Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-01-18
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or free negro that would not start back il
horror and dismay from the frightful consequences
which now in their blind wickedness and ignoran
Intatuatlon they are so earnestly laborlng for.
/ We have been permitted to look over the memo
randa and notes of gentleman who has been en-
gagged several years in investigating this subject, and
which are now ready for publication, and for the
benefit of our readers give the results, the lead
ing results thus arrived at.
1st-A white man married to. or cohabitng with
negress there will be fewer children than with the
unmixed blood
2nd-Ths offspring intermarrying with other hy-
brids will have still fewer children
3d-This offspring intermingling with hybrids or
muattoes Of the same degree remove will exhibit
a still lower degree of vitality.
| 4th-Mulattoes of the third generation are exceed
| ingly fragile and rarely reach maturity.
| 5th--The fourth generation of the mixed blood
positively incapable of reproducing themselves
as the mule or as any of the hybrds in the sin
gle generation.
These general conclusions are derived from a vast
number of facts and they are confirmed by the OBJ
! servaton of every man living in localities where
this mixed material is found and indeed by the whole
history OF the past for such thing a new race
or community springing, from two different races
never has, it never will be seen.
Prtchard and other European writers, with no
practical knowledge of any race except their own,
set out 10 collect facts TO confirm their theory that
Mongols, Malays, Indians, negroes, &c., all
Caucaslans or white men-hat is no matter what
their external appearances, that they all had the
Same faculties and the same nature the 200 mil
lions of Europe.
The great point relied on to prove the unity or
oneness'of all these diverse beings the vrllty of
mulatos. Naturalsts rely upon the fertility of off
spring as test OF species-tbus the mule is sterile
therefore the horse and different species.
But they found the muatto begat offspring, therefore
the white and negro, they said constituted single
species.
1t is strange, indeed and absolutely discreditable
10 the scientific men of America, that this absurd
conclusion, rather that this absurd assu nplion
has not been exploded. single moments rehec-
ton sufficient to show its unsoundness, even to a
non-scienfc person. or any ignorant of the facts
involved, yet the whole European scientific world
has hitherto accepted it basis starting point
for all their reasonings on this subject end imposed
1t on ourselves White men and negroes are human
beings, horses and are animal beings, therefore
the inductions OF Frtchard are necessarily false.
But he was equally false in his facts assumed facSt
he muatto Is as positively sterile the mule, but
being human, while the mule is merely animal, this
sterity, of course, manifests itself in widely differ
ent manner
The muatto, with constantly diminishing vitality.
reaches its limits in the fourth generation, beyond
which it is impossible to reproduce itself as it is
to the former to pass beyond the single generation.
The rule of naturalists is as reliable in
case the other, when all the facts are presented
and in their proper order thus the mule an animal
limited to sing gene alton cannot reproduce itself
therefore horses and different species-thus
too the muiatto, human being limited to four gene
ations cannot reproduce ITSELF therefore whites and
negroes different species.
Hybildty varies, OF course not merely in regard
TO men and animals but among the latter vet on
this wretched assumption that the mule and muIao
must manifest or must be tested by precisely the
same formula has rested, and still rests the whole
European dogma single race, and the cOnse-
quent conclusion that the social system of half of the
States of this Union is n1onstrous outrage on rea-
son and humanity
We have only to apply these Physiological data, OF
have only to contemplate the doctrines Of aboli-
ionsm in the light of these facts to where it would
end. The abolltiOnlsts, excepting the European as
SUMPTION OF single race, demand that the three
millions of negroes be Immediately declared Free and
placed on common legal and political level with
the twenty millions of whites If this were done it
would be followed of course, sooner or later by ad-
mixture OF bood-these negroes would disappear
there would be only mulatloes-then mongrels and
finally with the diminishing vitality of the mongrel
element, time would come when every drop or par
cIe of negro blood would utterly disa ppear as if
there had never been negro this continent.-
And here is where these 4m1S deS nOirS' would end
their hldeous philanthropy impious humanity
in the death-the utter extinction of their proeges
But this annhiation of the negro, repusive as il
is to our sentiments of humanity is not all or ever
the worst feature of this hdeous anti slavery ENTER
Prise Mulatoism is an abnormasm-a disease
condition of extreme suffering individuals of the
first or second generation may be unconscious
OF 1t, but physicians OF extensive experience know
that while few reach old middle age, that
the amount of suffering,the imperfect development
the fragilIty-the malformaton-the difficult and
painfnl CESSATION among this class Of the population,
make up an amount of misery extensive and terri
BILE, that nature kindly inerposes to stop it by limit
ing existence itself and in view of this condition
this suering-ihis abnormalism deformed and trans
formed secol dairy disease humanity, and leaving
our own race entirely out of view, there be
doubt that to instantly slaughter all the negroes of
this Union would be act OF high humanity in COM
passion In other words to cut the thloats of the
three millions Of negroes at the South would be
generous and humane in contrast with the - free
om'-equality- -bibridsm-mongrel relsm
decay and final extinction proposed by abolition
ism.
10 ourseves-our own race-progress--thc cause
OF clVilIzallon-the of aboionism, would be
trIghtful, bui probably not fatal 1t would be hide
ulcer the social organism but at its extremi-
ties, not it's heart, and the nation oud not only
slough it off but in the of time probably re-
cover from it, The treedOm--e equality admixture
OF the three millions OF negroes would involve the
social destruction - the debauchment, decay and
death of three millions of whites, bat there would
still remain seventeen millions pure and uncontami-
mated.
And though the nation would be enteebled and
the cause OF progress embarrassed-though it might
require many centuries TO recover from such wick
ed and mpious DETACHMENT of the laws Of nature and
the ordinances of God, proposed by this hdeous
and obscene anllsavery enterprise, nevertheless the
predOmlnatng vitality of the seventeen millions of
pure and unsulIied Caucasian would re act and save
the Republic and with it the cause of civilization and
true humanity on This continent
SNoRING.-OId Hick was an awful snorer. He