M HOHMM1IHN.
. TECH OF HON. JAS. BEOOKS,
! OF NEW YORK.
!l..n. Tliail.h u HftfiK, from the
i t C.iniiiiitl"f Hi'UJc'i.f H.pm..-nlll,
li4i,(, on Iiwml. IS. ls7, reported till,
,-', to rtmn the majority of all renlered vote.,
in tin Pontile Slate, into nnJuril.T nf tin
! voter! on lha JT 1'i'ii'tUiiti'in. were
v . teil upon ; en.f, In " seven if llio Southern
!4r ten morn rtepreiient.tive. in Conirre th.n
inter llio apportionment of ISM; and, tAi'rrf, to
:i member, of Confront on ths dT on which
!) Cuoi-iiluliontwera voted upon ; ami theecond
trniitiaB having horn williilrnwn, on ihoearoenl
i .pofitii-n oT Mr. Bingham, uf Ohio
Jlii. Hrooks said :
Thin question o! reconstruction, Mr.
' pvaker, like Hanqno's ghost, can
never bo laid. In the ominous ides
of March, just before the opening of
this, the 40th Congress, (not to go
,ay further back1) we had a bill for
reconstruction. In ,Jnly Inst, in the
winner solstice, an extraordinary
session of Congress was enllod, for the
purpose of again "enacting" "rceon
btruftion." And now here, among
1 he very earliest measures of the pres
ent session, we have brought beforo us
t he third bill to "reconstruct."
The- Southern Kcffro Man to have mora
; Iteprewutatlun thau the Y eatcru YY hlte
- MaUi
'Thoy who have reported this Bill
" ave already, at the vej-y outsturt,
struck it a fatal blow, by exhibiting
a division in their own ranks, as the
result of which, it became necessary,
for the gentleman from Pennsylvania,
to withdraw one of tho most import
ant parts the section to increase the
number of negro representatives in
Conirrese from tho South. In defer
ence to tho protest of a member of
tbeir own organization, trom a west
ern State, the proposition to give ten
additional representatives to the slave
holding States 1 mean w hite slave
holding States, no longer negro slave
holding States has been withdrawn,
because such negro favoritism would
have startled the great white-growing
West. The State of California, which,
though its population has immensely
increased since the last census, has
Dow only three representatives on this
floor, with a voting population of
Il'0.000 a representative population,
then, of over 500,000. Tho people of
Iowa, with a population of bi 4,000 by
tho last census of 100, now have, by
State census, 107,000. The people of
Michigan, with a population, accord
ing to the last census, of only 1)00,000,
Bow have probably 1,000,000. The
people of Kansas, with a population,
by the last census, of 100,000, now
have 400,000. Tho people of Minne
sota, with a population, by tho last
census, gf l:i,000, now have 400,000.
The Committee of Reconstruction,
tlind to all this white increase, report
ed un increase of ten Representatives
in Congress for tho negro States, but
no increase whatsoever for these great
while-growing communities of the
"West! It would have been an irre
sistible argument, then, before tho
white people of tho West, to say, "Con
gress has increased tho negro repre
sentation of the South, while it has
allowed nothing for the million and a
half increased population of California,
Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Kan
sas." The Reconstruction Committee
reported in favor of all this, but the
;Ionorablo gentleman from Ohio hit
it on the head, and affrighted the
Honorable gentleman from Pennsyl
vania (Mr. Stevens) out of thfs iuiqui
,tous inequality, thus discriminating
.against the whites, tho moment it
was liiirlv shown up abovo water.
I Overawed, for once, by opinion, he
; abandoned his negroes una stood by
i bis own race and color. Tho will was
j there to start tho iniquity, but the
pluck has failed him to carry it out.
! The white people of this country,
l thus, thank God, are, at last, recover
ing, in some small degree, their proper
consideration, if not respectability,
among certain members of tho llouso.
To I Jiahle the bare majority of a Minority
forever to (.overiu
Sir, the first proposition now bo
fore tho House is to change tho or
ganic law, as it is called, of reconstruc
tion, to abandon the c.-tablished prin-
: fiplo of tho March and July acts of
Congress, that tho majority of all tho
registered voters shall vote for a Con
stitution, by limiting the vote now, to
voters only on the day of election.
Tho object of this change is not ntall
apparent, a concealed object being to
disfranchise more and more of the
white population, and to enable a
' a bare majority of an actual minority
to fn.tne the organic law of the State.
It was not enough, under tho two last
Reconstruction bills, that they dis
franchised thousand, aye, tens of
thousands, if not hundreds of thous
ands of while voters, while tliej on
lranchished tho wholo black popula
tion, who were as deep in practical
rebellion as their masters, for this bill
now disfranchises thousands and tcne
of thousands moro. It invites now
and enables all the negro-constitution
mongers of the South to disfranchise
whites enough in every Southern
.State to secure the governments there
of to tho negroes.
