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VOL. VI.
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their sensibilities^ their tastes, manners^
&Ci But these things are all accidental,
the fortune or misfortunes of the individual,
and with which governments or men’s po
litical rights and duties have no connection.
The great foundation of eternal law, fixed
by the hand of the Almighty—that those
created alike, and therefore designed for
like purposes, shall enjoy the same rights
and fulfil the same duties, is all that comes
within iis scope; thus a true and legitimate
government, securing this natural equality
to all its citizens, leaves everything beyond
bi will of to ascend or
from the South, that it was the Jeffetsons
and Madisons who first promulgated and
established its glorious truths, and in spite
of the efforts ol the Hamiltons and Adams
of the North—that it was the Calhouns and
Jacksons who sustained and defended these
truths—that even in 1840, when nearly the
whole North lay prostrate at the feet of a
paper aristocracy, five Southern States were
found faithful to the cause of democratic
equality; in short, Northern Democrats
should know, that if‘“slavery” were over-
thrown, the . Greeleys and .Seward^s anti
THE
SEMI-WHIIM TO
»»» UBS T O »,’«!(".''
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1856.
Jy the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the peo
ple ”—AmJ. to the Con., 10th, Art.
FOR PRESIDENT,
FRANKFIN PIERCE,
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE;
Subject to the decision oj the Democratic
FOR GOVERNOR,
THOMAS BRAGG, of Northampton.
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NEGRO SLAVERY THE BASIS OF
DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, OR
NEGRO SUBORDINATION ESSEN
TIAL TO WHITE EQUALITY.
When Mr. McDuffie, a few years since,
made nine declaration that “slavery was the
■corner stone of our republican edifice,” it
was sneered at ns too absurd to merit a re-
^ly, and except by the most benighted and
■dilapidated portion of the federal press,
. which kept repeating it for years to show
the utter depravity of Democratic politi
cians, it was passed by as one of those
flights of rhetorical display more remarka
ble fo r boldness and b r i 11 i a 11 c y 1 h a 11 lor truth
or philosophy, which sometimes distin
guished that eloquent orator and gallant
gentleman. But thls^remark expressed a
truth of transcendent importance, and the
time is not distant when .the most stupid
and most bigoted among us, will, however
reluctantly, admit it. It is true, that under
ordinary circumstances it might, require a
considerable time for such a truth to pene
trate the mind of the millions, but we are
descend in the social scale just as his indus
try, talents or moral worth may be estimated
by his fellows.
Throughout the broad domain of anima
ted being each species has its specific uses
—its purpose, its design, and in the more
elevated—the human creation—its mission,
written in its structure by the finger of the
Almighty, and in a language too legible to
be mistaken a moment. Our experience,
our common sense, our reason as well as
our instincts, impel us to treat woman as
woman, having with a different organism
different wants, tendencies, in short, a dif
ferent nature, which for her happiness as
well as our own must be recognized and
must be acted on in order to preserve the
moral health, indeed the physical health of
society. So, too, in respect to childhood
—to force the infant to live out the life of
the half giowii, or the latter to act as if
they had the capacities of the adult, would
not only be wrong, sinful, impious, but ab
surd and utterly destructive of social order,
indeed, of very social existence. So, too,
in respect to their inferior creation—our
domestic animals—each species has its own
specific nature, specific wants., specific pur
poses; and its well being as well as our
own demand that they be treated accord
ingly. The natural relation existing be
tween individuals of the species is equality,
sameness—for though in our own race we
see great variations, these are all the result
of accident, of chance, of innumerable
contrivances, and which in Europe actually
transforms the only inferior element of the
population (royalty) into this bogus, bas
tard or accidental superiority.
