Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-08-20
GRANT AND COLFAX.
Jews and Foreigners.

| believe l have met all the objections
of Vero in reference 10 his question ''Is til,
negro man and as such is he susceptible,
70 the same conditions of life as the whit,
man!" and which objection bore upon hii
difference as to quantity of lrain, (VerC
maintaining that the negro on an average
has a brain of nine cubic inches less organ
ic mass than that of the white man--whils
maintained that this being even the ease
the average line of quantity had neccssari
ly to allow sums above and below, that al
though thereby the negro represents an
inferior scale of intellectually on an aver
age, nevertheless the highest range of the
negro intellectually is higher than the
lowest white. or which objections bore
upon the stability of intellectually, Vcro
maintaining that the negro because of his
cerebral organization was unfit TO be inn
proved by education, referring to Sir Lyell
who in his theories on the antiquity ol
man." and not on the intellectually OF
man. by way of Egyptian monuments
established that the negro represented three
thoussnd years ago the same relation to the
white race as now because the physiogno-
my then was relatively the same, while
referred 10 modern geologisis, who main
tain a universal law of transmutalion ard
consequently of adoption by way of phys
ical agencies as well as artificial ones, by
education.
These discussions were entirely useless
II Isolated, and we must therefore yet for
the purpose to know whether the negro is
a fit person to be citizen of republic
cohabiting with the white race, enquire
what intellectually and morally he really
represents at the present time. When |
speak of the negro l do mean the ne
gro of the L. s., excluding that of Africa:
and therefore cannot accept the obicc-
tion of Vero based upon Sir LyelI in refer
ence to the negroes in Africa 5000 years
ago.
My reasons arc:
I. That the negro lives in different
climate. under different conditions of life
and under different agencies that have an
influence upon him.
2. That the regro blood in America as
m ss is not pure African blood because the
Caucasion blood has materially enlarged
the brain and IFS susceptibility to approach
the whites in its characteristics. Also do /
divide the negroes who were raised in the
free States or those who were free down
South from the slaves and under the influ-
ence of slavery.
Let US regard the negroes of the North.
Surely Vero will no; expect me 10 say that
all those were alike qualified but | shall
show that there were the same relative diff
f. eices betwt Ell them as there were be-
tween the whites.
Which a,e the conditions of lie and vo-
cations to which the whites devote sisons
selves now?
Practical professions, literature, arts, me-
chanics, farming, commerce, banking and
trading There are negroes in the profcs-
sions of medicine, law, and theology; and
know of some who arc as much an orna-
ment to their professions as the average of
white professional men. 1t is certainly
very fiatiering to you that East there are
some negroes, rivateiy lawyers, sitting
rs members of the State Legislature
elected by white voters
These colored men honor their profes
sion as they do not relinquish it although
hey find that ii takes brain 10 overcome
The difficulties, and they overcome these
because they have the brain. Alexander
Dumas is mulatto. Is he spoiled 10y his
mixed blood?
In the New York Times You may read
from Charleston that i'm South Carolina
here is an African born negro aged 22
I teacher, who speaks Arabic, Greek, ltal-
an, French, German, Russian, English and
most likely his mothers tonguc-eight iiv-
ing languages, possesses athorough knowl
edge Of these languages. He can quote
passages from the koran, Dante's Hell,
Goethe and Molierc. Ifyou donot believe
his, ask any catholic clergyman TO what
qualification in language and correspond
ing learning native Africans in the foreign
institute at Rome do rise. must not FORGET
The cascof the young negro who, at an East
ern college, poor. depending upon his own
exerlions, while his thirty. five competitors
were rich young whites, received The first
prize in defamation.
Did ycu ever hear the black swan, col
ored lady as the fashionable wo.ld calls
her, since she has all the qualification of
a lady in department and artistic schooling
and intelligence.
Have you not heard of negro bankers
possessing great wealth?
What arrogance iniynorant whites to
look down on black men of this kind Just
on account of color. Michigan has colo
ny OF blacks, farmers, very decent and in
dustrIous people. In our large cities there
are many efficient and trustworthy me-
chanics of color You object to eating a
dinnerbecausc an excellent black cook has
prepared it, and black waitcra gentleman
in his outward culture, serves it. A refined
white gentleman does not like to surround
himself with imbecilcs as servants. But
the requirement of refinement requires
brain: the power If discrimination
Did you not hear of that brave black
pilot at Charleston during the war? And
so hundreds OF prominent instances, and
yet Vero says that the uegro has never in
The most favorable circumstances made any
improvement, that he's bot an anthropoid
and no anthropos.
Pray sir by what agency has all this been
brought about? l believe their progress