The Constitution of Alabama,
tho first framed by the negro conven
tions, unfolds tho meaning of this act,
and shows how Anglo-Saxon white
States are to be converted into Afri
can Slates tho declared intent ami
moaning of that so-called constitu
tion being to disfranchise every white
man in the South w ho has any respect
Jefl for his own noblo Anglo-Saxon
race, and who will nut forswear him
self, forever to securo in perpetuity
tho superiority and reign of negro
Hood.
Til Krjrro Tent Oath or Alabama.
Under that constit ution of Alabama,
ever voter is compelled to tiroir that
ho will nrvrr, under any circumstances,
have it so amended ns to prohibit ne
gooos from voting. No one is allowed
to bo a voter who will not commit
himself, forever, to tho principle that
negroes shall bo tho rulers of tho
State. Tho provision I allude to, is
embodied in tho new constitution, nr
ticlo 7th, section 4th, in the test oath
there:
"That I aeecpt (he civil ami political equality
of all mm (nirru mrn. midline i mhI of women !i
and Affr-T nut to all nipt to d- pro. anr peron or
per.on. nf anr ra-e or eolor. on ee.utit nf pre iuuii j
finilitinn. of anv political or rivil ri cl-1 rivil, gr
or immunity enj-ved l.j anv oihir eta.. of ram."
Jlcfurc any pet sell tan Vute then in
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tho Stato of Alabama, under that con
stitution, ho is bound to devoto him
self by oath for all tinio to negroes
and negro voting, to fellow-negro
soldiers, to negro jurymen, to negro
and white mongrel schools and school
houses, to mongrel cars, to mongrel
taverns, to a complete mongrel social
existence from the cradle to the grave.
JS'o niiin can vote unless ho takes that
unnatural, that horrid oath, and thus
forswears his own white race and cul
or. 1 appeal to the State of Minnesota,
to Wisconsin, to Kansas, to tho great
North West, that have just been vot
ing Negro Suffrage down to Ohio, to
Pennsylvania, to every Northern
State which has refused suffrago to the
Negroes among them, who are ten
times moro intelligent than the ho
'sotted, just freed negro blaVes oflllC
Southern country, who scarcely know
their own names as thoy vote, and 1
ask them, all, "Will you trust to such
Negroes in eleven States the right to
govern tho wholo country, through
their representatives upon this flour
for all timo to come, now and forever,
whilo you reluso tho right to vote to
your own people of African descent,
ten times more intelligent than theso
just freed slaves of the South ?'
I.veu YYhltc Itadiral Alnhamlana to be
Out-voted by Nfgroea.
Apart from nil this, too, tho Con
stifution of Alabama has been deliber
ately so framed as to disfranchise or
misrepresent a largo portion of tho
while people of the northern part of
that State. The Stato has 5'J coun
ties, and isapjiortioiied off in this new
Constitution into 100 J'opresentatives,
and that Alabama Convention has de
liberately otlixed an apportionment
in, and upon tho Constitution, so that
1:(J,.'!'.15 persons in Southern Negro
Alabama are entitled to 15 iieprosen
tatives, whilo CUl,414 persons, in
Northern Whito Alabama, nearly
three times tho number in the Negri
counties, aro given but ii5, when an
equitable apportionment would have
been 42 nearly 43 Representatives !
So that by the very apportionment
organic law of the State, tho whito
people of Northern Alabama are
crushed out by the negro vote of tho
Southern part.
The Constitution apportionment
table is us follows:
xauao ALimaA.
Coun- RepreMnt I'opula-
Xo. of Rrpre-ai-oUlivi-k
tiiin,
77.047 nifnt.
U, IS while.
each 5
14
lr.e.r.ui
wairi iLimaa
( J0.I'.' white. "J
t 1 lll.liV aegroe. f
( J91.H1 J
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lou liave not been content then in
j-our two previous Reconstruction
acts, in so arranging eight millions of
Southern w hite men as to enable four
millions of negroes there to govern
them ; but here in such constitutions
as that of Alabama, you nre cheating
j our own whito Kidicals, and subject
ing them to irrecoverable negro do
minion. Sir, the object of all your
three bills, their real intent and mean
ing, is for all time, so tooiganizo this
government that four millions of ne
groes in tho Southern States shall
hold a balance of power in tho whole
United States there, enslaving eight
millions of whito people, to counter
act tho politically divided voting pop.
illation of the twenty-four millions of
tho North, and thus to govern the
whole.
laTliln.orta It Nut. t Y". lil'.e Mati'a f:nv
ei iiuient I
My objection to this bill rises fur
higher than any mere details ; it is to
tho wholo principle throughout from
beginning to end. My theory, my,
principle, and 1 believe, tho principle
of tho Democratic party, is one beforo
which all other issues tariffs cur-rene-,
taxes, armies, navies, all mere
questions of the hour dwindlo into
comparative insignificance. They nre
hut passing questions, which livo to
day and die to-morrow. Tho only
real living issue towers above all theso
and that is, Is this, or is it not, a
w hite man's (iovcrnmcntf
You havo deliberately framed a bill
to overthrow this whito mini's gcv
einment of our Fathers, und to erect
an African government in its stead;
and it is because you have done this
that I resist and protest against it,
again and again, and from tiie begin
ning to the end.
