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The Elements
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mixed
And say
in
'
Shakspeare.
NEW YORK:
H.
th.e
1864.
CO.,
P\a"blisliera,
TABLE OF COKTEiTTS.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
Mixed Race?.
The Blending of Diverse Bloods essential to American Progress.
The March of the Dark Races Northward.
The Mystery of the Pyramids The Sphynx Question Answered
All Religions derived from the Dark Races.
The Type Man a Miscegcn.
Love of the Blonde for the Black.
Present and Future Relations of th-3 Irish and the Negro.
The Mistake of all Religions and Systems of Education.
How the Anglo-American may become Strong and Comely
The Miscegenetic Ideal of Beauty in Womeii.
Superiority of
XIV. Heart
XV.
Histories of the
White Daughters
of the South.
Negro.
XVI. Progress
of PiiMic Opinion
cegenation.
all
Black.
Entered accordiiiK to Act of Congress, in the year 186-3, bv H. Dsxtib, H*ihlto! & Co., In the
Clerk 'b Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New Yorlc.
INTRODUCTION.
The word
is
spoken at
hood
It is
last.
men the
Miscegenation
the
blending of
common
father.
inspirations of Christianity have taught this doctrine, Christians soin denying social equality to the colored
it
while democracy
is
all
own
its
are equal,
and
creed,
rC'
men
man
is
indispensable
at least,
have never had the courage to apply that rule to the relations of the
white and colored races.
men
composite.
is
vulgarly
great,
known
as
must become
amalgamation,
and those who dread that name, and the thought and
plies, are
fact
it
im-
The author
is
science,
He
call
down upon
word
in
it,
itself
name from
or
is
the
afraid to
INTRODUCTION.
11.
it
He
is
its
patient,
own momentum
he
is
confident.
against the
He
appeals
from the imperfect American of to-day, to the more perfect race that
is
man
''If
to
me
til
men
the laws which govern the heavenly bodies,! too can wait unaccept
them
as true."
IN THIS BOOK.
Adjective form.
Melalenkdic
Melas,
Tbese words are derived from two Greek words, viz.
black; and Leukos (/lt;/co'5), white. The word Mignumi
{f.iiyvi}/.n), to mix, is understood, making the word Melamigleukation, which, aside from its difficulty of pronounciation, is ill adapted
for popular use.
Reasons for coining these icords (1.) There is, as yet, no word in the
language which expresses exactly the idea they embody. (2.) Amalgamation is a poor word, since it properly refers to the iiniun of metals with quicksilver, and was, in fact, only borrowed for an emer
gency, and should now be returned to its proper signification.
(3.) The words used above are just tbe ones wanted, for they express
the ideas with which we are dealing, and, what is quite as important,
they express nothing else.
:
(jiieXai),
the
question that
inspiraall
the
human
family.
earth,
but the equality of the black with the white under the
condition.
no fact better established in the physical history of man than that color depends primarily upon
temperature. The inhabitant of a northern clime is
always white of an extreme southern clime always
black.
The varieties of color exist between the two extremes. The Jews, who are tawny in their own country,
are white in Northern Europe, with blue eyes and red
beards while in Borneo and Sumatra they are almost
black. The Englishman or American wlio goes to tho
There
is
East or West Indies soon has his liver affected, causingIndeed, Dr. Draper, of the
in time to turn yellow.
him
New York
He
ac-
in his excellent
work on Phy-
he well says
''
its
skull.
No
race
is in
change.
It
holds
itself
many marks
have received
in
Anatomy
God created only one man, Adam, to whom all mankind owe their origin, whatever may be the traits of
He then
their countenance, or the color of their skin.
that
negro.
You
that over
"
it is
is
this
perfectly white
reti-
5
cular tissue,
black
and that
this
it
the
is
is
membrane
that
is
it.
tlie
mem-
colored
Examine
membrane
also this
You
per-
of a slightly
come
white.
''Thus,"
he says,
"I
am
satisfied
with
me
In the measurement of the skull the greatest imporis fixed by anatomists, in the comparison of races,
upon the position of the great occipital foramen. Dr.
Prichard says " I have carefully examined the situation of the foramen magnum in many negro skulls, and
in all of them it is found in precisely the place which
Mr. Owen has pointed out as the general position of the
tance
occipital
hole
in
the
human
skull.
In
negro
those
in a slight degree
by the circumstance.
If allowance is
^
*
no difference is perceptible.
If a line is let fall from the summit of the head at rightangles with the plane of the basis, the occipital foramen
will be found to be situated immediately behind it and
this is precisely the case in negro and European heads."
