Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-08-22

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He has the same regard for the ow
that He has for the eagle, and SO witt
the jackass, the white man and the
negro, provided, always, that the onc
is as faithful in the discharge of his
mission on earth as the other. 1t Il
by no means a crime or fault on the
part of the jackass, that he cannot run
as swiftly as the horse. He was not
created for such feetness and so with
the negro: he has not been endowed
by God with the same volume of brain
that the white man has, and he is not
TO blame for not being able to compete
with him in science and knowledge
He is an inferior animal to the white
man. God made him such as he is for
wise purposes, as he has made the ass
inferior to the horse. 1t is rs foolish
to think of making poets, artists, and
statesmen out of negroes, as it would
be to attempt TO make a race horse or
a spirited charger in battle out of q
jackass. You may give the negro the
right of suffrage and the right to hold
Office, and make him Legislator; and
so you may enter the ass for a four
mile heat with the blooded horse, or
you may mount him in battle for a
charge on the enemy; but both would
be equally unwise and disastrous, for
you are attempting to pervert nature
and the laws of God,
Professor Agassiz, of Harvard Col
lege, Massachusetts, the most learned
and scientific naturalist the world has
ever produced, declares most conf
dontly, after a life time of thought and
observation upon the subject, "that
the negro and the white man were
created as specifically different as the
owl and the eagle. They were designed
to fill different places in the system OF
nature. The negro is no more negro
by accident or misfortune, than the
owl is the kind of bird he is by acci.
dent or misfortune. The negro is no
more the white mans brother than
the owl is the sister of the eagle, or
than the ass is the brother of the horse. F"
"There are" says the same great au-
thority, cover one hundred specific
differences between the bonal and
nervous System of the white man and
the negro. Indeed, their forms are
alike in no particular. There is not
a bone in the negrc's body relatively
Of the same shape, size, articulation,
or chemically Of the same composition,
as that of the white man. The negro's
bones contain far greater per cent
age Of calcerous salts than those of
the white man. Even the negro's
blood is chemically a very different
fluid from that which courses in the
veins of tho white man. The whole
physical organization Of the negro
differs quito as much from the white
man as it does from that Of the chin
panzee-that is, in his bones, muscles,
nerves and fibres. The chimpanzec
has not much further to progress to
become negro, than the negro has
to become a white man. This fact
science inexorably demonstrates"
1t is agreed by all scientific men
who have turned their attention to this
subject, that the capacity, by measure
ment, of the skull Of the white man is
ninety seven cubic inches-that is, the
average of one thousand or any 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 can be no
higher authority, says the feet and
hands, the arms and legs of the white
man and negro are unlike in measure
mcnt. The hand of the negro is one
twelfth larger and one-tonth broader
than the hand Of the white man his
foot is one-eighth longer and onc-ninth
broader than the white mans; his
fore arm is one-tenth shorter, and the
same is true of the bones from the
knee TO the ankle Tho skeleton is
unlike in the whole, in weight and
measurement, and unlike in every
bone of it.
In the most admirable speech of the
Hon. w. Mungen, Of Ohio, lately de-
livered in Congress (and to which i
am greatly indebted for much that /
have said,) it is boldly asserted, on
the authority Of scientific men, that
the world does not afford an instance
of a mulatto in the mn generation.
The hybrid race becomes extinct after
the fourth generation, unless they have
intermixed with one or the other OF
the original races. So il is with all
animals Tho mule does not breed &c
all. Tho wolf and iackal, The dog and
fox, have produced hybrids, which
always become extinct in tho third
generation. These animals, like the
negro and white man, were regarded,
at the time, as only different varieties
of the same species. But experiment
shows thom TO have beon different
creation, as it docs the negro ana the
white man.
j repeat what | have said in q
former article, that have ever been
the friend and protector of the negro
through life. This my former slaves
will vouch for me. Ny housc-sorvants,
eight or ton in number, have never
left me, and are still living with me
on the same terms they did whilst
slaves. 1t is because wish well to
the negro that am unwilling to see
him placed 10 a false position. Hc Is
unfit 20 exercise the right of suffrage,
and will become the dupe and tool OF
base and designing men. A 'rdr q
races viH ensae, and the negro, being
the weaker and less intelligent, will