iff 3 .A/S- 011 899 224 6 J Hollinger PH8.5 Mill Run F3-1955 E 453 • fll5 ANTI-ABOLITION TRACTS. Price 10 cents. Copy 1 ABOLITION AND SECESSION: OR, CAUSE AND EFFECT, TOGETHER WITH THB REMEDY FOR OUR SECTIONAL TROUBLES. BY A UNIONIST NEW YORK: VAN EVRIE, IIORTOX & CO., No. 162 NASSAU STREET 18 6 2. J SECOND EDITION NOW EEADY. ISP All who would understand the Philosophy of the Negro Question, and see the horrors and evils of Abolition, should read this work. NEGROES AND NEGRO "SLAVERY:" The First an Inferior Race— the Latter its Normal Condition. By J. H. VAN EVRIE, M.D. 1 Vol., l~mo., pp. '.VA\ ). Price One Dollar. ILLUSTRATED WITH FOUR CUTS, SHOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHITE MEN AND THE NEGRO. The second edition of this work, so steady has been its sale, is already called for. The author has thoroughly revised it, and re-written an entire chapter. He assumes, as a starting point, that the subordinate position of the Negro as always existing in American society, is not a condition of slavery at all, but the natural relation of an inferior to a superior race, and that whatever evils, if any. exisl in Southern society, are referable to a fail- ure to strictly embody the natural inferiority of the negro in the civil law, and not to any error in the fundamental organism or theory of that society, which is based on a great and everlasting truth. His work is divided into two parts. First, the specific and radical differences of the races are exam- ined. The color, figure, hair, features, language, senses, brain, &c, of the Negro are shown to be only the more palpable specialities, out of a thousand similar ones, separating the Negro from the White Man. Why, when, or how the Creator saw fit to thus order things, the author regards as immaterial. He simply starts with the facts as they exist. After the Negro is shown to be a different human being, physically and mentally, his proper relations to the White Man are discussed; 'also, Mulattoism audits ultimate extinction, showing the impossibility of interunion, like cognate branches of the white race, a very important, and but little understood branch of the subject. The position assumed in this work is entirely new and distinct from that pre- i i iv any other writer; and founded, as it is, upon facts and unavoid- able inferences from them, it is believed presents at last the true phil- osophy of this distracting question. This work will be sent by mail, postage paid, for One Dollar. Address, VAX EVRIE. HORTOI & CO., No 16 Nassau Street, New York. I '* ABOLITION AND SECESSION, — _ INTRODUCTORY. After eighty yeara of peace, progress and boundless prosperity, the great American people find themselves in a civil war the most stupendous and frightful recorded in history. What does it mean ? This stupendous in- quiry, hitherto utterly hidden from the great-hearted, honest and patriotic masses, the writer proposes to answer. And to do this satisfactorily, he has divided the subject into three separate portions, thus enabling the reader to obtain clearer views of all phases of the stupendous question now shaking the continent from centre to circumference. First— He will demonstrate that negroes are a different and subordinate epeciea of maufcmd, and in their normal condition at the South, and there- fore a warfare oa so-called slavery is a warfare on society, and "impartial freedom," immediate or "ultimate," either now or a thousand years hence, must necessarily involve the destruction of that section. Second — It will be shown that political anti-slaveryiem is the cause of secession, and though W3 may not think it valid or sufficient, those whose interests, whoso liberty, whose families and firesides are involved, assumo otherwise, and present to the world every possible proof of their intention to resist an anti-slavery policy, even to the extent of immolation or utter extermination, if need be. Third— Finally, it will be shown that " crushing out" political anti-slavery- ism, or the removal of the cause, is the only natural or possible cure for secession; and when this is done, and the Constitution construed to include white men alone in the ranks of citizenship, and the liberty and civilization of America are thus rendered secure forever, that the men of the South will themselves "restore the Union." ABOLITION AND SECESSION. PART I. THK CAUSK. The human creation 13 a group or family composed of several species, eome six or seven of which are sufficiently known to he classed and defined with absolute certainty. Among all the innumerable beings composing the organic world, there ia no such thing as a single species, and the absurd dogma of a single human species or race, so universally accepted in modern times, is as irrational and utterly in conflict with the fixed and fundamental laws of organic life, as the idea or notion of a stick with a single end is in conflict with the laws of physics. Superficial and ignorant minds fancy that if negroes are not Wacfc-white men, or colored men, as they term it, why, then, forsooth, they must be something midway between us and ani- mals, as if because the rattlesnake was not the same as the gartersnake, why, of course, it must be half a bird or fish, or some other monstrosity, midway between snakes and some other form of life 1 We see all about u«, every day, on every side, the manifestations of the simple and fixed laws of organic life. All are grouped together in families. The eagle and the owl are both birds, as are pigeons, robins, &c , but different birds. So with fishes, the shad, salmon, trout, pickerel, &c, are all fishes — but different species, of course. So with serpents — the black snake, the adder, moccasin, garter and rattlesnake, are all alike snakes, but what a world of difference between the harmless little reptile of our gardens and the rattlesnake, that venomous and terrible creature that strikes and kills in an hour ! Again : among dogs it is seen they are all dogs, all with the capacity of interunion ; yet what an almost boundless difference between the graceful and intelligent hound or pointer, and the brutal and stolid bull-dog 1 Can any one bo so stupid or so wicked