Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-05-19
NUMBER 20.


the Two races are not blended, neither is
reduced to slavery. and in Mexico both
Unite against the comm n foe. Race has
nothing to do with the question. The
Indian and Spaniard live together because
both are civilized and both are Christian
and both are interested in the same laws
an government and industry.
I wait patiently till the gentleman ad-
ducc their historic facts upon which to
rest their theory of the necessary contest
Of races to reply to them. / have dealt
only with those they have furnished.
III, honorable gentleman from New
York Mr.. Brooks arraigned the harsh,
hard-hcarted conduct of Massachusetts
toward the Indians. The war of Massa-
chusetts on the Indians was that of a
civilized and Christian people against a
people of different religion, and which
refused every form of American civiliza-
ton. The same differences of religious
and social organization prevents the tolc-
ration of Mormon people in any Of our
States hitherto. He might have found
an example nearer at home. The only
example upon the American continent of
a war on the peace and quiet of the ne
gro is the riots in New York city last
summer, when Scymour's friends, the
Pahdees, undertook to show their Demo-
cratic mercy to the wretched negro. !
agree that it is possible that such class
of population as that might be tempted
to opprcss the negro; but no class OF
Amtric population would condcsccnd
to do it. There was more of Democratic
hostility to the Government than Celtic
hostility to the negro An argument
without fact is not likely to carry con-
viotion; but the gentleman from New
York did not venture to use the only one
pertinent to his purpose, which bad men
had prepared at his very Threshold.
Then what are YOU going to do with
them? The President and the common
tator say, go to kindred races and con-
genial climcs. Where? TO Texas That
is abandoned. To Central America for
the purpose of making connection be-
tween the great oceans? That was re-
spectfully declined. To South Ameri-
ca? | have not heard that the President
has been successful there in finding a
kindred race willing to receive thcm.-
Back to Africa Won't you ask as a
matter of kindnes to transplant the Irish
Lack to ireland, to kindred race and
congenial bogs? Who inhabit Mexico
Who inhabit Central America Who in
habit South America? ] take it the In
dian Of this Peninsula is further removed
f.om the negro Of the African peninsula
than we are who come more directly from
the common stock of central Asia. Then
to transplant them there would be putting
a greater diversity of races together te
come into collision Or will they love
each other. though alien in race. because
of their colorY Is skin deep the depth Of
their philosophy!
In the Imagination of the commentator
Cuba is the central empire of the negro /;
and strange as it appears, while one par
ty of colonizationists are talking of trans
planting the negro to the coast of Africa,
the commentator on the Presidents poll
cy grows enthusiastic over the vision o.
the negroes settled in the American trop-
les inviting their brcthern from Africa tc
this western world "A new Canaan fol
that outcast and rescued race2 What
becomes of the Spaniard and his rights
What becomes of the rights of the white
population D.? What becomes Of the aris.
tocratic Spaniard who has been crushing
generation after generation in Cuba to
enhance his wealth? How is he to re-
ceivc the African in spite of the diversity
of race. Is the Spaniard nearer in blood
because Spain is nearer geographically to
Africa? The theory of the incompati,
bility of different races has no foundation
in history. The moment you come tc
state it in words, and ask what it means,
all the theory, all the philosophy, and
all the facts break down, and there is the
end of it. It's very advocates discard ii
in their dreams.
But we are ourselves interested little
in this question of expectation of tho ne
gro. The President proposes to pay
loyal owners for loss of slaves BY the acts
of the United States. That is part OF
scheme of settlement. Blu, who will sub
nit to additional millions Of taxation fol
slaves freed by the United Statesf Such
debt would equal the war debt: II
would PROSTATE the resources of the
country for generations it would infiic
the scouragc of perpetual debt on lan(
destroyed by civil war, and made des
ert by the deportation of its laborine
population The free men Of the free
States will not mortgage the labor Of
their sons and daughters for such a pur
pose and the loyal men of the soutl
must, and will, find their indemnity ir
the increased value of their lands, if they
are not deprived of their labor.
Sir, am Marylander, not " nor
thcrn fanatic" My father was a slave
holder. was myself for years slave
holder. / have lived nearly all my lif
in Maryland. know the temper Of hel
people, l have lived for years in Vir
ginia. know the tcE;par of her people,
know the relations of the white ant
black population in those States, and
am going to state some facts to the Hous
nearer home than those cited by tn
drcamers.
In Maryland We have more free ncgroe
than any other State in the Union. Nir
ginia stands next. She has some fift,
thousand among five hundred thousan
slaves, and we have cighty-three thou
sand among eighty-scvcn thousand slaves
One eight of our population is free negro
In 1859, just before the rebellion, ther
was what was called in Maryland
" Shareholders convention" phenom
enon under the sun--ft precursor of tn
slave confederacy! Nobody could be ad
mittcd who did not own slaves and thei
purpose was, as their resolutions indicate
when introduced, to put an end to fre
negroism in Maryland for the advantae
of the white population. There was or
man in that assembly who was not Graz