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

the membranes, the muscles, the teudouS
and in all the fluids and secretions. Even
the negro's brain and nerves, the chyle and
all the humors, are tinclurad with a shade
Of the pervadlng darkness. His bile is of a
deeper color, and his blood is blacker than
the white mans. There is the same differ.
eHce in the flesh OF the white aud black
man, IN regard to color. that exists between
the flesh Of the rabbit aud the hare. His
bones are whittier and harder than those OF
the white race, owing to their containing
more phosphate of lime and less gela inc.
His head is hung on the atlas differently
from the white man; the face Is thrown
more upwards, and ;he neck is shorter and
less oblique; the spine more inwards, and
the pelvis more obIiqueiy optwards; The
thigh-bones larger, and iiattened from be.
fore backwards; the bones more bent; the
legs curved outwards, or bowed the feet,
fiat; the gastrocnemii muscles SO long, as
to make the ankle appear as if painted in
the middle of the foot the gait hopper.
hpped, or what the French call EaLttrc
dctdvltee, not unlike that OF person car
rying burden. The projecting mouth, the
retreaing forehead, the broad fiat nose,
thick lips and woolly hair, are pecnIiarities
that strike every behoder. According to
Semmerring and other anatomists, who
have dissected the negro, his brain is a
ninth or tenth less than III other races of
men, his facial angle smaller, and all the
nerves going from the brain, as also the
ganglionic system of her es, are larger in
proportion than in the white man. The
nerves distributed to the muscles are an ex-
ception, being smaller than in the white
race. SGmmerring remarks, that the ne
gro's brain has in great measure run into
nerves. One OF the most striking differ
ences is found, in the much greater size Of
the ftranaen nagnum IN the negro than
the white man. The !oramen. or oriice
between the brain and the spinal marrow,
| is not only larger, but the lnedulla oblonga-
ia, and particularly the nerves supplying
the abdominal and pelvic viscera. Al
/ though the nose il fiat, the turbnated
bones are more developed, and the p;ui
tary membrane lining the interna cavities
of the nose, more extensive than in the
white man, and causing the sense Of smell
to be more acute. The negro's hearing is
better, his sight is stronger, aud he seldom
needs spectaces.
The fed of oision is not so large IN the
negro's eye as in the white mans He
beafs the rays OF the sun better because he
is provided with an anatomical pecu larlty
in the inner canthus, contracting the fie d
o vision, and excluding the suns rays
formed by preternatural development Of
the plca unaris, like that which is observed
in apes. His initiative powers are very
great, and he can agitate every part of the
body at the same time, or what he calls
dancingsaU occr. From the diffusion of
the brain, as it were, into the various or
gans of the body, in the shape of nerves to
minister to he senses, everything, from the
necessity of such conformation, partakes
of sensuality, at the expense ofintellectua- of
ty. Thus, music is mere sensual plea
sure with the negro There is nothing in
his music addressing the understanding it
has melody, but no harmony his songs
are mere sounds without sense or meaning
pleasing the ear, without conveying a
single idea to the mind, his ear is graiied
by sound, as his stomach is by food The
great development of the nervous system,
and the profuse distribution of nervous
matter to the stomach, liver and genital or
gans, would make the Ethiopian race en-
tirely unmanageable, if it were not that
this excessive nervous development is as.
sociated with deficiency of red blood i'll
pulmonary and arterlal systems, from de.
fective atmospherization or arteria aIization
of the blood in the lungs-constitutlng the
, best type of what is called The lymphatiC
temperament, in which lymph, phlegm
Imucus, and other humors predominant ovei
5 the red blood. IL is this defective heinato
sig, or atmosphefization of the blood, con
i Joined with deficiency-of cerebral matter
: in the Uranium, and an excess OF nervous
1 matter distributed TO the organs of sensa
!, tion and assimilation, that is the true cause
n of thst debasement of mind, which has rem
e dered the people Of Africa unable to take
care of themselves 1t is the true cause o
e their Incidence and apathy, and why they
IS have chosen, through countless ages, idle
e ness, misery and barbarism, to industry ant
d ffugality,-why social industry, or assocla
n ted labor. so essential TO all progress in cl
d vilization and improvement, has neve
is made any progress among .hem'; as is pro
" we'd by the fact that no letters, or even hie
? rogyphics-no buildings, roads or improve
o lnents, or monuments OF any kind, are any
1t where found, TO Indicate that they hav'
l. ever been awakened from their apathy ant
N sleepy Incidence, to physical and mentaa
IS exertion. To the same physiological eau
le ses, deeply rooted in the organization, w
ID must look for ah explanation OF the strang
facts, why none of the languages oil the na
,f tive tribes OF Africa, as proved by ethnogfa
1t phicaI researches, have risen above com
IS mon names, standing for things aud ac
tions 10 abstract terms or generalfzalions
f. why no form OF government on abstrac
l. principles. with di isions OF power INT
le separate departments, has ever been instit1