It has been remarked also that there is only the difference in the degree of crispation and coloring matter
between the hair of the negro and the white. Prichard
made
for
?!<
it,
remarks that
ized nations
there
is
which
human
among
civil-
may
common type
of the
head.
human
much maligned,
negro, so
is
Arab
in
is
illustrated
by the singular
sand years ago the Roman authors bear their concurrent testimony to the fact, that the inhabitants of Britain,
Gaul, and a large portion of Germany, were of this kind.
But no one would accept such a description as correct in
our
own
times.
red-haired
man
is
that the
darker
is in
time
of the mind,
is
there not
among
all
the
of our
tribes
G(j<I ? in
an(>
all
our-
put a
8
reliance in the efficacy of prayers, and
How many
all,
in our youth,
ral ceremonies
common sentiment
of the sacredness
tomb ? Have we not always, and do Ave not everywhere set apart a sacerdotal order who may mediate
In our less advanced civilization, do we not all
for us ?
believe in sorceries, witches, and charms ? It signifies
nothing in what particular form our mental conceptions
it is the conception that concerns
us,
are embodied
and not the aspect it has assumed. Thus equally do the
of the
blubber of whales."
11.
any fact
is
that the
menunor
pure
those
morally,
and
to
physically,
it is
superior,
AVhcrevcr on the earth's surface we find a community which has intermarried for generations, we also
find evidences of decay both in the physical and mental
powers. On the other hand, wherever, through conquest, colonization, or commerce, different nationalities
mixed.
are
blended,
human product
superior
invariably
results.
The English people are great, because they are a comThe French, notwithstanding that they
posite race.
bloods.
But
its
many
diverse
years only
among themselves,
in decay.
that
it
many
brilliant writers it
can boast
Take most
names
in literature,
of a Dutch admiral.
will be
it
Napoleon
Germany
is
known
also
is
to be the son
made up
of a
wide mixture of nations and races. The Slavic, Teutonic, and Saxon are all of diverse bloods, and the German of to-day is consequently of composite origin. The
real superiority of the German over the Swede and
Dane is due to the so-called purity of the Scandinavian
race.
The effect of a mixture of bloods is shown in a
remarkable degree in the comparison between Northern
and Southern Italy. The Sardinian is the controlling
power to-day on the Italian peninsula, and why ? Simply
because all Northern Italy has been frequently overrun
by the French and Austrian powers. The blood of the
people has been fed from France, from Italy, from
Switzerland, and from the Germanic races, which have
successively
1*
occupied their
country,
either
as
con-
10
querors, allies,
mercenaries, or emig-rants.
The people
change of blood and, as a consequence, they are probably the lowest people, except the Irish, in the scale of
civilization in Europe.
They are brutal, ignorant, and
barbarous, lacking in everything which goes to make
up a prosperous and enlightened community. The most
promising nation in Europe is the Russian, and its fu;
only because
its
people repre-
rope.
its
the Asiatic.
tribes
it
new and
people.
The
is
evil of a
strikingly
shown
When
the
it
resulted in a
civiliza-
11
isted in Europe. Tlic traces of art, the monuments of great
deeds done on the Spanish peninsula, are connected with
To
iards.
bra
art,
this
of the
The pride of
sula.
rich blood
its
race,
which led
it
to
reject the
power.
Europe
especially
among
rapidly deprived
the
nobility
and
leading-
it
its
classes,
history,
decline.
Whatever
rican race
is
of
power and
Ame-
but from
which go to
needed to make us
the finest race on earth is to engraft upon our stock the
negro element which providence has placed by our side
tors,
make up
this people.
nationalities
All that
is
We
life.
perior,
in
almost
all
to
the
12
physical energy.
much more
prolific
than the
aborigines.
tures,
in
great
contrast
to
the
purely Kalmuc
Mongol.
Moodie says that the ofispring of Hottentot
or
women
in personal beauty.
Persia
who
is
There
is
hardly a
man
of rank in
\n
generally
and erect
tall
their
complexion
is
ruddy and
deportment.
of rank in Persia,
who
in appear-
ance by their intermarriage with the women of Circassia and Georgia, but the system of polygamy has
enfeebled the males so that they are, to some extent, a
degenerate race.
Dr. Hancock, writing in
"
in
believe, to their
fathers, either in
^
^
^
advance of the primitive African race.
It is a well-known fact that the Samboes of South America
the progeny of blacks and Indians
are remarkable for
far in
their
physical
progenitors
of
either side."
West
India Islands
"
the estate.
dis-
agility.
if
not
all,
of the senses
in a superior degree."
Prichard says
" If
we
and Europeans, it
tendency of the so-called
mulattoes to increase.
The men of
color, or
the mixed
West
many
14
and
and a
half,
stiff
many
tocles
of them.
and a
III.
