Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1857 — The Negro and Caucasian Races. [ARTICLE]

The Negro and Caucasian Races.

Among the perplexing questions of national politics, so-called slavery has caused the most trouble in the progress of pur republic. A misapprehension of the real character and relative position of the negro, his inequality—mentally, morally . and physically, has been the reason of all this fierce agitation. If we admit the premises of the white Abo htionists, we certainly must follow them to the legitimate conclusion of their doctrines, —the perfect equality of the Caucasian and negro. The real Abolitionists are no doubt, as a class, honest in the avowal of their sentiments, and in the practice of their principles. They cat, drink, sleep and associate With the negro in free and full equality as members of the same race and family. Of course this is al! right, if we admit the doctrine of negro equality with white men. For our part we are disposed to doubt the equality of the races. Our senses all revolt at the acknowledgment of a perfect brotherhood with the repulsive negro. We look upon his organization, and our nature recoils at the approach of his embrace. We look into his mental organization and discover a want of moral energy, a proclivity to sensuality, a disregard of those social virtues which identify the higher types of humanity and we turn away from the negro convinced that God has made a broad and irrecencilable difference between him and the Caucasian race. We do not pretend to establish upon nor trace the origin of this difference to veritable history. The Bible, that great source of historical information, has left this in doubt and perplexity, as well as many other great questions of science. The Bible statement of the creation of the world in “ six days ” has originated many fierce conflicts, but none now’ can scarcely find and intelligent Christian scholar who interprets it in the literal sense. The Christian Church in its medieval period was arrayed against science. But more liberal scholars in the present age of research find the Bible and science in harmony. We see noth ing in the Scriptures to invalidate the theory of the creation of an inferior race, though perhaps it may have been done under the cover of a miracle or a divine interposition. We intend to publish from time to time the result of our examination into this theory, regarding it as we do, if correct, as a means of settling this great question of so called negro slavery. In the mean time we invite investigation on the part of readers into this way of solving the anomaly of" how slavery can be reconciled with a Republican government.”— Hlland {N. I'. ')E<ral.