The Segro la nut the r.cinal of the YYhlte
Man.
Tho negro is not tho equal of the
white man, much less his master, as
your liill makes him, and this I can
demonstrate anatomically, physiologi
cally, and psychologically too, if neces
sary. Volumes o! scientific authoritY-
establish thcliict; I niighf'Pile 1'clion
on Ossa to demonstrate it, if this
were a ball of Science, for such dis
cussions, or, if thero were timo for
such discussions here. All that 1 have
opportunity to do here, is in the fewest
words possiblo to sot forth scientific
fads. The negro man differs more
from the white man than a whito man
from a white woman, mid tho differ
ence is essential, organic, throughout,
from the crown of his head to the
very solo of tho feet. The negro is a
different creature, with a different
brain and different structural organi
sation and in every respect inferior to
tho white governing man.
The Hair or YVoul of the Srjcro.
The very hair which crowns his
head is not hair, but it is wool, wool,
and wo'd only. (Laughter ) Ho who
will take tho trouble to examine it
through tho microscope, micrometer
and microtome will see that its struc
ture is that of wool and not of hair.
The hairol'a whito man is cylindrical;
tho section under the microsome an-
penrs peil'eclly circular, and provided
with a medullary canal, while the wool
of the tivgro is flattened, eo that its!
711 171 B
section exhibits an elongated ellipsis,
in the axis of which no medullary
ennui is seen.' It is this lateral com
pression which effects the peculiar
frizzling of tho buir, owing to its not
taking place exactly in the direction
of tho longitudinal axis of tho hair,
but ascending in spirals, so that tho
hair resembles a spiral spring, which
alwaj's ret urns to its shape when drawn
out. (See M. Prunor Hey, dt la chew
lure comme caractcrisque den Jiacet
llumancs, Carl Voght, et alius.)
The Kkull, the Neck, the llraia, the l oot,
etc
Tho difference is not only in the
hair, but it is in the whole anatomi
cal structiiro of tho head, inside and
outside. Tho negro's face projects like
a muzzle, and the teeth are obliquely
inserted, so that their edges meet.
as at projecting angles. J he develop
ment of tho jaw (prognathism) is in
direct relation of proportion to the
intellectual capacity of a people, tho
firognatbous being confined to tho
owesl races of men, among them the
negro. Their carnal capacity is dif
ferent. Tho volume of un American
or English head is in cubic eenti metres
1 572 IT), whilo that of a Negro, born
in Africa, is only 1371 42, and the
place occupied in relation to curnitl
capacity and cerebral weight cor
responds with tho degroe of intellectu
al capacity und civilization. The
weight ot the white man's brain is
greater than that of the negro. The
convolutions of the bruin are differ
ent. Tho anterior and frontal lobes
of tho whito man show a far better
mental development. All these asser
sertions are maintainable by high
German, French and English, as well
as American authority, but this is not
the place nor the hour for metaphysi
cal or psychological discussion. Every
feature of tho whito man and negro
differs. Tho noso is different. The
nostrils of a Caucasian foiui two near
ly rectangular triangles, the liypolho
ii uses of which arc turned outwards,
whilst the septum of the nose forms a
perpendicular lino common to the two
triangles. On taking a similar view
of tho negro, tho nostrils present only
a transverse aperture, or the figure of
a horizontal eight united in tho mid
dle by tho nasal septum. Tho form
and size of tho mouth, the shape of
thd lips and checks are very different.
Tho apish chin of the negro differs
very essentially from that of tho whito
man. The facial angle of tho distin
guished writer, Camper, amounts in
the negro to 70-75 deg. it may sink
to (5, whilst in the Caucnsian it is
rarely below M), and frequently a
a few degrees higher. The negro's
skull is thicker than the whito man's:
tho cervical muscles more powerful ;
and hence tho negro carries his bur-1
den on his head, and, liko a ram in a
fight, uses his skull. Tho negro's
shoulder differs from tho whilo man's.
Tho negro's hand is larger, bis fingers
long and thin, palms flat, thumb balls
scarcely prominent. "All tho charac
ters of his hand (says Carl Voght) de
cidedly approach those of the Simian
hand." The log, tho calves of the leg,
all differ fiom tho white man's. "Tho
femoral bones, as well as tho fibula,
seem curved outwards, so that the
knees aro more apart from each other
than in the white." The pelvis is or
ganically different. "Tho foot of tho
negro," says llurmeister, "is, in every
thing uglv, flat, of a ju-ojccting heel,
a thick, tiubby cushion in the inner
cavity, -with wide, spreading toes.
The middle part of the loot does not
touch tho ground." Vought, tho Ger
man physiologist, calls it "tho foot of
the Gorilla, or, if you plcasa, tho pos
terior bund." I cite these facts to show
that it is not the skin alone that parts
the whito from the nero ruce, not
the dermis, or epidermis, or pigment
therein. 1 could not respect myself
if I judged a race inferior to my own,
because of its color only, for color may
lie but an incident, or accident of tile.
