Year: 1859




intellectual characteristics are reduced the animal
features enlarged and exaggerated. This iufero
rity Of organization with corresponding nieriority
OF faculties may be proved, not 60 much by the un
fortunate beings who are degraded by slavery at
every fact in the past history and present condition
! of Africa"


Such may be regarded as the universal opinion
of mankind. BY the English common law, "the
negro had no rights which the white man wa,
bound to respect" Every State in the Union
i New Hampshire especially included,) has upon
her statute book laws which directly or by unavoid
liable Implication, deprive the negro OF the rights
privileges and franchises of q citizen. Governed
by the same principles. all the States formed out
of the territory embraced in the ordnance of 1851
have imposed upon him political disability; and tc
secure and perpetuate tho dividing line between
the negro and a citizen, according to the highest
ordinances of heaven, each Of them has incorpora
ted such disability in her organic law, by nearly
unanimous vote of the people; and strong has
been this sentiment that somo of them have gone
SO Car as to forbid him resting place upon their
soil


Tempted by the foregoing inveterate precedents,
the Supreme Court OF the United States has lately
decided that descendant of the African Iace can
have no status in our federal courts.


Although that court, from its habitualy conser.
satve character is far behind those formed under
the 9gis Of the great magma charta Of 1876. yet
your committee think it is plainly discoverable, in
the opinion alluded to, that if the point had been
at issue TIE court would have decided that the ne
orr is mt nd far tha of bnm apit uuht
not to be citizen Of the United States. If mo.
lives of policy required, the decision of that august
tribunal might be disregarded, as not being appl
cable to this sovereign State in her police regula
items touching this unfortunate race. Yet the fact
cannot be disguised that the paramount judicial
tribunal of this State, moved by the settled max
inns of the law, and impressed with lively sense
Of the inferior and degraded character of the negro
has lately solomnly adjudge that he is not ent
lied to the privileges of citizen and a man, but
that from hls Inherent offensiveness, may be exclu
ded from his presence.


Whatever might be their private opinion. your
feel bound to defer that decision till
the same be reversed.


Were the black equal to the white race in point
of intellect, your committee would still be compel
ed to admit tha. of every refined white man, there
is implanted by his Creator, an invincible repug
nance to fellowship with the negro. To disregard
the impulse of nature is to violate the laws of
our socialsand moral being, and to remove it by
legislation is to repeal the will of Heaven by NOR
tai laxs.


Your committee are not unmindful of the fact
that political parties have risen and fourished for
yvbi Inv Net in hair
opinion they can be regarded only as periodical
social excresences, which returning sense of de-
cency will soon slough from the body polite nor
are they unmindful that members Of Legislative
bodies have, sometimes, so far forgot their duties
to their race to present the petitions of negroes
praying for black and white social equality, and
make strenuous efforts to place themselves on a
level with the petitioners. 10 such legislators,
your committee most devoutly exclaim, thank God
thnt they are not as such men! 1t is hoped that
such painting, with groans unutterable, for
negro association. will be contented with special
laws granting to themselves exclusively a monOpo-
ly of that luxury.


1t is considered by statesmen that the presence
of an inferior race is I'M furious to the superior
that it tends more to degrade the latter than to
elevate the former. Hence, it becomes the duty Of
the superior mode OF preservation and self
elevation to take every step justified by humanity
10 remove the obnoxious race, or at least to see
that the dividing line between the races can bc
maintained.


Evil communications corrupt good manners"
This sacred admoniton is strkingy exemplGed
in the fact that there are white persons among US
bearing the image and superscripton of white
men, who are literally debauched 10y IN unhallow'
ed affection for a race upon which heaven, after
stamping it with inferiority, placed on remote
continent, and marked the object of divine indig.
nation with degrading color, as if to preserve
an ! perpetuate His inscrutnble foreordination.
A gainst such morbid affections your committee
protest, and therefore report the bill and recon-
mend its passage, and that they be discharged from
further consideration thereof


All of which is respectfully submitted.


L. L. BRoADHEAD, Chairman.