Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-09-14
Lunatics and Fools--Which are Mogt
Fatal2

lrespohrloie Ior the rum of our Demo-
cratic systematic abolition Of luna.
ties, who are striving To "abolish the
natural supremacy Of the white man
and mongrelize tho government. or
the fools, who. utterly ignorant of the
matter, blindly assent to their occurs.
ed lunacies, and thus aid them in their
mad and revolving dcvilmenl. Tho
Abolition lunatie really believes tlist
negroes should be 'iree," that they
should he forced into common citi-
zen-hip with the white man, and, eivs
en- the same chances, education, etc,
the prejudice Of color" will disappear
amer u while. and all harmonize and
amalgnmate together, ust as with the
Irish and Germans, or other varieties
of our race that come 10 US from the
Old World. He thinks the men who
founded onr institutions fatally at
FAULT, that instcad of setting up
White Republic, they should have
abolished White Supremacy. and set
mp mongrel concern at the start,
aud he believes that, having correct
ed their errors aud made Union Nc
u ought to be, that nov, with this
nigger element Included the progress
and prosperity OF the country will re-
ally surpas' anything ever dreamed
OF 10y the men Of l776. He tacitly
adults that all his "reinrms" have
been fraudulently worked out thus
far, that all the forms of our political
system. the right Of States and even
personal liberty, have been grossl y vi
olated-that the mighty national debt
IS great evil tho destruction OF COM
merce ana the enormous taxation arc
unfortunate, but the end, he thinks,
Jusllhes tho means the "elevatiun,"
aS he snpp"ses, ol our millions of he'
groes WIZ be such transcendent
good to the country. that he may well
eonsent to all tho evils necessary TO
ITS accomplishment.
Such Is the Abolitionist, such his
belief, his acts. and such his hopes =
Vhlrty years ago, when he first ap-
peared IN our midst, the people lynch,
cd hlm, ana 1t permitted, would have
rllcnced him, either shut him up as
lunallc, dangerous To society, or as a
social leprr, that had no right TO ex-
lst, they would have murdered him.
why was thiSf Simply because 10
was rlght-lt was An instinct of self
prc'erva'ion-an Abo'itionist is u
moral monster that has no more right
TO be at large than has the wretch
that is guilty OF inrert. Indeed, he is
vller, more at war with nature and
the safety ol society, than the revoi-
ting beast that cohnbits with his sis
ter The negro Is as widely separated
from the white man as the crow from
the eagle or the ass from the horse,
aud th"sc drgraded and sinful wretch
e', as we see sumetimes ia individual
cases, who "risc above the prejudice Of
color, and mate with negroes, rot
out AN perish from the earth polluted
hy their sins as utterly in three or
four generations Ms the mule or other
animal hybrids 40 in single genera
tion. What is true of the individual
is OF course true of the aggregate
thus II sucil monstr0us sln against
God and crime against society as u
Mongrel citizenship were possible IN
this country, II would needs DO sim.
ply matter of time when the four
millions Of negroes, aud of course an
equal number Of white people, would
be extinct. But amalgumatiun is i'm
possible-a Mongrei citizenship can
only exist us now by armed support,
aud when the Northern people can
40 longer stand tho taxation that
they have for five years paid to sup
port II degraded and vagabond soI-
diery in the South, and of course the
"bigher law" of nature will manifest
itself, and the natural supremacy of
the white people over the negro will
be restored us "it was" and as il is
ordered by Omnipctencc.
How, then, in the name Of all the
Rnlzahubs ,i tha In f.rnal ra,.,,... Z. 4,