The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-28

black races; nor in the practical operations OF
our government do we find the African or
Indian tribes admitted to the same social
and political footing with the white races. The
result has been distinct, homogeneous, self
sustaining and constantly improving governing
element in our population, to which negroes
and Indians, and all the inferior mixed races,
are subservient. One of the strongest objec-
lions of Mr.. Webster against the incorporation
of California and New Mexico into our Union,
was that it would infuse into our governing
population of pure European extraction the
pebald Mexican hybrids, resulting from the
miscellaneous intercourse Of negroes, Indians
and Spaniards, and all recognized as among the
sovereign Mexican people. But the evils anti
oipated by Mr. Webster from this infusion was
prevented in New Mexico and California by an
American emigration sufficient to overwhelm
the Indigenous hybrids, or to hold them in
peaceful subsection. The present delegate from
New Mexico to Congress is Of pure Spanish
descent nor is it likely that negro, or mu-
latto, or an Indian, will ever be sent from that
Territory as its official representative at
Washington.
But it is to this deterioration Of the Spanish
race in Mexico, and in all the Spanish States
south of it to New Granada, from its promis-
cuous crossings with negroes and Indians; and it
is to the practical recognition, more or less, fall
these different varieties of cross-breeds, to the
same political and social level with the pure
white races, in most of the Spanish republics,
that they are indebted for their constant down.
ward tendency to anarchy and ultimate extinc-
ton. The effects of this promiscuous amalga-
nation have operated not only in a general de-
terioration Of the Mexican population, but they
are strikingly presented in the census of that
country. Twenty, or even thirty years ago,
we believe the aggregate population Of the re-
public was some seven millions, and from all
the information at hand, we are not aware that
it is greater than seven millions at this day.
Hybrids may be occasionally prolific, but they
are physically and mentally effemiRate and
short lived. But we have no space for further
argument. We take this postion-that the fun
damental error Of the Spanish-American repub-
lies, to which all their subsequent misfortunes
and their present hopeless imbecilty may be
traced, is the deterioration of the population by
the amalgamaton Of the white with inferior
races, and the admission of the hybrids to the
same social and political footing with the ur-
adulterated whites. We care nothing for statu-
tory regulations to the contrary, (if any there
are,) so long as the practical working Of popu
lar government in the Spanish States has been
to admit whites and hybrids to common level
as the sovereign people.
Contrasted with this pernicious system of
equality, we turn to the careful and rigid dis
elimination preserved in the United States,
which excludes both the inferior races of In
least discernible infusion Of African blood even
in the white man, from equality with the
whites, socially or politically. To this end the
institution of Southern slavery has been the
controlling power. Let Southern slavery be
abolished, and let whites and blacks, and their
miscellaneous offspring, be admitted to the
same political and social level, and before the
expiration Of fifty years we shall have fully
realized (even should we escape the horrors Of
st. Domingo) al the evils of the revolutions
and anarchy which have ground poor Mexico
and her Spanish-American neighbors to the
dust. And yet the social and political equality
of the African with the Caucasian is part and
parcel Of the abolition programme, of which the
Nebraska agitation is out passing incident.
Let us abide by the safeguards Of the constitu-
ion.
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