As yet
fall
of races has
operating in
to
all
We
see races
such cases
may
be stated thus
It is
given to
all
15
then,
many
Frenchman
show
tellectual efforts
is
in-
1863,
Frenchman
vitality
is
of a century since.
much
The
better.
prolific
Englishman of to-day
is
of a
known
author),
the kingdom.
may
"
still
composite race.
has
in Norfolk,
10
thrifty population, are those in
Scotchmen have
settled.
by emigration, and by
it
ever, transplanted to
our
soil,
become
The
Irish,
how-
prolific again,
cay.
is
born in that country. They are known to exceed the number of males by over one million. It is a well-known law,
that an increase of female population is a symptom
In the .effete races of
of weakness and effeminacy.
Northern Mexico, it is remarked that six or seven
It is
commingling of
Condition of
all
its
human progress
is
miscegenation.
The
The
Anglo-Saxon should learn this in time for his own salvaIf we will not heed the demands of justice, let
Provius, at least, respect the law of self-preservation.
dence has kindly placed on the American soil for his
tion.
own wise
purposes,
four
millions
of colored
people.
offices
of freedom,
17
IV.
The fact may be startling, but the student of ethnology will be willing to admit that in the course of time
It is demonstrathe dark races must absorb the white.
ble from
been steadily
and surely moving towards northern latitudes.
to
poems
that which
now
was
yellow-haired, red-bearded
by brunettes.
people, in the
its
day,
is filled
darker
Celt, or
by
all
the
all
probability
of to-day.
and Italy
18
All the noted ancient and modern wars of Europe may
be traced to the yearning of the brunette and blonde to
mingde. The Romans conquered the Gauls, Britons, and
the Germanic races, to give them the laws and institutions of Rome, and to satisfy this miscegenetic instinct.
When Rome
much
fell
same instinct, as
and conquest, urged the'
site, at least
and consequently more civilized. Thoroughly miscegenetic it cannot be until the Mongolian and African can
be brought to its doors.
It will be our noble prerogative to set the example of
It is idle to maintain that
this rich blending of blood.
this present
political, civil,
still
and
it
social
bloodier battles
19
the great truth shall be declared in our public documents
and announced
desirable
is
woman and
the
man
woman
the white
the black
it
white
Avill
man
it
that the
becomes mis-
The
organizing
skill in the mechanic arts, which characterJapanese and Chinese, must be transplanted to
power, the
ize the
our
soil,
have displaced were copper-colored, and no other complexion, physiologists affirm, can exist permanently in
America. The white race which settled in New England will be unable to maintain
its vitality
people.
live
and
as a blonde
thrive,
and
is
They need the intermingling of the rich tropic temperament of the negro to give warmth and fullness to
They feel the yearning-, and do not know
their natures.
how to interpret it. The physician tells them they must
travel to a
warmer
of its
They recognize
climate.
feel,
in this a
Still
me from
Wild Wind
And
I seelc
a warmer
skj',
It is
20
vital forces of a tropic race that they
may
regain health
and strength.
We must accept the facts of nature. We must
become a yellow-skinned, black-haired people in fine,
we must become Miscegens, if wg would attain the full-
y.
The
first
munity.
new
We
allude to Egypt.
discoveries are
The first
must be the
contact of
collision of
mental conception
civilization.
is
There
also
necessary,
Variety of
21
M. Puguct
calls
them,
tribe,
cause
it
was here
that the
first
The great variety of development of different forms of knowledge brought from distant countries, and better than all, and richer than all, the judicious intermingling' of divers tribes from different parts
of the earth, produced an intelligent, brave, and progressive people, the like of which has probably never
since appeared upon the planet.
The arts which have
made Greece famous were all undoubtedly of Egyptian
tion existed.
origin
is
still
discussed in our
arts, it is
we
are
still far
all
all
by steam,
pyramid
The immense
their original
nothing.
how many
different branches of
22
human
to the Egyptians,
own
selves.
This
is
in-
23
YI.
FIIO.M
which of
of
its
own.
human
religi-
family
it is
the perceptive
home
ligious truth,
we
is
of aspiration, of re-
in short, the
nature
is
by
24
you
who
tlie
relig-ious
creeds
race has been able to do has been to invent a cold skepticism, a denial of those religious truths without
which
May we
continent,
and the negro from his own Africa, shall have blent
more emotional natures with ours, that here may
at once, the most perfect relig'ion, as well
witnessed,
be
as the most perfect type of mankind the world has yet
Let us then embrace our black brother let us
seen.
give him the intellect, the energy, the nervous endurance of the cold North which he needs, and let us take
from him his emotional power, his love of the spiritual,
his delight in the wonders wdiich we understand only
through faith. In the beautiful words of Emerson
their
'
'
brain,
What
Yll.
