2 THE DAILr EVENING TELEGRAPH PIIILADELFIIIA, TUESDAY", DECEMBER 28, 1869. srzzLZT or Tixn mess. Cdllorlnl Opinion f th leading J.nrnn.1) Upon Current Torlcs Complied Evrry Iny Tor the Kvenlng Telegraph. . MAN OR BEAST? Prm the X. Y. Tribune. Iu the multitude of counsellors there may be safety, provided el way there is no ethnol ist among them, and the point to be con sidered is not the simple humunity of black Eeprilo. lint given the great facial-angle quos on, with its shin-bone corollaries, and given also dinputants learned in the history of races, nd the configuration of the human form di vine, and we have at once a muddle of asser tion and rejoinder sufficient to disturb the equilibrium of the most accurately poised in tellect. We have in our time read forty or fifty treatises mostly of the pamphlet de scription which were intended to demon strate by copious citations from Rollins' An cient History and the Book of Genesis that a "nigger" is a "nigger" and that a white man is a white man, although these appear to be a pair of self-evident facts in little or no need either of proposition or of proof. Lately the todium of the investigation is somewhat alleviated by the new question of "What is an Albino ? What is the proper sooial and political status of a oreatnre the pupils of -whoso eyes are pink, the hair of whose head is "preternatur&lly white," whose skin is of a light color with dark spots or of a dark color with light spots? Is a human being thus variegated to be Jconsidored as still under the curse of Canaan? These are matters which might woll arrest the attention of Dr. Joseph Jones, of New Orleans, Secre tary of the Southern Historical Sooiety, Pro fessor of Chemistry in the University of Lou isiana, and late Frofossor of Thysiology and Tathology in the University of Nashville. The Professor has had "brought to his notice some remarkable cases of purely negro pa rentage, of children whose skins were per fectly white and free from any African tinge, while every feature, except that of the skin, was unmistakably that of the negro." Still a more serious and extraordinary case coming nnder Dr. Joseph Jones' observation was that of a full-blooded negro, who, not having the fear of the ethnologist before him, "gradually turned white," until he was nearly as white all over as the editor of the Express. Indeed, Albinos are rather oommon than otherwise; they are found among all races of men; they were well known to the ancients, and may have assisted at the building of the Tower of Babel; and thero are Albino animals both wild and do mestic. In Africa the Albinos are very nu merous, and his Majesty the King of Loango, as well as his Majesty the King of Ashantee, employs j them as the ornamental attendants of his person. These are facts which give rise to a variety of conjectures, but we con tent ourselves with a simple point of casuis try, viz.: Whether a black man having be come by some mysterious process white, thereby escapes the curse pronounced upon Lis race by the Almighty ? But we are foroed to admit that this is a problem which we are not learned enough in sacred science to Bolve; and as the hard-headod race of pro elavery divine doctors has pretty much died out, we fear that the matter must remain unsettled and a collegiate distraction through all the ages. Tho investigations of Dr. Joseph Jones have, however, had one valuable and practi cal result. "He finds," does the Doctor, "that between the epidermis of the white and colored races there is an identity of structure, and no such organic difference as indicates a diversity of origin and species of the different races. ' This is a dreadful blow to the writers of the sixponny pamphlets, with their weighty logic and their polyglot knowledge of cuticular tints before the flood, and after it, and with their fine theory of the general influence of the shinbone upon tho moral character. Over and over again, these gentlemen have proved both the justico and the necessity of slavery by arguments drawn from the hair, the eyes, the cuticle, the nose, the teeth, the hands and the feet of the slave. They wore anatomical in their politics. They were physiological in their religion. They sought to ' color legislation by setting np a radical and fundamental difference between Americans and Africans. The gorilla was unto them a god-send. The chimpanzee was installed the ally of the Federal Constitu tion, as they were eager to understand it; and here comes Dr. Joseph Jones, of Louisiana, and denies "diversity of origin and species of the different races." Cruel Dr. Jones! Ho even reaches the harrowing conclusion, "from microscopical and physiological investigation, that the hair of the negro possesses all the characteristics of hair, and is not wool." Not wool 1 Why, this not only demolishes many fjeautiful theories, bat it takes the point out of innumerable jokes, it establishes an