Now, were we to violate this great foun
dation law that underlies our tesuttem;- /
\our soA ^as wolf as our political edifice;
were we to force men and women' and chil
dren, or try to force them to vote-to have
a voice in the government of society-—to
manifest equal capacities—to fulfil common
duties, where would this end, this mon-
stroiis social contradiction and absurdity
terminate? Why, of course, in the total
destiuction of the community—the univer
sal debouchment of all that is true or good;
for the natural relation thus lost sight of,
there would follow, and only could follow,
a social chaos. We have now nearly four
millions of negroes in our midst, and who
must soon be ten or twenty millions. These
negroes, except a mere handful whom im
posture or misguided philanthropy has
transformed into social outcasts, are now
in a natural position—a normal condition,
their true relation to the superior white
man. If they were not here, another en
quiry might be presented; but they are, and
always must re-mam here, and are destined
to rapidly multiply here, and these are the
things we must reason on. These negroes
do not vary from us—there is no variation
in white and' black—they are specialities,
and this same speciality pervades (he entire
being, as wide apr.rt in a single hair or
globule of blood or primordial atom, as in
the color of the skin; in short, this negro
is a widely different and vastly inferior spe
cies, and the existing relation, however de
fective in particulars, is a natural relation
which springs spontaneously from the ne-
, cessities of human existence. A single
, fact is sufficient to demonstrate beyond
doubt, or even the affectation of doubt, the
Weeds-J Df! Tom PmA ir's woyl:7., ? J/'Ji
accomplish the object for which Bff/yity
has labored for half a century—Impose
upon them a bogus or bastard Re|j; can _
ism, which, except in name, is little, an y,
better than monarchy itself.
rapidly drilti.''” to a crisis on this moment
ous slavery/’ ’stion, and when ihe truth
is li Al ix Cure
mind:,of te Democratic party for all time,
and sdlonfes any man cleaves to the par-
ty’tb^lecld them, he will be marked with
a brute asidelible as that of Cain. Fro-
scripon ! t will be considered a sacred
du! sole-n, more binding than oaths, to
eachaan of them drink to the dregs
jp th; they poisoned for others.
ey toalk of proscription, who took
oaths and that, too, with this awful
inm : -
foregoing, you bind yourselves,
Finally, if anything.more were nee)] to
show the truth of Alr. McDuffie’s d*%a-
Ron that slavery was the corner
our republican edifice, or in other " j|s,
that the natural relations of whites am
mualty than that of being
fereler,awl of having your
name posters and circulated throughout the
THE COURTESIES OF LIFE.
Under this head the Philadelphia Inquirer
has some judicious suggestions. If we
look to men for success in any avocation
of life, we find that with a few exceptions,
they have been persons of courteous de
portment and generous impulses. We ex
tinct a few passages worthy of attention,
especially the young:
“A bland, polished gentleman—
Polite and kind to -duV
“Wo have more thar. itei YNfiYuldY; th*.
But no pocket-book was there !
gone! And despair seized the poor author s
heart.
Page again rose in the good « ife, and' the-
dog was an admirable scape-goan. Seizing
a stick-r
“Get out my house!” she cried. MBefc
for attending to you that stupid man would
not have lost his money.”
But the dog would not move, and cower
ed closer tArthe feet of his friend w ho had
-not how
So, Idling
different co
cils of the United States as a
as a traitor to God and your
perjurer, an
country ; as 'a being unfit to be employed,
entrusted, countenanced or supported in
any business tiansaction ; as a person total
ly unworthy the confidence of all good men,
tc %of and as one at whom the finger of scorn
w*- should ever be pointed !”
We hold it to be a paramount duty, to
proscribe men like these. We ask no quar
ter, and we give them none. Men, who,
when they merely thought they had a chance
of success in Virginia, brandished the tum
our land, where negroes are admitted tomahawk and held the butcher-knife to the
legal equality is there legal equality anion Vhroats of their victims ; who, the night bo-
white men, or, in other words, where nec ore the election, by the mouths of all their
groes was the basis on which rested^
natural relation or democratic equality
white men themselves, it is found in .
fact that no where on this earth, outside
groes are “free” white men are slaves.
perfect truth of this assertion. In all hu
man experience there is no instance where
white men have propagated themselves, or
in other words, lived when i’n this condi-
' UNBLUSHING IMPUDENCE!
