Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-12-22

yet a negro is not in the American sense a
negro. = This is the language of we'll
informed English author In Brazil there
is no social distinction between the black
race and the white, resulting in the general
prescription of the African. The races have
fused. The result is equality. There ex-
lists certain pride of purity Of blood, but
black blood is no bar whatever to advance
ment. The races intermarry. They asso-
ciate without friction or jealousies The ne
graes and the mulattoes hold offices of all
grades in the army and navy Some are
ministers Of State; others are diplomatists;
slack magistrates hnld raitif. yellow lawrars
make pleas. 1t has been noted, even, says
one writer, that contrary to the usual or
der Of nature In such matters, these cross
breeds are endowed with greater quickness
and aptness for business than either of the
original races
One result of this social fusion has been
to make slavery more secure from insurrec-
tions than in other countries. As inyolun-
tary servitude is wholly condition of life,
not Of race, there are as many negroes as
whites who are Shareholders; and therefore
they are as much interested in its perpetua-
ton as our own chivalry in the palmiest
days of the G. S. A. As good as the whites
at the ballot box, they are as bad as the
whites in the slave quarters.
How will our fugitives from freedom, who
are running away from the North Star as
eagerly as their bondmen once ran toward it
how viii they put up with negro soldiers,
negro generals, negro statesmen, negro mag
istrates, negro lawyers? They win find them
all in Brazil
And the worst is to come. There are 40
olifionists u, Brazil just imagine, if you
dare, how the Alabama ruuaways win swear
and tear round (as they express it, when
they find themselves again face to face with
live abolitionists, whom they can neither
gag nor hang, nor even tender the hospital
ity of ride on rail- or the seamless coat
made of tar and feathers!
One of the pet measures Of the Brazilian
abolitionists is to emaneipate all slaves be-
longing to foreigners of countries in which
slavery is unlawful This is bad enough,
but it is not ALL A deputation from the
British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society of
London waited on Senior Andrada in March
last The Senior has been secretary of the
Brazilian Legation for some years, and was
then charged with the superintendent of
the Brazilian consulate. He told The depu-
tation that the Emperor himself, and al his
ministers, and all the Brazilian people be-
lieve that it is duty to humanity to abol-
ish slavery. Il can assure you, he said,
that not only the Emperor, but his govern
ment, his advisors and every Brazilian pos
sessing the feelings of humanity, think that
it is not only the duty but that It will be for
heinterest Of our country to abolish slave
ryl' And still again: The government and
people of Brazil think that it Is their duty
and their interest, as soon as they possibly
can, entirely to abolish slavery"
Whittier away Is there no hope inwhieh
the unconquered can hide his head, and
'larrup his negro" undisturbed? I? Brazil
it is clear, will hardly afford even a tempo
rary abiding place. Suppose the emigrants
try Brigham Young, the much-married pa
triarch of the Plains Fle IS their only
hope. Boston 1drertiser