The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-04-23

frage in all the loyal States properly be-
longs to the people of those States y in
the name of ali that is good and great,
why is it not left for the people to de-
cideo Why is it not left where you
said, not six months ago, it properly
belongs ?" There is no necessity for
the mad haste with which this is at
tempted to be fastened upon US. There
is no reason why it should not be left
to the voice and vote of people of
Pennsylvania to decide.
But, Mr.. Speaker, turning to the
other question involved in this dis
cussion-the question of the status of
the races, even were the right to en-
franchise the negro as proposed by
this measure undeniable, how many,
very many, weighty, very weighty
reasons there are why it should not be
done. The only arguments that have
been advanced here or elsewhere by
the advocates of negro voting, appear
TO be based upon the great fallacy that
the negro is only white man with a
black skin-that he possesses the same
intellectual and moral faculties as the
white race, and may, therefore, be in-
eorporated with the social and civil
elements of our society as an equal
partner in the government Of our coun-
try. On no other ground would any
man of ordinary intelligence claim the
equality of suffrage for the negro. On
no other grounds could it be claimed
without a manifest design Of demoral-
izing and debauching our own civili-
zation. On no other ground can they
base any arguments in favor of this
black measure. The loyalty" of the
blacks will not do. The people under
stand that too well. Loyalty" has
covered too many infamous crimes
to make it cloak to cover more. The
masses can see through it-can under
stand it; they detest it, they spurn it.
1t was the watchword of the tories of
the Revolution. 1t was the watch
word of the thieves, Puritan hypo-
critics. Constitution defers, law break
ers, treasury robbers, divine buliies,
sanctified murderers, spies, rimps, cut
throats, aud the whole horde of un-
principIed wretches, political vaga-
bonds and prison-deserving villains,
who reaped riches out of the blood OF
the people, and ghoul-like gloated ov-
er the misery of the country during
the late unholy crusade for plunder
and power. No. sir, loyalty will do
no longer. There must be some other
reason for the enfranchisement of the
negro population, and members upon
the other side can only base their argu-
mebts upon the assumption of the
moral and intellectual equality of the
white and negro races. But which Of
them have attempted to prove the
premises on which their conclusions
alone can rest? Who among their
eminent leaders dare attempt it? Sup
pose, sir, it should be proven that the
negro is no more the equal and
brother of the white man than the
ass is the equal and brother of the
horse. than the buzZard is the
equal and brother of the eagle, what
then becomes of all this ear splitting
rhetoric about 1.-THE equality and broth
erhocd'' of negroes and white men ?
1t is as baseless as the rich mans
dreams. An attempt to establish e.
quality upon foundations where Al
mighty God has fixed eternal Unequal
ity is an undertaking so protane and
so God-defying that we might think
it would stagger the fanatics and re-
volutionists Of this negro suffrage party.
But it does not, sir. They have got
beyond that point, and the DEGREES and
works Of God himselfmust be swept by
the board i they stand between it and
places of power and profit.
The eminent DF. Caldwell, in his
work entitled the Unity Of the Races,
points out over hundred asatomical
and physical differences betWeass the
negro and the white man-differenee2
which as distinctly prove the negro to
be different being from the white
man as the ass is proved to be differ
ent creature from the horse. CuFrier
declares "that the anatomy of the ne
gro evidently approximates the mon
key tribes" Prof. Agassiz asserts that
''the ehimpanzee and gorilla do not
differ more from the orang than the
Maylay or white man differ from the
negro.n Prof. Wyman, of Cambridge
college, Massachusetts,, says, "It can
not be denied, however wide the sep
aration, that the negro and orang do
afford the points where man and the
brute, where the totality of their or
ganization is considered, most nearly
approach each other" But why, sir,
multiply evidence upon this point p
1t is a matter no longer in dispute.
And. sirs, in the properties of the
brain and heart the negro is as far be-
| hind the white man as he is in his
physical peculiarities. History proves
that his mental and moral depravity il
as ole and as unchangeable as his sphys-
! ical type. You can no more elevate
the mind of the black race than you
can change the color of its skin. 1t
was faithfully painted upon the monu-
mental walls of Egypt five thousand
years ago, precisely as we know it to
exist to-day, and was there described as
the barbarian" From that day down
to our own debased times no people
ever looked upon him other than as
an inferior being, created by an allwise
God to be ruled rather than rule.