The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-01-25

equality of the rnces, and their equal
fitness for political rights and privile-
gSs, is maintained so stoutly and siren
uously, historical facts like the above,
which can not be gainsayed or denied,
can not be too prominently dissemina.
ted and read. There is probably not
one among our readers or orr cotem-
poraries OF the press, who have an idea
of the source from which we derived
the above extract. They will be struck
with profound astonishment when we
inform them that the author Is n gen
tleman quite as we'll known as q lead
ing Abolitionist Of former days, quite
as conspicuous in the Anti.slavery cru
SADIE against the Government as Wen
dell Philips or Lloyd Garrison, but a
man of far more original thought and
talent than oithcr. II is no other than
the Rev. Theodore Parker, of Boston,
who expressed them in a lecture or
public discourse in New York in 1853,
which was reported in the public press
at the time, and widely republished all
over the country.
In language it is tsrss and fgurAtlve.
in thought most condensed, 1t tells the
story, not Of the equality; but tho inc
quality of the races There is no truth
moro patent and obvious-more easily
proved by experience aud observation
yet, with many is obscured and lost
sight Of in the misty hazes of n false
theoretical speculation, to support a
partisan hobby or creed. Mr.. Parker
D hau nall aafI NlnN Nh. Ifan.... 49,
is progressive; but how is it with the
Airican2 lie is the same savage, I'M.
couth barbarian that no was three or
four thousand years ago, or, il there
has been any change, il has been dcte-
rioration, not improvement. He has
been az ipsensible to the latter as the
beasts of the field, or tho birds of the
air, whose lairs and nests are consti.
tuted precisely as they were when they
were released from the Ark of Noah,
after the Deluge. While powerful and
civilized empires have arisen and thon
fallen, and risen again, among tho
Caucasians, at different periods is the
annals of the world, the negro race in
Africa has preserved its stolid barbar-
ism. 1t has drawn on it's miserable
existence-without arts, without sci
ence, without lettsrs-with govern
ments the most degraded, and with n
religion Of the lowest, grossest and
most disgusting type, that is possible
TO human nature to conceive. Meth
er from within, as among other ra
ces, has thOre boon any principle that
leads to civilization or cultivation, and
not from without has il been ablo to
received for that purpose-for with
!, whites tho African has had intercourse
Tor thousands Of years, but has gained
nothing by the contact TO relieve or
improve its degrading barbarism. II
was only in a condition of slavery for
centuries to Che whites, in far distant
countries from their own, that any
civilization could be impaired, oven in
tho most limited .xLent, 10 tho African
and his descendants, and among those
it is uncertain, after the experience o.
Hayti and Jamaica, if they can pre-
serve it whom the pressure Of the
white is taken away from them.
There is a strong tendency there t
revert TO the savage state from which
their ancestors were forcibly captured
when brought to these shores. 1t ii
this race hat our Radical philanthro
pists propose TO put upon the sam
|, political and social plane with thu
Caucasian, to which, they tell US, it il
equal, save in the accidents Of birth
and color aud condition. We are tolc
} they are equally fitted TO enjoy politi
cal privileges and to take part in th,
9 direction ofthe destiniea Of the country
What strange and incomprehensibl
infatuation What amazing deluslol
and blindness | The African, who new
er, in his original estate mt home, ha
, been able to draw even an inspiration
of civilization-who has not n letter
or an art, or a science, and is, through
his descendants, butimperfectly taugh
some of the rudimeuts Of progress i
4 tho hard school Of slavery-is judge
worthy to help maintain the principl
Of self government, which the grea
mass OF the Caucasian race, with a
= their talent, have not been able I
= support except under rare circun
i. stances, and at favored intervals {
. of time. God has created, IN his wis
providence, different races of mel
: some Of whom are vastly inferior
others ia intellectual cultivation an
= reasoning endowments. The eftor
that are made to ignore all those dii
tinctions and differences, and, by III
man legislation, to declare that the
donot exist, are so foolish and absuI
as only to create unbounded astonisI
ment and smazement. 1t is legisli
ton which shuts its eyes to facts
l. which refuses to recognize the trutl
l. of history or actual sxperience-in o
- der to realize some Utopian ideas
L. which have no other basis than enthI