Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-02-21
cLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY,, FEB 81, 1866.

pied, our grade Of humanity largely
elevated.
Sirs, these are the triumphs not of
the men with the elongated heel, fiat
nose and kinky hair, but these are
the triumphs of the men with aquiline
nose, straight hair and white cuticle.
These are the triumphs of the race to
which you and belong and you are
less than a man il you do not glory in
them and stop at the brink Of the prcc-
ipice over which they are about TO be
sacrificed in an unknown future.
Are these evidences oftriumph, are
these evidences of capacity for pro-
gress, are these recorded indications
of what is yet to come, evidences of
our triumphs or evidences of the tri-
umphs of another race? Sirs, these
are evidences Of our triumphs. Shall
we surrender these, the insignia of our
race Shall we surrender these, the
trophies that we have won in war
with matterg Shall we hasely bow
opr neck and submissively yield these
trophies to weaker race? Shall
these be the badges of our weakness,
the trophies of mixed and mongrel
race? Sirs, shall we surrender the
ballot, the emblem of sovereignty,
that which makes us menl Shall
this be yielded to the hand ofanother
race? These are the questions that
confront us.
SHALL WE BE FETTERED
have briefly portrayed to you the
evidences your capacity forprogress.
Nations differ as do men; nations are
as diverse in intellect and in capacity
for progress rs are individuals in the
different qualities which they possess.
Sir, in one race you have capacity for
: progress; in another race you have no
such capacity. We have demonstra.
ted our capacity for progress. Have
the black race demonstrated theirs
Sirs, what is their history Have
they capacity for progress? They are
inert, ,stolid and liieless, and tho propo
sition that you set up by these resolu
lions, when carried to its legitimate
conclusion, is simply THE CLAIMING OF A
MAN WHO is FULL OF VITALITY AMI
WHO HAS DEMONSTRATED HIS CAPACITY
FoR PROGRESS TO THE coRPsE-LIKE BODY
, OF THAT MAN WHO HAS NO CAPACITY
FOR PROGRESS. | shall undertake to
prove this as progress.
THE NEGRO HAS NO CAPACITY FOR PRO
GREss.
. There are races that have no history
, and known and recognized for thou.
sands of years, the negro is still with
out a progressive history Minglne
for centuries with the Egyptian, tho
Carthagenian and the Roman, they
still remain the same, and on no page o
written history, either sacred or pro
fame, is 1t shown that they possessed
ability in intellect or gained any oi
the material advantages that belong
to a progressive race. Singular as is
this omission OF their favorable men.
tion in history, it may yet have beer
accidental, but if in all time past they
T have demonstrated capacity for pro
, gress, some evidence should exist Of
the fact tradition, ruined edifices
marks of power lost, energy displayed
{ and battles won should somewhere
, appear None such exist. No sucl
, evidence can be found.
In all other portions ofthe knowr
world save Central and Southern Afri
: ca evidences of progress and develop
ment appear. In some, the ever eta
\ cling hand of time and the myriad o
). causes that prove to US that nations
I like men, are mortal, have swcp
away the elements of refinement anC
$ of civilization, and left but ruins {,
tell the story Of their existence. Asia
: with her tecming millions, ,at every turl
q demonstrates her capacity for pro
. gress. China, India, Persia, the land
!, of the Russ, the Tartar and the Turk
q bear upon their soil the evidences o
4 present civilization and of past mag
nificence and Babylon, Tadmor, Nine
I. vah and Edom rise up in sombre gran
n deur to testify to the capacity ofth'
, hand that fashioned them.
\ Europe is now the centre of refine
ment and of the arts, and her ruined
/. temples, decayed arches and crumb
f ling ruins speak eloqucntly of the ca
f pacity and power of the nations tha
once peopled her valleys and dictated
$ laws to the habitable globe.
!. America, North and South, befor,
r the advent of the Anglo-Saxon, wa
r peopled by tribes of men in whom
the capacity for progress was clearly
Q fact. The impress Of their hands
0 the monuments OF their existcnc'
are found in the Mississippi Valley il
2 the sculptured ruins OF Uxmal ant
$ Palenque, in the elaborate masonary
h and splendid structures ofMexi0o, ,ant
in the debris of the palaces Of th,
: Incas.
Exon f-ioa po,th &c th& cou.tor