Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-28

the African race, with which, IN It's ma
tive land, he has become thoroughly
conversant:
$50 long as It Is generally considered
that the negro and the white man are tC
be governed by the same laws, and guided
by the same management, so long viii
the former remain a thorn in the side o.
every community to which he may un.
happily belong. When the horse AID
the ass shall be found to match in double
harness, the white man and the African
black will pull together under the ssmc
regime. II is the grand error of equal
izing that which is unequal, that has
lowered the negro character, and made
the black man reproach.
In the great system Of creation that
divided races and subdivided them &C.
cording to mysterious laws, apportion
isg special qualities to each, the varie-
ties Of the human race exhibit certain
characters and qualifications whicl
adapt them to specific localities. The
natural character of those races will not
alter with change of locality, but the
instincts of each race will be developed
in any country where they may be To-
Gated. Thus, the English are as English
in Australia, India and America as they
are in England, and in every locality
they exhibit the industry of their native
land even so the African will remain
negro in all his natural instincts,
although transplanted to other soils;
and those natural instincts heing love
of idleness and savagedom, he will
assuredly relapse into an idle and savage
state unless specially governed and
forced to industry"
What have been Hayti and the British
West Indies in the hands of emanci-
pated negroes for the last half century or
more, but theaters of continued strife
and bitter warfare, and rapid deterio-
ration in population, productions, wealth
and civilization2 Lord Brougham, who,
from his philanthropy, and the interest
he has ever taken in the subject OF
emancipation, must be regarded as an
impartial witness, says of the negro in
the West Indies: Improvident and
careless of the future, they are not ac-
tuated by that principle which inclines
more civilized men to equalize their
exertions at all times and to work after
the necessaries Of the day have been pro-
cured, in order to make up for the pos
sble deficiencies of the morrow nor has
their intercourse with the whites taught
them to consider any qualification worth
obtaining which cannot be procured by
slight exertion or desultory and capri
cous industry"
Mr.. Clay, who was the opponent of
slavery, and the warm FRIEND of the
American Colonization Society, in his
celebrated colonization speech of 1880,
said that "the emancipation of all the
slaves in the United States, without their
removal, would be unwise, and that he
believed that the aggregate of eyils
which would be engendered in society
upon the supposition of general emanci-
patton and of the liberated slaves re-
naming principally among us, would be
greater than all the evils of slavery,
great as they unquestionsbly are"
According to the census of 1862 the
entire colored population in what we're
then the free States of the Union was
about one fourth of million, and taken
as a class, they certainly we're considered
the most worthless and indolent of the
inhabitants of the United States. Many
years ago number of free negroes emf
grated from the slave States to the State
of Ohio, and more recently to the States
of Illinois and Indiana. Their pres
ence seemed then to be desired in the
great and growing Northwest. But
the hospitality with which they were at
first received, was soon exhausted, and
then by system of rigorous and cruel
laws, an effort was made to expel them.
Experience taught these free States that
free colored population was nuisance,
and, therefore, they determined to abol-
ish it; but still with this practical knowl-
edge on the subject, these very States
now insist that the white voters of the
South shall be disfranchised by whole
sale, and the government of the Southern
States places in the hands of the negroes.
Give to the colored population of Missis.
sippi the power to govern the State, aud
they certainly will exercise it. We have
already seen them organize as a race
in opposition to the sscendancy of the
whites. They have now in the field can.
and all State officers, and for Congress
in several of the Districts, and we know
that they will vote only for men Of their
own selection to fl all Offices, whether
executive, legislative, or judicial. And
then these newly made citizens are to be
at once into the jury box
without the capacity, in the large ma
iority Of cases, to comprehend the jurors
oath, the evidence introduced by the par
ties, the arguments of counsel, or the
charge of the court, and unable to make
the most elementary arithmetical cslcu-
lation, or to reduce to writing the simplest
verdict Will not this, sir, be q bur-
lesque upon the great right Of trial by
Jury" and mockery of the adminiatEa-
lion of justice2
The independent, honest and intelli-
gent administration of the Judicial De-
partment of the Government is the key
stone Of the arch Of civil liberty. With
this, almost any form of government is
without it, there can be no
adequate protection for civil rights and
The great interests Of society. We're the
made to abolish the trial BY
Jury, the voice of strong and indignant
-emonstranoe would, dare say, be heard
from all parts Of this hall,
Now, it is my deliberate judgment, that
is total abolition would be far prefer
lble to that state of things which will
sxist when eligibility to the jury box is
IS universal as this body propose to make
{.
II is very certain that the people Of
do not wish to deny the col.
'red people any right or privilege
allowed them by the Northern. States;
here, as general rule, they are ex-
'luded from the polls aud from the jury /
,ox, and from all participation in poll
les, aud il cannot be that an enlightened