The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1868-01-31

characteristics, instincts and impul-
ses of every other. though our own
knowledge and experience, fatty
contradicts any such hypothesis.
Men arc so constituted that they
cannot BELIEVE what they KNOW to
be untrue, aud to affect such belief,
however good the motive may seem,
tends only to dsbauch and democrat
ize the entire system Of morals. 1t
is possible for man to dcludc and
deceive himself upon mere abstract
questions Of religious faith and wor-
ship, because these questions can
never be brought to the test Of
practical demonstration, or to the
standard of material fact; while the
fixed and immutable standard which
the Eternal Architect has planted
in the very heart Of man, and which
the very laws Of our mental organ
ism absolutely force us to recog-
nizc, presents the FACT Of distinct
races of men, and it is beyond the
province of the will to refuse assent
to their actual existence, with hab-
it's, thoughts, instincts, characters,
and impulses differing more widely,
if possible, than the difference in
complexion or outward appearance.
But why argue so plain and palpa-
bic question Of fact to an Amcri-
can mind. That European writer's,
and naturalists even, should hold to
the doctrine of a single race. is not
surprising, for never having seen
any other species but the Caucas-
ian, we can we'll imagine, the doubts
with which they would naturally re-
ccivc and entertain any other theo-
ry, than that Of a single race. But
all Americans know. for they cannot
if they would, avoid knowing, that
negroes are negroes. specifically
different from themselves, they
know, moreover, that they differed
just as widely from themselves when
first brought to this continent as
they do to-day, and all who UNDER
stand the simplest laws Of organiza-
tion know that they must forever re-
main different from ourselves and
therefore they know that they were
created so by the Almighty Creator
himself, and can no more change
their characters, than can the Ethc-
opian change his skin, or the Loop
ard his spots.
But this is a depression from the
topic of our correspondence. We
started out to show how doctrines
once repudiated by tie republican
masses, and secuted by the repub-
lican press, have become the living
issues of the party. It will be re-
mcmbercd how Wendell Phillips
over one year since urged upon Con-
grcss the duty it owed the country
and itself to repeal the Supreme
Cou. t, and install itself, as, not
only supreme over not only the ju-
dicial department. ofthe government.
but also over the Executive depart
ment. This doctrine secuted at the
time as the visionary scheme of a
fanatic, without friends or support
crs among the republican party, is
to-day the embodiment of the act
requiring two thirds of the supreme
court to concur in any decision of
that tribunal, ana also in t..lat 9TH
err act dis1ualifying the President
to dis charge the func tions of the
executive office, and making Gen.
Grant Dictator in his stead. There
we have another verification Of the
oft repeated assertion that Phillips
carries the brains Of the republican
party, which allows him to be only
about one year in its advance in
the adoption Of extreme measures.
The forlorn hope Of perpctuatins
these measures seems now to occupy
the earnest attention of tho most
grasping and scheming Republicans.
Some TWENTY INDIVIDUALS of this
class recently held an Immense"
Grant meeting in New York City
to discuss ':the situation We
mention q few Of the names of
those comprising this immense"
gathering, viz: James Harper
Alexander I. Stewart, William b.
Aston. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and
VIM. +. Dodge. The financial COM
plexian Of this mcctingi is all that
We would at present call attention
to. Taking the names given as an in