Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-04-05

and you sought in vain through their writ
ten laws and legal customs for any trace
of Africa. Contrast their condition of to-
day with our own. Look at what they
are. They are degraded and brutal their
main characteristics are love Of ornament
and show; they have not form of gov
ernment such as we have religion is al
most unknown heathenism is running
riot through the land, and sensuality
reigns supreme Hayti is rapidly retro
grading into barbarism. The negro S
happiness, his chief delight, as his char
acter has unfolded itself in that island is
what it is here and what it is in its native
land: idleness and an apparently instinc-
tive blOodthirstiness are It's attributes.
refer you to the numberless revolutions
and massacres that have occurred there,
and assert that his highest delight is in
massacreing his species. If evidence is
wanting, it may be found upon every page
of the history of emancipated Hayti.
Hostility to the foreigner is ruling pas
sion with the Haytian agriculture is
abandoned, their commerce is dying out,
and their population is decreasing with a
rapid tendency to convert the whole coun-
try into forest.
| read from Mr.. Mackenzies Report
in 1880. In 1903 Hayti was placed
entirely under the control of the blacks,
and in 1880 Mr.. Mackenzie reported to
the English government as follows:
''ln 1889, there were exported 141, :
O89,S3I, pounds of sugar, 1904, PA
pounds of cotton and 76, ,835, ,2l9 pounds
of coffee. In 1926 there were exported
32, ,S64 pounds of sugar, G2O, 972 pounds
of cotton and 81, l89,785 pounds of cof-
fee"
There is a consideration Of some impor-
tance in this connection bearing upon the
position that | assume, that is, that sugar
(the production that is most palpably di-
minished) requires constant toll in its cul-
tivation while coffee Chat maintains its
status bctter) grows wild through the coun-
try. The latter has continued an article
Of commerce and is largely exported. The
plow does not exist. The gold and other
mines there are being neglected the ma
chinery is worn out or allowed 10 rot out :;
the forests are returning. Hayti is rece-
ding from the light of civilization the
people are becoming savage their habits
are disgusting and heathenish. The con-
dition of Hayti re-asserts the position that
| maintain, that this race have no capacity
for progress. Look at Mexico see what
a conglomeration of revolutions is there :;
see the degeneracy Of that country the
legitimate result of a cOmmingIing of blood.
See Central America and the Spanish COL
onies south-all these furnish additional
evidences of the truth Of the fact assert.
LEARN By EXPERIENCE.
Let US then be warned by the experience
of the past taught by the lessons of his
tory. If Gods law be the elevation of
humanity, let US continue to elevate our
selves and with Christian charity aid those
below US to climb the ascending grade. IF
the law of the world be the law of pro-
gress, let US be satisfied with the proud
position we enjoy, trying no new path but
energetically moving upward in our yet
bright career. Let us not fetter ourselves
by halting midway to enable the African
10 reach us. Let us be wise and perse-
we're the sovereignty of our race Let US
estimate it at its true value and refuse to
share it with those of whom history is
silent, whose land is voiceless, whom your
own experience teaches are your interiors,
upon whom privileges are lost, and whom
the mOurnful lessons of a century have
but served 10 demonstrate their inertness
and stolidity. CHAIN Us NOT TO ''rIIE
BODY OF THIS DEATH
OUR POSITION TOWARD TIE PRESIDENT.
Let me reply to an attack which the
Senator from Erie has made upon my
friend, the Senator from Berks, Mr.. ely
mer, and implicitly upon myself. The
Senator attempts to show that in 1868
the Senator from Berks voted against
granting the use of these halls 10 Andrew
Johnson, then Provisional Governor of
Tennessee He forgot to state, sir, that
the Democratic party represented upon this
floor, introduced as an amendment to that
resolution a proposition granting it also to
George b. Mcclellan, [applause, which
was voted down by the Republican partv
here, as the record will show We there
fore voted against the resolution in toto.
But, sir, to go beyond that, l hold it a
duty as member Of party that have
principles, TO extend the hand of fellow
ship to every man who places himself
upon those principles and whether he be
peasant or President, TO sustain him with
all nay ability, with all my force, in car
rying out and successfully vindcating
those principles. If this be the position of
President Johnson, he has our right hand
of fellowship; if it be not his position, he
has our opposition.
HATE a BAD POLICY.
Let me now turn for moment to some
of the arguments of the Senator from
Bradford. He says, sir, ''the people of
the South have no rights that we should
respect save to be hung and to be damn