The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-07-22


government OF their foreiaIhers. as it gives
them more tro1qulhty aud seDsual enjoy.
melL expands The mind aud improves ihe
morals, by arousing them tom that natural
Incidence so fatal TO mental aud moral pro-
grcss Even ifthey did not prefer slavery,
tranquility and sensual enjoyment, to liber
ty, Yet their organization of mind is such,
that if they had their liberty, they have not
the industry, the moral vi1ue, the courage
and vigilance TO maintain it, but would re-
lapse into barbansm or into slavery. as
they have done in lIaytL The reason OF
this Is founded in uuaterabe physiological
laws. Under the compalsive power OF the
white man, they are made to labor or exer.
else; which makes the lungs perform the
duty of vi,alizing the blood more perfectly
than is done when they are left Tree to in.
duge in ideness. 1t is the rcd, vital blood,
sent to the brain, that iberates their mind
when under the white mans control; and
it is the want of sufliciency of red, vital
blood, that chains their mind to ignorance
and barbarlsm, when in freedom.
The excess of organic nervous matter,
and the deficiency of cerebral-the predo.
minance OF the humors over the red tlood
from defective atmosphenzaIion of the
blood in the lungs, impart to the negro a
nature not unlike that OF a newborn infant
ofthe white race. In children, the nervous
system predomnates, and the temperament
is lvmphatic. The liver, and the rest of the
glandular system, is ont of proportion o the
sanguineous and respiratory systems, the
white fluids predomlnating over the red I;
the lungs consume less oxygen, and the Ii.
yer separates more carbon, than in the
adult age. This constitution, so well
marked in infancy, is the type of the Eth
opian constitution of all ages and sexes. 1t
is well known, that in infancy, full and free
respiration of pure fresh air in repose, so
far from being required, is hurtfuI and pre-
judicial. Half smothered by its mothers
bosom, or the cold external air carefully
excluded by warm room or external
covering over the face, the infant reposcs--
re-hreathing its own breath, warmed to the
same temperature as that of its body, and
loaded with carbonc acid and aqueous va
por The ,tural effect OF this kind of res
pirarion is, imperfect atmospherization of
the blood in the lungs, and hebetnde OF
intellect, from the defective vitaization Of
the blood distributed to the brain But it
has heretofore escaped the attention Of the
! scientific world, that the detective atmos-
phefiZation Of the blood, known to occur
during .eep in infancy and to be the most
congenia to their constitutions is The iden-
tca kind of respiration most congenial to
the negro constitution, of all ages and sexes,
when in repose. This is proved by the
fact of the universal practice among them
of covering their head and faces, during
sleep, with blanket, or any kind of cover
ing that they can.get hold Of. If they have
only part of blanket, they will cover
their faces when about to 90 to sleep II
they have no covering, they will throw
their hands or arms across the mouth and
nose, and turn on their faces, as if with an
instctive design to obstruct the entrance of
the free external air into the lungs during
sleep. AS in the case with infants, the air
that negroes breathe, with their faces thus
smoinered with blankets or other covering,
is not SO much the external air as !heir own
BREATH warmed to the same temperature as
that of their bodies, by confinement and
reinspiration. This instictive and univer-
sal method of breathing, during sleep,
proves the similarity of organization and
physiological laws existing between ne.
groes and infants, as far as the important
function of respiration IS concerned. Both
are alike in re-breathing their own breath,
and in requiring il TO be warmed to their
own Temperature, by conBnement which
would be insupportable TO the white race
after passing the age of infancy. The ine-
vitable effect of breathing heated air
loaded with calbonic acid and aqueous va.
por, is defective hematosis and hebetudc OF
intellect.
Negroes, moreover, resemble children in
the activity Of the liver and IN their strong
assimilating powers, and in the predomi
nance of the other systems over the san
guineous hence they are difficult to bleed
owing to the smallness Of their veins. Or
cording the arm of the stoutest negro, the
veins will be found scarcely as large as {
white boys of ten years of age. They are
liable to all the conyulsiye diseases
cramps, spasms, colics, ETC., that chldrel
are so subject to-
Although their skin is very thick, it is a
T sensitive, when they are in perfect health
as that Of children, and like them, they fea
the rod They resemble children in ano
ther very important particular: :: they arr
very easily governed by love combines
, with fear. and are uEgovernable, ric::e"t
aud ru1e under any form Of government
whatever. not resting on love aud fear as
basis Like, children. il is not necessar.
, that they be kept under the fear OF tn
: lash; it is sufficient that they be kept ui
: der the fear Of Of. offending hose WHO haze
. alfhofity over them. Like children, the.
. are constrained, by dnsaerabIe piysiologi
: eai laws, 20 love those in authority owe
+; them, who nlinsterto their wants and i'm
I mediate necessities, and are-not cruel o
D unmefcifuI The detective hematosis, i
: both cases, aud the want of courage an