The proceedings of the “American,”
Convention at Staunton among other things
worthy of notice, contain this resolution:
“4. That in the opinion of this Conven
tion, the ruthless spirit of proscription, and
the harsh invectives which have been prac
ticed and employed by the Democratic par
ty towards the members of the American
party, are not only unjustifiable and unpa
triotic, but merit the severe condemnation
of all good citizens of Virginia.”
How men who entered into the Know-
Nothing organization within the last two
years., and solemnly took all the oaths re
quired of the members of that order, can as
solemnly publish to the world such a reso
lution, without blushing al their own ruth
less spirit of proscription, would be passing
strange, if anything could be wondered at
that cotlld be perpetrated by such a party '.
WU --kN.-.^ ^umU
these! men, almost without exception, vol
untarily, on the bible and the cross, took,
before high heaven':
“You furthermore promise and declare
that von will not vote nor give your influ
ence for any man, for any office in the gift
of the people, unless he be an American
born citizen, in favor of Americans born
ruling A merica, nor if he be a Roman Cath
olic.”
If he be bone of your bone, and flesh of
your flesh, never ‘breathed any but Ameri
can air, and never soiled Ins foot with for
eign soil, yet if he happen to think that he
might prefer aChatham or Buke, a Lafay-
et e or Kosciusko, to some insignificant ig
noramus for an insignificant office, or if he
happen to differ from you about the best
road of traveling to Heaven, or (lie best
means ofblockmg up the road that leadeth
below, you have sworn neither to vote for
him nor to give him jour Influence for any
office-in the gift of the people; and yet you
prate about proscription !
You swear that “you will in all things,
political or social, so far as this order is
concerned, comply with the will of the ma
jority when expressed in a lawful manner,
though it may conflict with your personal
preference.”
Swearing that you will obey a political
order in carrying ns policy into social rela
tions, and though it conflicts with your per
sonal preference, will obey the will of the
majority of your party, binding yourself
hand and foot, if they issue the order, to
cut down and root out if they desire, turn
the solemn side of your face to the people
and denounce proscription!
Gators, declared that every Democratic of-
ficholder should be swept with the besom
oflam, an I who, whenever they have ob-
tai^d the power, have left not one to tell
dilate of heir reckless proscription, now
in:)lemn ccnclave, publish to the world
thr detestation of “the ruthless spirit of
prlcripiion,’ consider it “unjustifiable and
uintriotic,”and denounce it as meriting
“t| severe condemnation of all g^o^ cRi-
za of Virginia.” Verily this is unblush-
P
would set aside revolutionary
he men who loaded the mus-
beauty of courtesy in the ordinary transac
tions of life, The subject is an important
one, although ii may not seem so to the
hasty and inconsiderate. Many a man has
lost a fortune in consequence of the want
of a little courtesy. Amenity of manner
and propriety of language should be con
stantly cultivated. They possess a magic
and a charm that are admirably calculated
to soothe and conciliate. It is almost im
possible to conceive how, at times, a kind
word or a gentle look touches the heart.—
The effect, although instantaneous, lives
and lingers for years. There are many lit
tle and incomparatively insignificant acts,
that nevertheless develop character and ex
ercise influence. If, therefore, courtesy
be constantly adhered to and carefully prac
tised, the effect cannot but be great. And
if it be as regularly violated and neglected,
the evil influence must be pernicious.
“The liitle courtesies of life cost noth
ing, and yet their value can be scarcely
over estimated. Amenity of manner has a
power ‘hat is felt more or less in every
walk or sphere. It imparts .an additional
lustre to beauty, while it robs deformity of
much of its repulsion. Who, indeed, can-
11-01 point out some forcible illustration ?
“There is a thousand nameless little say-
him in her aH)ns tireYtugry .buy prepared
forcibly to eject h‘im, when lot there, tightly
grasped in his month, was the missing p.-cket-
book which the obscurity had prevented
their seeing before. It had fallen through a
rent in the maids pocket, and the
creature bail picked it up and .kept
till discovered.
There-is at this day, no more
member ofthe author’s family than
grateful
it safely
honored
fat and sleek dog, who ever occupies the
warmest corner of the hearth.
