The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-08-21

same regard for the owl that he has for
the eagle, and SO with the jackass, the
white man and the negro, provided, al
ways, that the one is as faithful in the dis
charge of his mission on earth as the 9TH
ef. 1t is by no means crime or fault on
the part of the jackass, that he,cannot run
as swiftly as the horse He was not crea-
ted for such fleetness; and so with the ne
gro, 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 being
unable to compete with him in science. and
knowledge. lie is an inferior animal to
the white man. Goa made him such as he
is for wise purposes, as he made the ass in
ferior to the horse. 1t is as foolish to
think of making poets, artists and states
men out of negroes as it would be to make
a race horse OF spirited charger in battle
ont of a 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 q fotir-1nile 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 per-
vert nature and the laws of God.
Professor Agassiz, of Harvard College;
Massachusetts, the most learned and scien-
tiic naturalist the, world has ever pro-
duced, declares most confidently, after a
lifetime of thought and observation on the
subject, "That the negro and the white
man were created as. specially different as
the owl and the eagle They were de-
signed 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 accident or mis-
fortune 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" "There ate,' says the same
great authority, lover one hundred speci-
fic differences between the bonal and ner-
vous system of the white man and the ne
gro. Indeed, their forms are alike in no
particular. There is not bone in the ne.
ero's body relatively of the same shape
size, articulation, or chemically OF the
same composition, rs that of the white
man. The Negroes bones contains TAI
greater per centage of calcareorS salts thar
those of the white man. Even the negro's
blood is chemically. q very different fiulo
; from that which courses in the veins OF the
white man. The whole physical organl
cation Of the negro differs quite as mucl
: from the white man as it does from that o.
the chimpanzee-tha is, in his bones, mus
Giles, nerves and fbres. The chimpanze'
has not much further to progress to be
: come negro than the negro has to becom'
!. white man. This fact science inexorabl!
demonstrates .,..s.e...
It Is agreed BY all scientific men VIII
!. have termed their attention to this sub
! iect, that the capacity, by measurement
t of the skull of the white man is ninety
seven cubic inches, that is, the average o
! one thousand or any greater number Q
] skulls. The negro has sixty-six cubi
r inches; the North American Indian ia
: sixty-three cubic inches; the native Aus
! tralian has tifty-six cubic inches" 81
9 Charles Lyall, than whom there, can be n
5 higher authority, says the feet and hands
| the arms and legs of the white man an
g negro are unlike in measurement Tn
: hand of the negro is one.twelftfi larger an
1 one tenth broader than the hand of til
white man; his foot is one-eighth longe
= and one-ninth broader than the whit
4 mans; his forearm, is onetentii shofte1
Q and the same is true of the bones from til
Q knee to the ankle. The skeleton is unlik
! in the whole in weight and measurement
t and unlike in every bone of it.
t In the most admirable speech Of th
t Hon. ". Munger, of Ohio, lately delivere
d in Congress, land to which am great
S indebted for much that | have said9 It'll
: boldly asserted, onthe authority of sciel
l. tific men, that the world does not afford
!, instance of mulatte III the fifth gener
g ton. The hybrid race becomes extin'
d after the. fourth generation, unless the
Q have intermixed with one OF the other I
s the original races. So it is with all an
9 mails. The mules does. not breed at all
d The wolf and iackal, the dog ndfox, hay
r prodiited hybrits, which always becon
T extinct in the third generation The
animals, like, the negro and white ma
It were regarded, at one time, as only diffe
( emit varieties ofthe samespecies. But e
e pertinent shoWBthem to have been diffe
d ent creations, as it does the negro al
i white man.
S. / repeat what have said in a form
II article, that have ever been the trler
d and protector of the negro through life
J. This my former slaves will vonch Tor m
t. NV house-servants eight or tent numbt
e have never left me. and are still lvll
1t with me on the same terms they did Will
o slaves. 1t is because wish well to q
il negro that am unwilling to see him pla
y ed in false position. IIe is unit TO ext
% else the right of suffrage, and viii beeol
d, the dupe and tool of base and designil
er men. A war of races will ensue, and t
x negro, being the weaker and less intel
o; GENT, viii be exterminated in such W;
Il Extinction will be the result of this gre
a boon. bestowed Oh them for the sole p'
m pose of strengthening the Radical party
n General Benjamin F. Butler said to II
at eighteen months ago, that all the Radio
De party wished was, to have impartial 8
r. frage.' He said that we might decia
st that no one should vote, unless he was
Id graduate of the South Carolina College
be I'm that the Radicals then thought OF "
eGuality between the races. But no
e. they are determined to have the neg
,g vote, in order to radicalize the South.
st In the negro convention which sat t
oy other day, in Columbia, it was claim
ss- that. in the next Presidential electi'
he there should be. placed on the Radical I'll
le- ct % negro, either for President OF VI
nr President. 1t was cmtended, too, that
Is lands should be divided into small farl
to SO that each head of family might get
ng homestead. If the landowners refn'
m this division. then their lands should
ed taxed so heavily as to force them to p
with them. There is considerable inge
rs. ity in this scheme of confscation.
en- whites who vote for q convention to nv
in confiscatien on the part of Congress, Y
nd find themselves nicely caught by the
I eroes in convention. AS l have alres
he Said, they will find thai, after sacrific
cd their honor, the rights OF the State, and
ite principles of selfgovernment and constr
,th tional liberty, they have lost their la
= into the bargain. Another scheme Of
he negroes, promulgated in their recent
Nv yention, is to have nothing taxed but !
- pertv. This will release the negroes Il
for all taxes, as they do not own propert!
the Then. the property Of the State is to
cd taxed. to establish free schools ana
pc, leges all over the State, for the ednca'
- of their children, without expense to
..t ,xo;, thay DECLARE in cOnN