North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-09-20

AccoTulHS 10 henueuy, superintendent OF
the Census Bureau, the increase is greater in
Pennsylvania than any other free state
Now let us compare our white and black
population in localities where, they enjoy
equal advantages. The census shows that
where out Of 10000 whites there would be
one convict, out of the same number of
blacks there would be nineteen. In Penn-
sylyauia the blacks are but one fiitierh of
our population, yet one-th:rd of our convicts
are blacks. In this State we have an aver
age of l white convict in every ,243 whites
and black convict in 200 blacks. In Mass
achusetts, that land Of piety aBd godhuess,-
they have only black in 128 persons, yet
have black convict in 9. Notwithstanding
this terrible record, we have party inour
midst who would Africanizs the whole South
who would place the ball OF in the hands of
men far more ignorant and debased than the
Northern negro. They would place their
own race under the domination of an inferi
or one and against their consent. Let us
glance again at the statistics. In 1850, the
negroes had majority in 258 Counties
nearly one third of the South, which num-
beris now increased by the loss of the South
erners in battle and by exclusion in muni-
cipal affairs for having engaged in the rebe IL
ion. They have small majority in Lnusi-
ana of 33 900 in Mississippi, aud of 12l 900
in South Carolina. This would give them
6 United States Senators, about Is Con
gressmen, and place the whito race in many
other localities completely under their con.
trol, Besides their political elevation, they
would wreak vengeance upon their former
masters, melted to it by fanatics OF the
North and the terrible scenes of San Do
mingo would be re-enacted in our own
midst. Look at the example 10 Mexico, IN
South America, where the doctrine of negro
equality is in full blast-where they have
negro soldiers to dominate over the whites
and support tyranical rulers in their offices.
Why, one of the leading Generals of Ecua-
dor is negro, yet married an accomplished
white lady of Panama. What do figures
show us there ? In The State of Panama
seven tenrhs of the children arc illegrimate,
and in one department, out of l,l0O people
there were to be found only married
couples.
To illustrate the subject further, let me
read you letter written by Senator Bucka
lew, In 1859 from Quito, South America.
which took the liberty Of copying, while
acting as his private secretary. Al the time
he was Minister resident in that COUNT Y,
had ample opportunities for observation, aud
wrote al a time when his mind could have
had no bias, as he occupied an independent
position from which he viewed this ques-
ton
CITY OF QuIro Dec. 26, 1858.
| DEAR SIR There is very proper
restriction upon the diplomatic representatives 0.
the United States that they shall not publish let
ters relating to the political affairs of the countries
| in which they reside. But may say to you that a
sojourn in this quarter OF the earth instructive to
one who comes to study the organization and action
OF government. And here also may be studied the
relation between different races in the same COM
| munity. The Indians of the great Aniean chain
from Mexico southwark, and whose centres of pow
er were the cities of Mexico, Quito and Cuzco were
! very different from the savages of the North
Their religion better dein ID though idoiatrous;
they had great cities, extensive roads, cultivated
fields and drew their support from the earth rather
than from fishing and the chase One would sup
pose that there was basis for high civilization,
! and that countries populated by such inhabitants
would become first In rank in the new world upon
| the Introduction OF new elements from Europe
And this conclusion would be strengthened by con-
sidering that no exhaustive were necessary to
the submission OF the natives, and that the Chris
lan nifty OF the cOnquerers was readily and gener-
ously accepted by them Besides the Andean In
dian had and has good physical development, a
doce temper Is not destitute of ingenuity, and can
be tralnei to habits of indn try. But the result
has belied such reasonab expectation, Power has
seated itself ON the stormy coast of the Northern
Atlantic. IN the valley of the Mississippi, and along
the streams which flow from the Stony mountains
to the Pacific while Mexico approaches social dsso-
luton, and south of it all governments are unsteady
labor sluggish population stationary, property in
secure, speculation rampant and poverty general
There is no established literature and there are
no roads ! Even the Ince highway, extending from
Quito hundreds Of leagues southwark into upper
feIu In fact as well as name the Canine Real
the royal road has become diIapidated, and is sup
pl 'nted by mud paths. And TO what cause caus.
es shall this result be attributed? 1t cannot be
the Catholic form of religion which prevails, for
France is Catholic, and yet among the first of ma
tions. Nor can it be the misgove,nmen of Spain
The errors Of Spanish colonial policy much
IntiSa 60 before independence and thirty or forty
years have elapsed SINCE Nor can it be republi an
institutions, for we have them also. Nor it be
an nterority of the Spanish to others. Spain
has produced heroes and poets She was once
domiua 1t IN Europe. and more recently she broke
the power of Napoleon even when her own sover.
| egn was treacherous to her cause and her horor.
No one of these alleged eau then produces! the
result before US. and must look fprtb er for an
adequate exclamation. Some of them may have
contributed to the result, but they did not it
In my opinion, the main cause has been the mixing
of distnct races. The Spaniard his not had self
respect enough to keep himself uncontaminated
from the rative aud the negro, and he ha s, there
fore, inflicted upon his conquess colonies in the
New World all the curses of hybridsm But he
has been still more in fault. In all the new repub
lies of the South his theory has been false his
practice has been vicious He has proclaimed po
tical and social ality among all stocks aud mix
lures of human beings, in contempt of notorious
fnets and of past experience This theory, nc
practices eontormed to it, have produced monstreus
evils. which centuries cannot undo In point oil
fact, in Spanish America there is neither purity o.