iden tity between the flowing locks of "a patriarch" and the frizzled capillary arrangements of 'Uncle Ned" before his lamentable baldness. This will never do! We can give up "the oboe shin;" we can admit that the chromatic cuticle is indecisive; we can allow that thiok lips and flat noses prove nothing; but if we surrender the total, abso lute, and all-important difference of hair, we can but feel that even at this late day Canaan is getting rather tho better of us, and that our Caucasian pre-eminence is in danger. If the head-covering of the black is not "wool" there is an end of everything of essays in lie Express, of engravings in Mr. Pomeroy's lewspaper, of one of the chief attractions iffered by "minstrels," of all resemblance letween white men and tho golden-haired Ihcobus, between black men and his Satanio !tajosty ! ,If this be the finale of controversy, he Ethiopian and the Anglo-Saxon are indeed men and brethren. Prejudice is palsied; so phistry is silenced; and hard-hearted cham pions of "caste" will be compelled to abandon one of the most pungent peculiarities of their arrogant and brawling rhetoric. If we had ever supposed that any man con scientiously believed the white only to be man, and the blaok to be a bruto and boast, we might have treated this topio more seri ously. But these slanderers of their kind did not need the refutations of Dr. Jones half so much as they pretended to. They know that they were chattering folly and mouthing false- 1 ' Tl :.. -.1 l t-i fool V.c .1.,.. i.- which they wefe for a moment respaatf ully listened to has gone by forever. CARPENTER ON NEUTRALITY. "From, tU X. Y. World. We do not think that tho recent speech of HAnator Carnenter on the rights and duties of neutrality is calculated to give him reputa lion as a Dublicist. Its main object was to satisfy the Senate i ind the country that the obligations of the Tnited States, growing out of the condition 'if thincs in Cuba, required the political de. liartmeut of the Government to put into n rat ion its neutral code, as between ftpain and,, her' rebelling , subjects in that inland: or. in other words, that a state of things existed which required Congress to I instruct the Exeoutive to maintain thoroin I neutrality. It is plain to see that Mr. Carpenter ap preciated at the outset the difficulty of main taining his thesis, growing out of the fact that no department of the Government of the United States had recognized a war in Cuba, and acoorded to each of the parties thereto what are popularly known as belligerent rightfl. lie begins this portion of his speech by a general discussion of what neutrality is, cites Dr. Phillimore for English doctrine in that relation, and gives the two following circum stances, in which, in the opinion of this dis tinguished English publicist, the relation of neutrality consists: 1. Entire abstinence from any participation in the war. 2. Impartiality of conduct towards both belligerents. Very ignorantly, or very disingenuously, the Senator seeks to apply this definition of neutrality which Dr. I'hillimore in his trea tise discussss only in its relation to two ad mitted and recognized belligerents to the eondition of things existing in Cuba; and in the application insists that, even if neutrality permits both belligerents to purchase, in the neutral country, contraband of war, under circumstances which do not give one an ad vantage over the other, still this rule of neutral right must be so modified from time to time, and otherwise administered, that the result will be practically tho same to each belligerent; or if, for any reason, one bollige rent cannot avail itself of its admitted right to purchase contraband of war of the neutral, then the latter must proclude the other bel ligerent from purchases. This certainly is new doctrine. Mr. Carpenter quotes from Mr. Wheaton's account of what took place in the British Parliament in 1819 and 1823, in respect to the Foreign Enlistment act of that country, as evidence that Great Britain acts, or has aoted, upon this theory. His effort by the quotation is to create the impression that, when the revolt first broke out in the South American colonies, England prohibited both the insurgents and the parent country from exporting arms from its jurisdiction, and therefore wo ought to do the same as to Cuba. The unfairness of tho use which he makes of tho quotation inheres in the fact that he does not narrate all tho surrounding circumstances, as furnished by other portions of the text. The Sonator ought to havo known, or at least ought to have stated, that the condition of things existing in South America at the time referred to in the quotation bore no possible similitude, in law or fact, to the condition of things no id existing in Cuba. Mr. Wheaton is narrating, in the text from which the quotation is taken, tho substance of the debates in Parliament between Sir J. Macintosh