It is
among
26
diseases
The
prev^ail.
is
white race
the
of
ideal
be reached
by blend-
all
earth.
woman
Yenus
is
black
after their
his houris
is
colored
own
and so through
all
if
of
any
x\siatic, is a
;
the negro's
is
own
the di-
people
color, is copper-
the world,
race
men
the
The true
hood.
ideal
our painters,
angels of
the
highest
Humanity's high-
is
who
in-
The
ideal or type
man
and
all
that
He
white races.
is
will
also
be composite as regards
white to black.
of the
New
net^ to
It is to the credit of
Professor Draper,
avow
announced.
bold-
He
26
are represented
by a prognathous
aspect,
fair,
its
and by a com-
greatest perfec-
He
"putting disturbances of
civil-
ization aside,
mum intellectual
It is
capacity
physiological facts
of a
brown hue,"
may
They
what
is
matters
If true, it
if false,
little
they
fall
to
the ground.
being light-
been a
man
Palestine Jews.
They
were a
tawny
must have
were
all
the
or yellow race.
The fact has been noticed that the Amharic, the language
of the Abyssinian, is remarkably analogous to the Hebrew, rendering it probable that the Jews were partly of
Abyssinian or negro origin.
AVe urge upon white men and
glory in their color
of purity of blood.
it
is
women no
longer to
no evidence of cultivation or
Adam and
men of
men
must be communicated
27
YIII.
large proportion
This peculiarity
of
also
is
New York
Tribune,
race, is as opposite
ple to
whom
In color, complexion,
The same
is
true of Mr.
He,
too, is the
we mean angelic
which
is
not
sunny
But it is needless further to particularThe sympathy Mr. Greeley, Mr. Phillips, and Mr.
Tilton feel for the negro is the love which the blonde
bears for the black it is a love of race, a sympathy
stronger to them than the love they bear to woman. It
is founded upon natural law.
We love our opposites.
It is in the nature of things that we should do so, and
the icy North.
ize.
28
where nature has
free course,
men
like those
we have
and be given
will
marry
in
is
confined to those
much
as the English.
and
skin,
greater.
Nor
is it
The
lass, a
"
come the
is
often so uncontrol-
It has been
upon the southern plantations. The only remedy
for this is legitimate melaleuketic marriage.
As Nova^
" The way to overcome nature, is to
lis wisely says
submit to her."
It is true that a few men of dark skin, and eyes, and
so, too,
but
it
will be
among
it
29
is
much
not so
men
Lovejoy
is
He
one in point.
The bitterness
is
the southern
woman was
in
his
the
softer
the rough,
the
plump
smoother
the
&c., upon the
;
hj
*
Jq i]r^Q mental system, the
calm the grave, the gay the impassioned, the modest
the impetuous, the gentle, &c.
or
same
principles.
>i<
what we possess
ourselves,
it
In
is
all
this
something
it
is
not
different,
sought
IX.
between the
Irish
and negroes on
80
ces
it
community of Irish
Wherever there
is
a poor
lies
and
is
among
turbances created
the
when brought
same phenomena
electricities
first to
mingle.
is
The
an
dis-
The
fusion,
whenever it takes
They are
negro.
song,
The
warm
melody and
Of course we speak of
the labor-
and has
all
power which
His
be-
long-
31
man below
education,
feature,
AVith education
When
move
by the temperature
is
to
32
The Irish-American press of
to
all
past reformers
law
vital in itself
and accounting' for the inadequacy of religion and education to perfect the races of men.
Education and religious instruction must come to us
through the roots of our being through the springs of
our life. They are ante-natal, and are to be imparted before the child is born
The
before the man is matured.
error of all religion and education has been in appealing"
to the hig'her faculties, and ignoring the influence of the
After the product of purely physical causes is
lower.
matured, the ministers and teachers take the child iji
hand and attempt to change the organic bias of his
nature by appeals to his intellectual and moral faculties.
He is sent to the church and to the Sunday-school
to receive
33
the great normal powers of our being, which neither
It is
as if the
life,
ly
if
stances,
and
shape-
grow
will
which instructs from the top downmen, like plants, must be developed
from the roots upwards.
Let the friends of humanity, then, understand that it is
not by forwarding religious and educational institutions
2d. All education
ward
alone
is
wrong
that
2*
they
can
bring
about
the
Millenium.
34
Churches and universities
fill,
and moral
wants of the
race,
veil of that
awful mys-
XI.
and
cold,
the
eyes small
and
foot.
You
will
You
see
eye-glasses
You
35
rule
Where
the
of negroes.
than ivory
is
man
to seed
the black
stalwart.
is
add-
to the trunk.
tell
weak and
Our professional men
lines
"
I will
woman
my dusky race
and they shall run,
;
Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun
Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,
;
36
XII.
What
who assumes
What
negro
girl.
Is
it
color
is
beautiful in the
human
face
charm
is
when
her
'face.
Not
was
a mulatto.
