New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-19
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y.,o.a IN nv recently published work, " Not" on
Central A~sriea." do not consider myself caied
yvsn 70 eet night the egregow blunders INTO wnch
Frr Ta,rusx has fallen in what calls Its teahda-
a.. &C facts nor vet 10 coBtroyert the conclusions
-NLh ha. hpiIt upon that very ncketty fouodation.
~, ,,h.n 7 am represented as being zone OF the
,o.s ,hooueh going disciples Of that school of man.
..t destiny 6y ~hieh pIunder IS jisfief on pho-
~ ~so,A;eai prisep'es"-that propose to reen'orce
.the white blood of Central America and reesablish
she aristocIacy Of color there by aHberSl 'a''on @
- North American fii6ssters;" and foally that |
have gone TO the length Of hating and ma'tgHing'
ne mixed races of that country, pih all the feroeay
sef dsappoinsed roDDer"-when, am represented
m doing and proposing all this conceive that have
rsht 10 call for the proofs and TO ask that the read
en- Of TEE TRIBUNE shall have opportunity OF
}udgipg il these allegations be true Let The TRIBUNE
yriut the FIVE pages Of my book in which u comprised
al that have said upon the subjects 10 "hch " Ie-
krs.
Its readers will then see that have not Written
sipQle word In "hste" or "malgnity nsaihs. 'ne
,.a,,,e Of Central Arnerca--whte, mixed or Indians;
and that, far from "justfying hhbusterism On PM
slesophical principles" or proposing to reestabsh
the ar;stocracy Of caste by liberal infusion of North
SAmercsn fiEbusters," have urged upon the people
Of that country to encourage emigration, and " to
~sdopt an intelligent system Of colonization as the
only means. in my judgment, of correcting many OF
the evils which prevail among them, and of averting
"thoss more violent means which, among men as in
"the material world often anticipate the slower oper
atons of natural laws that is to say, foreign
Invasion; or, what The TRIBUEK would call " fill
busterm." For it is eposterous TO suppose thst
country 20 inviting in climate and rich in resources as
Central America and moreover situated in the very
highway between the two oceans, could long be
permitted to remain in the dominion OF savage
nature, or under the control Of races who, IN
stead Of developing its wealth or improving the
sifts which God has given them, seem to have re-
signed themselves to hopeless and demoralizug an.
arehy, under the influences of which industry and
commerce have been paralyzed, the arts have died,
religion has become a sham, education carcature,
and constitution and laws made the instruments OF
rapine assassination and murder the part OF ire
spensible chetans and reckless factions. Of them,
o. Of the barren fig tree in the parable could not fail
soon 10 be asked the pregnant question "Why cum
Der they the ground fortunate if not followed by
the ttern command enforced by the universal Judge
meut Of mankind, "Cut them down."
For the people of Central America have an un-
bounded sympathy, which think may claim has
been manifested in something substantial than
from them, with rare exceptions, large and generous
friendship. But while engaged in advancing their
material interests by presenting the character and re-
sources Of their country to the world, should be
equally unioyal to them and unjust to myself did
hesitate TO point out them the sources of the evils
which afct their social and political condition, and
have rendered them prey TO ignorance, superstition,
domestic anarchy and foreign aggression. This task is
one which / would gladly have avoided, and have
snly performed il from q sense of duty for which
headlOng partsans of foregone conclusions or blind
Sevotees of systems like The TRIBUNE, will refuse
70 give me credit.
That may be wrong in my views OF the causes OF
these evils not unlikely, and my conclusions are ie
Ultimately open to CONTROVERSY, perhaps to censurc
But in any discussion 10 which they may give rise,
have right TO be fairly represented; and here deny
Chat The TRIBUNE has any warrant for using the gross
and offensive language which have quoted above,
in anything which have written IN the book under
notice or in any other 1t will, therefore, only pay
proper tribute to honesty and conform 10 the ordinary
instincts of fairness and justice by printing the para
graphs against which it's article of the 4th di-
rected require no other better vindicaton from
the attack which that article contains.
I.m,ke E.G. soUIEn
Para, Jan. a, 1885
Sy1fers
It may be claimed without hesitation that the wide
physical intellectual and moral differences which all
history and observation have distinguished az existing
between the various families Of man. can be no longer
regarded the of accident or of crcuu
stances that is to say it has come to be understood
that their physical moral and intellectual traits are
radical and permanent, and that there can be no ad-
mixture of widely-separated families, or of superior
with inferior races which be harmonious, other
wise than disastrous in its consequences. Anthropo
logical science has determined the existence of two
laws Of vital importance in their application to men
and nations.
First; That in all cases whero a free amagamstion
takes place between two different stocks, unresrained
by what is sometimes called prejudice, but which is in
fact natural stnct the result is the fual aud abso
Lutte absorption of in the other. This absorption
"a more rapid the or families thus brought in
contact approximate IN type, and in proportion as one
or the other preponderates in numbers that is to say,
Nature perpetustes human bybrd as, for instance
a permanent race Of mulattoes.
Socosd; That all violations of the natural distinc-
ons of race, of those instincts which were designed
TO perpetuate the superior in their purity, invar
ably entail the most deporabe results, affecting the
bodies intelects, and moral perceptions OF the
nations who are thus blind to the wise designs of
Nature, and unnlndfu Of her laws. In other words,
the offspring of such combinations anal carnations
are not only generally deficient in physical consitu
tion in intellect, and in moral restraint but to de-
gree which often contracts unfsyoraby with any of the
original stocks.
In no respect are these deficiencies more obvious
than In matters affecting Government. We need only
point TO the ansrchca States OF Spanish America TO
verify the truth of the propositions here laid down.
In Central and South America, and Mexico, we find
people not only demorahzed from the unsrained
citation Of different racee but aaO the superior stocks
becoming gradually absorbed in the lower, and their
institutions disappearing under the relative barbarsm
Of which the latter are the exponents. III existing
and conditions continue 10 operate, many years
cannot pass before some Of these countries viii have
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