Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-09-10

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in our courts of justice This too, was sternly
resisted by those who are now willing to confer
on the negro the right of holding office, to get
| back into the GLORIOUS Union,' which they
once hated and despised so cordially.
| In one Of my previous communications, L
stated that Professor Agassiz had proven con-
clusively that the negro was of an inferior race
to that of the white man, and had different
origin. In saying this [ did not intend to in
sinuate, as some of the negroes seemed to think
| did, that God was not their father" as well
as the white man. S father. They are certainly
creations Of the same Almighty hand. They
are doubtless, too, equally under the protection
of the Almighty, and equally dear to Him In
their respective spheres spheres in which he
placed them and for which He made them
The horse and the jackass are both alike the
creation ofSGod. He did not create them of
the same type, or make them one and the same
animal. He gave to one beauty of form, SYM
metry, spirit, and feetness and to the other
strength, endurance and other valuable quail
ties. So He distinguished between the negro
and white man. To the former He has given
black skin and woolly head, greater strength
and less brain. He has adapted him to labor,
and given him pores which defy malarias and
fevers. To the other He has given white
skin and head Of hair, less strength and larger
brain, adapted to higher thoughts and greater
| lntelectual improvements.
| But God loves his whole creation equally, and
| it is presumed that he has the same regard for
| the owl that he has for the eagle, and so with
| the jackass, the white man and the negro, pro-
| vlded always that the one is as faithful in the
| discharge OF his mission on earth as the other.
| 1t is by no means crime or fault ON the part
| OF the jackass, that he cannot run as swiftly as
| the horse He was not created for such feet
ness and so with the negro he has not been
| endowed by God with the same volume of brain
| that the white man has, and he is not to blame
| for being unable to compete with him in science
and knowledge. He is an inferior animal to
the white man. God made him such as he is
| for wise purposes, as he made the ass inferior
| to the horse. 1t is as foolish to think of ma
king poets, artists and statesmen out of negroes
as 1t would be to make race horse Or a spiri
ted charger in battle out Of a jackass You
may give the negro the right of suffrage and
the right to hold Office, and make him legis-
lator; and so you may enter the ass for a four
mile heat with the blooded horse, or you may
mount him in battle for charge on the enemy,
but both would be equally unwise and disas-
trous, for you are attempting to pervert nature
and the laws of God.
Professor Agassiz, of Harvard College, Mas
sachusetts, the most learned and scientific nat
uralist the world has ever produced, declares
most confidently, after lifetime of thought
and observation on the subject, 'That the ne
gro and the white man were created as specially
different as the owl and the eagle. They were
designed to fill different places in the system of
nature. The negro is no more negro by accl-
dent or misfortune than the owl is the kind of
bird he is by accident or misfortune The ne
gro is no more the white mans brother than
ass is the brother Of the horse" ''There are,
says the same great authority, lover one hun
dred specific differences between the bonal and
nervous system Of the white man and the negro.
Indeed, their forms are alike in no particular.
There is not bone in the negro's body rela-
lively of the same shape, size, articulation, or
chemically of the same composition as that Of
the white man. The negros bones contain a
far greater per centage of calcareous salts than
those OF the white man. Even the negro's
blood is chemically a very different fluid from
that which courses in the veins of the white
man. The whole physical organization Of the
negro differs quite as much from the white man
as it does from the chimpanzee-th is, In his
bones, muscles, nerves and fbres. The CHM
panzee has not much farther to progress to be-
come negro, than the negro has to become a
white man. This fact science inexorably de-
monstrates.
| 1t is agreed by all scientific men who have
turned their attention to this subject. that the
capacity, by measurement, of the skull of the
white man is ninety-seve cubic inches that
number Of skulls The negro has sixty-six Gu
bic inches; the North American Indian has
sixty-three cubic inches; the native Australian
has fifty six cubic inches. Sir Charles Lyall,
than whom there can be no higher authority,
says the feet and hands, arms and legs of the
white man and the negro are unlike in meas
urement. The hand of the negro is one twelfth
larger and one tenth broader than the hand Of
the white man; his foot is one eighth longer
and one-ninth broader than the white mans;
his forearm is one tenth shorter, and the same
is true of the bones from the knee to the ankle.
The skeleton is unlike In the whole, in weight
and measurement, and unlike in every bone
of it.
In the most remarkable speech of the Hon.
W. Mungen, of Ohio, lately delivered in Con-
gress, land to which [ am greatly indebted for
much that [ have said, it is boldly asserted
on the authority of scientific men, that the
world does not afford an instance of "a mulatto
in the fifth generation. The hybrid race be-
comes extinct after the fourth generation, un-
less they have intermixed with one or the other
of the original races. So it is with all animals
The mule does not breed at all. The wolf and
which always become extinct in the third gen.
Grafton. These animals, like the negro and
white man, were regarded at one time as only
different varieties of the same species. But
experiment shows them to have been different
creations, as it does the negro and white man.
repeat what [ have said in former article,
that [ have ever been the friend and protector
of the negro through life. This my former
slaves will vouch for me. My house servants,
eight or ten in number, have never left me, and
are still living with me on the same terms they
did whilst slaves. 1t is because l wish we'll to
the negro that am unwilling to see him placed
in false position. He is unfit to exercise the
right of suffrage, and will become the dupe and
tool of base and designing men. A war of races
will ensue, and the negro, being the weaker and
less intelligent, will be exterminated in such a
war. Extinction will be the result of this great
boon, bestowed on them for the sole purpose OF
strengthening the Radical party. Gen. Benja-
min E. Butler said to me, eighteen months ago,
that all the Radical party wished was to have
impartial suffrage" He said that he might
declare that no one should vote, unless he was
graduate of the South Carolina College All
that the Radicals then thought of was equality
between the races But now they are deter
mined to have the negro vote, in order to radi-
calize the South.
In the negro convention which sat the other
dav, in Columbia, it was claimed that, in the
next Presidential election, there should be
placed on the Radical ticket negro, either fo1
President or Vice President 1t was contended,
too that the lands should be divided into small
farms, so that each head of family might get
q homestead IF the landowners refused this