as to try to educate the bull dog into the habits of the hound ? or to force them to live the same life, to manifest the same qualities, to compel these creatures, whom God has made different and designed for different purposes, to fulfil the same purpose? Surely there is as great a relative difference between the Caucasian and the negro as there is between the hound and bulldog, and to force the former i-ifo "impartial freedom" involves as gross and as awful an impiety as to strive to equalize the latter, or to compel beings whom God has made different to manifest the same qualities and to live out the same life. But it ia not ne- cessary to multiply words on a subject of fact -demonstrative, physical fact. All that is needed to a rational mind, or even to the lowest grade of intelli- gence, is the Fimple sta ement of these facts, with the unavoidable infer- ences that belong to them, to convince the wildest and the most bewildered THE CAUSE. 3 among us of the awful error under which they are laboring in respect to the social order and domestic institutions of the South. As has been said, the human creation is a family or form of life composed of some fcis or nioie species. L:ke all other families or forms of life, they have a generic resemblance, but are specifically different. This difference is uniform and absolute, fixed forever by the hand of God, and no human ig- norance, folly or impiety can ever modify it to the millionth part of an ele- mentary atom. The difference in the physical— the mere organic structure — pervades the entire moral and intellectual being, so that comprehending the former we can easily measure the latter, or in other words, the physical differences between the white man and the negro represent exactly the intel- lectual. As with all other genera, there is a certain capacity of interunion in the several human species, less, however, in the instance of Caucasians and negroes than in other races, for these two occupy the extremes of the generic column, the former being at the head and the latter at the base of this column. There is always an imperfect vitality in the mulatto and mon- grel verging to absolute sterility, and the fourth generation of the former is as absolutely forbidden to muluply itself as the mule in the first generation. Such, briefly presented, are the fundamental and everlasting facts— fixed forever by the hand of God — the negro is a different and widely different human species, the most inferior as the white man is the most superior of all the human races. Why this is so, or when or how the Almighty Creator saw fit, in His boundless wisdom and infinite goodness, to thus ordain things, we do not know, nor ever can know. It is hidden from us, as is the beginning and the ending of our own individual existence, and the man or the men who seek to know it— to penetrate the counsels of the Eternal— to know when, or how, or why the human creation exists, as it now stands before us, palpable to the sense and unchangable in its diversities, commit a similar folly to that of the individual man who might eeek to know either the beginning or the end of his own existence. It is a fact, existing, unchangable and everlasting, while the organic world itself exists, that the human creation consists of several separate species of men, differirg just as widely as do species in other and all other forms of life, and to shut our eyes to this fact, and blindly, stuudly and wickedly assume them all to be a single species, we must not only continue to inflict a terrible punishment on ourselves, but we shall richly merit such punishment. This negro race is here, must always remain hero, for it is wanted here, and if some infinite power should interpose and suddenly annihilate it, we would instantly set to work, fit out ships and replace them by fresh acces- sions from Africa, otherwise some seventy degrees of lttitude in the centre of the Continent must remain a desert waste, and their natural products, so absolutely essential to the progresa and the happiness of mankind, would be lost to the world. Furthermore, the negro, isolated in Africa, is, and must be, a useless, nonproducing savage. His organism as utterly 4 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. forbids anything else as that of the quadruped forbids an upright posture and all human experience is in accord with these physiological facts. We must, therefore, admit that God designed the negro for juxtaposition with the superior white man, otherwise he would be created in vain, a supposition, of course, not to be tolerated a, moment. Moreover, his wonderful capacity of imitation — that striking quality which those ignorant of his nature have often mistaken for real capacity — is a positive proof that God designed him to exist in juxtaposition with the superior race. The social relations be- tween beiDgs so widely different in their endowments as the Caucasian and negro, aud the purposes the Creator has assigned them, should not be, as indeed they never have been, mistaken by those actually in contact with these negroes. That the subordinate negro must occupy a subordinate pocial position, is an unavoidable truth ; but, it is replied, it does not follow that he should be a glave. Of course, it does not, but what is a slave? A)l God's creatures, human and animal, have a natural right to live out the life He has adapted them to. — When they do this they multiply and are happy ; when they do not, they are miserable and die. When they live the life that they are designed for, they are free ; when they do not, they are slaves. These obvious truths only need to be applied tp negroes to de- termine the point whether they are slaves in Massachusetts or free in Virginia. In Boston, according to the statement of the City Register, the births among these poor creatures, for five years past, are 124, while the deaths for the same period are 37G, thus showing that it is only a question of time when Puritanical and bastard philanthropy shall have destroyed all the negroes of that " enlightened" commonwealth. On the contrary, tho negroes in Virginia, for this same period, have multiplied even faster than the whites