The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-05-12

on the part Of the white as well as the blacks
But it is, indeed, deplorable that you should
use a ludicrous assertion of that description
as one Of the Inducements to prevent the
abolition Of slavery. The negroes would
smell at least as sweet when free, as they
now do, being slaves. t-A
Your important allegation is, that the ne
groes are naturally, an inferior race. That
is totally gratuitous assertion upon your
part. In America you can have no opportu-
nifty of seeing the negro educated. On the
contrary, in most of your States it is a
crime-sacred heaven crime to educate
even free negroI How, then, can you
judge Of the negro race, when you see them
despised and condemned by the educated
classes-reviled and looked down upon as
inferior? The negro race, has, naturally,
Some of the finest qualities. They are nat
urally gentle, generous, humane, and very
grateful for kindness, They are as brave and
fearless as any other of the race of hui
man beings but the blessings of education
are kept from them and they are judged Of
not as they would be with proper cultivation
but as they are rendered by cruel and
and debasing oppression, 1t is as old as the
days Of Homer, who truly asserts that the
day which sees a man slave takes away
half his worth Slavery actually bru talizes
human beings.
1t is about sixty years ago, when one Of
| the Shieks, not far south of Fee, in Morocco
who was in the habit of accommodating white
slaves, upon being strongly demonstrated
with by European Power, gave for his re-
| ply that, he found it quite manifest that
white men were of an inferior race, intended
by nature for slaves and he produced his
own brutalized white slaves to illustrate the
truth of his assertion. And case CT an
| American, with historic name-John Ad-
ams-is quite familiar. Some twenty-five
years ago-not more-John Adams was the
sole survivor of an American crew wrecked
on the African coast He was taken into
the interior as the slave of an Arab chief,
| He was only for three years slave, and the
| English and American Consuls having been
informed of a white mans slavery, claimed
him and obtained his liberation. In the
short space of three years he had become
completely brutalized; he had completely
forgotten the English language, without
having acquired the native tongue. He
spoke a kind OF gabble, as unlntellectual as
the dialects of most of your negro slaves;
and many months elapsed before he recover
ed his former habits and ideas.
| 1t is also a curious fact, as connected with
! America. that the children of the Anglo
Saxon race, and of other Europeans born in
America, were for many years considered as
a degraded and inferior class Indeed it
was admitted, as if it were an axiom, that
the native-born American was in nothing
equal to his European progenitor; and SO
| far from the fact being disputed, many
| phiosophic dissertations were published
to account for the alleded debasement. The
only doubt was about the cause oft No
| body doubted" to use your own words, that
the native born Americans were really an
inferior race" Nobody dares to say now,
and nobody thinks it. Let it then be recol-
lected that you have never yet seen the ne
gro educated. An English traveller through
Brazil some few years ago,mentions having
known negro who was priest, and who
was a learned, pious and exemplary man III
his sacredotal functions. We have been
lately informed Of two negroes being educa-
ted at the Propaganda and ordained priests,
both having distinguished themselves in
their scientific and theological course. The
French papers say that one of them celebra-
ted mass, and delivered a short but able SER
mon before Louis Philippe 1t is believed
they have gone out with the Right Rev. De-
! Barton on inc African lnlSSlou.
We appeal, therefore, that tojudge prop
erly Of the negro, you should see him educa-
ted and treated with the respect due to Il
fellow creature-uninsuted by the filthy
aristocracy of the skim and untarnished to
the eye Of the white by any association COLI
nected with the state of slavery.
We next refer to your declaration that the
: two races, viz: the black and white, cannot
1 -
and your Institutions This is an extraor-
binary assertion to be made at the present
9 day. You allude, indeed to Antigua and
Bermudas. But wewill take you to where
the experiment has been successfully made
upon large scale-namely, to Jamaica.
There the two races are upon a perfect
equality in point of law. The law docs not
recognize the slightest distinction between
the races. You have borrowed the far
greater part of your address from the cant
: phraseoiogy which the West Indian slave
owners, aad especially those of Jamaica,
> made use of before emancipation. They
g used to assert, as you do now, that abolition
= meant destruction that to give freedom to
. the negro would be TO pronounce the assaS-
: sination Of the whites; that the negro, as
soon as free would massacre their former
owners, and destroy their wives and fami-
q lies. In short, your prophesies OF the
destructive effects Of emancipation, are but
faint and foolish echoes of the prophetic APP
prehensions Of the British slaveowners.-
They might, perhaps, have believed their
; own assertions, because the emancipation OF
tie negroes was then an untried experiment.
But you-you are deprived of any excuse
for the re-assertion OF disapproved calun-
ny.
The emancipation has taken place-the
comper sation given by England was not
given o. the negroes, who were the only
persons that deserved compensation. 1t was
an additional wrong--an additional cause of
irritation to the negroes; but, gracious
Heaven! how nobly did that good and
kindly race-the negroes -falsify the calum-
NOUS apprchensions of their task-masters
Was there one single murder consequent on
the emancipation Was there one single
: property? Was there any property spoiled
! or laid waste? The proportion of negroes
in Jamaica to white men is as 300 to so, or
30 per cent, Yet the most perfect tranquil
ity has followed the emancipation. This
criminal courts are almost unemployed; nine
tenths of the iails are empty and open; uni
versal TRANQUILITY reigns. Although the
landed proprietors have made use of the
harghest landlord power to exact the hard
est terms by way of rent from the negroe,
! and have also endeavored to extort from
him the largest possible quantity of labor
E for the smallest wages, yet the kindly negro
e race have not retaliated by one single act of
; violence or vengeance; the two races exist
together, ubon equal terms, and under Brit
;oh ipetittr fiouc
Or shall you say that the British Govern
ment and British institutions are preferable
to yours? The vain and vaporing spirit Of
mistaken Republicanism will not permit you
to avow the British superiority. You are
bound however reluctantly, to admit that gu
periority, or else the falsity Of your own as
Nnthir,1r l., L.,