Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-01-16

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tory of the world that the negro hai
not the capacity of seif!government
and that wherever or whenever tn,
superior race has shared government
with him, destruction has been the lo
of both
The Mulatto with White Blood In his Veins
/ speak not now Of the mulatto
because the mulatto with white blood
in his veins often has the intelligence
and capacity Of white man. But
for violating a law of God, that all ar,
to be punished who indulge in a Grim
inal admixture ofraccs, so that beyond
the third orfourth eeneeation there
can be no further mulatto progeny, ]
would admit the mulattO TO the right
of sufirage-if | could do il withou.
violating that law, or without estab
fishing a principle which would be
fatal to my own race. ! recognize
the mulatto's intelligence and capaci
ty, with our white blood flowing in
his veins; and | know that he is often
the equal, and sometimes the superior
Of some white men.
The Congo Negro. etc
But the Congo negro, the Dahomey
negro, the Guinea negro, the negro Of
the Southern States, is no brother of
ours, and God never made him for
our brother. ] do not say that he is
only higher species of the anthropoid
apes-as some say Butt do say that
the ourang-outang is as intelligent as
many of the Bushmen of Southern Af-
rica-and that the chimpanzee and
the gorilla, in their forms OF creation,
wonderfully represent the ignorant
and brutalized negro and ] will add
that, if we are to degrade this great
Government Of ours into a Southern
Negro Congo Government, it is as
well to take into partnership the Ou-
rang, the Chimpanzee, and the Gorilla,
as to 90 into this partnership with
the sons of Congo, Soudan and Daho.
mey-thc native lands Of them all,
apes and men.
i do not mean, in what have said,
to refer TO the mulatto, or quadroon
or octoroon, wlrose intelligence re.
spect by virtue of the white blood that
runs in their veins, but to the pure
Congo negro. admit him TO be a
"man," but he is not a "brOther' If he
is a man, and / will never consent to
divide selfgovernment with him, or to
degrade our own noble, historical race
to bis low level.
The Negro Unchanged and Unchangeabie.
The negro is the same and has been
the same, for four thousand years.
While all other races-our own race
-emerging from barbarism, have been
constantly improving, the negro in
Africa is to be seen now just as he was
in the earliest periods of Egyptian
record. In the irescoes or amid the
tombs of Egypt, four thousand years
old, in all probability, the negro there
exhibits the same pictured life he lives
in now. His tough skull and strong
muscles Of the neck are carrying the
same burden that he carries 10 this
day. He was then the servant of the
Egyptian man--the yellow man of
Egypt-iust as he is the servant of
the Caucasian now. As Virgil de-
scrbed the race some two thousand
years ago, when lac wrote of an "Aunt
Chloe Of his day even so is the negro
now.
Ara genus, toia pairinm tcsianie fgura,
rorta conan. labroque tumens, Ell fgsea colorem ;
Pcctora lata, iacens mammis, compressor alvo,
Crurbus exilis, spatiosa prodga plantai
Continuis rimis calcanea scissa rigebant
j quote Cowper's translation and |
trust you, Sir, will the more enjoy it
as coming from an old Abolition friend |,
who would have not a slave to till his
grounds.
"from Airie she, the swain's sole serving maid,
Whose face aud form alike her birth betrayed
With woolly locks, lips tumid, sable skin,
Wide bosom, uddcrs haccid belly thin,
Legs slender, broad aud most misshapen feet
Chopped into chinks and parched with solar heat.
That is the description given by
Virgil two thousand years ago; and
that is tho appearance of the negro of
this day. In his own native land he
has not improved, aud he never will
improve, save as he comes in close con
tact with civilization, and is forced TO
exercise his natural initiative powers.
Civilization aud Christianity have not
Changed him.
-Four thousand years then he was
exactly what he is now, Ammo Domini,
lS67-and what he ever will be, save
as he comes in contact with the civil
cation OF superior race. The Egyp-
tians whose genius created the pyra-
mids, the Sphynx, the obclisk the
Carthagenian, whose soldiers under
surmounted the then horrid
Alps-rolled over the Campagna of
Rome, and the plains of Capua; the
Roman, whose arms and whose arts
embraced the whole world-all, have
brought their civilization and their
arts before the negro race, but all in
vain. The Church had holy iounda.
tions in Carthage, in Cyrene, In Alex.
andria, throughout all Egypt. and far,
far up tho Nile, and asoetios from
upper Egypt, clothed in the wild raj
ment of the Baptist, wandered forth
in sheepskins and goatskins, and dwelt
in deserts, and on mountains, in dens
and caves, to bring the negro to Christ,
but all, all, in vain. Pagan, savage,
even, the negro in his own
native home, for thousands of years,
has defed all civilization, all christi
anity-and only when in close indi.
vidual contact with the superior race,
Is the negro tbenimproved orimprova-
bic. He olings to his gris-gris, iuius,
ietichism--with as much pertinacity
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