themselves 1 Similar results &ro universally demonstrated by the Federal census in all the States of the Union. The subordinate negro is in a subordinate social position, and rapidly multiplies ; or he is forcibly thrust into the position of the superior white man, and rapidly perishes. Or in other words, the negro in the South lives in accord with the nature God has given him, and is happy, and rapidly increases in numbers ; while in the North he is forced into conflict with all his natural wants, and miserably perishes. Tfie term slave is, therefore, a misnomer, a word borrowed from Europe, expressing a certain relation of white men to each other a thousand years ago, and senseless when applied to the South. Such are the facts a3 regard the negro. — In respect to ourselves, the presence of this natural substratum of society excludes all those artificial and unnatural distinctions among the dominant race, borrowed from the Old World, and secures freedom and equality for the masses. Our whole political and party history presents one continuous proof of this vital truth. The planter or so called slaveholder of tho South is an agriculturist, pro- ducer, indeed a laborer, for it is his brain, directing the hands of the negro, that constitutes labor at the South. His interests are identical with the THE CAUSE. 5 producer of the North, and these classes, in the form of the Democratic party, have governed the country, acquired all its Territories and fought all its battles for sixty years past ; indeed, southern " slaveholders," with their natural allies, as Mr. Jefferson termed the laboring classes of the North, have made the Republic what it is, or rather what it was, when Mr. Lincoln was elected to the Presidency by a moiety or fraction of the northern people. But though this government was made by so-called slaveholders, though Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, nearly all the great men of the country, were the natural offspring of a society founded on Democratic principles, and the natural distinctions of race, though three fourths of the votes in ■Congress against national banks, protective tariffs and other schemes for plundering labor of its rewards and enslaving the working clashes of the North, have been those of " slaveholders," though all the Presidential vetoes against these schemes were those of southern Presi- dents ; in a word, though the *' slaveholders" of the South are the natural allies, and have always defended the rights of the northern producing classes, antagonist forces, acting through the ignorance, misconception and absolute delusion of certain classes in the North, have long endangered the peace of the country, and at last precipitated it into the present frightful crisis. These forees are who n y foreign in their origin. Europeans, ignorant of the races of this continent — the Indian, negro, &c, — imagine them similar beings to themselves, except in color, and naturally entitled to the same rights, therefore, when held in subordination to the white man, and denied these rights, of course imagine them slaves. They rarely see a negro, and suppose the black tkia, wooly hair, thick lips, &c, that they read of, are the results of climate or of many jears of savagery, slavery and other imagi- nary causes of physical degradation. Tbia notion, or this conception, eo natural under the circumstances to the European mind, has been borrowed from the Old World by those among us who read British books and form their ideas on European models. And instead of enlightening Europe on the subject, or instead of demonstrating to them that the negro is a negro and is not a Caucasian or " colored man, : ' even our ethnologists and men of science have passively assented to the absurd assumption, while all our book writers, editors, &c, have made this assumption the starting point of all their reasoning on the subject of to-called slavery. And until a very recent period, even those who assumed to defend the social order of tho South did so on the basis of this foreign assumption of a Wac7<:-white man, having the same natural right to liberty as other men, or as having tho same natural rights as themselves. Thus is witnessed the strange, and indeed utterly disgraceful anomaly of American society convulsed and American institutions endangered by an idea net merely European, in fact, but that would be an impossible conception to the American mind were we wholly isolated from Europe. The negro is a different and inferior man just as an owl is a different and inferior bird to the 6aglc, or as the bull dog is a C ABOLITION AND SECESSION. different and inferior dog to the hound, and were we wholly shut out from intercourse with Europe, it would, of course, he aa absolutely impossible to conceive of a Wacfc-white man, or that the negro icas a man like ourselves except in color, as it ia to imagine an owl an eagle or a bull dcg a hound. Here, then, is the great, fundamental, absolute and unmistakable cause of all our troubles— the palpable and elementary error of the northern mind— the fatal and deplorable origin of the popular delusion— the original Btarting-point of that wide-spread, often well-meant, but always pestilent and malignant "philanthropy," which has corrupted northern intelligence, patriotism, and even, to a certain extent, the instincts of race, and led large numbers of the northern people into a blind, bitter and unrelenting warfare on their brethren of the South. But though this European conception, or rather misconception, of the negro is natural enough, indeed could not be otherwise with those ignorant of all races save their own, it would not carry with it any evil or mischievous influence, did not circumstances connect it with the political interests of Europe, and especially with those of the English aristocracy. Prior to the American Revolution of 1776, no one ever heard of an Abolitionist, or that " negro Blavery" waa wrong, or that it was aa evil that somo day should bo removed from the world, and if these States had remained in subjection to England and in harmonious relation with the British aristocracy, it ia alto- gether unlikely that there would now be such