By
loveli-
Whose
glossy black
37
For certain physiological reasons, the mulattoes of
country are far from being true specimens of the
this
ance
all
Shakespeare,
earth.
who
said
many
manity
of negro
fine
proportions
It is
men, might be given here
may appear very beautiful
at length.
lis
tionnees.
II
" It is
if
own
color to ours.
sup-
38
paint the Goddess of Beauty, but that he would represent her black, with thick
and
it
39
could supply.
mean
pride,
unworthy of a Christian
or enlight-
is
universally
denial of facts
And
to
West,
him climb
When
of
spirit,
Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong,
Whether conscious or unconscious, yet humanity's vast frame,
Through
its
rest
XIII.
The North
is
wondering
the world
is
wondering
at
40
manship and war. The discretion, endurance, energy,
and heroism they have shown in sustaining for so long
a time a rebellion supposed to be feeble and short-lived,
have elicited the admiration even of their enemies and
Dr. Bellows, a gentleman than whom none can claim a
more exalted and intense hate of slavery and of the
rebellion, in an address before a Unitarian assemblage
in Brooklyn, some time ago, paid a most eloquent and
beautiful tribute to Southern chivalry, both as exhibited
in the men and women.
The truth may as well be
;
understood,
that the
superiority of
the slaveliolding
communi-
from birth
Anteus, sent to
But
it is
by
their
Their ex-
own
physical
41
tion exists.
and
is
On
But the
instinct here
becomes a passion,
we
miglit quote
many
It is a notorious fact,
however,
and
intensity
suspected.
man
is
his
South successfully to cope with Union men, and maintain a persistence in the Cabinet, in battle, and on the sea, foreign to
their character, and worthy of a better cause, the gentleman gave it as his belief, that the presence of the
42
African in large numbers infused into the air a sort of
barbaric malaria, a miasm of fierceness which, after long"
intercourse between the races, came to infect the white
the
women
also.
On
inferior race
principle,
tion understood
by putting
it,
itself of it
The
black regiments in the field, and others to go, could coml^ete with the wildness and recklessness of the rebels,
and possessing
this barbaric
miasma in
a greater degree
XIV.
HEART-HISTORIES OF THE WHITE DAUGHTERS OF THE SOUTH.
43
passionate and impress iblo daug-liters of the South,
dom,
pass be^^ond
if ever,
platonic
love,
a union
tlio
bounds of propriety.
of sympathies,
emotions,
sel-
A
and
thoughts,
life,
thoroughly happy.
And
to please him.
distinguishing characteris-
blonde.
Yes
parades her
woman
The family is isolated on the plantations. The white young man is away
tures early,
is
by
who ma-
the brightest
44
awkward, rude
girl of yesterday,
day
is
common humanity,
is
v^f
chang-ed
to the full
safe
to
unlike attract
like repel.
45
intermarriage. AVe find, in negro families, wliich have
long dwelt with those of the whites as domestics, that
successive
marked
lip
and
in
their
and
with skins of a shining black, they gradually acquire
African features, in the thick
flat
nose
XV.
ALL
OtJR
make use
of the greatest
number
of negroes.
Heaven
never smiled upon our cause until the issuance of the Proclamation of Freedom, nor even then until
mined
to
arm
it
was
own
deter-
liberty.
who
colored
soldiers.
battle-field of
to fight
while
46
Army
of the
negro soldier in
its
is
is
field.
necessarily
is
quite
a providence in
It
"Wherever I turn in this war I find the African. If you ask for
than that of the slave Robert Small,
who brought
you ask
it
its
armament, out of
to our
who rose upon a rebel prize crew, and overcoming them, carried the ship into New York. If you ask for
heroism, you will find it in that nameless African, on board the
Pawnee, who, while passing shell from the magazine, lost both his
Pass up the
legs by a ball, but still holding the shell, cries out
And if you ask for fidelity
shell, never mind me, my time is up.'
you will find it in that slave, also without a name, who pointed out
the African Tillman,
'
cannon."
all
who have
studied
the history of the civil war, and to none more than the
soldiers in the field, we urge upon them to do justice to
their fellow colored soldiers.
47
his spirited lyric to the remains of the regiment wliich
Hail
them
Fight with
Never,
and true
as comrades tried
them
side
by
side
in field or tent,
from
quoting the following passage from Mr. Emerson's new
refrain, in this connection,
lands,
is
Now the
iron age
is
done,
He roves unhurt
siroccos blaze.
the burning
In climates of the
summer
ways
star.
brain,
Konce
XVI.
PROGRESS OF PUBLIC OPINION AND NATIONAL POLICY
TOWARDS MISCEGENATION.
The right
versally acknowledged.
It is
only those
48
who
is
unquestionable.
mingling of the race with ours as the only means of preserving ns from the decay that inevitably follows the
highest state of enlightenment and exclusiveness is begin-
The truth
ning to be understood.
