Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-02-28
SPEECH
OF
EENATOR w. A. WALLACE,
SPEECH
oP CLEARFIELD COUNTY,
CONCLUDED.

bat these people cannot develop the
land, that 10 enable them to do so,
there must be there an overuling race
mot men that will enslave them-I
ook to nothing of the kind but they
*nust have thcrea race whose intellect
IS greater and better than theirs
n thev must have somebody, to depend
#upon. These people never can and
Hnever will, unaided by the white race,
develop that country True, they
have the muscle; but muscle, without
brains, never did anything. They
Rhave not the capacity, the intellect.
You must depend upon the superior
race for the brains, and use the mus
Gle of the negro for the labor.
ELEVATE DoTH RACES.
alt is necessary TO develop the la
borer," the Senator says. admit it.
Il is necessary to 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, lift
them up, but do not attempt 20 place
them on the same platform with the
whites. l accord to them all their
natural rights; | am willing to raise
them from their degradation; / am
willing to fit them to learn the great
truths of the Gospel, 10 do business, to
become intelligent, so that they may
mako contracts and preserve the fruits
Of their labor. ] am willing to do all
this but ! am unwilling TO bring them
to an equality with race that is far
above them, and thus aid ia loweriugI
both. Your nicely rounded periods
OF sympathetic aud eloquent diction
about the Improvement Of races, and
the triumphs of humanity, arc bat too
palpably proven to be myths-idle as
The vapor, empty as the wind when
YOU 90 to examine the practical work
ings 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 tho truth | assert. The
legitimate result Of your humanitarian
ideas have there eliminated in 4 most
inhuman aud barbarous mGsa IRE with.
in the past year. This is Jut one in
stance of the results of Your 'improve-
ment ofraces," ore illustration ofyour
theory of ''capacisy for progress on
the part ce tho eolored race.
HAYTL
Let US take another instance. Hay
Ii. 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 tc cucumber him, no white brain
TO direct him, the negro not only had
exclusive control of that fertile island,
but he alone managed its affairs The
Gcvcrnment 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 a half millions
of dollars worth, while Hayti export
ed twenty-eight millions of dollars
worth Of those commodities. Con-
trast the relative situations Of the two
countries and the facilities of each for
developing their respective capacities.
Here is the negro in fertile land
he is blessed with all the advantages
that we possess, and the Inducements
to excel which should present them
selves to him are the same that are
held out to the white man; the insti-
tutions under which he lives have
been modelled after our own; (the
humanitarians of France having form.
ed the government of St Domingo
and given to that government all need
full political advantages y while the
exports of that island are several mil.
lions in excess of those of our own
country. On the other hand, wc are
IN land that is sterile and unproduc.
tive and which requires labor and
time to be made Of value. Such were
the relative positions of Hayti and
the United States at that day But
where is that island to-day? and
where are wcg While we have as.
cended in the scale of progress and
humanity, they have retrograded.-
Their institutions were founded upon
our maxims ofpoitical justice and Of
right, and you sought in vain through
their written laws and legal customs
for any trace of Africa. Contrast
their condition ofto-day with our owR
Look at what they are. They arc de-
graded and brutal; their main char.
acteristics are love of ornament and
show they have not form Of gov.
crnment such rs we have religion is
almost unknown; heathenism is run
ming riot through the land, and sens
uality rcigns supreme. Hayti is rap
idly retrogradIng into barbarism. The
negroes happiness, his chief delight,