a thing as an Abolitionist either in the Old World or the New. All the nations of Europe are Caucasian — white men, the same race, unless perhaps a few thousand Laplanders in Norway. Except France, whose condition ia exceptional, if not abnormal, all these nations have the same system, the same social order, the same general principles of government, and though England pretends to be free and thinks Russia despotic, there is little or no difference in the actual con- dition of the masses of their people. Society ia divided by artificial distinctions into kings, bourgeoise and peasants, in fact into the few and the many — the few who produce 7iothing s yet enjoy everything, and the many who produce everything but enjoy nothing. They are all the same race, created free and equal, sent into the world with the same wants, the same faculties, in short, the same nature, and therefore were designed by an Almighty and beneficent Creator for the same purpose, to enjoy the same happiness and to perform the same duties. But from tho instant they come into the world, the system cr social order takes possession of them and forces them inf o widely different conditions — the few into idleness and luxury, the many into livea of ignorance, toil and brutality, differing very little from the animala that they labor with. One man of en owng a whole county, and turns several thousand acres of fertile land into a park for deer, where he may " eDJoy the pleasures of tho chase," while twenty thousand of his brethren, his own kith and kin, white men and women whom God created his equals and designed for the same happiness as himself, are denied enough of the soil of their native land to TIIE CAUSE. 7 bury them in when dead I Half a million of hereditary aristocrats, with, perhaps, four or five millions of shopocracy or so-called middleclass, which serve as a sort of police agency, and enjoy a certain portion of the plunder, constitute the governing force, the real and only " England ;" while the great, ignorant, toiling, voiceless and voteless millions are mere beasts of burthen to their brethren — to those whom God created their equals and designed for the same purposes a3 themselves — but who, through human in- ventions of " Church" and " State," aro artificially elevated into superior beings. Nor does England, except in degree, differ from the rest of Europe, though the few are doubtless the richest while the many are more abject in their poverty than elsewhere. It is the system, the condition which has come down from barbarous and semi-barbarous times ; the few are artificially elevated and the many artificially degraded, so that the latter are regarded, and doubtless regard themselves, as beings of a " lower order," as indeed they are universally designated in England. That a society thus existing, or that the ruling class should regard the masses as no better than American negroes, and should, therefore, imagine the negro hardly dealt with when denied the " freedom" of the English or European laborer, is consistent, and, under the circumstances, perfectly logical. American society, resting on the natural distinctions of race, fixed forever by the hand of the Almighty, is irreconcilable with theirs, and though there may be outward peace, the conflict is none the less deadly between conditions or systems of society thus vitally antagonistic. We are twenty-five millions of white men, whom God has created equal, in juxtaposition with four mil- lions of negroes, whom He has created inferior, and our system, State and national, is based on these fixed, unchanging and everlasting facts. The white citizenship are naturally equal, and, therefore, enjoy equal rights ; tho negroes are naturally inferior, and, therefore, occupy a position of social inferiority corresponding with their wants and the nature God has given them. Between us and the old world, or, between us and England, who is the leader and bulwark of the old order, there is no peace or possible com- promise. The iew must expect to abandon their privileges over the many, must give up their wealth and power over the masses, and reorganize society on a Democratic basis like our own, or they must break down the American system thus in contrast and contradiction to their own. For- tunately for the temporary preservation of the aristocracy, the ignorance of their people enabled them to strike their dead best blows at us in the name of liberty and under the pretence of philanthropy. The negro " slave" of America was assumed to be a fcZaefc-white man, or man like themselves except in color, and consequently a slave, and, therefore, the American system, with one-six-h of i's population denied all rights whatever, was, to the ignorant European mind, worse even than their oppressive system of kings and aris- tocrats. The writers and supporters of monarchy had thus a boundless field for denunciation of our and eulogy of their own system, whim, whatever the practical consequences in theory, seemed vastly more liberal and humane 8 ABOLITION 1XD SECESSION. than American Democracy resting on a supposed slavery. And, if the premises or the assumptions were sound, the inferences were indeed un- avoidable. If the negro, except in color, were a man like ourselves, with the same nature and the same wants as the white man, then everything imagined by the Abolition writers for the past sixty years would, or might have been, true enough. But the government, the ruling force, the aris- tocracy, were impelled not alone by these writers, but from the necessities of their condition, to make war on us, and instinct prompted them to strike at " negro slavery" as the vital principle of our system, the foundation on which rested the entire structure of Democratic institutions. It was only when Jefferson declared the immortal and everlasting truth, that all (white) men are created free and equal, and a government or politi- cal system based on this truth, or rather this fact, was organized, that English writers discovered the- frightful wrong of " negro slavery," and English statesmen began that crusade in behalf, or pretended behalf, of the lower races of this continent, that has worked