The
light that
break
all
is
dawning upon
us.
working of a
The prejudices of many gene-
marvellous Providence,
rations have been swept
When we come
away
in the tide
again
we
of events.
selves across an ocean misty and stormy with old bigotries, superstitions,
and passions.
we
but never cease our struggle, having saved this persecuted race from the waters, until we stand with them on
the broad and solid ground of justice, equality, and fraternity.
No
openly and
We
them.
It is
only a question
now when
all will
loose
one the most advanced has not reached the ultima thule
of its theories. Four years ago the Democrats, so-called,
49
defended slavery,
The
man
black
side
by
liberty and
law
his loyalty.
The
name
we
of Copperheads, remembering
"01
generation of
!"
how
50
it
yet.
They move
knowing what
They denied that they
was only at the commencement of
were
this
abolitionists.
war
It
party of miscegenation
temptible crowd
who
for the
man who
is
right
is
The people do not yet understand but the old prejuThey say we must free
dices are being swept away.
the negroes. To free them is to recognize their equality
with the white man. They are to compete with the
white man in all spheres of labor. They are to receive
wages. They are to provide for themselves. Therefore
they will have the opportunity to rise to wealth and high
;
position.
51
"If the time ever
the Cooper Institute, in New York
comes when a majority of the people of this State desire
a negro Governor, and elect him as such, I believe he
ought to be Governor." It was a statement that commended itself to the common sense of the audience, and
they did well to applaud. And the argument goes fur:
If a
ther.
white
woman
may
So he
homes and
will.
firesides,
If he
why may
circles
Shall the
fair,
where merit
is
equal
The war
is
doing good in
this,
now, as
the whites of the south have mingled with them. But
the association is more ennobling, because the black is
now free, and may become, by industry and self-improvement, the equal of the white intellectually, as he is now
physically and morally. The blacks that move with our
they perform
duties
requiring
^2
womanly
The
girl.
despite
yearning
long-settled
instinct
satisfied
is
prejudices
and
at
last,
blasphemous
theories.
It is
boldly announced
now
They
and given
to loyal negroes,
of the nation
toward them.
and
improve themselves.
It is
degraded.
refined
gentleman would
slavery
let
who
God has
worthy
shall
" Walk
in
beauty
like the
night
to
occupy
a people
53
Public opinion
much
blame
to
now acknowledges
for slavery,
is
"
free?"
We
This
will take
is
only
in
They
moved them.
It
words
but
was
the sym-
mother,
so
its
its
54
brother.
the
It
common
was a
which are the promise of all morality and of all ChrisMight we hope that on this continent, at least,
will be realized the vision of Tennyson
tianity.
" Far along the world-wide whisper of the southwind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder storm.
Till the war-drums throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd
In the Parliament of
There the
And
common
man
awe
XVII.
equality
may be
always.
of God.
" Through the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widened
With the process of the suns "
You may
but
some
time, the
men may
raise, the
blood of
selves, as
55
have
"
said,
We
will purify,
We
will
fill
brotherhood of
man
passed it
mingle with that of barbarians outside. And the
walls were torn dowii and again humanity was leveled.
There are families that have hoarded their blood, as the
miser his gold and, as the gold cankers, so the blood
has grown thick and muddy, losing its elements of
health and vigor, and has only been rescued from death,
to
if
rescued at
all,
by
the
men
is
life.
by perpetual motion,
the blood
XVIII.
difficulties
in the
way
of
reform.
56
South.
is
the
and
in
first
is
de jure,
step towards
his absorption
making him
if
common
justice will
slavery,
or
This
he has
if
is
If he
If he
development of any
of the higher faculties of the mind to outstrip his white
brother, he has also the right, and that theory which
would deprive him of it is the plea of imbeciles and
cowards. The only anomaly in our black army is that
in
in the
men
of his
own
race, but
men
It
position
true.
The South
eternal fitness
soldier.
When
in the
finally
be
it is
war resolves
black soldier,
who
is
57
Government.
It
that
history,
will
the
Administration
is
Soutli.
is
destined to be
this
The
personal
It
American people
will
war
is
over, the
among
their
former
how eager the white candibe to prove not only that he is the
date for
office will
Even
Mr, F.
I.
New York,
of
the
The
riot
in
3*
that city
of this
58
lic
pub-
By
prejudice,
war
all
swarm with
the relations of
New
The large
life.
now
all
It will
work out
itself.
The course the Government has entered upon leads logically to this result.
As the war has progressed, men's
minds have been opened more and more to the true
cause of our country's
perfect
it
difficulties.