and Mr. Canning, the former at tacking and the latter upholding the British Foreign Enlistment act. The object of Mr. Canning was to meet the suggestion of his antagonist, that the proposed law operated in favor of one belligerent party; and the former accompli med the result by explaining tho circumstances of the treaty between Great Britain and Spain in 1814, by which the former bound herself not to furnish any muni tions of war to the revolting colonies of Spain in South America. By and by, he said, those colonies became States lie facto, independent of the mother country. It became, therefore, necessnry in 1819 to treat these da jure colonies but de facto States ac cording to their true condition. They had come to be belligerent powers, entitled to belligerent rights, and therefore, in order to put the two warring parties of Spam and the provinces on equal footing, the parent coun try, as well as the colonies, was prohibited from purchasing supplies in England. But when war became probable between France and Spain, the condition of things was com plicated by the necessity of treating both these latter powers alike, and this necessity was met by removing the prohibition of ex porting arms and ammunition both as to Spain and as to the de facto independent States of South America. It is therefore inexact to say that, during the time referred to by Wheaton, the pro vinces of South America bore the same legal and political relation to Spain that the Ces pedes revoltors in Cuba do, at this time, to that Government; for the South American provinces were then in the domain of inter national law as much belligerent powers as were England and Russia respectively during the Crimean war. OFFICIAL INFORMATION ABOUT CUBA. from the X. Y. Sun. When the statement is read in the Presi dent's message that the contest now pending in Cuba has at no time assumed the condi tions which amount to a war in the sense of international law, or which would show the existence of a de facto political organization of tho insurgents sufficient to justify a recog nition of belligerency, the impression made is that information had been laid before tho Government, more or less partial in its nature, raoro or less incorrect, but still information which our Secretary of State might consider trustworthy. Tho President has sent to the Senate, in reply to a resolution or that body calling for it, a voluminous document con taining the desired information. Looking over the abstract of this document furnished ns by the Associated Press, and analyzing and pondering its contents, we can extract out of it scarcely anything tending to show that there is or is not a state of war in Cuba in the sense of international law, or whether there is or is not a political organization among the insurgents. Setting asido the correspondence between General Sickles and Secretary Fish, and be tween Secretary Fish and Minister Roberts no part of which is of the slightest utility towards enlightening us as to what is going on in Cuba, we have a considerable number of letters addressed to the State Department by our Consuls in Cuba, from which we can gather the following items: In December, 1808, the insurrection was gaining strength. The insurgents' Assembly passed a deoree in or about March, 18(i'., abolishing slavery. Count Valmaseda issued bis celebrated pro clamation, which is inserted. 1 Vice-Consul-General Hall, May 18, gives an account of military operations near Nuo vitas. Sibanicu, a hamlet, and Guaimaro, a village of 500 inhabitants, are the only places occu pied by the insurgents, ond both these places have been destroyed. Such, it appears, was tho mcogre sum of in formation held by tho Government on the Cuban revolution when tho President's mes sage was submitted to Congress. The affida vits filed by Messrs. Lowery and Evarts on the 10th of December, to establish tho exist ence of a state of war and an independent government in Cuba, came in too late to be token into account in the mesago; and wo cannot regard as information the correspond ence about the decree of the Captain-General authorizing captures on the high seas, or the remonstrances of Scuor Robert against the pnblio meetings in New York; much less Minister Sickles' reports of his conversations with a Spanish Cabinet officer, on professed intentions to govern Cuba in a liberal way. Now, whoever may be in fault for the Gov ernment's not being possessed of more facts regarding this very important foreign ques tion, we ask. Is tho paltry summary given above a sufficient ground for the statements embodied In the message or for any other statements? And would not a masterly Bilence, or a candid avowal of ignorance, have been a more dignified position to assume than the bold, unqualified affirmations which fell like a wet blanket on the hopes of the coun try, and chilled the generous resolves which Congressmen wore disposed to bring into their legislative action ? Congress will now be able to judge now much weight is to be attached to the conclu sions drawn by the President and the Secre tary of State, nnder the superintendence of Mr. Sidney Webster. 