced that races Of men form the great secret. Of men
@..t4 manners. Man is not SO capable of education
as philosophers imagine. The influence of Govern.
ment and laws has, less power, radically than is
supposed the manners ami instincts Of any peo-
pie. While the primitive constitution and blood of
the race have always their influence, and manifest
thousands of years afterwards in the
physical formation and habits of particular fami-
~ or tribe Human nature hows in rivers and
treams in the vast ocean of huma nifty but its wa
ters mingIe but slowly-sometmes they never
mingle and it emerges again. like the Rhone from
the Lake of Geneva, with its own taste and color
Here is, udeed an abyss Of thought an meditation
and at the time grand secret for legislature
As long heykeep the spiritot the race in v.e,o
fhey succeed but they fail when they strive against
this natural predisposition ;nature is stronger than
they are. .aa-.#. -..-r u.ra.-..
But why thus enlarge upon topic which
has undergone SO much and such freoeen,
discussion Why because this idea of work
in~ nrt "e1~n on"nlitr IN tho mart. o. our -
% --S '."s. e4 .~--..., - - " out -
ponents is The uery basis of var present
politG al struggle. Let no man be mistaken,
This is really .the leading ~ at the present
moment between the two parties. To carry
ont, his idea has come al last TO be lie rmling
If not The sole purpose Of the rar chich IS
noao delueing he lind ao,th fralernal blood!
For this, the Constitution and the reserved
rights Of the States and the people have been
mocklngly trampfed under foot for this. both
imperious and imperial edcts, such as would
send to the block any monarch, in England.
have been issued by the President, and
sought to be enforced for this, Secretary
Seward's boast to Lord Lyons-''l can touch
my office bell at any ,momn,, apd order to