The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-25

reseDts ltseIi ulHereutly 10 inherent
minds to determine the quality of an
act all the circumstances must be care
fully considered.
For instance, the capture of Friday
by Crusoe. Friday was wild savage
living on snakes, roots aud human
flesh by the association, precept and
example of hIs master, he became
something of a civilized being. Did
he In sorrow pine away and regret his
social position His capture and sci.
vice were the conditions of his im.
provement-siHc gaoc MONA sort Of
oJsquc hoe in the proceedings civ
ilized servant or a savage freeman. |
do not sanction or approve of what
was styled tn" pcculiar institution" In
my judgment it always Involves a
wrong to one or both parties, but not
necessarily to the servant
MUST REGRET.
All rejecting and considerable white
men must now regret that slavery ever
existed in our land. | believe great
wrong was done, by its intrOduct on,
to the white race, the end of which
none can even now foresee. If slavery
had never existed in this country, 1t is
more than probable Bird would never
have had the pleasure Of such it was)
OF delivering an address in Carbonate,
and his countrymen, instead of inplor =
ing an immaginary Waterman to tell
them Of the night, might have been
subjects of King Munza and roaming
through tho wales of Monbuttooland
in quest OF victim.
This he regrets and so do |. At
least | suppose he does, for it would be
grossly stupid to regret the cause aud
yet wish to retain the effect. Had sla
very never existed, Bird had never been
a magistrate in Cairo, an orator in
Carbonate, OF a citizen of the United
States, nor would his countrymen have
attended the common (uncommon)
schools Of Illinois, may, more, | doubt
if the speaker had now been in "essee.
Idea number two: No government OF
nation can long be peaceful, prosper
Gus and progressive unless there is q
certain unity or homogeneousness
amongst the people resulting from
a common derivation. The negro ha,
been and will continue to be disturb
ing element, II balance Of power to b,
used by corrupt men for corrupt pur
poses. At present the Republican
party has HMM the future othe,
parties will have him.
no OBJECTION.
a majority of Democrats have no Oh
lection to him than that he does no
vote the Democratic ticket. IL, in time,
this race should be absorbed by anal.
gamation, the negro will be benefited,
but not the white race. When, in the
course of human events, the admiIture
shall be thorough, the resulting pop
ulation will be utterly unconscious o.
any deterioration, by operation
of what may seem ma
tural law. We cannot see
ourselves as others see us. Natioua
degradation cannot be either weighed
or felt, correctly estimated or appreci
ated by its individual subjects, lik,
many matters which may give rise t.
a plausible opinion yet cannot be dem
onstrated to be either false or true.
| do not regard the average negr
and the average white man as alike o
equal. If they were, cross nigh
combine the good qualities Of bot
and be superior to either. But the,
are not why then seek to obliterat,
distinctions made by nature? Thi
twaddle about the man and his brother
aud that God made all nations of on,
blood, is nothing but the vaporings o
n sickly sentimentalism in some cases
and in all others an offspring of dema
gogucry such as will always be abund
antly found in popular governments
Why not add hair, bones, etc. ? Hu
mau blood is not essentially diiieren
from that of all other warm FLOODED
animals. 1t is only figure of speecl
If not, we can, with equal propri
ETY., say God has made the entire felin,
race Of one blood from the Royal Ben
gal down to the common domestic
but the Snowman who should Gag,
them together would find some assert
ing superiority that could not b.
safely ignored.
recognize the fact that :hc Negro
is n man; and, without the fault or con
sent of himself or any white person o
this generation, is here, aud SHOULD
have every civil right necessary for hi