The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1864-10-22

l2J OJINlbiIAbE, plsit AN' "a eAAS IN ~'--~''-
party never meant peace--never sought
peace from first to last, at any time or in
any from, save upon the one drcar and
dovilish condition of turning loose upon
our land three and half millions of
black semi. barbarians under the specioua
pretensc of freedom: while in reality, it
was only to tear 50 many of these poor
'eatures away from their homes Of cons
parative happiness aud peace, to find
starvation, misery and death in au in-
hospitablc cline !
President lincoln has but recently de.
clarcd, in very definite terms, he will
listen to no proposition Of peace which
does not include this African millennium,
notwithstanding those plain constitution.
al prohibitions Of all right on the part OF
the General Government thus to inter
vene. which lie himself, with the oath
Of Office fresh upon his lips, declared
he "had no 'Gyatright and no intention"
to disregard.
If we were to credit the rawlings Of the
chief advises of the President, or, at
least, those who seem to influence him
most fully--Sumncr, Beecher and Phil
! lips-humau reason has been making
such rapid progress in these latter days.
that the haven of human perfection must
be near at hand But alas! when We
look hopefully for the blessed gale which
| is to bear us onward in its course, we
hear nothing but the loud breath Of the
tempest; see nothing all around us but
! the ansry and troubled sea, everywhere
sparkling with foam and surging in its
madness; and We are tempted to ask, can
this indeed be-
"The wind and the storm fulfilling
his word!'
These men are mistaken and mad, or
are traitors of the deepest dye, deserving
a traitors darkest doom. This equality
Of the black and white races which they
are seeking to establish in this country
is an absurd and idle dream, which a
Lrier contrast Of their progress and pecu>
liarities must dispel from every thought,
iul mind.
A little more than two centuries since,
when our fathers first planted few
gelms of our race 1T scattered points
along the North American coast, the
whole number of that race in the old
world did not exceed six millions. Eng
land. Scotland a.. Wales then number
ed fewer inhabitants than New York,
Pcnusylvania and Ohio do now. Mark
the progre IS; in North America at this
time (includiug wholesome Celtic in-
fusisn,) there are at least thirty millions,
and in the whole world (confessiug there
! also the same Infusion from eighty to
ninety millions of people, substantially
Anglo-Saxon in their origin We are
l. everywhere thus displacing the more
sluggish races, or heatning them in on
eycry side aud at this current rate of
Increase in one hundred and fifty years
from this time, will run up to eight hun
dred millions Of human beiugs-all
speaking the same language, rejoicing
in the same high intellectual culture,
e and exhibiting the same inherent and
inalleniabIe characteristics
On the other hand, the African race
has never, anywhere, given any proof Of
its capacity TOR seif-sustained civilliza-
ton Since the sun first shOne on that
continent it has remained in the same
state Of mental gloom. Cruel. brutal,
- vouptuous, aud INDECENT by nature, the
Il African has never advanced single step
! beyond his own savage original. Sla-
rery las crer been, anil to his hour con-
times 10 be, his nofm0l condition,
Mroughpm eccry climc he can call has
> olga! And yet they have had as many
opportunities of improvement as the
n inhabitents Of Asia Or of Europe. Along
c the shores of the Mediterranean was
$ once concentrated the Literature and
/, Science of the world Carthage, the
l. rival of imperial Rome in all the arts of
's commerce and civilization, existed for
l. many years on the African border The
| Saracens, the most polished race of shsir
d time, founded and maintained for cen
e turies a contiguous empire. Still, foI
y all this, the African has continued tC
e prowl on through his long night Of bar,
Di barism and thus, in all human proba
n, bility, he will continue forever. Tol
Of us not that his want of progress in civ
10 iizatlon is the result of long establahc.
1t bondage. 80, for centuries, was GU
it own race bound to earth under variou
Of notifications Of predial vassahge. Blu
II the white soul expandep, aud mounted
$, above all its burtbens aul trammels, and
lie finally, in this country, reached the full
lie frlition of republican freedom,
Is We gcanl this mental interiority OF
in the Arican--(we forbear, in the spirit
ry Of sobriety, any PHYSICAL contemplation
o. Or contrast does not give a denomi
C naut race the right to convey him from
10 his own benightel land to ioreigr
We bondage, even under the forms Of I
- purchase from his African master. Bu
this natural inloriority must be conSid
", cred by the statesman in framing law
las aud adopting Constitutions for humai
government, In Pennsylvania we hav
at always affirmed this inferiority in ou
| l., n l,,r, .pl ba emma h.