We have brunettes, us well as blondes,
and both among the most beautiful
of our race. Tho Egyptian is not
white, scarco is tho Italian or tho
Spaniard, in vhoso veins courses
ilooiish blocd. The negro is no more
of a colored man than Caucasians are
colored men. I never use the absurd
words, "colored men." Tho negro is
a negro, and only a negro, of a type, it
race id' men ns dill'crcnt from ours as
the Hottentot, or tho Ilusbman. (rod
has created us anatomically and physi
ologically different in almost all ro
sccts ; so far as wo can judge, never
intending us to be equal or kindred
men, and though of one blood, Ho has
determined the bounds of their habita
tions, nnd never, assuredly, determined,
thut un inferior race from Africa should
govern, as set forth in this 111, here,
in America, a superior ruco of men.
Anialcamatlitii ur MUror-nation In a (ov
rrninriil-( ..partnership la Civeriiment
(-! rtirliun.
A Her entering so briefly and neces
sarily so imperfectly upon tho anat
omical and physical distinctions, that
part us from the negro a discussion,
which might hu extended to any
length, I now ask tho attention of the
House, in us few words as pnsnihlo to
certain historical facts; for this expe
riment of negro equality is no novelty
in history. Wo aro not tho first
nogrophilists who havo trodden over
the old ground of amalgamation, and
miscegenation, snd henco wo have
nothing new to offer in it, or to expect
from it. The experiment was tried
hundreds ofyenm ago, and it has been
tried in our own timo and in our own
generation, too. I will not alludo to
Hayti, where tho negro is so wise
that ho will not admit tho whito man
into tho government of thnt country,
or even allow him to hold real estate!
thero. I will not allude to Jumica, I
where tho negroes havo managed
their local government so badly that
tho liritish uiilhorilies nt home have I
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taken the power of self-government
from thorn, und redeposited it in tho
crown, through a liritish governor
und council. Hut I will go a little
further and show from tho great his
tory of tho world that tho negro has
not tho capacity of self government,
and thut wherever or whenever the
superior raco has shared government
with him, destruction has boon the lot
of both.
The Mulatto with YY hlte Rlood lu hi Veins.
I speak not now of the mulatto,
because the mulatto with white blond
in bis veins often has tho intelligence
and capacity of a w hite man. 1'nit
for violating a law of God, thut all are
to be punished who indulge in a crim
inal admixture of races, sn that beyond
the third or fourth generation there
can be no lurther mulatto progeny, I
would admit llio mulatto to the right
of suffrage if 1 could do it without
violating that law, or without estab
lishing a principle which would be
fatal to my own raco. 1 recognize
the mulatto's intelligence and capaci
ty, with our whito blood flowing in
bis veins; and I know that ho is often
the equal, and sometimes tho superior,
of some white men.
The t uiigu Krgro, etc
But the Congo negro, the Dahnmcy
negro, tho Guinea negro, the negro of
the Southern Stutcs, is no brother of
ours, and God never made him for
our brother. I do not say thut ho is
only a higher speeieiof Ihv anthropoid
upes as Bomo say. Hut I do say that
the ourang-outang is as intelligent us
many of the Hushiuen of Southern Af
rica and thut the chimpanzee and
the goriila, in their forms of creation,
wonderfully represent tho ignorant
and brutalized negro ; and I will add
that, if wo uro to degrade this grout
Government of ours into a Southern
Negro Congo Government, it is ns
well to take into partnership tho Ou
rang, the Chimpanzee, und the Gorilla,
us to go into this partnership with
tho sons of Congo, Soudun and Daho
mey tho native lands of them all,
apes and men.
I do not moan, in what I havo said,
to refer to tho mulatto, or quadroon,
or octoroon, wlroso intelligence I re
spect by virtue of tho whito blood that
runs in their veins, but to the pure
Congo negro. admit him to lie a
"man," but he is not a "brother" if ho
is a man. and 1 will never consent to
divide self government with him, or to
degrade our own noblo, historical race
to bis low level.
The Ncro I nrlianpcd and I'lirhanjrablc.
Tho negro is the sumo and has been
tho sumo, for four thousand years.
Whilo all other ruees our own race
'emerging from barbarism, have been
constantly improving, the negro in
Africa is to be seen now just as ho was
in tho earliest periods of Egyptian
record. In tho frescoes or amid tho
tombs of Egypt, four thousand years
old, in all probability, the negro there
exhibits tho same pictured life he lives
in now. His tough skull nnd strong
muscles of tho nock aro carrying the
same burden that he curries to this
day. He was then tho servant of the
Egyptian man the yclhw man of
Egypt just as ho is tho servant of
the Caiicasiun now. As Virgil do
scribed the raco some two thousand
yours ago, when be wrote of on "Aunt
Chloo" of his day even so is the negro
now.
Afra ffrha., tola patrinln tr-'tantt fifrura,
Tnrta conain, labrnftie tutix-u., el lusra colorem ;
I'tH'tura lata, jat-rn. tiKitnmift, niinprciiicr alvn,
('ruritnix nihil, pputioi pnnliga plnula;
Cuntiiiuiii riiui. ralranc. sci.p ri)fi-!aiit.
