Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-07-25

to She amalgamation Of races which
you are now proposing in this bill.
Our country is now made up Of many
different races, not only Caucasian,
Mongolian, Indian, Chinese, with ia
pancsc about 10 come here in the Pa
cifio steamers by thousands, and at
last the EsQuimaux; but YOU have
selected the least intelligent, the poor
est informed, except the Esquimaux;
YOU have selected the African 10 share
with you co-partncrship in this Gov
ernment, while your own wives and
children, your minor boys are shut
out from the right Of suffrage You
have given TO the negro equality and
copartnership with the white man.
Sir, il is impossible for these two ra-
ccs, in my Judgment, ever 10 live to-
get5er on terms of intimacy. You
have stored up and are yet storing up
for them the elements of awful strife
which win produce perpetual con-
fiict Of races.
Sir, the negro Haytien is wiser
than you. He allows no white man
10 own real estate on that island. The
black Liberiah is wiser than you. He
allows no white man to share with
him the government Of that country.
The experiment in Jamaica Of q min
gied government has broken down,
and all free government there is ab-
sorbed by the British Parliament
which through orders in council, dis
regarding both whites and blacks, ex-
ercises supreme power. Nowhere on
earth has ever this mixed government
succeeded.
One race is superior 70 another.
God so ordained, and no Fat 0fauthor-
ity of yours can bring down the Cau-
casian to the African, OF bring up the
African to the Caucasian. Ali efforts,
all struggles will be in vain. And
this is no new experiment. 1t has
been tried throughout the whole Of
Spanish America Juarez, half In
dian, now Governor and ruler ofMex-
leo, is Just now showing there the bar
barrie character of this mingled Gov
ernment Of unnaturally associated "a
ces, while in the numerous other Span
ish-negro-Indian hybrid States they
are almost all of them in constant
civil war, armies running and over
running enc another, with the blood
of the white man and the blood Of the
negro both deteriorated by thus COM
mingling, and Vet here this rash, this
fearful experiment +, No, not an ex-
pertinent, for experience has already
shown that it never can succeed.
[ You propose TO mix and mingle the
twelve millions Of your oountrymen
in the Southern States OF the Union.
You take the most ignorant, the most
uneducated, the most british Of the
population and give them absolute
control through boards Of registration
or through the ballot box. 1t needs
not the eye Of prophecy, il needs no
skill Of divination 10 foretell what
must be the effect Of such a crime as
this, for all history shows YOU what
has been the effect and pronounces
what il viii be hereafter.
But, sir, / find ! must draw 70 a
close, and allow me TO say in doing
20 that ] know that just now y0u are
here above public opinion, not only
Of this country, but Of the world
But there is an unwrtten law. there
Is a law of God that enbodies itself
IN public opinion, which hereafter
viii hold YOU responsible for the dc
structiOn Ofthe institutions Of your
country. You may overthrow the
Constitution, you may force the pre-
vious question upon Us less than half
a day for the discussion Of the great
principles Of this bin, but b is.ors, pos
terity, viii DO Us justice. have long
been in public lie. but this is now the
prouiest hour ofthat life, If am ever
able 10 speak again, 10 demonstrate
here in this House, and to make = re-
cord OF this rcmonstrance against the
outrageous, the infamous principles
of this tyrannical military bill