The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-10-23
Mistel1anenns.
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
SHALL 1T BE ESTABLIsHEDi
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BY. A MARYLAND BLACKSMITH.

The following, which we take from the
Washington cypress is from the pen of a
member of our State Legislature. Our
limited space prevents the publication of
the entire address, but the extracts given
below, contnin the main portions of it:
FELLOW CITIZENS: Negro suffrage is a
subject of far greater importance than any
other one now agitating the public mind,
for upon its solution depends not only the
perpetuity of civil liberty here, but the
very existence of civilization itself. Prac-
teal tests, have demonstrated that the
natural antagonism or inequality existing
between the white man and the black one
can never be reconciled, and that any at
tempt to force a coincidence of feelings
and views upon the subject of mongrelism
can only result in disastrous failure
Mongrelism has ever been and must ever
be failure; it must be so because it is
unnatural, Nature never made a mongrel.
God never made a mongrel A mongrel
production is the issue orchid of unnatu-
raj means. 1t is the result of violation. of
the laws of nature and of natures God, and
as there can be no harmony where such
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consistent with civilization and destructive
of every essential requisite of civil liberty.
The laws ofcause and effect (Which are the
laws OF nature) are immutable, and the
cause the failure of mongrelism, as APP
piled to races ofmen, is the natural Unequal
ity existing between them. n = y
We cannot improve superior quality
by mixing with it an inferior quality We
cannot adorn or beautify pure white sur
face by besmearing it with charcoal or
lampblack. We cannot purify pure water
by adding ink to it, however small in
quantity. We cannot improve white
man by making him half negro! And so,
if we attempt to improve superior race
ofmen by commingling with it an inferior
race of men, we not only make fools ofour-
selves in attempting an impossibility, but
We are guilty of great and monstrous
crime in endeayoring to obstruct and re-
verse the laws of Nature and of Natures
God But the advocates of negro suffrage
may ask what evidence we have that the
negro is inferior to the white man, or that
he is not the equal of the white man. If
so, let them open their eyes and look at
the positions occupied by the white man
and negro respectively, and then let them
account for the degradation of the negro,
comparatively, upon any other hypothesis
than that the white man is the superior of
the negro We know that the negro, in all
time, has never been able to establish civil
government anywhere ON the face of the
earth; and we know furthermore, that
wherever and whenever such government
has been established for him by the white
man, he has never been able to maintain
it. y y g y
The civilization of this nineteenth centur
ry is the product of the white mans brain
and arm, while the negro brings nothing to
prove that he is anything naturally but a
barbarian! There is no Imagination about
. this; there is nothing neurological or Wis
) ionary about it; but it is the solid truth,
and none but a fool or fanatic will attempt
to deny it. This being the case, what has
the white man to gain by Incorporating
this self-demonstrated barbarian with him
in the intricate and arduous execution of
the duties pertaining to governmental sci
sencea But suppose we admit that the me-
gro has been 'kept down in slavery here"
what does itproye9 tits the best evidence
in the world that the negro is inferior to