1 quote Cowpor's translation and I
trust you, Sir, will the more enjoy it
as coming from an old Abolition friend,
who would have not u slavo to till his
grounds.
"from Afric sli, the pwnin'd mile aorvinjr maid,
M hnw fni-r ami furtn alike Iir birth Wtrnriil;
With wiHilijr l'k, lip. tuiniil, nal.lr nkiu,
Wide Iki.uhi, uililcr. fliiorid, In-lly thin,
!eff. plrn'liT, hnmil and tiiut nmnhnpra f.-et,
CliKppcd into think, and pan-bed with rolnr In at.
That is tho description given by
Virgil two thousand years ago; and
that is tho appearance of tho negro ol
this da). In his own native land ho
has not improved, and be never will
improve, save ns ho comes in close con
tact with civilization, and is forced to
exercise his natural i mi tali to powers.
t'li titration and Christianity have not
Chaiigi'il him.
Four thousand years then ho was
exactly what he is now, A nno llomini,
1M17 and "vhnt ho ever will be, save
ns ho comes in contact with thoeivili
zatiou of a superior race. Tho Egyp
tians whoso genius created tho pyra
mids, tho Sphynx, tho obelisk ; the
Carthngenian, whoso soldiers under
Jlannilml surmounted tho then horrid
Alps rolled over the Cuinpagnii of
Homo, nnd tho plains of Capua ; tho
Roman, whoso arms and whoso arts
embraced the wholo world all, have
brought their civilization und their
arts before tho negro race, hut all in
vain., Tho Church had holy founda
tions in Carthage, in Cyrono, In Alex
andria, throughout all Egypt, and fur,
far tip tho Nilo, and ascetics front
upper Egypt, clothed in tho wild rai
ment of the Himtikl, wandered forth
in sheepskins and goatskins, and dwelt
in deserts, and on mountains, in dens
and caves, to bring tho negro to Christ,
but all, all, in vain. Pagan, savago,
cannibal even, tho negro in his own
nutivo homo, for thousands of years,
defied all civilization, all christi
unity and only w hen in close indi
vidual contact with tho superior race,
is tho negro then improved or improva
ble. Ho clings to his gris-gris, jujus,
fetiohisin with as much pertinacity
as he did. hundreds of 3-ears ago. Hut
a wonderful imitative genius is that
of tho negro I It displays itself sur
prisingly in niusio and in a variety ot
our culinary arts. Whon associated
with the white man, the negro, through
his faculties of imitation, becomes in
miiiij uieiioiiuuici inmost uiu equal 1
of tho w hile man. Hut w hen left to
his own guidance, ss in Hayti, in
Jamaica, or in upper Egypt, he returns
to Ins liarliane tastes, Ins gris-gris, his
jujus, the fetich, etc., etc.
So icgro I'im-I.. ArihllerL, no CJrcat
Merliauii-a, etc.
Where, oh tell mo whero, sir, has
tho pure blooded negro, unassisted by I some thirty or forty beautiful Circas
tho while man, exhibit any of the tri- siaus and Georgians of his harem, kis
uiniihs of genius? Where havo we: sing tho hand ot u eunuch, un Ethio
found that raco producing a Homer, pian, n negro selected from the interi
u Phidias, a Praxiteles, a Socrates, a 1 or of Africa, 11s tho custodian of these
Demosthenes, a Virgil, or a M ilton, or I women, and w ho thus had become
a Shakespeare ? Whero has it pro-1 their master. The moment tho Turk
duced tiny great architect, like Michael : lb us associated himself with the negro,
jAngelo!' Where any great poet, where
lany heroic soldier like Alexander,
I Cicsar, or Nujioleon whoro'airy won-
I dorful mechanic? Whut negro of j.'tire
I blood ever started a steam-engine, or
a spinning -jenny, a screw, a lever, the
wheel, or tho pulley? What negro
has invented a telegraph, ordiscovcred
a star, a satellite, or an asteroid?
tl I . . I I
nai negro ever constructed a paia-
tial edifice like this in which we are
assembled these eorinthian columns,
these frescoed walls? Negro history
makes no mark in the great world's and they will see what a fatal step
iii-ogress. That history is all a blank, hUey are taking now in equalising
blunk, bluiik, sir. The negro can I unnatural races, or rather in subjoc
novcr rise above a certain range of ting tho superior white race of the
intelligence. Tho children of the ! South to negroes from Africa. Muley
negro, up to ten or fifteen years (r lnniaol was Emperor of Morocco about
age, may bo as bright und as intclli- ji;so, und be had a negro us well us n
gent us white children. They acquire Georgian wife, between whom and
knowledge us rapidly, but after that others, were born from him, the his
early age-the negro youth does not t,-ian records, SOU children, the last
advance as does tho white youth
While 'he white man is increasing in
knowledge till the day of his death,
the negro reaches before the age ol
maturity a point bey o .id which he
cannot well advance, in any thing savo
in tho arts of mere imitation.
Mr. Gahfim.I). Will trio gentlcmuii
tell us who Euclid was?
