The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-03
ANOTHER LETTER FROM HON. b, F.
PERRY.

The action of tho rump Congress- the other
day, in extra session, ought to convince every ono
that tho radical party have no intention of restor-
ing the Union until the Southern States are thor
oughly Radicalized, and will elect Senators and
members of the House of that party. The Ken
lucky representatives. in number, and all
Democrats-have been denied their seats in Co;l-
-rcss, simply because they were not Black Re
publicans. If the Southern States, under the re-
construction policy of President johnson, had
elected Radicals, and given any assurance OF their
adhesion to that party, no one can suppose that
their representatives would have been excluded
from Congress. In the fall Of 1864, one Of the
first things done by Congress was to purge the
Senate, and exclude Democrats enough from that
body to give them two-thirds ajority.
The question will be for the people of the South
ern States to decide, in tho coming elections,
whether thoy prefer to remain as they are, or by
calling conventions, adopting negro suffrage and
eecting Radicals go back into the Union. What
advantage to the South will it be to increase the
Black Republican majority in Congrcss2 How can
we be benefited by Strengthening tho hands OF
have in being represented in Congress by traitors
to the South-men whom we must scorn and de-
spise as Judas Iscariots in poltics2 1t is sad
and melancholy reflection on human nature, to
see men who naugurated the war, and were going
to die in the last ditch, now seeking to go back
into the Union, stripped OF every principle and
right which they vowed to defend, with Black Ro-
publican collars around their necks. How dis
gusting to 500 base, unprlncipled white men
seeking Office and position by hypocriticaly pan.
dering to the ignorant, criminal and ruinous
prejudiccs and aspirations OF the negro would
greatly prefer seeing every Office in the State filled
BY the honest intelligent negroes, than by such
unprinciplcd and shameless men.
once said to President Johnson, in reply to q
dispatch sent me, about Union men being cX-
cluded from Office under tho Provisional Govern
ment. that 1 had made it a rule through life to
confde in the politics Of no one who was not NOR
II Ih,yi opl
that my experience had taught me the fact that a
man who had no moral principle could have no po-
litical principle. Hence it is that we sec those
VINO were foremost in secession, while secession
was in the ascendant and the road to honor and
distinction, power and position, now fawning ut
the feet of the oppressor, while tyranny and op-
preston arc all powerful. They care not whom
they serve, or what principles they advocate pro-
vided they can promote their own selfish views.
But they would have us believe that tho great
interests Of the country were foremost III their
thoughts
Immediately after it was known that slavery
would have to be abolished, l expressed the
opinion that it would be wise and prudent to per-
init negroes, who had acquired pr properly i, an and
ern States. t thought this would be safety valve
for political society. 1t would crafty and appease
the Intelligent and most influential OF that class,
and make them good citizens instead OF being
disturbers of the peace. 1t would hold out an in
ducement to oil who had any disposition or wish
to rise above the common herdl And no evil
could result from it, as supposed very few, COM
paratyely would ever be sble to attain the privi-
iege, and when thoy did, they would always vote
with the higher and better educated class Of
whites. I expressed similar opinion many years
ago, in regard to recapturing fugitive slaves: !
thought it well for society that when slave had
acquired such love for freedom as to prompt him
to flee to the Northern States, and possessed in
telligence sufficient to make his escape, he ought
not to be brought back. In this way the bold,
daring and reckless-they who were most likely to
disturb the public poace-would be out of the
country, and there would be greater safety from
those left behind.
But my opinion thus expressed was denounced
by those who are now urging universal suffrage
for tho negro, or at least advocating tho call OF
convention, by which universal suffrage is to be
established. 1 likewise advocated, at the same
testimony in all cases in our courts OF justice.
This, too was sternly resisted by those who are
now willing to confer oil the negro tho right OF
holding Office, to get back into the GLORIOUS
Uhion," which they once hated and despised so
cordially.