ST recei
supply
ct^ i^ta^Y
Yon swear, as you advance to the second
degree, "that you will support in all polit
ical matters, for all political offices, se^d
VavTus Rom ^gblfnl V^tie^ Indeed,
masses even those of the North, aie
ready to accept it at any time, for instinct
L after all, a more infallible guide than rea
son and as abolitionism is alone found
amonu the educated portion of the people
and such a thing as an ? b " lll, ‘" ,1S .“3
she working classes of the North ran. J
known, so the true relation of the races or
so called shivery will be accepted by lien
as the normal condition of society, foi
accords with their instincts as well as com-
a treah ^ppfy j ^ pagated
Plan'd fronvhere r negioes .^.^ 1
when out of this condition, of "ffien thins
into the position of while men, or so-called
tnon sense. .
Democracy, in the true Ameucan sen e
eauality—equality of rights and equality
■of dailies for all those whom God has created
equal. All who belong to the white spe.
eies or race have common capacities, wants
instincts, tendencies, and it is lhere ‘°'^ \
self-evident truth, as propounded by JefU
son that they should have the same p i
Jp^s and be held to the same respotis.bili-
ties. One man may be born " uh •n»>e
mental capacity than another, as
sees they are in their physical
and education — ^ exercise or culti
vation may produe-or result tn w.de andl ex-
treme variatem^. not only in ’
trial powers, but in their moral latitudes.
Now, nothing is plainer or less rmstaka-
ble than that the perversion o this relation
—the violation ol this natural law of white
supremacy and negro subordination most
demoralize and destroy society, must ae-
bunch and corrupt it a thousand times over
more hopelessly than even that following a
perversen of the true relations of the sexes,
Children, &c. Or in o,ber twlntv
relations of the races—cf the twen y
i and three millions ot
log relations
millions of white men
ne
is the basis, the corner stone of
our Republican edifice, which supports the
whole fabric of out civilization, and which
if perverted, and these twenty millions o
white citizens degraded to a legal or forced
level witli these subordinate negroes, then,
of course, that natural equality among white
men which constitutes American democia-
cv must be corrupted, and lost sight of, and
o’er whole system sink into utter rum and
desolation. True, the North, no pe-
croes among them, may escape tills dis
traction, but will they? Democrats must
iieland pouted the cannon for our fathers,
Se they happen not to be born upon
if, andwbo set aside those who think
snchhen shield not be rudely thrust from
us, tipratoagainst proscriptive policy !—
Theykho winld invade our Constitution
wliichf ouldleave the mind free, and apply
test oilis toetter the soul, to talk against
nrriscxition ! 1 The Democratic py-fv will
'•^^.■.,-gRout finercy.—it. wj.quirer.
Till ' -"IYdLEJ’TER FROM JENNY
LIND-
Tothe Edilof The N. Y. Tribune:
Sir: Perume, as a simple act of justice
to one of tlbest of women, to pronounce
the letter a gery, which purpots to have
been writteiy Mrs. Goklsmiclt (Jenny Linfl)
to a friend Philadelphia, concerning my
pecuniary oarrassnients.
It cannot, genuine, because, although
the sympathetic! kindly feeling expressed
in it are di as I might expect from the
known gbo(|s of that lady, and the cordial
terms upon ich we parted
tiously attrile the charity
she gave in s country to
when she re-
nut conscien-
concerts that
me, and she
would not ast in circulating a nrisappreiien-
To JennvJnd alone belongs the entire
credit of hag originated all her concerts
here in aid ahe cause of benevolence.—
The natural pulses of her heart are in the
highest degmoble and generous. Long
before she tied America, her disinterested
humanity w the common subject of world
wide commary. She loved to do good,
and was alr thoroughly happy except
when carryijout some project ol that cha-
ings and doings, which serve Io sweeten
the pathway of life, which impart to the so
cial circle a degree of refinement and de
light that, to be appreciated, must be en
joyed. By courtesy of manner we do not
mean a constant effort to be dignified and
precise, or a rigid adherence to certain rules
and formalities. Far from it. The heart
should speak on such occasions, and the
'general spirit cTjwr'^U Hmulfljw ! --'
1 unci’affiVkippaient. Am-t^t ol courtesy is
never out of place. In high life or in 1 w.
