Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-08-10

ting tho call of convention, by which uni-
versal negro suffrage is to be established /
likewise advocated, ut the same time, the pro-
priety of permitting negroes to give testimony
in all cases in our courts Of justice. This,
too, was STORMY resisted by, those who are now
willing to confer on the negro the right of
holding Office, to got back into tho stglorious
Union, which they once hated and despiscd
SO cordially.
In one of my previous communications, /
stated that Professor Agassiz had proven con-
clusively that tho negro was OF an inferior
race to that of the white man, and Ind diff.
ferent origin. In saying this, | did not in
tend to insinunte, as some of the negroes
seemed to think did, that God was not their
" father" as well as the white mans father.
They arc certainly both creations of the same
Almighty hand. They are doubtless, too,
equally under the protection of the Almighty,
aud equally dear to him in their respective
sphcres-sphcrcs in which lie placed them
and for which he madct them. The horse and
jackass are both alike the creations Of God.
lie did not create them Of the same type, or
make them one and the same animal. lie
gave to one beauty of form and symmetry,
spirit and fiectncss; and tothc other strength,
endurance and other valuable qualities. So
he has distinguished between the negro aud
white man TO the former he has given n
black skin and woody head greater strength
and less brain lio has adapted him to labor,
and given him pores which defy malarias and
fcvcrs. TO tho other he has given white
skin and head Of hair, less strength and
larger brain, adapted to higher thoughts and
greater intellectual improvements.
But God loves his whole creation equally,
and it is to be presumed that he has the same
regard for tho owl that he has for the eagle,
and so with the horse and the jackass. the
white man and the negro. provided; always,
that tho one is as faithful in the discharge Of
his mission on earth as the other Tt is by
no means crime or fault on the part Of the
jackass, that he cannot run as swiftly ns she
horse. fIe was not created for such eeetness;
md so with the negro he has, "ot been en-
'dpwnd by God with the same volume OF brain
that tho white man has. snd he is not to blame
| for being unable to compete with him IN sci
ence aud knowledge. He IL on inferior ami
nal to the white man. God made him such
astle is for rise purposes, as he made the ass
interior td the horse. 1t is as foolish to think
of mpking poets, artists and statesmen out Of
negroes as it would be to make race horse
or spirited charger in battle out of o jackass.
You may give the negro tho righs Of suffrage
CIV wv iSit W sllulu oIuce, az" 'ti"he 'i'n a
legislator, and SO you ,nsy enter the ass for n
four mile heat with the bloodcd hose, or yo,,
may mount him In battle for charge on the
cnemy; but both would be equally unwise
and disastrous, for you are attempting to per.
vert nature and the laws of God.
Professor Agnssiz, Of Harvard College,
Massachusetts, the most learned and scientific
naturalist the world has ever produced, de-
olares most confidently, after n lifetime of
thoughtand observation on the subject, ''That
the negro and the white man were created as
specifically different as the owl and the eagle.
They we're designed to ill different places in
the system of nature. The negro is no more
a negro by accident or misfortune than the
owl is the kind of bird he is by accident or
misfortune The negro is no more the white
mans brother than the owl is the sister Of the
eagle, or Chan the ass is tho brother of the
horse. There arc," says the same great au-
thorty, 4" over one hundred specific differ
ences between the bonnl and nervous system
|. of the white man and the negro. Indeed,
their forms arc alike in no particular. There
is not a bone in the negro's body relatively of
the same shape, size, articulation, or chcmi
cally Of the same composition, as that of the
white man. .1be negro's bones contains far
greater per centngc Of calcarcous salts than
those of the white man. Even tic ;41agro's
blood is chemically a very different fluid from
that which courses in tho veins of thc-white
man, The whole physical alot1,hnizationo the
negro differs quite as muoh. from tho white
man as it does from that of the ciiimpanzeo---,
TINT is, Ia his bones, muscles, nerves and
,fibres The chimpanzec has not much fur
ther to progress to become q negro, than the
negro has to become white man. This fact
science inexorably demonstrates"
It is agreed, by all scientific mon who have
turned their attention to this subject, that
!" the capacity, by measurement, Of tho skull
Of the,white man is nincty-seven cubic inches,
thai is, the average Of ono thousand, Or any
greater number of skulls. The negro has
sixty.six cubic inches the North American
Indian has sixty three cubic inches; tho ma.
tive Australian has ffty.six cubic inches. -
Sir Charles Lyall, than whom there can be no
higher authority, says tho feet and hands, tho
arms and legs Of tho white man and3negro arc
unlike in measurement. The hand Of the
negro is ono twelfth larger, and one.tenth
broader, than the hand Of tho white man !;
his footis one.cighth longer, and one-ninti,
broader, than the white man's; hisifofe.nfpi
is one-tenth shorter; and the same ia true of
tho bones from the knoe to the ankle. Tho
skeleton is unlike in the whole in weight and
n,easutenient, and unlike in every bone. of 1t.
| In the mosE admirably speeoh Of. the Hon.
\ W. M unaer,. Of Ohio, lately delivered in Con.