The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-28

of man. The inherent force, or the force which inheres in water that at- tempts to seek its level is natural force. It's application in overcoming resistance Is an acquired property. given to it by the ingenuity of man. Now. MT. President. we find that there Is a difference in the inherited and the acquired forces of mankind. There is a racial difference, there is a national difference. there is an individual diff, ference. When we come to speak of the inherited force of mankind. it is fact that cannot be denied that the Arian races possess in the highest de- gree the inherited forces of nature, and 1t cannot be denied, but is proven both from the sciences of Demograply and maintained by all ethnologists that the white man is endowed in the highest degree and that the African the least of the inherited forces of potentiaiity and. when we come to compare the acquisitions of the different races, all we have to do Is to compare the devel- opment in government. in natural re- sources. in the acquisition of property in intelligence. in science, and in the arts and in letters. and in every other department of life. we find that the Arian race leads, and when we come to speak of nationalities it is no dis paragement to the Latin and other great subdivisions of this race, to gay that the AngloSaxon leads the world. and I believe it Is no flattery to say that the home of the greatest natural inheritance that has ever been given. and certainly the greatest acquisition is within the United States of America. I believe the American citizen pe ssess more inherent power and is capable of greater acquisition than any other citizen in the world.
 Now, MT. President, let us look at the history of our country for little while and apply some of these inEer- ent forces. some of these intrinsic pow CTS that belong to the two races in this country. Let us take for irstan ,e America. It was discovered by the white man; it was subjugated and set tied by the white man: it's indepen- dence was declared and maintained ty the white man: it's sovesnm 'lt was established by the white nan; its civ ilizations, institutions and achieve ments are all under the leadership. and the result of the inherent and acquired powers of the white nan. Nobody questions these facts. They are simply the plain facts of history.
 Now. let us take the negro. He was brought to this country against his will; he came here not as an emigrant: he came not as a pioneer to subdue and to settle; he came not to estab- fish in this richly endowed country great government of republican form. but he came as a slave. and from 1917 to 1907 one of the institutions of this country was stealing negroes in Africa and bringing them to this country. Let me pause here long enough to say that it was not a Southern institution; 1t was not a New England institution, but that 1t was an institution of the colonists of this country, and that, therefore. New England as well as the South Is responsible for the introduce ton of slavery and for it's mainte- nance in this country for years. He left behind a country that was dark, and it is dark today. Darkest Africa that is unillumined by the sunlight of Caucasian enterprise Is as dark today as 1t was at the time of the Christian era aG will be as dark four thousand years from now as it was four thou sand years ago if unimproved by Cau- casian intelligence and enterprise. Now, the negro is not to blame for be- ing brought here as a slave. He is not to blame because he does not pos- sess the inherent potentiality of the Caucasian race. He is not to blame If he has failed to develop and acquire as his white brother has done. 1 would attach the blame nowhere, but I would say that it Is due to the fact that he is intrinsically and essentially and naturally inferior to the white race, and will always be. He was brought here as a slave and in that way he be- came an institution in this country, and he was a slave from necessity. If he had come here as an emigrant vol untarily. possessing no other power than that which nature has given him. he would have fallen before the enterprise and energy and combative- ness of the white man; therefore, say that his very existence in this coun- try at that time depended upon the institution of slavery. He was not a citizen. he was not a voter, but he was property. MT. President. this in stitution of slavery as it existed at that time was an institution of this country. We all know. who are famil- jar at all with the facts of history, that 1t was aided and abetted by the reigning monarch of Great Britain
 that 1t had the support of the then civilization Of the world; that only here and there a little leaven was be- ginning to work, which finally result ed in the stupendous, super-organic revolution that resulted in the eman- cipation. This emancipation, MT. President. was by a revolution, which revolution was the work of the white race. Left to himself. his own aspira- tions and energies, he would be slave today. and would remain a slave for ever. If the white man was responst- ble then for bringing him away from Africa. and if the white man is re- sponsible for slavery, l say that the white man is also responsible for his emancipation, that this emancipation was an incident only of the revolution. It could not be done by peaceable means. because slavery was an insti- tuition recognized and authorized by the Constitution of the United States. It was an institution in accordance with the statutes enacted by Congress. It was an institution substantiated and authorized and maintained by the Supreme Court of the United States, and let it be known and let it be taught to our children that the war so far as the South was concerned. was fought for the purpose of main taining it's constitutional and inalien- able right of State sovereignty, includ- ing the right of secession, and let 1t be taught that the waging of the war by the Union forces was not for the purpose of freeing the negro, but for the purpose of maintaining in its in- tegrity the Union of the States of this great country. It therefore followed that the emancipation of the negro, though the result of the action of the white man. and as a part of a great revolution. was simply an incident and not d purpose. It is unnecessary to