it is like a beam of sunshine*’in the social
world which it at once softens and bright
ens. It may be recognized in the beggar
as well as the king. The proprietor cannot
be too kind or considerate to those in his
employ. All should be treated not only as
human beings with human sympathies, but
as sensible and susceptible, and as capable,
as well of understanding an act of rude
ness, as of appreciating one of kindness
and good will*
“There is enough rudeness and asperity
among mankind, the natural results of dif
ference of views, collisions of trade and
elashings of interest. Let us, then, when
ever we can, adopt the gentle and the gen
erous policy, the refined and the consider
ate, and thus afford pleasure, by the exer
cise of many little courtesies which all
have more or less at their command, but
which too many neglect to employ in their
intercourse with their fellow creatures.”
racter.
I deeply 'ret that any secret enemy or
indiscreet fr^s should attempt to compli
ment me by
terlain sue!
manufacture
nor can I c«
sire at least
iting a lady for whom I en-
sincere respect. Who has
is canard 1 cannot imagine,
iture his motive. But 1 de-
ilr.ee Jenny Lind in this mat-
A Physiological CuRiuMTr.-^-Many of
bur readers will remember a series of exper
iments, conducted by Dr. Beaumont, of the
United Slates army, almost twenty-five years
ago, on the physiology of digestion, m
which lie was aided materially by a person
named St. Martini, a Canadian voyageur.—^
This man was wounded, it will be remem
bered, by the accidental discharge of a gmi
loaded with buck-shot, which entered ins
left side, blowing off the integuments and
musd s for several inches in circumference,
lacerating the lower lobe of the left lung as
well as the diaphragm, arid perforating the
stomach, leaving an opening which never
could be united again, and through which
the whole process of digestion can be plain
ly witnessed. This same St. Martini is now
in our coy. Having been F st sight of by
tile scientific world, after nearly a quarter
of a century he has suddenly turned up
OLD Doc Tray.—M. Chas. R—-, a poor
author, living in the outskirts of Paris, had
owing to him a debt of five hundred and
twenty francs, which he never expected to
get, so long had it been due, and so often
merits. He is about to visit Europe under
the auspices of Dr. John G. Bunting, "Iio
proposes to extend more miuuQ,y .Rie series
oi ( .’-pernHUiHS'commeiiu ’Oy ■-.._ Beau
mont. St. Mariini is now fifiy-ihree years
of age, ami enjoys excellent bodily health.
His case is a peculiar one, the like, singu
larly enough, not being found on record.—
It is one of a very peculiar inter- t, no only
on account of what bas already m en con
tributed by it to our knowledge ol digestion,
bin what we may hereafter expect from the
experiments conducted by Dr. Bunting.—-
The Growing Wheat Cmp.—We have
advicesfromall paris oI the Western States,
including Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and
Wisconsin, from which we learn that, with
the exception of Tennessee, where it has
been frozen out, the growing wheat looks
exceedingly promising and healthy. The
breadth of land sown with wheat last fall
and the indications now are that should the
present month prove favorable the wheat
crop of 185G will be the largest by 25 per
cent, ever gathered in the Union. 3 he
fate of the wheat crop cannot be decided
upon with any certainly until alter the mid
dle of June.— Cin. Paper.
QQTiie Montpelier Freeman says that
a social gathering in that vicinity recently
a young gentleman had die task of “getting
a wife” imposed up n him during the eve-
, , ....> . i..,i,.
However, finding himself entirely- without
money, a situation by no means uncommon
among authors, he resolved to try the non-
paying debtor once more.
What was his amazement and delight,
when a note of five hundred francs and a
twenty franc piece were placed in his hands.
Regarding it as an absolute providence, he.
resolved to change the gold piece, and testi
fy his gratitude to heaven by giving it in
ning’s amusements, and with a young lady
went through a mock ceremony, as they
both supposed, of benng maren-M; but it was
a r^Zjustice, and the ma r moiii.il knot could
net be untied! The pait’es are satisfied
with their bargain, bin are considerably ne -
iled at the manner in which they were
launched upon tlie sea of mauimony.