out such stupendous results, and, at last, has culminated in the quasi destruction of the American Union. They have expended some five hundred millions of treasure in this cru- sade, and abolished the natural order of society in the whole tropical centre of the continent, except Cuba and Porto Eico. The supremacy of the white man abolished, and the negro left without guidance or control, re- lapses, of course, into his original Africanism, and if we are to suppose that Americana are never to be permitted to restore the normal order or the natural relations of the races, a time must come, or would soon come, when some seventy degrees of latitude, right in the heart of America, must be occupied by a huge Africanism or heathenism like that presided over by the King of Dahomey and other African savages. But all these deplorable results, the ruin of industry, production, civili- zation, in the centre of the continent, with the decay and ruin of all that is healthy and desirable in human society, in the heart of the New World, the vast expenditure of treasure, thua forcing the British laborer to take the bread from the mouths of hia own children to pay the interest on money Bquandered on the American negro — the loss to human welfare of those vast products of the tropica which, sixty yeara ago, made Jamaica, San Domingo, &c, centres of trade and commerce — the actual destruction of something like one million of negro livea in the vain attempt to put down the " slave trade," and the rapidly approaching Africanism of those islands least influenced by the white man — all these boundless and measureless evils that the great " anti-slavery" delusion of our times has dragged after it — are, after all, trifling, in comparison with that wide-spread corruption of the American mind, and utter perversion of American intelligence, which has, at last, culminated in civil war. So long as the American mind remained untainted and American society intact, the diableries of the " anti-slavery" delusion were comparatively harmless. Canada and Jamaica alike might ba given over to the huge im- THE CAUSE. 9 posture, the ialands might be destroyed, the genial and naturally luxuriant tropics that God designed for t ho Welfare and happiness of his creatures might be rendered a desert, the negro permitted to relapse io'o his idle andueelees savagery, even the bones and muscles of the over -worked and under-fed white slaves of Eugland might be mortgaged, for centuries to come, to pay for all this devd's work, so long as the freemen of thia Repub- lic were untouched and untainted by the great delusion, for the energy of our people and the vitality of our institutions would, sooner or later, over- come all this surrounding rottenness, and restore civilization to these wa^- cd regions. But innumerable books, tracts and pamphlets, and hordes of crazy lec- turers, like the frogs of Egypt, have overflowed the land, and deluded the eocalltd educated class into a belief or notion, the most absurd, most dis- gusting and debasing that ever corrupced the mind or perverted the mural instincts of mankind. It is now some thirty years since an open and direct effort was made by British agents, and their tools among us, to propa- gate these debasing theories. At first a popular instinct prompted the peo- ple to mob them, but aftf r a certain time they were thought to be harmless, and, by common consent, were permitted to propagate their disgusting tomfooleries without let or hindrance. Thirty years of steady iteration, however, cf the same absurdities, with an apparent profound conviction of their truth, backed by British influ- ences, British literature and British policy — indeed, by the common senti- ment cf the "civilized world," that is, of kings and their flunkies— these absurdities, these miserable tomfooleries of bZaefc-white men and imaginary slavery, and Impossible slaveholders, have resided in the formation of a political party organized for tho purpose of reducing them to prac'iceS Here, then, is the legitimate culmination of the great "anti-elavery" delu- sion of half a century, a man elected to the Presidency by a secional party, on a platform (as claimed by this party) of avowed hostility to the South. Their practical programme isjto prevent ary further "extension of sla- very," and thus penning up this negro eltment within its present limits, with the prestige of the government on the side of "freedom," a time must come when " slavery," or the existing order, must disappear, and "impartial freedom" follsw of course. All this, when understood, is sim- ply and exactly just this, and nothing else :— They suppose the negro to be a black-white man, and they propose to use the government to realize their idea, or to transform their theory into fact. Europeans, necessarily, have this con- ception of the negro, for they are ignorant of his real nature, and British writers, British books, British policy, and British teachings have so cor- rupted their minds and perverted their understandings that the leaders of thi3 party engage in this monstrous undertaking — to abolish the suprem- acy of the white man or the subordination of the negro, and give them the same ireedom. Of course, if such a thing were possible, there would follow eocial equality 10 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. and universal amalgamation, for though the du r >es of this stupendous delu- sion dream of a possible state wb.6re all will enjoy " impartial freedom" without amalgamation, no one but an ah? olute lunatic, when they really re- uect oa tho f u!j'>«r', ciu t^ 1 -rate such nonsense. The pojuUuoo, lima peuned up within existing limits, and "slavery," or the s oial relations of the races, so corrupted and disorganized ihas the whites jlo longer claim superiority, and uuivereal equali'y, and fraternity, is com le'e, what then ? Why, simply this :— "We aro twenty five milbo a of whiles in jux'apobitiou with four mdlions of negroes. Tho "auti slavery" iJeiihuj prao'icul zed, would, in the Becond goutration, have annihilated tho specific i Oj, ro— there would only be mulattoss — tho th.rd generation Would end in quadroons, and, as the mulatto of