The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-10-23
BEL AIR, Mo. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER %, 1868


down" by numerical superiority and mill.
tary power. Have the negroes been "kept
down" in the South by the numerical supe
riority of the whites or by military force
In some OF the Southern States, prior to the
late war for the Union O., the negroes out.
numbered the whites, yet in all those Staes
there was not an armed man employed to
keep down" the negro! Now, if the ne
gro is the created equal' the white man
! and there was not a particle of armed force
to prevent him from asserting his natural
equality" why did he not demand the
rights which were his by virtue of that
equallty2 1t is impossible for one man.
or one race of men, to hold equals in sub
Jectlon and bondage even when force is
applied, unless such force shall vastly pre-
ponderate on one side; but that one man, OF
a certain race of men; should hold equals
IN subsection without the application any
force at all, is contradictory, preposterous,
and utterly foolish. Hence we are forced
to the conclusion that the negro, conscious
OF his natural inferiority to the white man,
lnstinctiyely submitted in his subordinate
position, knowledge is power-intellect
rules the world. The superior govern the
inferior, and no legislation, no force, nor
earth, nor hell can reverse this everlasting
lmmutable law. The negro is inferior to
the white man because he has been made
SO by the Creator of Heaven and Earth and
all things, and he is subordinate to the
white man because the intellectual superb
orlty OF the white man gives him supreme
cy. Ii the negro has been kept down, or
If he is down now, it happens only because
of his inferior organism, and he must occu-
Ply the place which his creation qualities
him for and requires him to fill. The
white man, SO far from keeping. the negro
down has sought to elevate him, and what
ever little advancement the negro may have
made anywhere on the face of the earth. he
is entirely indebted to the white man for
it. II
Fellow-citizens: Are you ready to try
the experiment After all the frightfil
examples you have had of mixing ne
groes and white men together in one gov
eminent, and with your eyes open to behold
the streams of blood which have swept
over the world in consequence of the effort
to do what God and nature declare shall
not be done, are you willing to wreck the
civilization OF the age, destroy your own
liberty, and utterly ruin that posterity
which your obligations to Almighty God
require you to provide for2 For Gods sake,
and for the sake of your children, look to
this There is great deal said about the
natural equality of all men," but it is all
humbug. There is no such thing in ex-
istence =
To all rational and honest minds it must
appear plain that the authors and signers
Of the Declaration of Independence did not
mean to include the negroes or any other
inferior race or breed of men when they
said ''all men are created equal. They
were white men, and it was for white men
and their posterity that the old Revolution
airy contest was waged. The negroes had
nothing to do with it, and the issue of it.
though triumphant for the white man, did
not affect the state of the negro He was
q slave before and slave afterwards a
negro before and a negro afterwards; an
inferior before and the same now and for
ever. ~. RI e7 d.
have already furnished enough of evil
dence to prove that the negro is not the
equal of the white man; but the proof is
not exhausted. We have a great country;
need ask how it became 500 In 149a
this continent was discovered by white
men. TWAS afterwards colonized bywhite
men. + $50
Now, to suppose that this continent
might have been discovered and colonized
by negroes would pc absurd; because the
wild and naked barbarians of Africa, such
as all negroes were at that day, could have
fled to the moon just as easy as to have
built mud seow. Nevertheless, suppose,
by chance, negroes could have reached these
shores instead Of white men, where would
they have been to-day, and what would
have been the condition of this continent
now2 Where would have been the mag
nifcent cities and fourishing towns which
now dot it as the stars do the heavens9-
Where would have been the teeming fields,
productive mines, the manufactures, the
swelling commerce, and all the wonderful
details of civilization which we now be-
hold? Where would have been the rail-
roads which bind, in network of iron, the
States and Territories of the Union, and
over which the teeming products of the
farm, the mine, the forest, and manufaeto-
ries find way to the great commercial marts
of the seaboard Where would have been
the navigation of our rivers, bays, and in
land seas2 Where would have been our
electric telegraph, and all the other evidens
ces of our wonderful progress Could the
negro have done all this2 Would these
results have been produced by mongrel
race ofmen Look at Mexico and the Cen
trail American States and see the effects there
of mixing white men, negroes, and In6ians.
Would the, same cause not have produced
the same effect hereG ~
| Let lis cast our eyes away to our Western
frontier. Do we find the negro there -
Who pushes the red man, the bear, and the
panther back, and opens the way to the
golden shores of the Pacifc2 Is it the ne
gro9 Did any one in the world ever hear
of a pioneer negroa No, my countrymen,
he goes not forth to encounter the Indian,
the bear, and the panther. He goes not
forth to encounter the hardships and dan
gers of frontier life, because he is instinc7
lively taught, by his own natural mferiori-
ty, that he cannot surmount those dangers
and difficulties which are the sport of the
white man. The lion is the king of the
African jungle, that is the home OF the ne
gro, nevertheless no negro ever tanned
lion. The white man leaves his own home
and crosses the sea to Africa, dives into the
forest, Stays or catches and tames the wild
est and most ierocious beasts which roam
there, while the negro, whose nativity is
among these beasts, suffers them to carry
off his offspring without daring to go in
pursuit. The negro will catch "dep ossum,n
and he sometimes isladventurouse enough to !
attack the sheepfold and henroost, but such
animals as Indians bears, bufialoes, pan
theirs, tigers, and lions he never attacks