\J.oWHIDING FFAIR .^S\iAV lORK.—
Chief Engineer Carson ol the New York,.
Fire Department, was unmercifully cowhiiL.
ed on Friday by his brother-in-law, namecV.
Leverich. A woman had something to, do.
with the quarrel.
It is said that Carson had insulted 1 Mrs.
Leverich, his own sister, most grossly, apd
thus provoked theassult.. He is most shock
ingly cut and mutilated. Nobody interter-
ed to prevent the castigation, ^id tip arrests.
ter correctly evert; the public, as well as
Q.a^x.ossible su^
_ rty to this fabrication.
. ITiUteours, P. T, BARNUM.
Long Island, May 10, 1856.
Placing his note in his pocket' book, he
fulfilled his very benevolent design, and no
beggar applied in vain to him during his long
walk.
As he drew near home, a wretched little
dog came to him, anti besought his atten
tion to his starving condition. At any other
time he might have rudely driven it away,
but this evening his heart was open, and he
concluded to take the poor brute with him.
True, his wife hated dogs, but he trusted to
■j.fe
e third de-
o is not a
you talk of
red to, until
to this lat-
to abolish
not be abol-
that, if
elect-
aliens
:l that
office.^
—what
e and a
petition
no man
“be a na-
rn of pro
testant in-
ge with a
it may be done legally, you
ed toany office, remove allforeig
or Roman Catholics Tom offi
you will in no case appoint sue
No matter what a man’s bell
his political or religious creed
second degree member are in
for office, you have sworn to ta
and proscribe the former, a
cheek does not mantle with
you put forth to the world
against proscription!
"Your constitution provides
can become a member unl
tive-born citizen; a protest 1
testant parents; reared unde
fluence, and not united in
Roman Catholic.
You can vote for no ma
member of your order, and
proscription!.
These oaths and others 1
gree, equally obnoxious an
scription were taken and
they were found not to be
itude and then they prof
them. Abolish them! the
their rntellec- ‘ ^ Ihat they got their democracy
nal latitudes,!
ished—tliey are re
et your
, when
lution
gistered he hearts and
St?.rtling Disclosure.—The following
paragraph is taken from the columns of the
National Intelligencer:
During a trial now progressing in the
United States Circuit Court in this city the
extraordinary lact came out in evidence
that, when a Know-Nothing is admitted to
his second degree, he becomes a party to
an oath which binds him to stand by a
brother of the same grade, regardless of
consequences, even as a witness in any
court 1
Is not this enough to repulse every hon
est man? j
A Happy Hit.—To that article in the
Know-Nothing Platform, which imputes ex
clusive blame to the Democracy lor the in
debtedness of the State, a member of the
Convention proposed this amendment:
“that the Democracy of Virginia are also
responsible for the prevalence of Chinch
Bug.” This is the wisdom of the “clod-
knocking” farmer, which the Whig so nd-
mires.—R. Enquirer.
It was quite dark when he reached home,
and he entered the house with the dog close
to his heels.
“What is that r” cried the lady, preparing
to drive the intruder out of the door.
“Only a poor little dog i have made bold
to bring home with me. But listen, wife, to
my good fortune.”
As he related the story, the good lady be
came mollified, and the little dog was almost
forgotten.
“See, here is the money, safe in my pock
etbook,” concluded the husband, putting his
hand in his pocket to furnish the proof of
his story.
gtjp John Adams was at one time called'
upon by some one to cim tribute t.o foreign,
missions, when he abrsibily answered: “I
have nothing to give for (liar purpose, bur,
liiere are here in the vicinity, six ministers.,
not one of whom will preach in each oth^
fir’s pulpit. Now, 1 -fill contribute as tn^s-fi
and more than any one else, to civilize
those six clergymen.”
^ The London Court Journal says the
new American Minister, Mr. Dallas, follows
the precedent of Mr. Buchanan—and
which was exacted by Lresident Pierce—
of wearing ordinary evening dress while
attending the Queen’s court.