Litchfield enquirer., 1868-03-12
Is tn Negro q Man or an Aps.

Mr. James Brooks not long since made a speech in the House of Representatives which deserves something more than a pas sing notice He takes the broad ground that the negro cannot safely be counted a man; that he is incapable of civilization and even christianity, except thatwhen brought in contact with superior race he shows some initiative talent
 The peculiarities on which Mir. Brooks relies chiefly for proof of his remarkable theory are the formation of the hair, legs, skull Sc.
 The negro Is negro aud only a negro of a type, race Of men deficient from ours as the Hottentot or the Bushman. God has created us most all respects so far as we can judge. never Intending us to be equal or kindred men,. Of mere color he says:
 II could not respect myself if judged race inferior to my own because of it's color only, for color may be but an incident or accident of life
 The Egyptian is not white, scarcely is the Italian, or the Spanisrd, in whose veins courses Moorish blood. The negro is no more of 8 ccored man than the Caucassians are coiored men. never uso the absurd words. :.col- ored men,
 Of the political and religious capabili- ties of the negro Mir. Brooks thus discours- eS:--
 But the Congo negro, the Dahoney negre, the Guinea negro, the n:sro of the Southern States S n0 5roter of ours, aud God ecey nude him for osf 1'oHter. do not say that he is only higher species of the aathropoid apes-as some say. But d0 say ttU He onraag outany is us i,steIIiget as aea,'y Cf h1e BNsi:nsa of S5uA.e,W 4ti'icG- that the Chimpanzoe and the gorilla, in their form Of creation, wonderfully represent tho ignorant and brutalzed negro and l will add that if we are to degrade this great Government of ours into Southern Negro Congo Government 1t is as well to take into partnership tho Ourang, the Chimpanzee, and the Gorilla, as to go into this partnership with the sons of Congo, Soudan and Dahomyxthe native lands of them gil, apes and
 The Church had holy foundations ill Carthage in Cyrcne, in Alexandria, throughout all Egypt, and far, far up the Nile, and ascetcs from upper Egypt, clothed in the wild rament of the Baptist, wandered forth ii sheepskins and goatskins, and dWet ln deserts, and on mountains, in dejIs and caves to bring the negro to Christ, but a in vain. Pagan, savage, cannibal even, the negro in his own native nome, for thousands of years has de- fled aN c;cIizaijoa, a!, ctisjahuy- y-and only when in close individual contact with the superior race is the negro then improved or improvable. l Ii, as Mir. Brooks maintains: the negro is 8 brute, incapable of improvement, it makes little difference what kind of brute he is-aj,ether chased as an anthropoid ape or by himself is distinct species of animal. It is mockery to call him 6 man and speak of his having soul!
 Bat hoy is the question of inferiority of races to be settled? Are our oelectmen and Town Clerks to be SC. measuring skulls, calculating facial s.agles, and deciding up- on disquaifying shin-bones, before they can administer the electors oath? Do sci entific authorities agree among themselves: The Encyclopedia Britannica, in it's article upon Pathology" divides the human |. race into three great classes: lst-Asiatics 5 and Northern Europeans, Polynesians, Americans;2 2d-Centrala and Southern Euro peans; 3a-Africans and Southwestern Asi- atics. Of the latter class it says:
 "A return to the southwestern parts of Asia leads us to the ethnology of Africa, which begins Ill Syria and Mesopotamia the populations akin to the Arab being Gin the opinion of the present writer at least) African rather than Asiatic at any rate, transitional or intermediate"
 In this latter class are included the Jews, and consequently, if the classification is correct. the Conservative must believe that the chosen people of God belonged to an inferior species of humanity, more like the anthropoidal ape than the Anglo-Saxon, and one forever undeserving the ballot!
 Mir. Brooks historical statements are no less remarkable than his scientific posi- tions. He claims that the Turks have mixed with the negro to such an extent as to ruin their race. That there has been such a mixture to any appreciable extent, is untrue, in the first place; and, moreover does any reasonable man require more than AIahometanism, Polygamy, and Slavery to account for their decline?
 Mr. Brooks great historical example, however, is the Spaniard, God never made nobler race of men than the old Hidalgos of Spain They came to Amer ica, mixed with the native and MT. Brooks sheds a flood of aristocratic tears over the spec tacle of their consequent, inevitable degradation Will Mr. Brooks be good enough to tell us what degraded tue Hidal- go at home? Ignorant, bigoted, debased Spain is now the most insignicant of Euro pean nation-yet three hundred years ago she ruled the world!
 If Mr. Brooks will pursue his historical investigations little further, he will find that bad government and bad religion will soon degrade any people; and when to these are joined, as in Spanish America, the tyranny of race, over race you have a con- bination that would ruin the finest of the nations that rule the earth.
 sI~ The Republican convention for the Sixteenth Senatorial District meet as Wood bury on Thursday, and placed in nomina- tion for Senator, the Hon. George Lang. don of Plymouth. A strong nomination. and one that the people will ratify at the polls. I.-
 Rsr Omaha Nebraska. which wont Democratic