In one of my previous communications, stated
that Professor Agassiz had proved oQnclusivcly
that the negro was of an inferior race to that OF
tho white man, and had different origin. In say
ing this, did not intend to nsinuate, as some OF
OF the negroes seemed to think did, that God
was not their "father," we'll as tho white mans
father. They arc certainly both creations OF the
same Almighty hand. They are doubtless, too,
equally under the protection of the Almighty, and
equally dear to Him in their respective spheres
spheres in which He placed thom and for which
he made them. Tho horse and the jackass are
both alike the creations of God He did not create
them of the same type, or make them one and the
same animal. He ,vo to one beauty OF form and
symmetry, spirit and feetness; and to tho other
strength, endurance and other valuable qualities.
So He distinguished between the negro and white
man. To the former he has given black skin
and woolly head, greater strength and less
brain. He has adapted him to labor, and given
him pores which defy malaries and fevers. 70
the other He has given white skin and head Of
hair less strength and larger BRAIN adapted to
higher thoughts and greater intellectual in-
provements
But God loves his whole creation equally, and
it is to bo presumed that he has the same regard
for the owl that he has for the eagle, and so with
tho jackass the wh.to man and tho negro, pro-
vided, always, that the one is as faithful IN the
discharge of his mission on earth rs the other
It is BY no means u crimo or fault on the part OF
tho jaOkass, that he cannot run as swiftly as the
horse. He was not created for such heotness ;
and so with the negro. he has not been endowed
by Cod with the same volume OF brain that TIL.
white man has, and ho is not to blame for being
unable to compete with him Ill science and knowl
edge. He is an inferior animal to tho white man.
God made him such as he is for wise purposes rs
he made the ass inferior to tho horse. 1t is as
foolish to think of making poets, artists and
statesmen out ofnegroeS rs 1t would be to make n
race horse or spirited charger in battle out OF a
jackass, You may give the negro the right OF suf-
frago and the right to hold Office, and mako hlm Il
legislator; and SO you may enter tho ass for q
four-milc heat with the booded horse, or you may;
mount him in battle for In charge on tho enemy
but both would beicqually unwlse and disastrous,
for you arc attempting to prevert nature and the
laws of God.
Professor Agassiz, of Harvard College, Massa-
chusetts the most learned aud scientific naturalist
the world has ever produced, declares most confi-
IDENTIFY after lifetime of thought and observation
on the subject, "that tho negro and the white man
were created as specifically different as tue owl
and the eagle. They were designed to fill differ
ent places in the system OF nature. The negro If
no more 9 negro by accident or misfortune than
the owl is the kind of bird he is by accident OF
misfortune. The negro is no moro the white mans
brother than the owl is the sister OF the eagle OF
than the ass is the brother CT the horse. There
are, says the same great authority, over one
hundred specific differences between the bonal
| and nervous system of the white man and the nc
gro. Indeed, their forms arc alike in no plrticu-
lar. There is not bono i'll tho ncgros body re-
lativcly of tho saTo shape, size, articulation, OF
chemically OF the same composition, rs that OF the
| white man. The ncgros bones contains fal
of the white man. Even tho negros blood is
chemically very different fluid from that which
| courses in tho veins of the white man. The whole
physical organization of the negro differs quite as
much from the white man us it does from that Ol
| the chimpanZee-that is, in his bOnes muscles
nerves and tibres. The chimpanzee has not mucl
further to progress to become negro than tho
negro has to become white man. This fact sci
cncc nexorably demonstrates"
1t is agreed by all scientific mon who have
turned their attention to this subject that the Ca
pacity, by measurement, of the skull of tho white
man is ninety-scvon cubic inches, that is, tho
average OF ono thousand or amy greater number
of skulls. The negro has sixty-siX cubic inches
the North American Indian has siXty-three cubic
inches; the native Australian has fifty-six cubic
inches. Sir Charles Lyall, than whom there cal
be no higher authority, says the feet and hands
the arms and legs of the white man and negro are
unlike in measurement The hand of the negro
is onc-twclfth larger and one-tcnth broader thar
the hand of the white man; his foot is onc-cigtl
| longer and onc-nnth broader than the white
mans; his forearm is onc-tcnth shorter, and til,
same is true of the bones from the knee to thu
ankle The skeleton is unlike in tho whole il
weight and me, surement: and unlike in every bon,