Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-02

tion people who outnunbered them as
| three Thousand to one. Ciiii -1. .ta3 .En' Z
And China, with her population of more
than three hundred millions of inhabitants.
China, whose Emperor claims to be the
! brother of the sun. and moon-What of her?
Why, citizens, you all know that but ft W
years ago, paltrv army-paltrv in num-
bPrs onIy-an allied army of 6Celts ard
Anglo-Saxons ofIless than 30O0O strong. i.
invaded China, captured, and in a good
part destroyed Pekin, with its populate n
of more than 100000. 81 uls, and dictate d
terms to a people who ouuhumber them
as ten thousand to one. And as it is with
the continents, so is it with the isles of the
seas. The white man dominates the worlc !.
MAY NOT COLOR BE THE EFFECT OF cLI-
| MATE. -."' ~ .i--.
According to Lord Brougham, one fact
| is worth a cargo of theories, and not one
uncontroverted fact has ever been cited to
show that. color among the races of men,
| is the result of climate. ...s, ..,-,-,,..7r :,
1 have heard well meaning persons as
sert that the negroes of the United States,
without reference to a mixture of blood,
were growing whittier. and that the change
was the effect of climate. But these good
people forget that if the climate of Ameri-
ca can effect any change in the complex
ion of the. negro, that the negro ought to
be turning red instead of white, for red,
and not white, is the color of the natives OF
4 America, Europeans have resided in
America during more than ten, and Afri-
cans have resided, here during eight gen.
arations, and if color be produced by eli
mate, then the white and black races ought
| to be turning red. But every candid OBJ
server will admit that the pure blooded
negro cannot be blacker than he, is now,
while the decendents of Europeans whose
ancestors landed on our shores centuries
| q oS 70 0ir onraln Of
Britain or Germany. No. The types of
men, except by adulteration never change.
There are to-day fair skinned Jews in
| Malabar, whose successors settled there
more than 1900 years ago. And every
traveller who has visited Aries in the South
of France, will tell you that there is to be
found the beautiful Greek type in form
and feature, as clearly marked as in an
cient Thebes, or Athens, or Sparta, and yet
it is more than two thousand years since
the Greek colonists, from whom the Ar
lesians sprung, first landed on what is
now the coast of France, on the beautiful
Mediterranean.
Many other well authenticated facts
could be cited, but time will not permit
me to do so, and will conclude this branch
of the subject by quoting an authority
which will not be cOntroverted. In Jere-
miah 18th chapter and 23d verse, we read ::
"Can the Ethiopean change his skin, or the
leopard his spots? Then may ye also do
good who are accustomed to do eVil."-
That is good can no more be done by
those who are accustomed to do evil, than
can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the
leopard his spots. There can be no doubt
as to the correctness of this Interpretation,
when it is considered that God was de-
nouncing judgment against his people for
their wickedness. And in the next verse
He says: Therefore will l scatter them
as the stubble that passeth away by the
wind of the wilderness" f..
FALSE DOGMA EXAMINED.
My kind friends, many worthy men sup
pose that all the various races OF men
spring from the same locality and have de-
scended from the same parents and re-
specttully ask your attention while 1 en-
deavor to expose the fallacy of this dogma.
do not do so for the sake of argument,
but because some good citizens say, "If the
negro and the white man descended from
the same parents, they must be equals? 1t
the negro is our brother, why not give him
all the privileges we enjoy?'' r.u. .....-
| Have all the races of men common ORR
gin? Yes, but that origin is God, the Gre
ator. But it is not true, nor is there any
historical evidence that all the races of men
originated in the same locality, or descend
ed from the same parents. For moment,
consider, my friends, the beautiful harmo-
ny of nature. Behold the grandeur of the
primeval forest. Of what is it composed
Trees. How created? By the will of God.
Did all trees spring from the same origi
nal seed? No; the hickory, the oak, the
locust and the maple are all trees, but the
hickory does not spring from the acorn,
nor the oak from the seed of the locust tree.
Nor could change of soil and climate con-
vert the Bohan-Upas into the Linden tree !;
or the ebony or mahogony into the Lom-
hardy poplar or the Carolina pine.
And yet they are all trees, with trunks,
and roots, and bark, and leaves, and
branches; but they are of different spe-
cies, and each has its separate and distinct
existence. .,
But may be told that there is no analo-
gy between animate and inanimate nature.
| Is that true? AS certain portions OF the
earth give birth to certain kinds of trees,
which originally were found no where else,
so are there certain portions of the ocean
which are the permanent homes of certain
species of fishes which exist no where else,
and certain parts of the earth where certain
species of birds and beasts are found, and
originally were found no where else. Why
is the right whale never found out of the
Arctic seas ? and why is the sperm whale
never found in. the Arctic waters? Why
does the golden-hued dolphin of the Medi-
terranean never pass the Straits of Gibral-
tar, although he swims with five times the
| d
dor only found in Southern America
Why is the ostrich only found in Africa !?
Why do not elephants exist in Europe and
America? Why is the elephant of Africa
different from the elephant of Asia? Why
were not the camel and the horse original
lv found in America? Why has the Ash
attic camel two humps while the dromeda-
ry has Onlv one and the cameleopard none
at all? Why is the ourang- outang (the
wild man of the woods) only found in
Asia and Africa? And why is the African
ourang-outang black while that of Asia is
brown?
And as it pleased the great Creator to
make different species of plants and trees,
and birds and brutes and fishes; is it not
reasonable to suppose that He also created
different species of men? and assigned to
one as to the other, distinct and separate
| homes. Would it not be irrational to sup
pose that in the creation of man, God
would depart from his universal law? Yes
While all the races of men are of the same
genus; creatures of the same infinite and
All-wise God; and are atoned for by the
same Divine Saviour, the species of men
are as distinct from each other, as are the
species of plants, and birds and brutes and
fishes. And as the oak differs from the
hickory, and the apple from the peach !;
as the eagle differs from the owl, and the
vulture from the dove; as the right whale
differs from the dolphin, and the shark
from the shad; so, also, do the various
races of men differ one from another.
But it seems to me, my friends, that
there are other facts which establish the
plurality of the human races, beyond rea-
sonable doubt. Less than four centuries
and half ago, there was not one single
person in Europe, Asia or Africa who had
ever heard or read that the American con-
tinent existed; and had not Columbus been
born. our country might to-day be savage
wilderness. When that great philosopher
landed on our northern coast, he was struck
with the fact that our forests were COM
posed of to him, new species of trees that
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