Mtt. llitooKS, Joes tho gentleman
mean to intimate that Euclid was a
negro ? Why, sir, ho had not a par
ticle of wool on bis head.
Mr. (aitn.i.ii. Jle wus only an Abys
sinian. The I.rsann. of l ife The Arab. I'imt.
Mit. Huooks. Now Mr. Speaker I
am about to show further that where-
ever there has been an admixture of
a superior race with tho negro, the
utteJ- deterioration und degeneracy,
if not tho destruction, of the domi
nant race bus been the result. Eook
ut the history of tho MiddloAges,
when tho men of our nice wero in
volved in mental darkness, when even
tho priest could not read or writo, and
when books wero not printed. At that
timo tho Arabs hud almost all the
knowledge and learning in the world.
Under tho banner of their prophet,
thoy started from tho holy city of
Mecca, and swept along tho wholo
Northern coast of the Mediterranean,
by Alexandria, Carthago and beyond
the pillars of Hercules ; aye, currying
over the Sierra Nevada of Spain, into
tho beautiful valley of tho Grenadian
l.u Vega, their wonderful arts, nswell
as their victorious arms. They con
structed tho magniliccnt Alhamhra ;
they created tho Alcazars of Seville
and Cordova. Our countrymen, Irv
ing, in glowing prose, with thoughts
that breathe and words that burn, has
pictured their man lies and conquests,
and their arts as well as their arms.
The whole Christian world shrank
and trembled before the mighty genius
of this Arab race, whilo it wus over
running Spain and threatening Eu
rope with downfall. Hat in un cfil
hour they who hud planted the noblest
banners ol poetry, und prose, ot phi
losophy. nnd of history, in the front
rank of tho icun.ing of tho world, 1 imprinted tho holy classic names of
they who had invented tho science of old Spain upon the now goldeu inotin
notalion, snd taught us decimals, j tains and wine-covoicd valleys of tho
thoy who hud created algebra, ami Stato of California. They climbed
given it tho Arabic name ; they who j the snow clad Cordilleras, and planted
had measured tho heuvcsiis in their , their banner 011 every liill and every
astronomy, und given tho very names , valley of Mexico, Peru und Chili,
wo now uso to the stars, and constelhi- They drove Montezuma from the halls
tions.thatsparklein the sky; they who of his Aztec ancestors, und under
bequeathed to us the Arabic nnmed Al-1 Cortez und Pi.arro, Peruvian, Mesi-ffiiiuii-,
(tho Diary) the little work'ean and seiiii barbati.in civilization
now indispensable in every man's ' fell before tho mighty prowess of their
house, ti Inst, they mingled tiie blood
of their heroio race, wiih the Nubian,
the negro, w ith tho inferior and do
graded races of Africa, all about them,
and Ihey rapidly fill from their
exalted position into tho degraded
pool of races with whom thoy j later from the shores of England und
had eominnglod. These unco he-' landed 11 port the rock of Ply mouth or
roicJArabs wero driven from Grena- j upon tho flats of Jamestown. Tho
tin, ami lingering awhile upon the i Puritan himself, trembling over bis
coast of the Mediterranean, they re-! rock for a whilo in terror id' tlio toiu
fled into Africa, dishonored, degraded, I ahawk, ventured ut last on what was
destroyed, by forgetting their Arab 'then deemed gigunlio heroism, lie
nobility, und becoming N uuians, tie-
groes und other inferior races of Af
rica. The Ottoman Turks Vrvt.
Years afterward there sallied forth
from Asia, that great storehouse of
nations, tho Ottoman Turks, under
llio banner of the prophet, nnd their
Crests-tit swept over almost tho same
breadth of territory that the Arabs
had gono over before them. If they
paused nt tho Pillars of Hercules in
tho West, their sciinetars flashed in
tho East under tho walls ol Vienna,
nnd swept olf every living man that
showed himself on the open plains of '
Austria or liolieniui. Hut alas ! they 1
entered upon the same degraded crime t
of amalgamation and iniseecenution,
and thoy soon emasculated theso onco j
heroio Turks, tho approach of whose
Crescent hud made the Christian 1
tremble iu every Court in Europe, j
and upon ever)' navigable internal
sea. In their harems, the thick-lipped
wooly headed negro woman was mixed
un with tho beautiful Circassian und I
Georgian, and children of all hues,
and colors, ami races, wero tho pro
duct of this hateful miscegenation;
and God even tho God of Mohani-incd--has
punished the Moslem by
disown degradation and hisovorthrow
for violating thut first law of nature
tno preservation ol tho purity of
CAN.
J
I race. The Crescent no more waves
j in terror under the walls of .Malta, a.
pnuto, or corsair, 110 more aliriglits
on the Adriatic, or the Danube, but
trembles in doubtful existence on the
sou ot Marmora. 1 myself, have seen,
'n Constantinople, around a Mosque
where the Sultan was nt prayers,
, or tiegrcss, und recognized him or her
! cither us brother or sister, from thut
j hour the Turkish Empire began to
I crumhlo until now it exists only by
tho tolcranco of tho Christian Powers
of Europe.
I The Moors snd the Kcgrora it.
