Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-10-19
VOL. Il--NO. Il

above all its burdens and tramrneIs, and
finally, in this country reached the full
fruition of republican freedom.
We grant this mental inferiority of the
African-(we forbear, in the spirit of So
briefly, any physical contemplation or cou-
trast)-does not give dominant race the
right to convey him from his own be-
nighted land to foreign bondage. even
under the forms of purchase from his
African master. But this natural inferi-
ority MUST be considered by the statesman
in framing laws, and adopting Constitu-
tons for human government In Penn
sylvania we have always affirmed this in
feriority in our fundamental laws and
the same has been done in almost all the
free States of the Union-eenerally ex-
| Guiding the African from the right of
suffrage, This necessity of duly regard
ing the law of races, is thus forcibly COM
mented upon by Lamartine "a scholar and
a statesman, always in favor of mans
! largest 1iberty) in a recent work:
The more l have Travelled. the more am
convinced that races Of men form the great
! secret q men and manners. Man is not SO
capable Of education as philosophers una,
| CINE. The influence of Government and
| laws has less power radically, than is sup
posed, over the manners and instincts OF
| any people. While the primitive constitu-
! ton and blood of the race have ALWAYS their
influence, and manifest themselves thou
| sands Of years afterwards in the physical
! Formation and habits of particular family
! or Ullbe. Human nature flows in rivers and
| streams in the vast ocean Of humanity but
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| they never mingle, and it emerges again,
| like the Rhone from the Lake Of Geneva,
| with It's own taste and color. Here is in
| deed an abyss of thought and meditation,
and at the same time q grand secret for
! legislators is long as ttey keep the spirit
! Of TIE race IN rie'c they succeed; but they
| fail when they strive against this natural
| predisposition nature is stronger than Mey
are.
But why thus enlarge upon topic
| winch has undergone so much, and such
| frequent discussions Why-because this
idea Of working out negro equality on the
| part Of our opponents IS tie UeIy bass Of
orr present political struggle Let no man
be mistaken. This is really the leading
issue at the present moment between tue
two parties. To carry out tbs idea has
come at last to be tie zuiEHg, il not tie sole
purpose Of tie 2car lrticb is no1c dellsyiag
| tie lJ.d 5-jth JsutsEaal blood! For this.
/ the Constitution and the reserved rights
of the Sta;es and the people have been
nocAingly trampled under foot; for this,
! both imperious ana imperial edicts, such
as would send to the block any monarch
! in England, have been issued by the Presi-
! dent, and sought TO be enforced for this,
| Secretary Stewards boast 10 Lord Lyons
- can touch my office bell at any
moment, and order TO be arrested any
citizen Of this country has been all too
frequently realized!
The extent TO which the party support
ing the President are willing to 90 in ne
gro aiiiiaJlon, finds a memorable illustra-
ton in the proposition made by Secretary
! Cameron, the first OF the several Occu-
pants Of the place OF Secretary OF War
| under President Lincoln. He coolly pro-
| posed, in his first and last annual commu-
uicatiOn, to free, and then TO arm the
! whole black population of the South,
and turn them against their white mas
! tors in work of indiscriminate butchery
| Think Of horde of rude and reckless
! "
ID, their appetites whetted with the thirst
Of slaughter, given a license to 90 forth
10 dcyastate, to kill, and to spare not
And this is the policy of white men, pro-
posed TO a Christian government! As
| well turn loose to prey upon society the
bowling maniacs of mad-house, as to
make the African master of his situation,
and place in his hands the means of law
less wantonness and outrage To whom
would he be responsible To whom would
he owe allegiance? With such power once
| in his hands, and filled with the purposes
Of revenge and lust, or crazed with the
stimulous Of blood and plunder, what
power short of death could stay his hand
or stop his demoniac career! This truly
internal suggestion was not adopted by
the President when first proposed, but it
has since been acted upon in more in
! stances than one.
We have charged the party at present
in power, fellow-citizens, with tyranny
ana usurpation. We now 60 further, and
solemnly assert our belief. that there is
deliberate design 10 change the character,
If not the form of our government. The
!eading papers in the support of the Adj
miuistration openly advocate a modifica-
ton which will place greater powers in
the hands of the Presidents and if their
advice shoald be adopted by the people,
in short time the chains will be firrr y
rivited, aud our liberties completely