The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-28

Caucasian and the African and TO settle the
contest so long maintained by the paTtsans
of each between the descendants of Japhet
and Ham, for an equality, mental and physl-
cal. on the part of the latter, and the Pre-em-
inence of rank in the scale of humanity OF
the former, which the experience OF the pre-
ceding four Thousand years had failed TO 10
. in manner satisfactory To the paTJsaLo VI
Ham and his progency. II may indeed De
doubted whether the question can ever De
+ settled IN fhe satisfaction Of both parties
/ Iut as the African race had made sGch NlSl-
( BILE progress in the arts Of clvllizatloh anu
/ even Ia the physical conformation OF tHose /
/ Who would claim the greatest NUMBER OF de'
scents since their ancestors Iahhcu III AiIISA
lea f: and as il is unphilosUphcal to stop IN (
mir nv experiments until they become
barren OF results it is, | think, to be deeply
regrrtted that the late 6ne Tas SO aprupliE
Terminated and without nope 81 TeViNaI
anon ANYTHING like a scale OF equal proper
tions What pity II Is, that anothef nan
century could not have been aGdeu 70 me
preceding one but o, why not nave Ieit the
s,roa+ problen how and when the anomaly
} Of ff.icqp slarc,y should disappear from the
scheme of free government devised ny the
, sages who formed the constitution auopJe"
in I7-g to work ont its own soiatloh IN
p ,,.,ca as they confidently believed 1t would
In dine and reasonable time ana as aSsuIeulS
II would have done but for the hi-thea III
reference If those fanatics and narrow
minded men who unwilling to bide the ope-
ration of the laws of progress, lhalS1eu v"
prccipitating the march OF aHaifS. ne
. treat experiment to which alluae' the ere
, Inents If which ii was formed, together
=, with the results 80 for rs developed, may De
= surumaritv described is follows ,, 90
Scarcely a noticeable number OF via Al
T. ric,ns. prior TO the middle of the seven
i taeuth century, G65O) and not more 'i-'-n
q three hundred and thirty thousand alto-
= Importation ceased, We're caught up Trans
- noTred landed upon the Atlantic coast 4"
- trfeliea a,if rc.idcGd to slavery. The Al
" ricans were sarages IN thelt hrldts, giVln3
w. no manifestation of any higher grace o
-; reason than the instincts and the want
49,. . which they felt in common with tine WIZ
+a beasts of the forest from which they "eI
taken. Such was their character then, an
If such their numbers Now, or just ool'l
-; the late war began, after all the losses occ'
~ stoned by disease and tbs exposure neceS9'
W rilv incident to their change of cllihate' an
~ / their new employment III a country puC Pa
a. TALLY improved and cleared of its prlmltlN
I rs forests they have, in little more than wv
~, centuries grown to be great people, nun
NJ bcrinps upwards of four millions OF SOU
~; sufficiently skilled IN MI the arts eSSehildl
VI thrir subsistence and To that extent cl
IA iIized abandoning the superstltlohS OF th'
''i,' fnrefathers. many of them members OF CuI
~! tian churches they may all be said to he chr
L. tanned The simple fact OF the great
~ crease of this people, while IN sI1le
.,a BONDAGE is of itself the most cow M,
SG Sc" nroof that their woke has been easy-th
ny e. +hc main they have been well fed, WI
= ne rIot,teJ md we'll housed. Mr.. IL. I. Car'
3 II ~, gutbor Of works IT celebrity ON pollLl
20 economy in lis book on th6 EiaNt 80 q
"" domestic and foreign states, that III .
~ eipht wears before the war, II the o'" 'o'
hcA ~, United States had been no better trea'
IN, he
III Jamaica there would not nave petn
oT'' ,,reater number, at the date of his WITH
,l'o then in the United States than one NUM-
w. n"T and fifty thousand, instead OF the ioul ~
II | ions that were actually 1oilhu theIc
5't tI,,t iuatead of more than ten to one OF tn
20. ~, imported from Africa into the United %"
v i'n according to Mr.. Carey, the proportion
'CH'' slaves remaining, or rather surviving Oh
those imported into the brush Io'' -
Il" lslave colonies) there were not more !.
;,+ two to five, and, perhaps, not NOR =
- / one to three to be found. lhtSe lacI''
- the legitimate deductions from theIh'
II 'o" such that no sophistry can perVert OF
'io"' fort them and no amount OF malignant
I"'T Ir,nuv however Vouched or pr"PaS'
S'lo from hirh official position, or station n
' Us credited in high circles can reluIe.
' no form a singular commentary npon the
cen a Ut. cn9sistencv, and philanthropy
the 4bn talent. rank and fashion, that Is sal
~ VI ordinarily grace the meetings at T.
anon. ~ "a, the british love of |
-ilza- hall' re- 5a+ootation of the atroC
se of ~, anu ~ -. 1.,+aIv unbeId in Anne
; and system Vi i 'i I,Ia+ ToIn BuU is taugl
u for ana "HoIo ~, ,ro1,rs and oppression
ormal bluppet, % s ~, AfTi.an race in Anne
hould iouI iiIiilon9 W f,st osIeen over the
ldren, anu 10 io - - ornrossions. decrad
care OF Inc SUI ,,,,,e tLan ten times the
II tue i,ar Of Sudras or Hindoos upheld by 81
art of power, % 49, - In,Iies
ct, al lty III 'nS , i-S3, ro-,IoRROw1