The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-05-17

races OF people who are adapted to different
zones Of the earth which he has made fer
them to inhabit, and ell the people of color
belong TO one zone, and the white race to an
other, and still another, race to the frigid
zone; and it is as impossible to blend them
a. it is 70 blend the vegetable or animal
kingdoms OF those different zones, or to make
| the various fruits of the tropics bloom and
grow upon these prairies of the temperate
zone or in the far off frigid zone, or to trans
plant the scanty heritage which is common to
| she frigid zone and make it flourish in the
| tropics, or the great and SCARED oaks of our
own region of country. All these are pecu-
| liar to the different zones and are marked
with broad distinctions, as the races of men
are marked with broad distinctions-broad
| and legiole as are the great marks which the
earth self to mark the different zones which
were intended for their habitations. go,my
| friends, in my philosophy, for carrying out
this in ention OF the Creator, which think
can read 80 palpably in the work of His
hands; and whenever we go little further
| and see that whenever any attempt has been
| made to violate these great laws, as in the
| case of kidnapping these negro slaves in Af-
| RIGA and transplanting them on our cont.
| nent by the cupidity of our English ances
tors, that Notwithstanding we have treated
that class of persons ih>this country much
better, history will show, than any other
people have treated slaves I; Notwithstanding
that, the very. fact of our attempting to vio-
late these great laws and introduce those
people among US has brought with 1t pun
| ishment which has made sorry the heart of
every man who has heart in his bosom in
this broad land of ours. We cannot fail to
see His design, we cannot fail to see it in
| His handiwork We cannot fail to see it and
| feel it In the very impression of HIS hand up-
| on US nation In the recent atfiiction Of five
| years war nor can we fail to see what will
be the ultimate result of those laws which
| are of perpetual operation, and which no fin
| lite being can obstruct for one instant. The
end is not that the negroes will have suffrage
in this temperate z1ne; the end Is not that
| they will have rights of equality in this tenn
peeate zone with white people who inhabit it
and have made it what it is, and in the gov
eminent which was made by them and be-
| long to them. No; the result will be that
these unhappy people will fade away before
| the step of the white man; that they will
disappear as the Indian has disappeared and
as all other races have disappeared who have
| attempted to resist the irresistible march OF
the great white race of people in that eli
| mate which Is their own Applause and of
| right it ought to be so. Talk about equality
| of rights You cannot make equality of
| rights till you can make one set of men equal
to another and who says that this race these
| negroes or any other-are equal to the white
race. You have no history of any other race
scarcely, except that which comes from mere
| rumor and from the visits of white men to
| far off countries; and our race il the only
| race which has achieved anything in art
which has accomplished anything in science
1t is the only nation in which real govern
| ments have been established-certainlv tn.
| only nation in which self-goVernment has
| been established and maintained. Now, shall
| we blacken ourselves by this intermingling
| of this dark race which we know is incapa-
| bic of self government and attempt to bet
ter our Institutions by admitting the black
man and producing that deterioration which
| we know will come by such intermixture aud
| unworthy to belong to the race which has &C.
| hieved all that has been achieved In the civ
| ilized world.
Gentlemen, l fear have detained you up
| on this branch of the subject. Go on, -
| | mean 10 go on bout something else. These
| topics. although important and interesting to
me, and applicable TO the great affairs of the
| nation, now Ringing upon the most delicate
| questions. nevertheless are we'll understood,
| and require little or no illustration we'll IN
| ders.ood because they have been marked and
the broad distinction laid down by the mas
| sive intellect OF the president of the United
| Slater. who has made his issue with the dis
| union element in congress, and whom you
| have only 10 appeal to in order finally to tri-
umph. What he has said or done needs lit
| tie or no calculation from me-but there have
been things done here in Missouri they have
| recently formed constitution which they
| have.pretended was ratified, and claim as be-
| ing the great organic law of our state, which
discriminates against a large majority OF the
| white population of the state of Missouri and
disqualifes them from the right of suffrage
a great and the most important right which
can be vested in any human being-and di
vesting them of other great and important
| rights. and which pursues ones right to gam
| a livelihood for his famIlg-which has taken
away the great and ineffable right of wor-
shipping God according TO the dictates of con-
| science so that when we have passed away
| from the troubles of this world, may yet
be followed by Drake and his people into the
world to come. Laughter
| Concluded io-morrOw.)