Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-12-26

"lsh W 40 the negro justice | nope he ina
hnd protection, but hope for the good OF Il
races, he may not expect nor find any outside
r condition subordinate TO white man. l.
wise legislation control that labor, ami make
useful make it profitable to the white man, az
vantageous TO the freedman. But | can noyc
encourage or consent to his elevation, in the d
rectlon OF equality, while he occupies the sam
country with the white race. Nature has mad
them an inferior being, no human leg station ca
alter this immutabe law of omnipOtence, but b
It this law can be perverted, aud in its peryel
SION Is extermlnsing the complete overthrow q
our social and political system
Let the negro, by legislation, be elevated {
social and political equality. The white mar
whether from prejudice or from principle, j
does not malter--tbo white man will shrink from
the contamination-he will withdraw from thu
competition, AID will either turn upon the IN
trudar and destroy him, or be will abandon t.
him position and country. Then thes3 southern
stateS--the seat OF American hosptality-t
land OF entei prise and genius, and once al
empire Of wealth ana agricultural grandeur
VIII be vast Liberia, and the states Of the
north will compose the habltatlon Of tho white
man. Better than this should b. the deporable
destiny Of our country. Had the negro. if be
leels that bis condition is subordinate to what
ne cOnoelyes his rights to be under the constitu.
ton, had he not better return to the land Of bis
ancestors go to his native Africa, where he
Will lind latitude for liberty, and an ample
scope for all bis purposes Of philanthropy, where,
IN his improved condition, after enslavng bis
cannlbal kindred, he can perhaps impress upon
them, too, the blessings OF Christian religion,
which he himself imbibed in the land OF his
bondage.
Lot him 90 this Or let him be satisfied to re.
main in that condition to which nature has NO
ftly adapted him. II this be hard, u is u mis-
fortune tina. Providence has seen proper to i'm
pose and Tor which We are nOtrespousible and
the negro cannot escape it when in proximity
to the white man, in safety to himself nor to w,
unless 1t be IN separation. He is nov freed
man and has the wide world before him Hence
forever, his continuation here will not be a COM
pulslon, but choice, and the responsibility is
at his discretion.
few remarks aud | am done hope, Mr.
Speaker, have discussed this subject without
prejudice, and in dream OF fairness IL is an
honest conviction with me, that the supremacy
OF the white race and the preservation OF BOTH
depend upon the enforcement Of marked dir
tncli0n. This distinction has to exist some
where-why not let II remain where it IL already
established do not believe The negro will feel
the iorce OF this distinction from its present
location, more than he would were 1t lodged in
higher position perhaps not 80 much. Ee-
Vatlon stimulates aspiration aspiration, Jeal-
ousy-jcalously, conflict.
We have copied the larger portion Of Mr..
Browns speech Tor tho purpose Of showing that
the logic of tits whole reasoning-is the logic
Of slavery. There is 90 democracy or republi.
canism in it. 1t is at war with every Principle
upon which our government was built. The
Shareholders give up slavery because they are
obliged to, and not because they believe they are
fitted for any condition higher than seryitude.
They grudglngly and at the point Of the Presi-
dents pen permit the negro to testify when be is
party to the record-but that testimony is before
Il white judge an jury Not man OF his race
is to be in the jury-box, but the panel is to be
composed Of those who believe that the negro is
an inferior being, who has no rights except such
as the :" master race may graciously grant.
Mr.. Brown is entirely right when he says that
privilege is valueless, unless other privileges arc
conceded.
And there is in this speech the same talk
which we have had I'D nGuedm at the North,
about war Of races, determination and drug
glng down The white man to an equality with
tho negro. Well, = black has, or ought to have,
the same right to defend and protect himself
against wrong, as white man. II he is an III
terror icing he ought not on that account to be
deprived of any right Of selEdelensl This is a
kind of equality which nobody but "a bully and
coward will object to and this is all there
Is Of the negro equality which is held up az
bushoar to irelghten the delicate sensibitics and
the aristocratlc pride of the white race. Yet
when 1t is proposed to give all the inhabitants
OF this country the same opportunity and right,
which we claim to be our blrthright to protect
themselves against every species Of injustice and
apologlsts threaten war OF ex termination,-a
war which these white men propose to begin
and follow up until there shall DO no colored
man 10 demand equal rights. Recent events in
Jamaica teach us how this white race proposes
to commence this war. Beginning by expressing
the blacks until they are stung into rebellion,
they will make their uprising the excuse for
such wholesale and morciless slaughter as has
Just been witnessed in the atrocious sdministra-
ton of justice by Gov. Eyre. The true way to
avoid this war of races j, to do justice, and teach
justice, and insist upon justice, equal and exact
Justice, as the law here after alike for high aud
low, ric. and poor, black and white, Throughout,
the whole country.