The union Democrat., 1870-04-16

er people on the face Of earta; the Anglo Sax
on forced a nation to grow on the barren Ply-
mouth Rock: the Negro can not do it in all
| the luxuriousness and productiveness of the
/ tropics, backed BIZ the assistance of England.
| France and America. Sierra Leone and Libe-
ria are nv witnesses. They are failures. |
want no further proof of his natural lack OF
| force as compared with the Caucasian. Ma
ture made the mole and nature made the Ara
| bian courser; nature put men on the earth.
differing as to mental quality and calihre. 1t
is not for me to ask whv. These facts are.
These races had fair start at the Creation;
the elements were equally at their disposal;
but cut of those elements neither toe Indian,
| the Esauimaux, the South Sea Islander, bor
,he Ethiopian evolved a steam engine. an
! Electric Telegraph, or stately ship. or litera-
ture and hut the rudest forms of art. And
therefore. say there are superior races and
thus far there are no facts to prove the poss-
| bilty of their blending so that the lower shall
come u . and in all respects sit on an equality
wit, the higher. And the knowledge and
fuller comprehension of this to the Ethiopian
mind. all TO result from the 18th Amendment
the fair start in the social political and intel
lee;uaI race is yet to be for him long and
sharp thorn.
MORE Tuoags.
Enough Of this. / an to-day of tho liberal
and progressive order believing that equal
rights should be extended to all. but not that
all men were created equal intellectually,
which truth is another thorn for the Negro.
If mule commence talking, acting and
reasoning like man and gradually work in
to n sort Of human being, give him show
with the rest. His humanity might be of a
lower degree. Maybe he would 60 into soci-
ETY. rather above his scale and bray. Let
him 60 t. he be human, he will at length
feel that he has forced himself on a plane
where he does not belong; he will feel that he
must go Oft somewhere alone and patiently
reconstruct himself so that he may come into
6,at circle as an equal and net an ass. And
perhans after all his pains and reconstruction
he may find that the real two-legged humani-
tv rises proportionately in the scale above
him, so that for every inch of material stature
he attains, they growtw Some such thorn
as this, predict for the Negro. Put him
in position; make him Judge and Law maker;
advertise AZ much as you please, some indi-
vdual and exceptional examples of intelectu-
al prominence. vet as q whole, as a race, he
will never, never stand among the Anglo Sax
ons where heaspires ard demands. 1t is sim
ply the b.ackbird aspiring to the strength, swift
ness and lofty flight of the eagle. The black
bird is very nice, respectable sleek looking
bird-good and useful in his place-he may
become great ard good blackhird among
other blackhirds. but where he tries TO be-
come an eagle and goes s,ru,ting and chatter
ing amongst eagles and fancying himself one
of them, the blackbi to borrow an Irish
Ball is simply making an ass of himself and
at last time, slow, steady, patient, time will
open his eyes and be will see himself as 9th
ers see him.
The Negro need not howl at this. If he
has not power, he suffers not our pain. He
seems capable of more enjoyment than we.
lie bashs in the light of the Caucasian civili-
zaton as he does in that of the sun. Obliter-
ate the white race from America and won,d
the Black 60 on and supply his place? No.
I.e would fall back Just as the trained ami
nal deterorates when the master hand is re-
moved. | believe this. When the Negro
proves to me that am wrong, | will ask his
pardon. | say this not to truckle to any po-
htical sentiment. but because | believe it, and
have in this paper an opportunity to say it.
Neither do | wish any of my nenocratc
readers to imagine that I an, stradd.ins their
political goose because | NAV happen TO agree
with them on this point. We belong to the
only really Independent Party in the State.
1t has hut one member. We are that mem
Der. We take the liberty of repairing and re-
constructing our platform as often as we
please. yet there is generally the utmost har-
mony in our ranks.
PRENTICE MULFoRp.