The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-09-04
NEW SERIES---VOLUME 8, NO. s.

| indeed any other spot'on the face of the
earth, where large bodies OF negro have
been turn loose into communities of white
men.
Two months since wrote fiicndly let.
ter TO Mr.. Wendell Philips that should
esteem it great favor il he could point INV
to single spot on the face of the earth
where this experiment has been tried with
out ruin to both races; but he has not yet
found time to point out the spot OF more
favorable result. He never will There is
no such spot. You can no moro educate
he negro to voluntarily adopt the institu-
tiOns of the white man, than you can c 1u.
cate the owl to assume the habits of tho
eagle, or the ass to adopt the style Of, the
horses. Poor owl, let us make an eagle Of
himl Poor ass, let us make a horse of
himl Poor niger, let US make a white
man OF him! All this sorry delusion is n
piece of the same cloth, Education can no
more change mental aud moral character Of
races, than it can their physical types. 49,
What is the result of our experiment with
the red Indian? And yet the Indian is,
anatomically, physiologically and mentally
higher type of man, and much nearer to
our own race, than the negro. What has
been England's experiment with the Tas-
maDian and the Australian? What Russia +
with the Esquimaux? What the result of
the Cauoasian's ttempts with any 0t the
wild species of men?
The whole history Of our own race bears
but one testimony upon this subject, which
ls, that the different types of men must bG
left as distinct, politically and socially, as
they are in their physical types. What
God has made to differ SO widely, man in
vain will seek to make one. The idea of
human brotherhood embracing all the dit
ferent types of men is based in ignorance.
The negro, the Indian, the Ilottentot, the
Carlh, the TasmaniaD, is no more the broth
er OF the white man than the ass is broth
er OF the horse, or than the owl and the
buZzard are the sisters of the eagle. So
the word equality, whether mental, politi-
cal or social, can be applied cnly to men of
the same race. Between the different "a
ces God has ever barred equality. The
Mongolian is not the equal of the white
man, the Malay is not theequal Of the Mon
goian, the red Indian is not the equal of
the Malay, the negro is not the equal of the
Indian, or the Tasmanian or the Hottentot
is not perhaps, tie equal of the negro, So
indelibIy has God marked the line of sepa-
ratiod or inequality between these different
types of men that If they mix together in
sexual intercourse the offspring Of such un-
natural commerce comes into the world
stained and cursed with the inelfaceabie
marks of hyJndity, and nature begins the
querrel with such progeny which soon ends
in its extinction,
The Hon. Mr.. Frelinghuysen declares Is
is only prejudice which opposes negro
equality. But, is it prejudice which causes
us to say that turkey buzzard is not an
owl, or that an owl is not an eagle? Do We
abuse the donkey by saying it is different
species from the horse2 Anthropological
science will infallibly teach the gentleman
that it is rather prejudice OF ignorance,
which is the father OF negro equality. There
is not, in Europe or America, single indi-
vidual who claims any considerable learning
in anthropological science who does not de-
ny negro equality in all its possible phases
The Constitution of the United States re.
cognizcs negro ihteriority in not less than
four places. When our forefath9rs spoke
of the eqmldy Of men they referred only to
all men of their own race; and the proof Of
this assertion is found in the fact that they
recognized and treated both negroes and
Indians as different and inferior races to
their own. Not only the Constitution of
the United States, but the Constitution OF
all the States treated negroes and Indians
as different and inferior races. Such has
been the uniform belief Of all enlightened
Christian nations-while only few dream
ers and ignorant fanatics have ever assert
ed the contrary. until within few years
just past.
But sc'ence, which never bends to the
dreams of ignorance or tanaticism, still as
serts the old opinion, that the negro is
different and inferior heingss tos the white
man He can no more be elevated into
white man by act of Congress- than goose
can be elevated into an eagle by act of Con-
greas. Education can do nothing for the
intellectual capacity Of the negro race--cah
neither remodel the shape. nor increase the
size of the brain chambers, nor change the
brown color Of the pio mater into the COM
plexion OF the white mans. Education
will have as much effect in changing the
gibbious shape of the negro shin bone, as
il will in elevating the capacity of his brain.
We historically know that fifty centuries
have done no more to start the negro on the
road Of improvement than they have to ele-
vate the apes of Africa. There stands the
eternal facts of both history and SCIENCE
Shall we listen to their teachings, or to the.
dreams Of fanatics and the cpecial pleadings
of interested politicians?
Respectfully,
G. CHAJfNCEY BURR.