'Jt uey need have no rear of coming into collision with what is called official information, but may boldly proclaim, of their own motion, the existence of what has been made evident to the public for the last fourteen months, and at onoe grant bel ligerent rights to the infant Cuban republio, or, better yet, direct the proper recognition of its independence. TnE PEABODY EDUCATION FUND. From the X. Y. Time. The report of Dr. Sears, of the operations of the Peabody Education Fund, from the beginning down to last July, is a striking comment upon the sterling patriotism and wise benevolence of the dead philanthropist. The original gift by Mr. Peabody amounted to a million dollars, and about eleven hun dred thousand dollars more in Planters' Bank bonds, and the object was the promotion of intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the Southern and Southwestern States. In addition to this, Mr. Peabody gave, in June, 18CJ, $1,384,000 more in securities of vari ous kinds. The trustees to whom these large sums were consigned were given absolute dis cretion as to the localities and manner of carrying out Mr. Peabody 's intentions, which, considering the social position and character of the gentlemen selected, was a perfectly sate course. The first step after organizing which the trustees took was to survey the field of opera tions, and with that purpose Dr. Sears visited, in 1807, and afterwards, tho seven Atlantio and Gulf States, beginning with the eastern portion of Virginia and ending with Louis iana. He was received with cordial welcome by all the chief towns through which he passed, and about sixty, selected with refer ence to their lntluonco in their respective States, already, in July of 1808, had made ar rangements at his instance to organize publio free schools. It may be remarked that this method of action was from the first decided upon by the trustees. Ihey stated their leading object to be the promotion of com mon or primary school education by such means as then existed or could be created. It is remarkable that only one town of all those visited refused to co-operate in the esta blishment of the schools. The cost of public and private education at the South was illustrated in a curious way by tho agencies created by Mr. Peabody s gift. It was found that the whole of the white children of the South could be edu cated in public schools at no more than the cost of educating half the white children in private schools. In 1808, up to July, there was $74,000 definitely, and !7S,000 condi tionally, appropriated tor tnese schools in eight States, and other grants were subse quently made. But the money thus given was much augmentod by the people to whom it was awarded, and the fund, therefore, not only promoted the education of the South directly, but stimulated the people to new exertions of their own. It is unnecessary to go over the whole field embraced by Dr. Sears' report. The aid to the various States seems to have been given with great discrimination and care. The plan generally was to induce the establish ment of primary schools, by undertaking the ohief cost of such, and of helping strug gling institutions where free primaries were impracticable. Students at normal schools receive also some of the benefits of the fund. There are now a considerable number of per sons included in this category. The whole report, in short, indicates earnest and intelli gent work. The trustees do well to publish it, for a good reason. They are not amenable to publio interference in any shape, and might, if they chose, have declined to lay themselves open to any criticism whatever. Adopting a contrary course, and inviting all who please to read their statement of accom plished results, the publio is not only informed upon a very interesting ana important sub ject, but is able to commend the spirit in which they have interpreted Mr. Peabody's wishes, and the care and faithfulness with which those wishes have, so far, been carried into effect. THE LATE EDWIN M. STANTON -MR. STEWART'S PROPOSITION. From the X. Y. Herald. On Saturday evening last, at a spocial meet ing of the Union League Club, Mr. Charles Bull, Senior Vice-President, in the chair, a series of appropriate resolutions, offered by Mr. W. C. Bryant, were adopted, in recogni tion of the great public services of the late Edwin M. Stanton, after which, on motion of Colonel Le Grand Gannon, it was resolved that a committee of five be appointed to pre pare an address, to be given before the club, on tho life, character, and services of the late Secretary of War. Mr. A. T. Stewart, a man who always has an eye to substantial business results, then took the floor, and moved that the same com mittee be requested to report any way of offering a further testimony of esteem to the deceased they may think tit. And we think wo can tell what this means. It means that our late War Minister, who was entrusted with the disposition and who disposed of a thou sand millions and more of the publio money, died comparatively poor; that he made no money in his great office; that while living he declined the oners from his fellow-citizens wbicn, we think, he might wisely have ac cepted, and that Mr. Stewart is willing to o operate in a movement to make comfortable in their circumstances the widow and children of the deceased. 