The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-10-02

Yes, there d, always has been, and In
the nature Of things always will be .
deadly antagonism between the dark aud
fair races Of men.
Why is 1t 80, I do not undertake TO
explain. Man is a destructive animal,
only held in restrain by the softening in.
%luences Of religion and civilization. The
superior lords il over the inferior the
stronger rules tho weak. And in some
sense, the spirit Of domination and de.
struction, seems TO be- q law of nature
We find it everywhere. In the air, the
eagle, the noblest Of birds, lives upon
prey ; and the lion, the king of 1.-The jun.
gle, not only devours inferior animals,
but uses the jackal, a brute detective, to
fscent out bis victims; while the gigantic
whale, the lordliest bondholder Of the
ocean, swallows Whole shoal Of little
fishes tax. payers Of the sea-at a single
gulp.
The practical statesman will recognise
men and things as he fuds them, and
make laws in accordance with what is,
and what must continue TO be, and not
after some faneiful Utopia, which never
did, and never can exist. I
Citizens ! for ore moment let us glance
at the map Of the world ; begin where
you will and see what race dominates
Look at the continent Of Europe By
whom ruledr By whom is it occupied 2
BY white men. And Amercai A tthis
moment occupied by at least Eve distinct
races Of men, Of five distinctive colors-
white, black, red, yellow and brown, and
the white man dominates them al. And
Africa, the home Of the negro, the era
die Of the darkest races of men South
Africa, the birth place Of the Bushman
and Hottebtots, is ruled by the fair.
lrowed Anglo saxon, while at the North
we find the mercurial, the conquering
Celt, lording it over the wild Arab and
the dauntless Moor; and a company Of
Anglo Saxons are exploring Central At.
!, RIGA for the purpose Of converting it into
|. a British cotton-feld.
] And Asia-what do we find there
, Look at linda. One hundred and eighty
! millions Of men, in all respects vastly su-
perior tothe negro, held in subsection by
a company Of English merchants, whose
counting room is in o dirty, dusky, mar
!, , row little street in London. And this
East India Company, composed Of a few
. white men engaged in trade, by the aid
: of,an army Of 10000 white mercenaries,
u hold in subsection q people who outnum-
J Der them as three thousand to one.
VI And China, with her population Of
} more than three hundred millions of In
. habitants. China, whose Emperor claims
to be the brother Of the sun and moon
q what Of herr Why, citizens, you all
know that but q few years ago, a paltry
army-paltry in numbers only-an al
II lied army Of Cells and Anglo Saxons o.
le less than 10000 strong, invaded China
captured, and in a good part destroyed
Pekin, with its population Of more thar
70 100000 souls, and dictated terms to
10 people who outnumber them as ten thou
L sand to ne. And as il is with the con-
0 %tinents, 80 II is with the isles of the seas
, The white man dominates the world.
According to Lord Brougham, on,
% feet is worth a cargo Of theories, aud no
OF one uncontroverted fact has ever beef
D, cited to show that color among the race,
e Of men Is the result of climate.
l have heard well meaning persons as
sert thar the negroes Of the United State,
without reference to a mixture Of blood
,, were growing whittier, and that the change
d was the effect Of climate. But these goot
people forget that if the climate Of Amer
y lea can effect any change in the complex
"a ion Of the negro, that the negro ought Il
. be turning red instead Of white, for red
N and not white, is the color Of the native
10 Of America. Europeans have resided il
:, tAmerica during more than ten, and AT.
ID ricans have resided here during eigh
y generations, and If color be produced b.
climate, then the white and black race
q, ought to be turning red. But ever
q candid observer will admit that the pur
blooded negro cannot be blacker than b
: IL now, while the descendants Of Eurt
III penps, whose ancestors landed on on
In shores centuries ago, are as fair rs al
the people Of Great Britain or Germany
IT. No. The types Of men, except by ADJ
10, teratiou, never change. There are to da
%. fair skinned Jews in Malabar, whose su,
en- eessors settled there moro than $50
10 yearsago. And every traveller who has VII
OF tied Aries in the South Of France will tel
er' you that there are to be found the beat
y tiful Greek type in form and feature,
ne clearly marked as in ancient Thebes, {
ID Athens, or Sparta, and yetit is more tina
DO two thousand years since the Greek coll
es nists, from whom the Arlesiaps sprunl
first landed on what is now the coast
France, on the beautiful Mediterrapeal
be Many other we'll authenticated lac
re could be cited, but time will not perm
Of me 10 do so, and / will conclude th
W. branch Of the subject by quoting an Al
ed thority which viii not be controverte
Ter In Jeremiah, 18th chapter and 23d vers
RI. We read: "0an the Ethiopian chaul
Of his skin, or the leopard his spotsi I'll.
IRE may ye also do good who are accustom'
to do evil" That is, good can no mo
Iu- be done by those who are accustomed
g: do evil, than can tho Ethiopian cham
lid his skin, or the leopard his spots. The
be can be no doubt as TO the correctness
of this Interpretation, when it is considers
N. that God was d~enouncing ~judguer
ss tagaipst his people for their Wickedne
rst And In the next verso lie says : "Thsr
fore, will I scatter them as the stubb
nd that passeth away BY the wind Of u