Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-09

tue history Oh tuo ueRio we
our own race, and you cannot escape
the conviction that to the white mar
alone should be committed the ruling
authority in this Republic. Many cen
turtles ago, the negroes were in contact
with the highest Egyptian and Greciau
civilization. He trod the streets OF
Memphis and Thebes, in Egypt, as a
slave, surmounted by all the appliances,
all the grandeur Of the civilization that
was then and there attained and enjoy
ed. Had there been any indications OF
his advance, or progress, under such
circumstances? Place II white nan or a
number of white men in precisely such
situations, bonds and all, and a you
conceive of their not partaking in large
measure, aud with constant progress,
Of the glory and genius of their conquer
ers, or employees, or masters? Later
still, the negro came in contact with
Grecian civilization, and had many op-
%portunities for n display of his native
faculties, if his talents could be devel-
oped into the appreciation even OF the
arts and sciences AS then attained.
Did History, which from those days did
not lack Of so much detail and candor
as would have recorded the negros' adj
vaucement, if he made any,-did His
tory tell us of any considerable refining
or civilizing effects produced on the me-
gro intellect by Grecian Literature,
Art or Science? No. All History has
one and the same reply: the negro
has never advanced IN any marked de-
gree from his status in Africa. Domes-
ticated in the homes Of learning, he
loses a little of his native superstition,
but develops no powers Of high indie
pendent thought, displays no inventive
faculties, and as Il race preserves iden-
tity by an average feebleness of mind.
When we say the negro is of an ''infe-
rior race" we do not manifest Il mere
prejudice on our part: We state a fact.
How differently reads the record Of our
fot~efathers. But little more than two
thousand years ago, the ancestors Of
nearly every person before the speaker
were barbarians. They cam down
from the "North" and conquered the
white inhabitants of Middle and South
cru Europe, overruu the territory, and
for II time, checked the advance of the
civilization they there found. But these
same barbarians obtained at once their
Primary Lesson from the culture and re-
fnement of their captives. aud COM
menced u progress in the walks Of n
new aud better civilization, a progress
which could hardly be said to have
halted for II moment-eyer progressing
in Art and Literaturelandi in politics. ln-
ventious of great utility were speedily
made, true scientific theories took the
place of what was Grecian superstition;
knowledge was more and more gene
rally ditfused, and governments were
improved, until, within II few centuries,
there has been au immense stride for
ward in all these departments Of life, by
the white race, and by that race alone.
And while in contact with all this
mighty advance, has the negro contrib
uted to it II single thought Produced a
single valuable invocation Written even
one poem or essay worthy n place in
your libraries? Afforded, even when
specially and literally aided to such an
object and end. an example of bcuifcent
| self-Government? Given any statable
and reliable evidence OF his capacity to
be more Thar u child AS compared with
the white man? You look and inquire
in vain, when you would answer affirm
atively. Why then say it is prejudice,
blind, anreasoning, contemplate pre-
iudice that impcls us to declare that the
negro is 'siuferior" TO the white man,
is of AN "iuferior race, u and is inferior
in that measure aud in those particulars
which render him unfit to hold u place OF
political equality with our race? Are
we mean, Boosting cyclists, oecaus we
claim u racial superiority to the negro!
Not at all. 1t is Il cheap sueer that
attend. or exists IN cslliug us vain
boosters of our race, when we make this
Just claim. God Almighty has decreed
this difference and inferiority Of races.
He has said in Scripture; he has writ
ten it in the record Of mankind; it APP
peaIs to our senses to-day; is plain to
our understanding of c~otemporane-
Gus facts. Take Fred. Douglass-he
may be accepted as the best example OF
what the black man can attain in any in-
stance, in intellectual culture and pow
err. There is nothing peculiar about Doug
lass except his complexion. Take Fred.
Douglass aud whitewash him, aud place
nin among a number Of average white
men, and he would not be noticed. And
Fred. Douglass is one among ten thou
sand negroes. The Radical Republican
party must fail, when their creed is ne
gro equality, against intelligent reason,
against obvious right and justice. AS
moral beings, the negro and the China
mau had their rights, which the speaker
was not disposed to question or invade;
but their demand, or the demand
made for them, or either one OF them,
BY the Republicans, that they be ac-
cepted as our political equals, he repu-
dated, California repudiated, the white
people of the Nation, generally, would
r~epudiate. In some States there might
be n brief trial of the plan Of negro
suffrage, in some there would be tenn
porarily a militarily enforced order for
their voting, but the reaction would
speedily come, and the system would
be rejected altogether. Our fathers,
our white ancestors, with no prejudice
of race other than such rs is justified
by and consists iu correct reason and
common sense, laid the foundations OF
this Republic, and committed its ad-
vancement to white men. Are the Re-
publican leaders wiser than they, in
their negro suffrage and Chinese broth
erhood doctrines? The speaker said
that he suspected II conspiracy against
the Republic on the part of those who
would politically render the black man
the equal Of the white citizen. He con
cluded by repeating his belief in the
speedy downfall of the Republican party
prd the triumph of true Democratic
principles throughout the Nation. He
told a "campoody' story. He said that
the flag of our country would be safe in
the hands of the Democracy, who would
uphold it, and preserve it %unstaiued by
dishonor, but ever enhanced by Ma
tional achievements Of glorious renown,
(Cheers.]
The audience WAS not very demon
strative, but there was good attention
but one interruption 10y n drunken maj
on the sidewalk that attracted genera
notice: and the audience seemed very