The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-10-05
For tho National Era.
WHAT BECOMES OF TIKI FREE COL0RBD
PEOPLE1

PEOPLEl
Is the subject of On article in the National
Era of August 81, signed by G., in which the
writer attempts to demonstrate that the color
ed mans blood, in this country, is running out;
and he makes moro false and evil statements,
in a short editorial, than have seen during
twelvemonth; and this, too by one wishing to
be regarded as par excellent Abolitonist
He asserts that every one of African de-
scent values himself in proportion to the de-
gree of white blood he has in his veins, and it
is rarely the case that mulattoes are willing
to form matrimonial alliances with persons
having less Caucasian blood. They are will
ing to take no step backwards in their pro-
gress to the level of the whites, and, except
among such as possess rigid ideas of virtue
the females prefer illicit intercourse with white
men, to matrimoDy with men one shade dark
or than themselves.
This is cool piece Of Islander, and a pro-
fessed Abolitionist ought to be ashamed to put
it forth to the world. If colored men (every
one of them) have no higher ambition than to
ape white, and colorod women no moro self
respect and taste than to prefer to be in the
harems of white men, to being the wives of
colcred, what right has the brainless advocate
of the negro to ask for him equal privileges in
society?
The Charleston Mercury needs no better
argument to nail him and his AbolitiOnism, as
base coin, to the counter.
The writer admits no difference between the
colored people living North and those living
South, and he takes it for granted that they
are all alike And because some mutton head
ed negroes in North or South Carolina have
formed quadroon societies, to please their white
oppressors, he presumes that such mongrel
monstrosities exist all over the country.
We do not appreciate ourselves according to
the quantity of white blood we have in our
veins and we care no more for white than we
do for black, or red, or gray, or blue, or any
other kind of blood, and we ere simple enough
to believe that black blood is as good as white.
Nor is it fact that mulattoes, as rule, are
not willing to Join in matrimony with persons
having less Anglo-Saxon blood. On the con-
trary, 1t is very common and if G. will come
to Cincinnati, will bring him acquainted with
husbands and wives of all shades of complex.
ion, from the white to the glossy black. will
show him mulattoes with blacks, blacks with
| samboes, samboes with mestice provided the
| sight does not addle his brain, for | have a
deep sympathy for skin deep philosophers.
We are willing, confess, I" to take no step
| backwards,D in our march to the condition Of
| an American Citizen but we have yet to learn
that to degrade our females with white liber-
| tines, is going up. Our females scorn Illicit
| intercourse with white men, and, except in
slaveholding communities, it is not tolerated
| for moment. white man with q colored
| miss could no more be respected here, than
could highway robber.
M. De Tocqueville, in his Democracy in
America is wrong in supposing that because
we desire our rights in common with white
men, we thereby acknowledge that we are
naturally inferior to the whites" He would
hardly apply this argument to the Italians the
Poles, the Hungarisns, or the Turks, in their
struggle for liberty. We have an "undying
ambition to take rank on the level of the
whites,D because we are men, and deem our
selves the equals of our oppressors: and we IN
tend not to allow the opinion of De Tocquevilie
or G., or any other sham lover of our race, to
deter us from climbing the hill Of Parnassus
even though it should be on the level of the
Greek
"Practical amalgamation and climate will
constantly tend to brighten the dark visages of
the African stock, and TO wash out all stain
from the mulsstoes.o Fudge!
Illicit smalgamation is dragging 10 the South,
but it is q rara ac,s in the North, and when
slavery is abolished, 1t will not flourish any
where The whites have not amalgamated
with the blacks, and see no more desire for
il to-day than there was yesterday; and,
think, if G. lives one hundred years, he will
still find the dark visages OF the African
stock" to haunt him by day and by night just
as
Celestial Venus haunts Idalis's groves"
We wish our rights as colored men, not as