the fourth generation is as absolutely s'enle aa Ihe mule, it could only be a question of tini«* Wieu everyxirop < f li< gro blood would disappear as entirely as if there bad never been a negro ua this continent. — Here, then, would be the final end of the stupendous delation of the day. First— The theory or assumption of a Wacfe-whitomaa withtho same nature and same right to liber' y as ourselves. Second — Tho formation of a party to carry this into practice, through tho action of tho Federal Government. Third — The penning up of the negro with the consequent debauchment and destruction of the existing relations. Fourth — " I mpdrtial freedom," and the consequent social equality and ulti- mate amalgamation, ending finally in the total extinction cf tho negro ele- ment. If some debauched, idiotic or brutal man should set up tho assump- tion that a bull d< g could be made to manifest the qualities of the grey hound, aud should set to work to realize his idea, everybody would kunw that he might kill the former by his experiments, but could not change the eternal order of nature. Or if some philanthropist of the " anti-slavery" order should assume that he could change the color, hair, tbo form of tho features, the shape of the limbs, or any other physical quality of the negro into that cf the white man, every body, however ignorant or deluded on tho eubject, would understand its crueby and folly, and know, beyond doub% that whde he might kill the poor negro, he could not change or modify, in the slightest degree, that which the Almighty Creator hai fixed forever. And yet here is a party that proposes to tet aside the handy work of the Eternal, and transform four millions of different and subordinate negroes into black Caucasians and " impartial freedom" with themselves. Bat wlide the "anti-slavery" idea, thus reduced to practice, would ne- cessarily end in tbe "ultimate extinction" of the negro el-ment, so awiul a sin against " God and humanity" would react in a still greater punishment upon the nation guilty of such tran?ce-ndant crime. Of the twenty-five mil- lions of whites, four millions would be involved in this admixture of race», and as the uncontaminated among them would escape from a laud thus doomed, nearly half of this great Keptiblic would bo as Mexico, Central America, &c, are now, a mere mongrel mass of diseased and effete human- ity, a source of decay and weakness, rendering us tho possible, or indeed tho THE CAUSE. 11 probable, prey or conquest of some European nation. But, aa haa been remarked, in the course of time the negro blood would become extinct, mongrelism would die out, this hideous ulcer on the body politic would be healed, the vaot mass of diseased humanity would slough off, and the nation, the typical Caucasian, finally recover itself. Again we should be a nation of untainted white men, as we were before this experiment of securing " impartial freedom" to negroea began ; but who can measure, or what imagination can conceive even, of the intermediate degrrdation, suffering and despair involved in it ? Wo can form some notion of the wrong and suffering that would be inflicted on the negro by comparison with that which would follow, if some " philanthropist" should try the experiment of trans- forming his physical nature into that of our own. Of course he would kill him in the process, and, in view of his misery, would it not be more humane to murder him outright at once? So, too, with the four milhona in the South — In comparison with the practical application of the "anti-slavery" idea — the freedom, equality, amalgamation, mongrelism, and "ultimate ex- tinction" would be immeasurably more cruel than their immediate and universal massacre. And if the " anti-slavery" party were to order the six hundred thousand brave men in arms, en the Potomac and elsewhere, to march and totally exterminate the four milliona of negroes in the South, it would be an act of the highest humanity in comparison with using them to force "impartial freedom," with all the terrible consequences involved, on these subordinate and helpless people. Indeed, we witness all about us an approximation to these terrible truths. New York has some fifty thousand negroea, who are constantly diminish- ing, because, instead of leaving them where God and nature placed them, in subordination and under the protection of the white man, wo force them to live under the theory of an equal freedom, and it is consequently only a question of time when they will be utterly exterminated. Massachusetts, who most rigidly imposes the burden of "impartial freedom," most rapidly destroys these helpless creatures, and indeed we may always determine, with an approximation to accuracy, by the simple application of this test, when the free negro of the several States will be wholly extinct. But while such would be the certain, however remote result of carrying into practice the theories of the " anti-slavery" party, so far aa the negro is concerned, who can estimate or even imagine the boundless and illimit- able calamities that would result to ourselves and the general cause of civilization ? To pass by the destruction and losa to the world of the single item of cotton, which now, directly and indirectly, furnishes subsistence to possibly ten millions of white men, to leave out of view rice, sugar, all the other great staples essential to human happiness, to abandon some seventy degrees of latitude in the centre of the continent to become barren wastes, or equally repulsive, to plant a huge African heathenism in the heart of the continent — to pass by all these trifling considerations, we have only to contemplate the "ultimate extinction of slaver*" and "impartial free- 12 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. dom" with four millions of negroes in the South, as actually dreamed of by the lunatics of the day, with its unavoidable consequences of sccial equality, amalgamation, roongrelism, disease and final extinction of the negro element, to understand the bitterness, the unutterable and intolerable sense of wrong felt at the South towards those who, in their wicked ignorance and blind atrocity, are laboring to