Lt gentlemen, then, but study the
history of tho Arabs in their mixture
. . .....
of races, let them but study the bisto
ry of tho Turks, let them but study
tho history of Morocco, if they will
ever tako tho trouble to study at all.
born when bo wus nearly Hi) years of
age. This .Muloy Ismael, in order to
do what you in this Congress are do
ing, that is to enforce a military des
potism upon his people, neglected the
Moors, and enlisted an army of 1 JJ
000 negroes, obtained from the coast
of Guinea. Through civil war and
bloodshed, and for over 101) years, as
you will find in tho history of Moroc
co written by Chciiier, the Moors were
in the most miserable condition a peo
ple could bo in, almost all tho timo
under tho power of theso negroes,
theso Janissaries, these Pretorian
Guards of tho Emperor, and they nev
er ceased in" their insolent demands
and pretensions. It was not till 17S'J
that theso 100,000 negroes could be
got rid of by nny device, and then,
through Sidi Mahomet, by cunning and
fraud, they wero reduced to 1.1,0ii0 he
hire they noted their weakness. It
took a hundred years for tho Moorish
raco to ret-over itself from tho fatal
crime of Muley Ismail and it will
cost a hundred years to recover from
your Legislation, if tho peoplo-ontin-ue
you in power unother election.
The I.af ln-upanl.h and the Ancloatoii
It are aa Hcttlera 011 the American I on
tilil'llU Hut I need not go to tho Mediter
ranean. I need not cross the Atlantic
to show tho fatal stop you aro taking
by this Reconstruction Hill in going
into thin co partnership with negroes.
Our continent has been settled by t o
classes of men, Anglo Saxon, Celt and
Teuton in the North, nnd the Spanish
I.atin race in the South. God never
made a nobler raco of men than the
old Hidalgos of Spain, who, under
Columbus, in a little caruval of forty
tons, started on the trackless Atlantic
in search of the then unknown Amer
ica. God never made a nobler raco, I
repeat, than these Hidalgos of Spain
What did thoy do? They ran all
along the Gulf of Mexico, from Flori
da 011 tho North to Capo Horn on the
Southern verge of South America.
They settled Mexico and Venezuela,
New Grenada and Chili, and Peru,
and coasting ull tho Northern Pacific
arms. Their heroic deeds, their lofty
chivalry, their Christian loyally now
rend more like tho romances of u
FroisMirt than ns they are, the truo
records of History.
Our Aii'do Saxon fathers started
crossed tlieH onnoclieut und the II ud-
son and slowly crept up the Mohawk
mil halted for years and years upon
Hakes Erie, Ontario, and Huron. The
cavaliers of Jamestown threaded their;
way up the river James, stealthily I
wound over the pass of the Alioghon-i
ies.Cnd looked down nt last wiili us j
tonisliinoiit nnd nfl'right upon lit lullei
ren-re of Ohio. Hut all this time these '
heroio Hidalgos of Spain were spread-1
ing tho mime und tamo of (iusiile und
An. 14011 throughout llio whole Amor- j
ican continent, from Florida on tho 1
North to Capo Morn on tho South,
nnd from Cupe Horn to California,
whilo our Anglo-Saxon race stood
shivering upon tho Ohio nnd Lake
Erie without tho courage to advance
further. What, sir. happened then ?
What has produced this dilloivuce be-:
1 ween us und tho lofty Hidalgo ? '
Why uro the)' fallen, those men of ,
tho Armada, so exulted among nil the
nations of the earth, who made our!
ancestors in t ho days of (jiieen Eliza-i
both, tremble cm llio llnvnui ' Whe
n as u mm 111 1110 .Mexican war 0110
regiment of our Anglo-Saxon, Celtic,
Teutonic blood, again ami again, put
wholo regiments of these oneo noblo
Hidalgos of Spain to flight atChnpul-
topeo, tho Guritu mid elsewhere 1 1
will tell you why, sir. The Latin, tho
Spanish race, (rood from that instinct 1
ol I'llH, Whb ll ll!'!i", u'l Itthl Id NUI-ll-
1 taiiiutiii, tevi led in s Uully leinpt
j mi' 11 luiixliiiv '-f bio.) I indnl.'" f in
am ml nnd governmental copm I in I
jshipwilh A .lee", liidi.ni, lie :r"",
' one and nil. I be pure bbio-l, the n.nro
I blood of tho old hidalgos of Spain,
! lost and drained, dilioinrrd snd de
I graded, bus dwindled into nothing,
I while llio pure blood of the Ai'-jh'-S.inoiis,
the Cells, the Teutons, ubhor
I ring all Midi ii-mk i.ilion and ama lign
um I ion villi iic'-ro, or the Indian,
hm leaped over Lake Eric, crossed
lull,: nrii rr, the great Father of
Witters, the Mississippi, crowded llio
un 111. lain Hisses of Colorado, I' tali,
Nevada, and Molilalia, rolled over the
Km ly Mountains, und spread for
hundreds!)) inileson thc'Pucilic Ocean,
carrying not only there, but every
where, triumphant, from tho Artie to
tho Antartie, the glorious flag of our
country, thut emblem of a puro race,
land ever contrasting the glory nnd
honor, tho prowess of that raco, with
tho degradation of the raco of these
once noble hidalgos of Spain.