'inis, we think, is what air. htewart was aiming at in his resolution. The proposition is that of a patriot and a public benofaotor; but we hold that something more than this is duo in recognition of the publio services of Stanton. We hold that Congress, in a gene rous pension to his family, can best express the respect of tho two houses for the memory of the faithful publio officer, and that sue pension should be voted, with the neoessary appropriation. We consider it a disgrace only to the Government that General Grant, .in order to make both ends meet at the end of the war, felt it a duty, as it was nnder the circumstances, to accept the generous offer ings made him from his fellow-oitizens. It is a disgrace to the Government that tho widow of ex-President Lirrooln has been compelled to make her home in Germany for the sake of economy, when a pension of a few thousands a year would have enabled her to live com fortably in her own country. Congress should avoid a similar disgrao in the ease of Stanton; nor should Senator Sumner abandon his bill for a pension to Mrs. Lincoln. Fi delity in office is not rewarded, and that is one great reason why publio rogues are so numerous in thin country.' CLOTHS, OASSIMEHES, ETC N EW CENTRAL CLOTH HOUSE. FRIES, MALSEED & HAWKINS, 8. . CORNER EIGHTH AND M ARRET. Closing Out Winter Stock. Great Reduction in Prices. 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We have for sale 1300,000 at the original subscription price, Mt an accrued Interest In currency (denominations $50 and $1000 coupon). Purchasers this month have the advantage of the gold coupon, payable at onr office on January 1 the premium upon whloh Is equal to nearly per cent., making the price lower than many Donus or mucn less went now ouered to tho public We receive In payment Governments and other securities at their market value, and January cou pons i me current goia price or tne nay. i ot jai i'uokh; cu. A RELIABLE HOME INVESTMENT. TEE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS OP T31 Vilmington and Reading Railroad, BEARING INTEREST At SEVEN PES CENT. In Currency, PAYABLE APRIL AND OCTOBER, FREE OP . STATS AND UNITED STATES TAXES. TWg 104(1 mw thrngh a thickly populated and rich agricultural and manufacturing district Irur uie present, we are oaennga limited amount of the aoove Bonds at 85 CENTS AND INTEREST. The connection of this road with t.bn Ponnmnni. and Reading Railroads Insures It a large and remu- uemuve vruatt, v e recommend tne Donas as tho cheapest Urst-class Investment In the market. W1YL Ct CO., BANKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENTS, No. 36 SOUTH THIRD STREET, tia 81 PHILADELPHIA. ELLIOTT & D U N N, BANKERS, NO. 109 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA, DRAW BILLS OF EXCHANGE ON THE UNION BANK VtT LONDON. DEALERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, Receive MONEY ON DEPOSIT, allowing Interest. Execute orders for Stock. In Phiiaoinhio UWW.fUUW, ,1U. York, Boston, and Baltimore. 4 sot QlJtiA'l':lXUt WAVIS fc CO., No. 43 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. GlENDINNING, DAVIS S AMORT, No. 2 NASSAU STREET. NEW YORK. BANKERS AND BROKERS. Buying and selling Stocks, Bonds, and Gold on Commission a Specialty. Philadelphia house connected by telegraphic with the Stock Boards and Gold Room of New York, la a; FURNITURE. RICHMOND & CO., FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE WAREROOMS, No. 45 SOUTH SECOND STREET, EAST SIDE, ABOVE OHKSNUT. 11 8 tf PHILADELPHIA. FINE FURNITURE. DANIEL M. KARCHER, Nos. 236 and 238 South SECOND St. A LARGE AND SPLENDID STOOK ON HAND. FOR WHICH EXAMINATION IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. 11 4 tUstuamrp FURNITURE. T. & J. A. HENKELS, AT THEIR NEW STORE, 1002 ARCH STREET. Are now selling their ELEGANT 0RN1TURB at yeryrednced prices. iw 8mro COrFoN BAIL DUClTNDcXNVAr of .11 nnmbers and brands. Tent. Awniuff, Trans and Wam enrer Duck. Also, I'sper Alsnuisolurer.' Drier elt, from thirty to seveuty-sU lnohes wida. ,. . JOHN W. E VERM AN, o. 18 OUtTKO U HtrUO. 1 , 8tori ' I EMPIRE 8 LATE MANTEL WORKS jTb" Id fcUUU.ktto.lWlJUUWl'iUtt. liSwtai r ' . . , .........
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