briDg upon them and their children a doom more awful than was ever yet visited on human kind since the woild began. True, they may not themselves comprehend it in detail or in form, but that instinct of self-preservation which God has planted in the heart of the race, in order to preserve the integrity of its organism, enables them to feel it, and to shrink, with overpowering disgust if not of terror, from the approach of such a danger. No matron in the Sauth ever heard the names of Garrison or John Brown uttered without clasping more closely the child on her bosom, not from any personal fear of these men, but from that instinct of self-preservation God has endowed her with, and which taught her that the " idea" connected with these names involved the extinction of her blood. The reader may understand this instinct by comparing the fate of St. Do- mingo with that of Jamaica. The French Democrats of 1792, in the National Convention, ignorant of the nature of the negro, and, of course, supposing him a man like themselves, decreed "impartial freedom" for the six hun- dred thousand "slaves ;" but the tweuty-Cve thousand whites of that is- land resisted this monstrous crime to tho uttermost. The result was that the negroes, stimulated by British and outsido agents, and led on by mon- grel chiefs, exterminated the whites, not one man, woman or child being left en that i jland to tell the tale of their destruction. About the same number of whites in Jamaica resisted "freedom" (peaceably) but at last were overcome, not by physical force, but by the corrupt and perverse opin- ions of England embodied in the Parliament, and the result of "impartial freedom" is social equally, amalgamation, mongrelism, and rapidly ap- proaching extinction of tho white blood. A few years hence this h deous process must complete itself, and tho white element as utterly disappear from Jamaica as it has from Hayti. Tho sole difference is the mode of ex- tinction ; in one, immediate and universal massacre, ia the other, "impar- tial freedom," amalgamation, mongrelism and disappearance of the lesser element ; and between these modes who would not prefer the former to tho latter ? or, who would not prefer that his children or his posterity should be slaughtered at once, rather than gradually rot out through the veins of the negro ? It is an instinctive perception of t his^a seemingly blind but wise instinct —which the mad creatures fancy " prejudice against color," that render the " anti-slavery" leaders of the North so faithless to their own professed bo- lief, and who, doubtless, would prefer death for a eon or daughter in pre- ference to the practical application of that belief. But what punishment can bo imagined that would equal the deserts of those people, •who, safe at THE CAUSE. 13 home ainid a homogenous population, would force upon their own brethren in actual juxtaposition with four millions of negroes, doctrinea or notions whicb, rather than practice themselves, they would prefer deatb, or, rather than they should bo lived out in their own households, would, doubtless, prefer the massacre and utter extinction of these households ? But wicked, monstrously, awfully wicked as these blind creatures are, or, rather, would be if they had any knowledge, even the smallest atom, of that which they labor to accomplish, there areother3 that posterity will hold to a more fear- ful account still. These are they who organize a political party in the North to get possession of the Federal government, and to use that as an instrument, as they say, for the " ultimate extinction of slavery," or, in other words, who seek to use the common government, tho government ot! Virginia, the Carolmas, &c, for inflicting a doom on the people of theto States, whicb, rather than suffer themselves, they would prefer death I Fortunately for the credit of the present generation of Americans, these people are ignorant, blindly and utterly unconscious of tho crimes they seek to commit, and posterity will, therefore, in mercy draw a veil over this hor- rible phase in the national life, and strive to blot it out forever from tho national records. Summing up the foregoing, it will bo plain to the reader, then, that the negro, being a widely different and subordinate race or spe- cies from our om, is in his normal condition when in a subordinate Bocial position as in the South ; that the presence of this subordinate race or natu- ral substratum in American society, which gives us cleaier "views of our own natural equality, and prevents those artificial distinctions of class which so disfigure and degrade the nations of Europe, is the cause, or main cause, of the success of our Democratic institutions ; that in this fact is f out d the British hostility to ''Legro slavery," wbich, being in constant and irrecon- cilable antagonism to their system of class distinctions, necessanly impels them into ceaseless warfare on it ; that this hostility, though embracing all •of monarchical Europe, would not be or need not be dangerous to us, so long as our own people were uncorrupted by European teachings and hos- tile influences, but when, accepting these false teachings instead of the re- sults of their own every day experience, and large numbers of them proceed to form a party in the North to impose their wild delusion of supposititious hlack-Y?hite men and imaginary slavery on the South, they not only violate the spirit of the Federal compact, but they are blindly striving to destroy themselves — their government, their Republican institutions and civiliza- tion itself, as well as Ihe welfare and happiness of the people of the South — that, as no more extension of slavery and " impartial freedom" with negroes, would necessarily transform acd deform ore-ha^f of tho R=>pu'dic into tho condition of Mexico, Central America, &c, and end ia tho ul ima'e extinc- tion of the negro element, it would, therefore, in comparison, be v» tlyrnore humane to slaughter these negroes at once than thus to doom th< m to gra- dual or " ultimate extinction," through the tender mercies of the " friends of freedom ;" and finally, that this monstrous, world- wide and deplorable 14 