The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-04-20
Hush Cblarhihain SOFTLY.
Tho Great LaW.6f the White Race

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It has costthis GeYernmeni the live
of hundreds of thousands of the bes
citizens of the Republic, and no en-
of treasure, to overthrow an a~ristocrac,
which assumed for its basis the natura
inequality OF races, aud the right o
Tae stronger and superior to reduc,
he. weaker and inferior to a chattl'
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The paper that says the above
SIC Cincinnati Commercial-at the
i1me time thinks the : way Piegar
S1sridan deals with the Indians is the
,:liag for the healthy enjoyment of the
f:rritorfes by the pioneer settlers.
TIE late sfaughtAeof the Indians
4; the:Piegan village, and the -procla.
nation announcing the ratification 6t
=ao socalled Fifteenth Amendment are
rotemporaneous events, and open up
two chapters faAhefiean history That
may be studied with profit by both
hypocrits and honest men. These
chapters relate to the treatment by the
whisesJ of the Indians and negroes
respectively. ;mGI L:t-02
The whole 7tre&tment,o of the Indians
and pegrpes rests Oh two Heading ideas:
The natural Inequality of the races,
and the rightto use the redaud black
races toipfohiote the happiness and
a~dvamcetthe civilization ofthe superior
ace. T.pGIaiF 10.
For three hundred years the whites
have deem extermindfnG the Indians,
and appropriatiug theit landed posses
sious for the Use aud benefit Iof the
superior race. The- possessions of the
Indians has, been allotted to them By
the Benevolent Father of all. The
whites.eane uHasked. and took poses
sion ofthe lands of the Indians; and
because the Indians did what the
whites would have done badthey been
in the places Of their'' red brothers
resisted the invasion of their lands and
their appropriation by a race foreign
to the sod, they were hunted by the
whitesiasf If they were Wild beasts,
and -tetterminated whenever aud
wherever they resisted the onward
march of the Invaders. r., al Inn
They defended their own soil, they
shot the invader and destroyed his
property. They were sayagcs. with
natures given them by God, and
their warfare was cruel. Had the
whites, however, not tresspassed upon
the lands of the Indians, they. would
never have felt or been shocked at,
their cruelty. = Where's now are the
Indians? Where the inferior and
where the superior raSe? TAA ferm-i
-er is NEARLY extefTninased, and their,
lands are in the ,passessiOuz 6fA thefr'
exterTHinators, VIII the Commercial
tell us:why his is so?-on what prin-
ciple the whites can be defended for
the invasion and appropriation of the
possession of the Indians? ~ >,
On no other principle than that or.
1he superiority of one. race, and the
natural inferioritY of other races the
superior race, indicated by the aris-
~tocracyfof color, if you please, and
carrying withsit wherever it goes q,
civilizaion-calculated to improve
the Dhysi oral Intellect
ual and religious condition of the whole
humapyIace. zE A writer in BIackwood
for March, astates. succinctly and clear
ly the law that governs the superior.
race in its intercourse with the inferi-
or races. He saws when the
imam of white skin goes forth TO
"remote regions, to, subdue and form
settlements, az in America, Aus
~"tralia, South Africa and New Zeal
"and, he goes as a superior being,
assumes possession by the right, it
mot by the divinity, ofhis color, and
twill listen toino' terms on the part
"of the original possessors of the Soil,
"but absolute submission to his SOW.
"ereign will. If they submit, they
"may live 1fthey prove troublesome
"they must be. subdued, If they
"put themselves into a, state of per-
"manent rebellion, they must be ex-
terminated. This seems t cbe the
"Iaw, which the Caucasian race has
Imposed upon itself law which has
,'been somewhat relaxed in, the case
"of the French and Spaniards, who
were opcerthe coloRizers of the New
"World. but which has neger been
seriously tela&ed by the Anglo-Sax-
Cons, the Anglo-Celts, and their leu.
'tonic coHsins-who now between
''them forrr-the great at1-conqmering
tallpetvading race, that ~repleuishes
''the waste places of the globe and
''clears the way before it by the
'disposession and subsection of the
"natives" That is the law which
the Caucasian race has imposed up
on itself, and ,whichN it administers
wherever it goes to found settlements.
Now will the Commercial tell us up
on what principle hatlaw is faunded2-
If the. principle upon which that law
is founded is correct, athea - can The
course of the white toward the In.
dams for three centuries, and, which
course is still continued, be justified.
And fit can be justified, then also.
can Afriean servit1de be justified ;
for they rest on the Same basis-the
supposed wants and demands of the
white race and their civilization. Wa
did not enslave the Indians because
they would not be slaves; we, there
fore, exterminated them, We did
not appropriate their labor, as we did
the labor Lof-the-blaeks, bat-we ap-
propriated their lives and possessions
Had they been as docile a race as the
blacks we would,have appropriated to.
ourselves both. their labor and their
possessions. We are. Overwhelmed,
all at once, with the enormity of
African sefvitnde-its Injustice, and
iniquity, and sin i'll the presence of
GoD (; bat we think the extermination
of the Indians and the enjoyment of
their pefsAssions among ourselves
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