Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-01-03
Brooks On Shin Bones.

Bro9Es on sh4n Bones.
We have some compassion for q man /
who makes speech in Congress- and /
then suffers the misery Of reading an ID I
stract Oft telegraphed to the New York /
papers. BE is so apt TO say stupid /
things in the heat OF debate, and repor- /
ters are so apt to catch at the salient /
stupidities and let slip the intervening /
paragrap phs of sense. Therefore, when /
Mr.. James Brooks, the other day, made
a prep0sterous speech about the Recon-
struction bill, we refrained from COM
ment because we doubted whether the
Associated Press gave a fair synopsis or
IL. But our doubts were unfounded.-I
Mr.. Brooks is SO fond of his folly that
he has just written out his speech, and
printed it at fulI length in his own news
paper. It is twenty times worse than
We supposed. If the honorable Repre-
sentative had made his last supper OF q
few dozen volumes of Blumenbach,
Camper. Prichard, Latham, Mott ana
Gliddon on the indigenous Races OF
the Earth, . Mr.. MortOn's lively work
on Cr17ljd AnleTieGH0, and Martin g
" Natural History OF Man ana Monkeys
this speech is lust such nightmare as
might have naturally followed it. The
question being Whether 'nlgger'. rs
fit to vote, Mr. oles has a vision of
wOoIlv heads. prognathous jaws, thick
skulls. and crooked shin bones. He
dreams of a parcel OF sharp lacIaI an
giles poking holes in the Constitution, a
pair Of dingy legs, with rldlculously
high calves, walking into his private
dining-UoOm, great big hands, with hat
palms, and fsthum-balls scarcely pl ON
inent, - selling upon all the ballot-box-
es, and a CHASTITY black figure, with
spreading femOraI bones, and nOstrils
which present only q trans verse aper-
ture, - dancing a diabolical jig over the
grave Of the Democratic party. He be-
holds all the ttniggero spectators COM
ing down out of the strangers gallery,
and marching in hideous procession IN
to the hall of Representatives by one
door, while the gentlemanly white
memb snatch their hats and rush
madly out at another. Then every
black man on the American continent
marEies wife OF the pure Caucasian
race Mr.. Brooks himself leads to the
alter a daughter of Africa; the popu-
lation grows brown; the national feet
hatten the national hair gets kink
the national shin mounts gradually up
the leg, and The Ne1D York Express be-
comes an organ of 'gris-grlss julius, and
fetichism." Heed oh heed y cries Mr..
Brooks, in his agony; "strlke, but hear.
Nobody ever minds what I say; but
my sands of life have nearly run out,
and this is to be nay last speech" Look
at the tfnigger's facial angle-only 20;
at the capacity Of his skull-only L3I.
And yet, oh my country, there are
/ Radicals who would let this creature
vote! Vote when his hair, examined
through tEthe microscope mierOmetery
and microtome' Zine climax! , is seen to
be nothing but wool with spiral spring
! in It. VoteI when his "teeth are OBJ
l hquely inserted" Vote! when ''the
/ middle part OF his foot does not touch
/ the ground" What viii become of the
/ country when the ballot is given to a
man whose foot does not touch the
ground
I Our readers viii not have failed to re-
mark that Mr.. Brooks all this time has
| said nothing about COLOR. In point OF
/ fact, he SAYS be does not object to the
/ ffnigger'sp color at all; il is purely a
/ matter of taste, and some people like it.
I But when it comes to facial angles to
/ the muscles of the shoulder, the length
! of the heel, and more than all, the shape
! of the pelvis, taste must give way TO
/ principle, and he puts his foot down.
/ Was Homer a nigger2 No. Was Mi
/ chael Angelo a nigger Not bit Of it,
/ Was even Emperor Napoleon, or PraX-
/ iteIes, or William Shakespeare, or Sam
uel r. B. Morse Far otherWlse.-
/ What do YOU mean, then. by letting a
nigger vote The 4naikatIYe genius Of
the nigger displays itself surprisingly
in music, and a variety of our culinary
( arts" Perched on a barrel he makes q
slap-up fiddler, and he has talent foI
icorn-bread. But did you ever hear Of
I negro t'startlng steam euglneE" w ell
/ yes. Mr.. Brooks! A "nigger" once
1 sstarted steam engine7 with pretty
/ good effect in Charleston harbor during
the early part of the war. Maybe you
heard Of it, though we are not sure il
was ever told in the Express. He was
called Capt. Robert Small.
Thus far Mr.. BrOobs's speech has
been pleasing mixture OF science and
imagination; poetry, ethnOlogy, and
the United States census are mixed
up in it like the brilliant figures OF the
kaleidoscope-Whi it likewise resem-
bIes in that yousean turn it sideways OF
upside down without in any way i'm
pairing the effect but now he forsakes
these pleasant scenes for the. hard road
of historical illustration. Look at lhe
Arabs, he exclaims. They mingled
their blood with the negro, and whai
4 have they become Horse thieves and
liuggIers. Look at the Turks. They
imported black eunuehs (Ujd. Arabian
4 Nights - g7aSSine,) and what is the con-
sequence Their empire now exists
only by the liberation of Europe. LOOk
at the A1Oors. They got 100000 nergrc
Il soldiers from Guinea, and dreadful
time they had of 1t. Look at America
In the North, where there are ne mig
gers, you have energy and enterprise
among the Latin races OF the South
mulatoes and Incidence go hand in
I uanQs MI EIQ0hH u5E1GCA5 " 44A04AAAOL
E whether the degeneracy of the Turks
and Arabs was caused by their confer
ring the ballot upon their negro slaves
or whether the 10000 troops enlisted by
the Moorish monarch had the privilege
of voting for members of Congress
He has also omitted to notice that the
connubial intercourse to which all the
evils of mingling of races are ascrib b.
ed, is the direct result, not ofsocial ano
political emancipation, but of Slavery
Whatever we may have to suffer in this
country from a mixture of the whitt
and negro blood, whatever degeneracy
this "criminaI admixture," as Mr.
Brooks calls it., may entail upon Us, We
shall owe to the degrading and crlmi
nal system of mauOwnership of which
Mr.. Brooks has been the blind and bit
ter advocate. To parade The consequence
of this cOmmingling as If they were tht
results not of servitude but of emanct
patton, to threaten rs with the Divine
vengeance for the sins Of his own party
, is an infamous piece of effroutery. L
was and insult to the good sense of th'
House to utter such a farraRo it is al
insult to the American people to prin
: it.-N. 7. Tribune.
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