The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-09-27
BEL AIR. Mo- FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER o. 1867
Tue Negro Question in a Nut Shell.

LII iCOChV uCUdtS IuC ucSIO SuuTdRc
and equality question in the Connecticut
Legislature, Mr.. Appel, member from
r Newton, made the following remarks,
which are the most concise and conpre-
hensive we remember to have seen upon
the subject referred to-:
The gentleman from Woodbury. appeals
earnestly to US to confer suffrage upon tho
negro because he is brother aud q man.
He should bear in mind that similarity of
race does not always bestow the Same ca.
pacities. The donkey is of the same ge-
nus as the horse; would he have chosen
one for his war steed The bloodhound
IS of the same race 'as the St. Bernard
dog would you send one out among the
ravines of the Alps in pursuit of per-
ishing traveller T?
1t is not simple prejudice against his
color, but the inferior capacities of the
negro as race, as shown by history and
his present condition in his own cline,
that convince me of his un6tness to hold
tho balance of power in this government.
Starting from creation with an equal
chance with the rest of mankind, aside
from qualities of race, possessing uncon-
trolled one of the finest portions of the
globe, he has run the race of nations
and where are his arts, his commerce or
his history?
Our Indian races preserved history in
tradition-the Aztecs in paintings. They
worshiped the Great Spirit, and believed
in future life. But the negroes have
never acquired the Grst rudiments of an
education; never preserved a tradition of
their career; never formed theology,
but now worship snakes aud lizards, and
sacrifice and eat each other in their horri-
Bile rites.
[ must confess that the negro has IA
Guilty for performing that peculiar kind of
a strong central government our Radical
friends so much desre-one Ia which the
tinkling of a bell will consigu a man to
Fort Lnfay ette or to the gallows; for when
the King of Dahomey dies, his successor,
Respondent in the glories of red paint and
feathers, cuts off the heads of few hum
dred Of his subjects by way of adding to
the variety of the funeral pageant. How
Thad. Stevens must envy the unlimited
coniscating powers Of the King of Daho-
mey? No wonder he wants to exalt the
race 10 power.
During these past ages the negro has not
wanted the example of improvement in
surrounding races. He has beheld Thebes
in all her splendor-seen the pyramids
rise on the Nile-sojourned in Car
thage and seen the Carthagenian hosts re-
turn in triumph from Europe-listened
for ages to the Arabian philosophers and
the Mahomedau preachers aye ! and to
thousands of Christian preachers during
the first centuries of Christianity-and yet
remains, with the exception of the Aus
trafian, the lowest in the scale of races.
But, you say, give the negro tho adj
vantage of education and he will be our
equal. All who gave the white man the
advantages of education +? Did VIC not
start from creation with an equal chance I?
How then comes it that tho white man is
educated more than the negro? God i'm
planted 10 the Caucasian race q spirit of
progress which for His own purpose He
did not grant to the negro, and no action
of this Legislature can effect change in
Gods handiwork.
But take the negro in San Domingo,
when, after two centuries of training un-
der the white race, and in the Christian
church, he has been left to himself again,
he has retrograded-lost his industry and
commerce-goue back to the Fetish and
Obi worship.
What has been the history of Mexico
with universal suffrage and all the glory
and bliss of miscegenation and mixed
races Fifty revolutions in seventy
years Anarchy and chaos, and Re-
public fallen has been the result. Such
also is being the history of the South
American Republics. And if with these
facts of the past and the present staring
us in the face, we hesitate to place the
balance of power and the control of this
country in the hands Of q race with such
history as this, we are inhuman, are we ?
AS much SO as man would be who would
say that an African mud hut with the
Image of sacred lizard in it was equal in
art of the display of the Paris Exposition.