Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-04-24
Tbe Nasby DenlOcraf.

ucation can obscure. Such one Is
not necessarily vicious, so much as he
is simply incrusted with prejudice and
stupid intolerance. He fastens upon
the Democratic faith like branacle on
the rotton bottom of ship, and never
opens his shell to a single generous
emotion of sympathy with anything
man-ward or God-ward above the line
of his narrow horizon. He opens his
jaws for ofce-which is his only food
and his sole pursuit. He knows and
cares no more for human progress,
than the other branacle. He looks up
on all schemes of reform and advance
ment as damnable devices to draw him
off from his sticking-place If he had
not been born Democrat, he would
have stuck to the bottom of any other
old rotton hulk with the same tenac-
ity. If he had been the father of his
race, and not born at all, he would
have died before he would have con-
sented to don fig leaves or beget chill
dren-eyen if he had not refused the
proffered apple in the first instance, as
a means of knowledge not to be accep-
ted by any true Democrat.
He has no beliefs, for beliefs presup-
poses mental action. Neither is he
guided by instinct, for instinct is infal-
lible. He is projected into a condition
of reliance upon the Democratic plat
form, as other chaotic matter is held
in place by the laws of gravitation and
affinity. The platform is not his creed,
so much as it is his sphere, or his nat
ural affinity. He goes to the Democrat
ic party as nebulous matter hangs to
the tail of a comet, or as dirt thickens
muddy water.
He has views and convictions, pref
udices and set ways of unreason, which
are all the more obstinate because they
are not reached by mental action, and
cannot be controlled by it, any more
than Paddy's pig could be coaxed by
whispering in its ear.
Que of his prejudices is, that the ne
gro belongs to an inferior race. He
has a conviction that the Vertebral col
umn does not end il the usual place
in the negro. There is an incipient
tail, which one degree lower down in
the scale would lengthen, and which
can only shortened by miscegenation
with the white race. The brotherhood
of the Democrat with the monkey, at
two degrees removed, established by
this ingenious theory, does not disturb
him in the least, for it never occurs to
his mind
A learned sayan of the Nasby per,
suasion has held that the law of nature
by the operation Of which the product
/ &c tra ;1diuiIr,aIs of IasE;,oF Sraoia.
cannot propagate, applies to the frui
of the white and the colored races
This view is Vehemently urged in favol
of the mongrel theory, in an essay o
prodigious weight, published and in
dorsed by our learned friend of Th'
Crisis, and copied with great satisfac
ton by The Enquirer, The New YorE
Day Book, and other scientific journals
with leaning towards the Democratic
faith. The fecundity of the mulatto
verified by the observation of every
man who has taken the pains to OBJ.
serve, is no argument Of the falsity ol
the Nasby theory-for the Nasby mind
never reasons. If our learned friend
of The Crisis were asked to account for
the Octoroon, so common product of
the ardent South, he would dispose of
that inocent people as a diabolical Alb
olition invention for the destruction Of
the Democratic party, and the over
throw of the Constitution as it was.
Another conviction of the Nasty
Democrat is, that the negro exhales a
peculiar odor. Indeed, the Reverend
patron saint of the party has said, IN
his own chaste and inimitable style,
that ''the cornerstone of the Dimme-
cratic party is founded onto the stink
of the nlgger." And he beyails in
the most touching manner the lapse of
a Democratic journal, which makes the
suicidal admission that a clean negro
would not have as unpleasant an odor
as dirty white man, in a close room.
The Reverend gentleman justly COM
plains that such reckless writing will
be the destruction of the party.
But, after all, the strongest and firm
est conviction of the Nasby Democrat
is, that the negro has no intellect. No
arrogant Norman ever raised his crest
more proudly above the poor Saxon,
than the true disciple of Nasby does
over the race which has sent as bril-
liant intellects out of state of slavery
as ever came from the Villeinage of a
Norman lord' born of our Saxon blood.
If the burning eloquence of Frederick
Douglas cannot carry conviction to
such minds, is it too much to assume
that they are beyond the reach of rea-
son
The more intelligent Democrats have
already discovered the stupidity of the
old party traditions, and have essayed
to make headway against the blind in
tolerance of its creed. The Boston
Post, the Chicago Times, and other
Journals of more enlarged ideas, have
endeaYored to convince the party that
the world moves, and that the tremend-
Gus revolution which struck the chains
from eight millions of people has
changed the conditions of the political
status, and created a necessity for re-
adjustment of the party machinery
The New York World manifests dis
position to believe that God really did
make of one blood all the nations ol
the earth, and is doing good service IN
ridiculing some of the idiotic absurdl
ties of the party prejudiees. But the
real Nasbyite is mentally pachyderma
tous. His intellectual hide IS impervi
GUS to reason, and sheds off ideas as
ducks back does water. His religion
he might change; he can be taught to
be an honest man, if taken at tender
age; he may be taught to use soap and
drink water, under certain conditions
but he never can be convinced that the
colored man is not ornamented with a
caudaI appendage, or that he has not a
peculiar odor, or that he has not little
cil-bags under his skin. He never can
be convinced that the colored man may
have all his political and civil rights as
man, without sacrificing all the female
white population to colored nus bands;
He never will believe that "a niger
can be taught to read, or be willing to
| let him try. He never will know. until
the Judgment day, that this is little
past the middle OF the nineteenth cen
tury, and that the resolutions OF '9o
have been superseded. and that there's
God in Israeli and that slavery has
been abolished and the name Abolition
| ist is no longer a term Of reproach, and
that the last shred and vestige Of bar.
barism is about to be swept away, and
I'll 40, hacorna free and equal thrOu III