Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1868-04-11
From the Salem (Oregon) Unionia.
N Relation to a White Mans Country.

The half-enlghtened and unreasoning are the
first to talk of a % white mans country" and it
happens that the noisier ones in this respect are
among the lowest types of the white race, and
the most uncultivated of civilized men. 1t
would be instructive, indeed, to visit white
mans country inhabited only by class of peo-
Pile such as constitute the main part of the DEM
ocratc party in the United States. The enlight-
ened travellers advent in such territory would
reveal new problem in ethnology, and would
create still other doubts in relation to the Mosaic
theorem of the unity of races. That country
might be profitably explored by the enlightened
student of natural history but if possessing
many valuables, so much could not be said con-
corning his safety. Like Du Chaillu in equato-
rial Africa, he would have to pursue his re-
searches with an entire reliance on the friendly
providence of God, and the uniform dryness of
his powder.
1t is probable that those who make noise
about a white mans country are under the i'm
preston that none but white men have been
great in war, in civilization, in architecture and
government They probably believe that the
Caucasian reared the monumental pyra-
mds of the Nile, fashioned and swung the hun
dred gates of Thebes and built all the mighty
splendors that are moldering under the ruins OF
antiquity They undoubtedly think that the man
&" cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and IN
brass, and in iron and in purple, and in crimson
and blue" whom King Huram sent from Tyre
to superintend the building of Solomon s TEN
pie, was fair-faced and constitutional Demo
crat. We would not for the world disturb the
pleasant delusion for we hold that it were a
wicked inhumanty to distress even traitor who
is making penitential journey through the Val
ley of Humiliation, with his rapt gaze fixed on
the Black Republican shrine of mercy.
But, let US see whether, according to the anal
oges of nature, white is indeed the Divine or
h,,ao No cd To nix n q
ty sitting upon great white throne, sur
rounded by white-rJbed legions of angels but
when look down into the vast mirror of
the sea- we discover none of that divine color
in the azure immensely. Looking up into the
heavens, we discern nothing white, unless it be
drifting cloud going to its dissolution. Gazing
abroad on the hills clad in their midsumm err
gories, there is not white spot on the imperial
robes of nature, if there be, it is some barren
rock or deadened trunk that has been stricken
of the lightning and stripped of its verdure
Looking among the animal kingdom, we do not
discover that any of the swift the strong the
beautiful display the royal color on the con-
trary, whatever is vast, sublime, beautiful or
perpetual is enrobed in other hues and there is
scarcely a flower so immaculate in its whiteness
that God has not thought necessary, for the COM
petion of its beauty, to pencil some contrasting
glory on its virgin cheek.
Where then do we find our boosted color of
Divinity? On the frozen hills and dismantled
forests when they put on the simiitude of death !;
on the backs of the solitary creatures that live
round the Poles - the albinos of the animal
world on the scalp of the old man who is halt
ing down the declivty of life in the mold that
gathers on the ruins of what was once sublime
and beautiful on the sunken face of the human
corpse that is waiting to be lowered to the grave.
Shall we say, then, that barbarous people who
conceive of evil spirits in white, and who regard
that as the favorite color of the arch-enemy of
men, do not arrive at these conclusions by analo-
gica process based on the rule of nature? 1t
seems to us that in fixing reasonable standard
of superiority, some more stable basis must be
found and for the present we shall leave to
learned ethnologists the investigation OF the
question as to whether truly great soul may
have its labratory of thought within colored
tabernacle.