New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-04

z, gian5sr's ApgO-Saxon;sm sra accordingly Of
the two We prefer tie brner.
This city il the basis Of operations for iaa rival
Celtic school Of thinbers. The mos! prominent
men.of-yslor sttached to Ceticsm are Or. AcEl-
beran. std BIS faithful aDd loving sqGires, Messrs
darcy Niece and John Michel. The Celtic
American s.sletes sre wonderfully prone to mix up
srd embrol The scientific, ethical and historical Ia
v,.tgations of ettnology with Ii, whirlpool Of
coteu poiaIy politics. In this los their peculiarly,
ard By the sid of this condnent theI add flavor 10
the dIyness and pedsOtry Of strict scence' We
Rave word TO say TO both these wsrriDs ts;'IonS'
and we wish 10 say il before they come into
bit.e-er co ll;son with esch other than heretofore,
aad before they have injected vet larger portions
Of cur body polite with their several notions.
The last census. that Of 1850. informs Us that
..the great u.ss Of the white population of this
" country is Of Teutonc origin, with considera-
Z. be adu ;1ture Of Celtic" Following tie exam
ple If Mr. Kennedy We will ignore The presence OF
the Lstp. the black, the red snd the yellow races
and Will coufne ourselves 20 the dominant white
race in America considered with reference toits al
leced chief primsry eleuents-Teutonc and Celac.
We obiec, both to the Bostonian and the New. York
Ethr oog;cal schools; we hold both 70 Re mistaken
and uisebieyous We are 8 mixed community.
We obitc. to the glOrifcatiOn and ldouzaaon OF
atorig Di.m, under any denomination, as lead
ing element Of civilization sud social progress.
Civilized populations everywhere are app to be OF
mixed descent. are bastard, sccordiUg to the ter
uinol-ay Of our aboriginal and pure-breed philo-
sorheI.. The more savage AID Isolated popula'
ton IT, he more sure ii is to be Of pure breed. No
freedom. owing. tiuth-loving Teuton, chiSarous,
ronsn,ic imacnati7e Celt, proud of his race,
can equal the FetjceaD, the Digger Indian or the
Bushmsn in purity Of descent. On the other hand,
the area, seats of The worlds civilization, the CEN
tiers where the intellectual and industrial products
Of mans Industry are exchanged, are inhabited BY
the most mixed and CULTIVATED" populations.
From this heterogereousness there springs eYen'u-
ally more Eerftc. homOgenety incompatably
superior 10 any one of It's primary constituents II
is 70 With IL. This transitory huryburly and con-
fusion Of tongues and races wilI we dare say
eyertuats 10 some product infinitely more complete
than ary separate quotient Of the same. This IS
the great lesson read to US alike By the animal and
vegetable Kingdoms. The delicious fruits that
erstis the taste Of tho civilized man. the beautiful
flowers that decorate his existence--what are they
but tie results Of long process of ENGRAVING on
foreign stocks, bybri5zation with foreign plants,
implsntrg in foreign coils, and nurture under con-
ditoLs alien to the Latiye stock How little they
:. 4 r a. fynu ha IN an
bic products f the forest seeding or the insgnifi-
can't Wild 1owrets Of the prairie.
America can never be either Teutonic or Celtic,
and i is ole of the best features OF society that
here abcrignism finds Itself surrounded BY an at
mosphere unfsyorab.e nay, fatal TO is self expan
zion and seltlaudatIor. the tendency Of our sOcie
IL is TO ass miate and amalgaRate; the permanent
co.dtioa Of barbarian to Isolate snd TO repe inter
course. The majestic march of civilization removes
spcient laI dmaIhs, strapges time-h Onored super
stitons and crunbles to pieces the barriers thai
divide race from race, aud prevent the human
family from becoming oLe These are mere tru'sms,
but they are sufficient to put The snobb,h assump-
items Of the pure breeds to the blush.
There il no evil which dees not contain some
small adm.xiure of good, and it is consolation to
rtnt CT that the q1ares aud euds Of races Ike the
Teuton AID Celtic will swallow up aud supercede
a bOe host Of minor international animOsitles. The
ftud between one kiadred sep. ard another bet ~eer
one kindred tribe and another, between one kindred
ra,ion lid another, is still lower in the scale of so
cial Development than the rivalry Of race with
We ierytnty trust that our weI-educsted citizens
have risen 10 the conception Of the huuun faulty
considered a. whole; but #. on the contrary,
they are ben; Or feud, they may as well quarrel
On lie subject Of their race IS on any other