Show morgan 6 on oil manhood gen george washington morgan addressed the democracy of columbus Colum bue ohio on t the he 3 let UIL for the express purpose of proving that persons of african descent are not human b beings and lie did prove it to the satisfaction of the human democracy and of himself as a proud and pure purd blooded cau can alian gen george washington morgan we suppose is of welsh origin and e very every welshman it is well known is lineally descended from adam whereas other bipeds bearing t the he for form M of man come from the lord knows who gen george washington morgan 0 generously gen concedes as a Wel welshman sliman certain privileges to other white folks i with shorter pedigreed pedigrees grees but he has a great objection to admitting either cither the freedom or equality of mankind in general his arguments against negro suffrage arc all curious but sonic of them arc pretty enough to quote why lie asks is tile the right whale never found out of the artie seas i and why is the sperm whale never found in the artic cateral e why does the he gulden golden lined dolphin of tho the mediterranean never pass the straith of gibraltar although lie swims with rive five times the velocity a hip can sail why etc etc and sn 0 o the general goes on to argue that blacks ifould not vote in ohio because condora condor 3 never leave south america because the osti ostrich ieli sticks to africa afric i because there are arc no elephants in europe because camels have I 1 wo humps bumps and dromedaries dro only one and the poor craine leopards none at all white men hould rule the because eagles rule tile the air lions the jun jungle le and whales the sea because heark aharan 8 are arc not shad vultures are not doves and oak trees are arc not hickories because ethiopians cannot change cli inge 0 their skins no nor leopards C their spots jei emi ill ili xiii 23 these theao are the principal arguments of this most zoological general but there is one other which in common fairness we must not withhold the orang boutang of africa is black the orang boutang of asia is brown this is what may be called a settler but the general has other arguments who invented the steam engine A white mant man I 1 who invented the steam engine A white mant who conquered the lightning A white man I 1 to which last we expected x d the corollary who is oft often enest cst struck by lightning the black maul but we find it anywhere iu in the speech although we found almost e everything ery thing else horses dolphins orang orang outings ou on tangs columbus bushmen lord brougham 13 liam the jews in malabar fair b brownd anglo saxons the kin king n of congo the great democratic party and th the c bohan boh an this speech of the Genc generals rals making 0 is an excellent specimen or of the kind to which it belon belons belongs 0 s we have read many gross of these ethnological arguments and they are mostly a confused confuse d jumble of half understood scientific facts with amix a mixture turc of falsities falsifies and of fancies they abc all based upon the fallacy that the civilization civil izAh on of a race is i impossible apos because it never lias has been bee it civilized hi a if the E egyptian civilization did not precede ali the rc ciau the grecian the roman the latter that flint of the middle ages there I 1 is norace no race of which it would not be p possible 1 sai ble to say hard things there is no race however degraded of which lily any honest man of science can say anything worse than its time lias liar nut not come dalit dahomey mey itself i is s not more degraded not more inore savage not morn ihorn coarsely than the anglo saxons in ill their early begin beginnings what coula could a cultivated roman have sald said to the writer who predicted the future greit I 1 nass I 1 odthe britons what would solomon have said t to 0 tiny anybody body iro prophesying piles ying tile the subsequent condition af pf hiis nation what a polished atheni athenian lan have s mid iid if the oracles of hi ins s landal land had foretold i the lie imperial greatness of a horde of muscular settlers upon the banks of the tiber the fate of nations is in the womb of time the destiny of races is to be delci mined by causes of the nature of which we CRT can make only stammering and unintelligent guesses nobody has a right to argue of the conditions of african africa progress in in america from the state of progress in af africa rica itself to do so is at once ungenerous cruel and sophistical to do so is shamefully to io ignore the essential modifications timis which the race lias bas undergone upon this thid continent but although we arc sometimes betrayed into this line of discussion by the folly of the george washington morgans and f the he pollards and the rest of the gentry dabble in history at and I 1 d gb abou it making a muddle aduddle of all science science and indeed of all human learning we always return with relief to the impregnable position hion thal thai the alep american i can ider idea is that all m men en a arc re born free and equal yeffe Uc fierson arso u says they are gen washington say sansare says rare sare gen george washington M moi igan gan says they are not ad ille latter lateer sa savant p vant to be right we claim that then such a thing thag as I 1 democracy Demp cracy i is s impossible in hi t n he e united states and that there knust be bd an end of all our di cams of the possibility I 1 0 of popular government the moment you begin to modify the i dogma that moment you become iivo involved I 1 ived in in inextricable confusion and self balf con ol 01 open tho the w way ay for the introduction of the mo monarchical or a at i least the aria to critical cra of gov which wp vp confess we are are not quite ready N 2 X Y yr aune |