Human
nature
is
im-
truths.
and
for his
des^,rLiction of
Jerusalem,
59
they have been a marked race upon the earth, and both
in Christian
As
a con-
sequence they have remained a peculiar people by themTheir customs and habits have been different,
selves.
their very features different, from the masses of people
The wandering Gipsies or Bohemians, are another instance of the separation and subsequent absorption of a
During the Middle Ages, and down almost to
our time, the Gipsies were a peculiar people made so
by laws and public opinion. George Borrow, in his fa-
people.
mous book on
tory for
began
several
generations.
to disappear in
that peninsula.
is in
the Northern
to
America
is
CO
lost in our
first
generation.
He
modern Europe.
Let
for
it
the
carries
with
in connection
it
the
was
to send
Gl
XIX.
MISCEGEXATTOX IX THE PRESIDEXTIAL COXTEST.
Americans, as Christians, as humanitarians, to take advantage of the circumstances which Providence has
brought about, to introduce a new and improved life on
this continent.
Slavery no longer exists, but the black
man is not yet an equal, before the law, of the white man,
nor does custom give him the same social rights. But
If the progressive
party of
in their
own
problem which
62
the South have been spent in idleness
white families
by a few thousand
is
no longer possible.
As
who
menced well
at Port Royal,
and
it
rebel States.
But the negroes have another claim which is indispulaw or justice the claim of hereditary descent.
table in
They
veins.
descendents of owners
fathers,
It will
American people,
if,
after the
slave
oligarchy of the
hand to strike down the Constitution of the country, and obliterate nearly half of the
stars which cluster upon its flag, they should restore it
to its old place and power, and turn their backs upon
the millions of loyal Africans whose prayers by day and
by night have gone up for the success of the banner of
Union and Liberty. The platform of the Chicago ConSouth has raised
vention
its
it
Abraham
worthy of the
63
be Freedom, Political and Social Equality
Universal
send a message to all the nations
of the earth, " Come hither with your means, come hither
Brotherhood.
Let
it
upon the application of the doctrine of human brotherThese are questions, we are aware, that alarm
those timid men, that always deprecate any movement
toward Reform. They will dread the old prejudices
which these subjects will awaken into new activity.
But the promulgation of anti-slavery principles excit
ed far more intense opposition than these are likely to
because, as time has passed by, and the quesreceive
tions affecting the colored race have been discussed,
men have perceived that the hatred of race they indulged,
in was unworthy of their manhood, and that the negro,
if not up to the level of the best specimens of the Caucasian, had all the qualifications which would fit him
to be the companion of his white brother.
hood."
XX.
AN OMEN.
The statue of Liberty which has just crowned the
Washington, stands as a symbol of the future
American of this continent. It was meet and proper
capitol at
its
baneful
dome
sway
at the
of the capitol
should have been unfinished, and that the figure of Liberty should not have unveiled
64
against the storms and variable temperature of a Virginia atmosphere, it has been washed with an acid which
form bronze
bleach.
tint,
When
what
is
destined to be the
first
object that will strike his eye will be the figure of Liberty surmounting the capitol
North Pole
make
1.
That as by the teaching of science, religion, and democracy, the whole human race is of one family, it follows that there should be no distinction in political
or social rights on account of color, race, or nativity, in
2.
a republic.
3.
4.
65
5.
6.
7.
9.
That whereas, the result of the last Presidential election has given the colored race on this continent its
freedom, the next Presidential election should se-
10.
That
human
make
the
66
APPENDIX.
TESTIMONY OF WENDELL PHILLIPS.
(From
his Speech at
1863.)
am
Now,
and justice on this continent. But, at the same time, remember this
the man who, sitting as President, and speaking by the voice of his
:
67
worst enemies of the country, is not to be trusted as a leader. Gen.
Butler said to me a fortnight ago and this is the counterpart of
loyalty to treason Butler said to me, " I am no negro lover, as you
are, but before I ask a negro to fight for me, by the living God, he
[Prolonged applause.] I acknowledge that
shall have his rights !"
the meanest kind of something
is a white man, and this speech
If this is Republicanism, let us ardently pray God for the adelse.
vent of Democracv. There can be nothing worse.
(From
Anniver-
God, counseling with himself hoAv to crown this people the greaton the earth, said, "Of what fibre shall I make them ?" And
he poured into their veins the Saxon blood painting their eyes with
the sky, and gilding their hair with the sun. Then he mingled with
Then
it the Celtic, quickened with mercury, and touched with fire.
he poured into it the sunny wines of the South of Europe. Then,
gifts,
he
added
last
but
not
least
after many other
a strange, mysthat bleeds, when wounded, like other men's
terio\is current
blood! that dances in the pulse when joy-smitte"n, like other men's
yet that carries the blackness of darkness into men's faces,
blood
in token that it should also carry the shadow of death into men's
est
souls
God said, " How shall I prepare a continent to be the home of such
a people ?" And he ribbed it through the centre with mountainchains that the Swiss and the Swede, coming hither, might renew
their ancient fellowship with the eternal hills. He salted it on either
that the maritime people of Europe, comside with two great seas
ing hither, might find still fairer coasts for their ships. He laid his
it,
the Hollander, coming hither, might see
upon
that
leveling palm
the Zuyder Zee, touched by miracle of nature, blooming into an illimLast, but not least, he stretched its
itable level of prairie-grass.