Sir, you nre on the eve now of an
association und coparliier-bii) with a
I like inferior race, which, if the people
j do not drive you from this capital,
will be destructive of us ull, us bus
been a like co-partnornh'p to the Span
iards, the Turks, the .Moors, and tho
Arabs. I have recalled theso sacred
lessons of history, und 1 hold them tip
to you li r your udmoiiilioii and warn
ing. Heed, oh, heed ! Strike, but hear!
Now, sir, this may be the last timo
In this Congress, when I shall havo
an opportunity thus ut length to ad
dress u white audience upon tho floor
of this House. (Laughter.) Aye, you
are so hurrying up this reconstruction,
us you call il, that the African will
soon come down from your galleries,
and make his nppearuneo here upon
the floor, side by sido with you, as a
man nnd u brother. He is soon to bo
within you, und part of you, a rcpro
seiitutive upon this floor. 1 tell you,
gentlemen, that you muko u fatal
ptditicul mistake, tor it will not bo
acquiesced in by the Northern people,
und your violent, revolutionary acts
hero will be resisted in the cleetivo
Tribunals, elsewhere. In order 10
obtain u few additional negro'reprc
seutalivo votes upon this floor fiom
the South, you aro jeoparding the
domination of your party in the great
North and West. The Northern peo
ple ure sound 11 pon the suoject of race,
and whore Ethnology is discussed sci
entifically in the primary assemblies
of the people, they will become more
und moro sound; und become ir.oro
und more converts to the principles I
havo been hying down to-day. Hut
I know, t.ir, that it is vain for mo to
invoke the majority of this Houso to
pause. I have too often sent forth
vain invocations here, and appealed
to the majority of this House 111 vain.
Hut thank God! my voice and tho
voices of the few bold compatriots
around 1110 havo gone beyond this
Capitol und been beard among tho
people, w ho have responded by rolling
up majorities in our favor, such us we
did not dream of, so early, ufterour
vuin appeals to you hereon this floor.
Hut if you blacken this Houso this
session of Congress, it will soon bo
whitened by tiit Dcmocrucy of tho
North and tho West. It cannot bo
that God inspired Columbus to tho
discovery ot this great new World
only to drive out Poqiiods, Chippewas, .
Mohawks, Pollawatomies, Cheyenncs,
Sioux, to substitute here a government
of Congo negroes from Africa instead.
It cannot be that Almighty wicdoin
has gathered here the best blood from
ull tiio nutions of Europe to be over
whelmed ns Spanish blood has been,
by thcjacst mixture of Aztec, Indian
and Congo ifegro. Hut to you, pledg
ed, manacled to party, and loving
party more than you love country, or
God or.inan, I know I speak in vain.
A Voico even from the dead would not
now change n single opinion here, but
we shall bo heard und heeded else
where. Posterity will vindicate our
foresight. History will do us justice,
while u grateful country is already
sending in ils plaudits of "well done,
good and fuiihlul servants."
If anything iu tho world will make
a man let ! badly, except pinching his
lingers in the crack of a door, it is un
questionably a quarel. No man ever
fails to think less of himself alter it
thun before. It degrades him in tho
eves of others, nnd, w hut is worse,
blunts his sensibilities on one hand,
increases the power of passionate ir
ritability on the other. The trnth is,
the more peaceably and quietly -wo
get on, the better lbr our neighbors.
In nine cases out often, the better
course is, il a man cheats you, tako
care that nobody will believe him. No
matter w ho he is, or how ho missuses
you, the wisest way is to let him
alone ; for there is nothing better than
this cool, calm, and quiet way of deal
ing with the wrongs we meet with.
Mismnr.cTLD I.kttkus. According
to tho Postmaster General's Uoport,
not less than a million letters were
mailed last year, without signatures,
nnd misdirected, or so badly directed
that the address was totally unintelli
gible. These wero destroyed. Moro
than a million and a half others, 1,01 1,.
list!, wero restored to their writers by
the care of the dead letter oflieo. Thus
it seoms that nt least two and a half
million of mistakes w ere made, in an
operation whit h one would think
likely to enlist the si.l'lcicnt care of
the writer, the sddrcssinir of a letter.
These letters contained nearly 81, "(,
(H'0, in money, bills of exchange,
deeds, checks, .Vc, to the value of over
8-"),mni,(HHi, und over 40,000 contained
photographs, jewelry, Ac.
- - 4.
Wo should act with as much energy
us if wo expected everything from
ourselves; and wo should pray with
as much earnestness ns if we expected
everything: Ironi God.
"The ocean speaks eloquently and
forever," says Hoocher. '-Yes," retorts
Prentico, "and there's no uso iu tel
ling it to dry up."
Is a man who turns up his nose nt
a boarding houso dinner necessarily
"fair" becauso he's "abovo board ?"
Prentico thinks that l'lidicnls in
Congress assembled would do well ta
deny the soft impeachment.