Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-10

Office and by test oath the bulk OF those mo-
thus reached may be put under the ban.
Every negro twenty-one years old can vote
he need not even pay his taxes. Fifteen thou
sand white men are prescribed, so as to make
certain OF negro majority.
1t is the most terrible bondage to which any
people were ever reduced And there are
white men-aye, Vrginians-a assisting to real
ize this dreadful fate for their own people. Sir
men have turned against their country. Alci
blades lifted parricidal hand against Athens
Sertorius employed his genius against Rome
the Duke de Bourbon fought the battles O
Charles " against France Marshal Berwick
the son of James H., fought against England
Arnold betrayed his country. But what was
this to lending one efforts to install the negro
race in authority over the white people of Vir
ginia?
Members on that side of the house may bt
buoyant with the majority which they have
here they may cherish a confident expectation
of carrying the Constitution which they shal
make; but tell them land tell them in sad
ness) that have serious doubts whether the
very deliberations of this body are not the
surest prognostication of the absolute ruin o.
the negro race. Peaceably, under tranquil con
ditions, the negro might live on in the Unitec
States two hundred years longer, as he has al
ready passed two hundred years here. But
think that Providence is through the instru
mentality of fanatics, hurrying forward the de
nouenaent Of this whole negro question.
Can three and half millions of negroes live
on this continent face to face with thirty one
millions of whites? Here is this white race
the most restless, the most pushing, the mos
encroaching, the most active nation in The
expanding in every directions receiving
half million of Europeans on their shores ev
cry year; and here struggling on the same the
atre are three or four millions of poor, weak
semi-civilized colony of Africans: can the negro
stand up? They have thrown him into tht
arena, and challenged the white race to tht
combat; they have endowed him with the bal
lot, with office, with the power Of the State.
beg gentlemen to look at it can the result bt
doubtful?
| have observed that it seems to be myste
rious law of Providence that in the anima
world the inferior type is supplanted by high
er type. Geologists tell US that various dynas
ties or master types of animal life have in turr
dominated on the earth.
The earliest manifestations of animal life or
this globe represent life in its very lowest forms
the semi-vegetable coral, the crustaceans, an(
the insect tribes. The next step in the devel
opment of animal life introduces upon the scene
the molluscdn type, as in the clans, the cutie
fish, the snails. The next manifestation in tn
ascending scale is the appearance of the fishes
cold blooded vertebrates breathing by means O.
gils instead of lungs. The next dynasty, o.
dominant and prevailing type, is the family O
reptiles, with more highly developed hear
than II the fishes, breathing through lungs.
Then another step is taken in the progress to
wards the ideal type gigantic birds, land anc
water fowl, fill the scene-warm- booded yer
tebrates.
The curtain rises again, and the full-formeC
mammal, the beast of the field, is the lord O.
creation-a perfect animal organization. with
brain, backbone, lungs, double circulation o.
the blood-a creature with the sense of feeling
hearing, smelling, seeing, tasting, endowed with
a measure of reason or instinct, with red warm
blood, with perfect respiration, with organs
adapted to his disposition, beautiful and sym
metrical in form.
AS yet there is no trace of MAN. But he
finally usurps the stage, still higher creation
adding to an erect FORM the human hand, ano
to the hand, the faculty Of speech, and to
speech, mind and moral nature.
1t is not contended that the appearance o1
the higher type entirely supersedes the pres
ence of the lower type; but that the lower
type at once becomes rarer and feebler wher
the higher type appears that from being the
prominent figure on the canvass, it either en-
tirely disappears, or recedes into the back
ground of the picture.
And distinguished man of science has sug
gested that this same law extends to the va
rious types of humanity that the inferior races
tend to extinction, and that the stronger and
nobler types are ever bearing upon and pushing
the inferior types off the stage.
1t may shock the ideas of propriety preva-
lent among humantarians but this is the
analogy of nature. Reformers may not ap
prove of it; but the history and experience o1
the world manifest many stubborn facts which
are not reconcilable with sentimentalism. Sc
far as we can judge by analogy, and from the
present social and political condition of this
continent, all Of the inferior races here-the In
dian the Negro, the Mexicau-all are destined
to wither in the presence of the hardy Anglo
Saxon. 1t is against all natural law that ter
States of this confederacy should be surrendered
to the negro. No combination Of newspapers
no political organizations, no temporary popu
lar frenzy, can arrest the distribution of the
white race over the entire territory of the Uni
ted States any more than you can prevent Eu
ropean civilization from expanding over India
or the Russian standards from being planted ii
Constantinope.
And now permit me to trace for moment
the rise and development of this wonderful
American race which has assumed so much
prominence in this era of the world. Goo
works slowly; it is only after years of prepara
tion that his plans are evolved; it is only aftel
the throes of fearful parturition that he brings
to the birth an annointed and master race
After four thousand years, man has not ye
achieved any stable and benefcent form of gov
ernment. Every experiment has been tried
Oriental Despotism, Greek and Roman Repub
licanism, Roman Imperialism, Medieval Feud
alism, Constitutional Monarchy, French Revo
lutions American Democracy.
Shall liberal institutions prove failure OF
this continent? And if so, what then?
Mr.. President, | am not one Of those wh(
despair Of the experiment of Democratic insti
tutions in this country. If these institutions hdU
failed, there remains no hope that mankind
under any natural conditions, shall ever achieve
a stable and we'll ordered society. All will have
failed, and the direct interposition of the Deity
in human affairs is the only hope left for thu
race. The despotism of the East has been triee
and has failed the Greek and Italian repub
lies failed: Feudalism failed; the continental
monarchies Of Europe like Austria and France
have failed the British constitution has failed
failed, because it is now in the throes of disso
luton; and because that society must be re-
garded as failure where the mass of tht
population are in abject ignorance and poverty
where the church is a mere political machine
where the land is monopolized by few hun
dred gentlemen: failed because no matter how
elegant and charming the life Of pampereC
few, the bulk OF the citizens are imbruted anC
degraded
This British government, l say, is in tht
throes of dissolution the system cannot stanC