southern slope into the tropical heats that the negro also, coming
hither, might find a home, where he and the eagle should together
-"
'^
The history of the world's civilization
look at the sun
which many are afraid to speak which many
is written in one word
-'
^
*-
68
it
Go
''
09
In the British Island of Jamaica, the ablest man in the Government
Edward Jordon and he is a negro. I hope to see the day when
South Carolina shall be governed by some educated negro, lifted to
[Apthat high position by the generous majority of a free people.
But, remember, I do not ask that coinpetent black men shall
plause.]
I ask that incompetent black men shall hold office ^for
hold office.
only so will they be on a level with the Avhites. [Laughter.]
I ask that the negro shall receive the respect of the best society.
He always does for that only is the best society that honors the
poor
[Applause.] Ask him into your pew at church. Let him ride
Give him the right hand of fellowship as
at your side in the cars.
is Sir
indeed, God ordained, for He made the inside of the negro's hand
[Laughter.] The finest sight I
white, for clasping a white man's.
ever saw in Central Park, was an old wagon, drawn by an old horse,
with an Irishman and a negro sitting side by side on one seat, taking
[Laughter.] That team, and its teamsters, I
a fashionable drive.
thought, drove further towards the millenium than all the gilded
[Laughter and applause.]
cavalcade that whirled by
!
the
The answer
'^'
70
which the doctrine of the unity of mankind is denied, it is maintained by Dr. Nott, that opposite races, such as the red and the
white, cannot amalgamate, for that the offspring of such intermarXo such hybrid race, he says,
riages always is feeble and dies out
can he permanently established and the red men, in his opinion,
were doomed to extinction, without leaving a trace of their existence.
The facts brought to lignt by Dr. Wilson, entirely refute these opinin
ions.
Remarkable
many
phenomena presented
to us in the
seems to us, is the extraordinary commingling of diverse races which is being accomplished on
Navigation has now so bridged the ocean, that from every
its soil.
country in Europe, settlers have reached the American shore and
railways have so facilitated locomotion by land, and so quickened
the movements of social life, that these diverse people from Europe
are shaken together and amalgamated in the New World, till the
original distinctions disappear, and a new national type is formed.
Moreover, as we have seen, these white Americans are blending to
some extent with the native red stock of the continent. Within a
century from the present time, we may expect to see the separate
existence of the red man and his hunting-grounds swept away, and
an ethnographically composite, yet socially homogeneous population,
existing all over North America. The intermingled white blood of
Europe will here and there be tinged with the native red blood of
America. Nor does the strange commixture of population stop here.
jVot only Europe and America, but Africa, and in a lesser degree Asia, ivill
The
be represented in the 7iew race which is groiving vp in the Xeio World.
Cbinese settlers in California are the vanguard of a more numerous
emigration, which will, ere long, take place from the crowded fields
of China to the American shores of the Pacific.
New
as are
of the
it
The
71
THE NEGEO APJIST OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY ON THE CAPITOL.
(Washingtmi correspondence rf X. T. Triiune, Deccrnler
2,
1863.)
When
HAERIET BEECHER
more
descriptions.
They
are
known
as Harry, the
quadroon overseer of
72
-=
'"
had the most ample proof. When it is reflected that the overseers
are generally taken from a class of whites who are often lower in
ignorance and barbarism than even the slaves, and that their wastefulness and rapacity are a byword among planters, it is no wonder
chat Colonel Gordon thought that, in leaving his plantation
imder the care of one so energetic, competent, and faithful as
Harry, he made the best possible provision for his daughter.
Henry was the son of his master, and inherited much of the temper and constitution of his father, tempered by the soft and genial
temperament of the beautiful Eboe mulattress, who was his mother.
From this circumstance, Harry had received advantages of education
very superior to what commonly fall to the lot of his class. He had
also accompanied his n;aster as valet, during the tour of Europe,
and thus his opportunities of general observation had been still
further enlarged, and that tact, by which those of the mixed blood
seem so peculiarly fitted to appreciate all the finer aspects of conventional life, had been called out and exercised, so that it would be
ditficult in any circle to meet with a more agreeable or gentlemanly
person. * * * Possessed of imcommon judgment, firmness, and
knowledge of human nature, Harry had found means to acquire
great ascendancy over the hands of the plantation, and either
through fear or through friendship, there was a universal subordination to him.