New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-16

introduced in l72I and that in ZIP there were bu'
twelve negroes throughout Tie vast extent OF the colony
Accordingly the probability Of the alleged tant mu's De
regarded as very small
By the testimony adduced it would seem that those
who weather the fever may live IN high state Of pro-
seryaton in New Orleans witnesses were brought 70
the stand from the ages Of 90 to 10, giving queer,
paif old detas. Of men and women, things and cns-
toms nearly a century ago To establish the fact that
the Apcestress o: the plaintiff Indian and not
muntto Of African combination drewforth quantity
of te,,imouy as to Kind of social relations that
we have no intention of AnAlyzing; but the evil
denee wa. curious a. showing that aristocracy
does not bear showing up anywhere. Even though
it escape negro blood it s,umbes over acoooers work
bench or al old wonans apple stall, and 10 fact is
very ordinary crockery at beat
Nevertheless LouisADian eOquence was ervid In
exatiDg the Indian character and debasng the African
as zone step from the brute" The case, though
already contested for many days. is not yet decided
Tho community of New. Orleans is divided on the qles
ton into two hostile camps, that it was very hard
work 10 impanne jury who had not formed or ex-
pressed an opinion the question Indeed so greas
was this difficulty that twelve jurors could not DO
found and the parties after all sorts OF efforts to com
pete the panel obliged By mutual consent to 60
to trial with only nine. From the testimony thus far
the plaintiff has the best of it, His grestgreat grand
mother appears to have been Indian slave and not
mulatto slave an important point in Louisiana carry
ing honor or dshonor social esteem disgrace IN its
folds This aspect OF the matter may be changed,
however, when the evidence of the defendant comes
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the course of the trial not only the Panaeys but half
the Creole families of New-Orleans may be proved to
be Of negro extraction.
In reading the evidence adduced on this trial the
mind is forced back to that barbarous in the old
world, when, as now at Orleans, human dignity
was based on the purity OF arstocratc blood unsul-
Lied by airy ignoble mixture, such as intermarriage
in with the riltain whether burgher peasant. Thus
many of the Canon chapters in the great Cathedras Of
Europe as for example in those OF Strasburg and
Mayence, admission granted exclusively TO the
noble born and before was admitted, he was OBJ
iged TO prove by sixteen members of his paterna and
the same number of his maternal ancestry-in all by
thiry.twO technically called quarters that of
them were of impure, riHGin, or nonnoble race. In
Germany, at the present day the same barbarism ex
lists ard many arisocratc families ruled by do
nestle code called House Law, by whose provisions
male marrying woman from burghers or peasants
family forfelts certain rights and privileges, such as
that of prmOgeniture and that of seat in the House
of German Peers. Thus too in the eyes of European
aristocracy. we Americans sre considered all as of
rain or at least of sullied origin the proud slave
holders of the South not excepted. A German Pan
dely taking wife from the family OF any southern
planter would find in a moment some rascally Witt
denounce his children of impure blood and to ex
pei his sons from any German Senate
As fact in America this trial is one simply among
the thousands of the infamous and revolving Oishoos
of the peculiar institution. But for Slavery, how alb
surd would the inquiry whether some generations
ago, the warmer current Of Africa mingled in the
veins of mans forgotten ancestors But for Slavery,
what social degradation would be involved in the pos
session OF richer hue OF the skim provided talent,
character and other manly traits distinguished the in
dividuall 1t is melancholy spectacle this renewal
in an American city of Investigations proper to the
middle ages. But where human bondage is the indus
trial basis Of Society polish and civiize the surface
as you please, there is barbarian in every part.