The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-04-09
The Problem or Race.
From the Sew York Day Boo

nublicani.p. in iaot Mougrelism. is lie, a
iaaaey. \ moustrosity. hideous, revolving,
sinful .aecu-sed and deadly beyond all evl,s,
criues aud sins that have ever polluted the
earth. Il ignores the distinctions fash
saned By tie land OF the Al
mighty creator. and strives to degrade, to
transform and deform the most elevated
nd perfect of all the human races into
sommon nmalagsm with the most subordi-
cate aud imperfect. and thus blotting out
the work Of God, it attempts. not to scale
.he heavens by . new tower OF Babel. a. In
the oldeu sine, but to make speck and
and spAu nev world altogether,
The negro d fers from US as the ass DIT
fars from the horse. or - the owl from the
,be eagle. that is. while entirely human. or
of the same genus, he is not only differ
eot snecie. from the Caucasian, but he Is
sh. simplest and most subordinate. and
therefore further removed from Us than
INV other. His patural faculties are SINH
lar 70 those of the white lad Of twelve TO
fifteen. that ia. he reaches his utmost pos
sible Development at this age, and in legal
and social relation to Us in accord with hs
nature and wants. he 6lls An essential role
In the civilization Of America, and there Is
the utn,os. peace. harmony, kindness and
oven affection between these widely differ.
cot beings aud ourselves His presence
here has enabled Us to open up and culti-
yate the vast regions between the Ohio and
Potomac rivers and Gulf of Mexico, AMI
to furnish the pabulum OF that mighty
American commerce, which has whiteaed
every sea with its ships and which other
wise could never haze had an existence
nd better than even that mighty COM
meree which has built up our great Allan
sic cities, jUxtaposiiion with this negro e!-
sner. has enabled Us 10 establish demo-
cratic institutions and reuder them glo-
riously successful for nearly century.
With this natural basis for the social
structure, this negro element. with the na-
sure and wants of the white lad Of twelve
to sftesn. who q. naturally obeys the COM
mand and seeks the protection of his mas
ter as the youth does that Of ths adult in
shost, with this natural, Gcd-ordained dis
siuetion OF race staring him il the face.
Who would be go audscious Is to presume
ca the cid world distinctions ii class in our
ewu race that 80 defosm and 1is6gure the
old societies! Hence Virginia and the
oshsr states having this negro element in
shsir midst, are naturally and indeed nee
sssarily democratic, always striving to vote
down class legislation, banks ard tariffs,
.nl public debts through which the east
err states preserve the old European sys-
ten, sai piuider the many for the benefit
u she few. Hence, too, the Independence,
EssIiness and pride of the masses, who,
kessver poor they may be in the south,
are ne9er degraded as IN Europe or even
= the north, for the natural distinction of
ssce renders it impossible, in the nature
OF thiOgs. Thsy may De poor, rough and
isuor.nt, so far as schools go, but in juxta-
position W th an Inferior social element, a
.e.ural, God ordained inieriority, Of course
sic southern masses IN the nature Of things
eanIot be degraded as the working classes
ofother lands. with absolutely nothing be-
Low then. Evea in the north such man
o. Andrew Johnson would be impossible
IN thousand years, and whatever the pro-
xress Of elevation of the northern masses.
i Is the work, the absolute work, Of the so
called slaveholders Of the south, who for
eighty years have fought their battles
against class legislation, and voted down
she schemes Of those who would reduce
them to she condition ot the masses in the
Old World.
Indeed it is simple, actual, historical.
every liue Of cur history, that this negrt
element, this natural basis Of the social or
der, this jux,aposition Of y minor species
sf human kind In our midst, is the creates
blessipg that Providence e7er conferred
% His creatures, and without it We woulC
be NJ this moment q mere prolongation o.
the old European civilization, aud, mos
Gksly, still provinces Of some European do
Rinioo.
But a. the devil vas permitted to ente
Paradise, SO, too, has he walked into on
democratic Eden, and made our conservs
tive. educated people believe not that it i
best to abolish the negro element, or gs
sii Of that, but TO abolish their natura
God given and inaienable duty OF ruin
ever .his negro, and thus to transform an
deform thirty millions Of the great n,aste
race into huge. spotted, rotten and ac
cursed amslgam with four millions OF sui
ordinate negroes. And getting powe
2nde- false pretenses, the abolition mad
men have toru four millions Of negros
from their homes, torn down the feder;
system. aud fastened debt Of three thou
and millions On tho country, to work OF
iheir problem and abolish their natur,
supremacy over negroes. Sometimes !,
nssis fzucies his wife or his best friend h
dsadiisst enemy. and seeks their destrs
sioa, and if the abolition lunatics of II
day have got the notion in their heads tn,
the negro Was an evil, and it was best
abolish him, and gathering these four mi
lions Of hspless beings into masses, h,
ocSsd them down with cannon. and thr
abolished them st once, the next gener
tion might understand, and inaced ha
>one small tolerance for the madness
axe present ons. But this nameless al
fashomiess sin and crime. and impiety, al
utter, ,unredeemed dizziness. which is stri
ing to abolish our natural, God-ordain
supremacy, and amalgsmate with an ini
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