The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-08-08

she was instructed IN the precepts OF the |
Christian religion notU her ignorant and |
degraded masses, the late King himself
included, have fallen into the old supersti-
tion of Africa, the religion of Vaudoux,
or serpent worship. Any person who will
read the report of Rev. MIR. Underhill, the
agent of the Baptist mission. can satisfy
himself of the grand moral idea features of
this Natioa This trayesty Of a govern
ment contains population about one-ffth
equal TO Pennsylvania.
But the "Alleghanian" proceeds to say:
but Mexico, on the other hand, whose
ruling class is OF the Latin race, the same as
Spain, France and Italy, begins on the mo-
ment of her triumph a career of blood that
appals the world"
And then follows an allusion to the mur-
der of Maximilian and General Meiia, ar-
ter which this virtuous sheet grayely winds
up thus:
"Were the negroes of Hayti thus cruel.
the Democratic press of this country would
never tire of making political capital of their
folly"
Now, if everybody but the 'sAllegha-
Man" don't know the fact, it may be pro-
| per to state, that so far from there being
any truth in the above, the unfortunate
victims of these atrocious murders were
members of this same Latin race so much
| despised by the ''Alleghanian." while the
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demon who violated the laws of God and
humanity, Juarez, has not single drop o.
,0lite blood in his ceinS!
When Mexico aspired to selfgovern-
ment, and threw off the control of Spain,
she abolished every species of slavery
This was wise, had she stopped here, but
she unwisely allowed the inferior races, the
negroes, Indians and half bloods (''Greas-
ers'') controlling power in the govern
ment. And Mexico is now in the hands
of these inferior races just as certainly as
are Hayti and Tennessee,
But the An9lo-Saxons and the negroes,
par noble firatruna, are the elect of Heaven
the salt Of the earth. They are called
upon by Heaven to be the rulers of these
Welsh, Irish, Spanish, French and Italian
races. They are not of Old England
! English nor Puritans-therefore they can
participate in this Anglo-Saxon carnival.
| They had the misfortune to be born ,cllite,
therefore be the praise given to the negroes.
But the "Alleghanian" deprecates the
Latin races, especially the people of Spain,
France and Italy" This is ungrateful,
but characteristic of the ittleness of bigo-
! try which marks that paper.
If Spain, through the heroic zeal of her
Isabella and the almost superhnman saga
city and intellectual power of her Colum-
bus, had not given America to the world,
the editors crot0- Hies would have no coun-
try to govern, as they never pretended to
| govern themselves in Africa. Nearly four
hundred years ago Columbus landed on
this island of Hayti, and with the emblem
of Christianity borne before him, took
! possession in the name of the Triune God
The ''AlleghaniaR' can boast that this
Latin superstition is pretty well disposed
of, and ga little green snake" is now wor-
shipped by this immaculate people.
France, too, comes in for share of
condemnation. Their only wrong has
been that when the Anglo-Sax tyran-
nized over US they sent their gallant army,
with the immortal La Fayette at their
! head, through whose assistance we secured
our independence of these Anglo Saxons
And Italy-helpless ItaIy-thy weak
ness should have been thy protection.
Thou hadst trouble enough, God knows,
before this last allusion in the 'sAllegha
.niaH' put the capstone on thy woes. The
editor should have known that the first
crowned head of Europe that ever put a
veto upon the ''accursed slave traffic" was
the occupant Of St. Peters chair, who
from the Vatican interdicted the inhuman
traffic as at war with Chris tianity And
this at a time, too, when our Anglo Saxon
friends were lining the coast of Africa
with their vessels, and dealing in the ne
groes that were lying around loose with as
much sang .froid as a jew would deal in
! old clothes.
TIE TENNESSEE ELECTION refer
| ing 10 the late so called election in Ten
nessee, the New York Times remarks =