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

1 do not know why this is, perhaps the
gentlemen can explain it. The land is be-
coming a waste, the population is return
/ ing to barbarism and liberty with them
/ is what it always has been and what you
must admit it is now among these people
in the South. Liberty iS hcense-license
to be idle ; license not to work E; license 10
be censual; license TO be sluggish license
to relapse into the habits of their ances-
tors.
DEVELOP TIE SOUTH.
The Senator from Bradford SAYS:
''The South is FERTILE" and he wants to
develop it. Aye, it is a fertile land, the
very garden of the country but let him
be warned by the examples of men who
desired to accomplish this object as ear
nestly and honestly as he does. Let him
remember the example of Jamaica, and
let him remember that these people can
not develop the land, that to enable them
to do SO, there must be there an overru-
ling race-nOt men that will enslave them,
L look to nothing OF the kind but they
must have there a race whose intellect is
greater and better than theirs-they must
have somebody to depend upon. These
people never can and never will, unaided
/ by the white race, develop that country
| True, they have muscle; but muscle,
without brains, never did anything. They
have not tie capacity, the intellect. You
must depend upon the superior race for
the brains, and use the muscle Of the ne
gro for the labor
ELEVATE BOTH RACES.
at is necessary to develop the laborcr,"
the Senator says. | admit it is necessary
10 develop the laborer, but you must not
develop him to the injury of the race that
lives side by side with him. No, sir
raise them from their degraded condition.
lit them up, but do not attempt to place
them on the same platform with the
whites. / accord to them all their nat
ural rights; | am willing to raise them
from their degradation am willing to fit
them to learn the great truths of the Cos
! pei, to do business, to become intelligent,
so that they may make contracts and pre-
serve the fruits of their labor. | nm will
ling 10 do all this but | am unwilling to
bring them 10 an equality with the race
that is far above them, and thus aid in
lowering both. Your nicely rounded pc
riods of sympathetic and eloquent diction
about the improvement of races and the
! triumphs of humanity, are but too palpa-
bly, proven TO be myths-idle as the Vapor,
empty as the wind when you 90 TO exam
inc the practical workings of your theory.
The spending of hundreds of millions of
dollars by the mother country in Jamaica
to develop those people, TO learn them how
to take care Of themselves, you find has
demonstrated the truth | assert. The le-
Ultimate result of your humanitarian
ideas have there eliminated in a most in
human and barbarous massacre within
the past year. This is but one instance
of the results of your Improvement Of
races" one illustration of your theory of
capacity for progress" on the part Of the
colored race.
HAYu.
Let US take another instance. Hayti.
Her independence was declared in 1903
and the negro was placed in the entire
control of the Government the reins of
government were fully committed to his
keeping No white there to cucumber
him. no white brain 10 direct him, the
negro not only had exclusive control of
that fertile island, but he alone managed
its affairs. The Government vested in
the people equal political rights such as
we enjoy. In 1870, the exports of the
United States in coffee, sugar and rum
amounted TO a little over twenty and u
half millions of dollars worth, while
Hayti exported twenty-eight millions Of
dollars worth Of those commodities. Cor
trast the relative situations of the two
countries and the facilities of each for de
veloping their respective capacities. Here
is the negro in a fertile land he is blessed
with all the advantages that we possess,
and the inducements to excel which should
present themselves to him are the same
that are held out to the white man the
institutions under which he lives have
been modelled after our own (the hui
manitarians of France having formed the
government of St. Domingo and given TO
that government all necdful political ad
vantagcs J while the exports of that island
are several millions in excess of those of
our own country. On the other hand,
we are in a land that is sterile and pro-
ductive and which requires labor and time
to be made of value. Such were the re-
lative positions of Hayti and the United
States at that day. But where is that is
land TO day? and where are we? While
we have ascended in the scale of progress
and humanity, they have retrogaded.
Their institutions were founded upon our
maxims of political justice and of right,