Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-02
COLUMBUS, O., MONDAY MORNING, S

benighted savage, cruel barbarian whC
makes barter of his own race and blood
His Government is and always has beer
despotii; and the best evidence that he il
incapable of self-government is the fac
that In his native country he never at.
tempted its exercise; and his experiment
in Hayti has been an oscillation from an.
Rrehy to despotism..---
Itmay be misfortune, but it is notTf
crime, nor even fault for one race to bt
inferior to another; but it is serious fact
a a-practicall truth, which we. people who
claim to be capable of self-government
cannot safely disregard.
fa"- ug' AFRICA AND Europe. =. 81
Only two gun shots distance separate the
coast OF Africa from that of Europe, and
yet what moral infinity divides the one
from the other. From the creation of its
Inhabitants, the greater portion of Africa
mas been sunk In savagism, without one
ray of civilization to soften the monotonous
gloom. Tyre, Egypt, Carthage were the
homes of fair skinned races of men, who
attained a high civilization; but south ol
the deserts there always has been barbaric
darkness. On one side of the straits oil
Gibraltar, religion, the arts and sciences
flourish, while to the southwark of the op.
posite shore, heathenism is supreme the
Christians God is unknown, and the mosi
enlightened of the negro kings commemo-
rates his birthday by bathing In pool o.
human blood.
AND WHAT OF HAYTI?
Let us for moment, my friends, leave
the negro in Africa, and glance at his con.
d1tlon on the beautiful island of Hayti
where, under the auspices of mulattoes who
had been educated in Paris, he attempted
to establish Negro Republic, based upor
the ideas of the French Revolution. The
mulattoes combined with the pure negroes
to sextirpate the white race, who formed
but small minority of the population. A
war of races followed, and the whites flee
from the island, or were exterminated.
| But the war of races had only com
menced. The mulatto, who had hair or
his head and the blood of the white man ir
his veins, despised the negro, who haC
neither. And ON his side the negro hatet
the mulatto, because he was no longer
black. War ensued. the mulattoes were
in the minority, but their superior intelli-
gence gave them the advantage over the
negroes. although the latter eXcelled then
in physical strength.
At length peace was made on the
basis of separation. The island was
divided; the negroes on one half
the mulatoes on the other. And what
of the black Republic? 1t became Re-
public ruled by an Emperor. Republican
with titled nobility-despotism succeeded
anarchy, and the Indications are that the
negroes of Hayti will by degrees resolve
themselves back into the barbarism ;oi
Africa. .-....r-
This, my countrymen, is not question
of mere speculative philosophy, but one oil
stern and practical reality, a question
which no statesman should disregard.
If it be true that the negro is incapable
OF government, shall we deliberately
confer upon four million of blacks, rights
they cannot comprehend, and privileges
they cannot safely exercise?
Do you believe, my friends, that the
black and white races can live together in
the same country on terms of equality
II you do SO believe, permit me to invite
your attention to the opinions of some OF
the most eminent of American statesmen.
You are all ware that Jefferson and Mad
ison, as we'll as Clay and Lincoln, depre-
Gated the existence of slavery, and that
they all declared that che kings of England,
and not the people of the United States,
were responsible for its existence. Mr..
Jefferson said: ''Iregard nothing as being
more certain in the future than that slavery
will be abolished, but it is not less certain
that the blacks and whites can never live
together on terms of equality" y
"Their remaining in the State on terms OF
equality would produce eonvulsions which
would probably never end but in the ex-
termination of the one race or the other.''
Similar views were entertained and ex-
pressed by Madison and Clay, and were
afterwards indorsed by. Abraham Lincoln.
In his reply to Judge Douglas, in the
Ottawa debate, Mr.. Lincoln said (see de-
bates page 74) "What next? Free the
blacks, and make them socially and politi-
cally our equals? Ny own feelings will
not admit of this; and if mine would, we all
know that those of the great mass of the
people would not; whether. this
feeling accords with Justice and sound
Judgment. is not the sole question. if in
deed it is any part of it. A universal
feeling whether well or ill founded cannot
safely be disregarded. We cannot ther
make them our equals"
And like sentiments were proclaimed by
Mr.. Lincoln in his debates from Lake Mich.
igan to the Ohio river. In his speech al
Charleston debates, page 1867. he forcibly
said: Il am not, nor ever have been il
favor of bringing about in any way, the
social and political equality of the blael
and white races"
81 am not, nor ever have been in favor O
making voters or jurors of negroes"
"Nor of qualifying them (negroes) to holt
office"
Nor of having them (negroes) inter.
marry with white people,"
''Fhere is physical difference between
the black and white races, which believ,
will FOREVER forbid the two races livins
together on terms of social and politica
equality" And
"1nasmuch as the black and white race
cannot live together on terms of equality
while they do remain together, there mus
be the position OF superior and inferior
and as much as any other man am in ia
vor of having the superior position assign
ed to the white race"
Jefferson and Lincoln, Madison and Clay
all earnestly advocated the colonization O
the negroes in some suitable country. Ant
1t is my firm conviction that if that race il
America are saved from annihilation, i
will be by their colonization, by their owl
free will, in some congenial cline, wher,
they can have Government of their own
under the protection of the United States
WHITE MEN RULE THE WORLD.
But are the blacks and whites antagonis
races ? Not more so than are the reds anC
the whites. The friction of the white rae,
against the red, of the granite against tn,
sandstone, will soon rub the red race o
America out of existence-the sandston,
will be ground to powder, while the granit
will remain without scratch.
Yes, there is, always has been, and in tn,
nature of things always will be a deadly
antagonism between the dark and fair race
OF men.
Why it is so, do not undertake to ex
plain. Man is a destructive animal, only
held in restraint by the softening influence
of religion and civilization. The superio
lords it over the inferior-the strong rule
the weak And in some sense. this spiri
of domination and destruction, seems tt
be law OF mature. We find it every
| where. In the air, the eagle, the mobiles
| Of birds, lives uIJOn prev: and the lion th,
king of the jungle, not only devour inferio
| animals, but uses the jackal, brute detec
tive, to scent out his victims while In,
gigantic whale, the lordliest bond-hold
of the ocean, swallows a whole shoal o
| little fishes-tax payers of the sea-at
single gulp.
The practical statesman will recogniz
men and things as he finds them, and max
laws in accordance with what is, and wha
st N tinla To, hn: CO..