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. delusion, in which are wrapped up Buch hideoua and fearful possibihtiea being based on the fundamental falsehood tha£ the negro is amau like our- selves except in color, all that has been done, written or said ia the past, or that may be attempted in the future, must be equally false, fatal and deplorable, and in conflict with the eternal order ordained by the Almighty Creator. PAET II. THE EFFECT The election of Mr. Lincoln, by an anti-southern party, embodying the de- lusions we have been considering, and based on the assumption that south- ern society is fundamentally wrong and immoral, and that this society should be revolutionized or " abolished," with the declaration that it designed to use the government to accomplish this object, was the greatest insult, in- deed the greatest (moral) wrong ever inflicted (unconsciously) on any people and when, as in this case, it was done by a portion of thy of our na- tionality with the integrity of our Republican system, and save American 24 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. civilization from the blight ai;d desolation now resting on the mongrel Re- publics South of U3, and which God haa decreed forever, as the penalty for disregarding the distinctions and natural relations of races. It is wholly a question of race, and " secession," " State Rights," &c, mere means or modes of defeneo against " anti-slavery" delusion. The South, the Supreme Court, the Democracy, and every administration, from Washington to Buchanan, have held this to bo a government of white men, and negroes no part of our political society, or element in our political sys- tem. The party now in power, on the contrary, construes the Federal Con- stitution to include negroes aa eqaally entitled to freedom, and, while it recognizes " slavery" as a State institution, it is pledged to reverse the Dred Scott decision, and secure "impartial freedom" or common citizenship for all races within Federal j urisdiction. Between these constructions of the Constitution lies the whole future of Republican institutions and Amer- ican civilization. If the former prevails, if the Dred Scott decision is to be the rule, and this ia to be a white government in the future as it has been in the past, and the liberty and civilization of the South are thus rendered secure -forever, then there need be no northern armies raised to " save the Union," for the men of the South will save such a Union as that themselves. But if the latter construction is to prevail, if the Federal Constitution is to be construed to include negroes, if this government is to be revolutionized, and the white citizenship degraded into " impartial freedom" with + he sub- ject races of this Continent, then all the armies of the world combined will not save such a Union as that, for the eight millions of men, women and children of the South will prefer extermination rather than amalgamation or " impartial freedom" with their negroes. And this ia the question now to be decided forever : the Dred Scott decision and a government of whito men, or " impartial freedom" and a mongrel Republic, with the eternal, in- evitable consequences of immediate ruin of society in the South, and "ulti- mate extinction" of liberty and Democratic institutions in the North. ANTI-ABOLITION WORKS. SOUTHERN "V^E^LTH AND NORTHERN PROFITS; As Mehibited by Statistical Facts and Official Figures. By Thomas Prentice Kettel, late Editor of the " Democratic Review." Complete in one Octavo Volume, bound in Cloth, 75 cents, or in Paper Covers. 50 cents. DRED SCOTT DECISION. Opinion, of Chief-Justice Taney, with an Introduction by Dr. J. H.Van Evrie. Also, an Appendix, containing an Essay on the Natural History of the Prognathous Race of Mankind, by Dr. S. A. Cart- wright, of New Orleans. Pamphlet, 48 pages, octavo. Price. 25 cents. NEGRO SLAVERY NOT UNJUST, Speech of Charles O'CONOR, Esq., at the great Union Meeting in New York city, in 1859. 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The Publishers earnestly request all in whose hands these Tracts may fall, ■if they think they will do good, to aid in circulating them. We have taken the liberty to send specimen copies to many prisons, for Uieir perusal, hoping thai they wilt assist in litis important work. We would also esteem it a favor if they will have the goodness to state the terms on which they are jmblished, for the convenience of others wlio may feel inclined to order copies for sale or gratuitous distribution. 011 899 224 6' ANTI-ABOLITION Tmuts. i i For twenty-five or thirty years, the Abolitionists liave deluged the country with innumerable books, pamphlets, and tracts inculcating their fake and pernicious doctrines. Little or nothing has ever been done in the same way towards coun- teracting their influence. Thousands now feel that such publications are indis- pensably necessary. In order to supply what it is believed is a wide-felt want, the undersigned have determined to issue a series of ' Ant i- Abolition Tracts," embracing a. concise discussion of current political issues, in such a cheap and popular form, and at such a merely nominal price for large quantities, as ought to secure for them a very extensive circulation. Two numbers of these Tracts have already been issued. No. 1 gives a critical analysis of the real causes of our present deplorable difficulties, and shows how, and how only, tiie Union can he restored. No. 2 is a brief history of the Results of Emancipation, showing its wretched and miserable failure, and that Negro Freedom is simply a tax upon White Labor. The fads in relation to the real condition of the Freed Negroes in ffayti, Jamaica, etc., have bet n carefully suppressed by the Abolition papers, but they ought to he laid before the public at once, so that the evils which now afflict Mexico, Uayti, and all countries where the Negro-equalizing doctrines have been tried, i>iay be averted from our country forever. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 011 899 224 6 9 Hollinger pH8.5 Mill Run F3-1955 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 011 899 224 6 J Hollinger PH8.5 Mill Run F3-1 955