The Washington union., 1857-05-08

but their very equality may lead 10 discord unless il
is honorably acknowledged on either side. If they
treat each other equals and in the spirit of justice
there is no fear for the future. Such treatment
feel sure, our own government will extend to Eng
land and we viii anticipate different treatment in
return.
RACES OF MEN AND THEIR AMALGAMATIoN.
1t cannot be denied that there are different of
men, having some qualities in common, but in many
respects wholly dssmilar and unlike the persons
who compose them. These races have ever occupied
various relations to each other with varying conse-
quences to themselves Whenever they have come
in contact, one the other has been compelled TO
give way, or one has absorbed the other. The popu
ation of the earth has been continually changing
either its locality the relative importance of the
races which make up it's aggregate The number of
races, their individual Importance, and relative mer
its, do not propose to discuss. Universal history
teaches us that one race has pressed upon another
and displaced its locality occasioned its extinc
ton. Races have never amalgamated without vir
tnal destruction Wherever this has been attempted
almost without exception, the superior race has
sunk to the low and degraded position of the infe-
rior. The differences which mark them have, to a
great extent, been of character to preserve them
intact and prevent the attempt at amalgamaton.
The white races of Europe have never become
identified with the colored races of Asia, the
blacks of Africa. Few English have commingled
their blood with the Indians of America, while the
French, who did So have disappeared with the tribes
with whom they unnaturaly united, or have aban-
doned their loathsome embrace. The Spaniards in
Mexico and Central and South America who left their
equals and united with squalid and cringing infe-
riors have either been dropped from recollection or
observation sunk below all consideration among
civilized men. While their condition denies them
the consideration and comforts Of civilization, they,
as well as those Of the inferior race, have dwindled
to insgnifcance in numbers, and less in the charac
terstics which elevate and dignity civilized men.
Wherever the attempt has been made to elevate the
Indian race to the social position Of white men, Mr..
squires, in his "Notes on Central America truly
says it "has entaled eternal anarchy, and threatens
complete dissolution Of the body-politc." He fur
ther remarks:
.'To the understanding Of intelligent and rejecting
men, who are superior to the partisan and sectional is
sues of the hour these considerations fail ap
peal with controlling force for If the United States
compared with the Spanish American republics, has
achieved mmeasurable advance in all the elements OF
greatness that result is emnently due to the rigid and
inexoabe refusal of the dominant Teuonc stock to de-
base its blood impair its intellect lower its moral stand
ard peril its institutions by intermixture with inferior
In obedience to tho ordinances OF Heaven 1t has
rescued half continent from savage beasts and still
savage men, whose period of existence has terminated
and who must give place to higher organizations and
superior life. Shortsghted philanthropy may lament,
and sympathy drop it looks forward to the total
disappearance of the lower forms Of humanity but the
laws of nature are irrcyersible.
In another place he adds:
Neither the statesman political economist
safely overlook disregard these results since, by the
Of events and the multiplication of and fa
cilities of communication nations and and
brought In contact and the question of the nature
and character Of their relationship made of immediate and
practical Importance.
q. II may be claimed without hesitation that the wide
physical intellectual and moral differences which all his
tory and observation have distinguished existing be-
tween the various families of man. can be no longer
garded the consequences of accident of crcumsan
that Is to say 1t has come to be understood that
their physical moral and intellectual traits radical
and permanent and that there be admixture of
widely families of superior with inferior
races which be harmonious, otherwise than disas
In its consequences. Anthropological science has
determined the existence of two laws Of vital importance
in their application to men and nations:
q First That in all cases where free amalgamaton
takes place between two different races unrcstraincd
by what is sometimes called prejudice, but which is in
fact natural instinct the results the final and absolute
absorption Of one in the other This absorption is
rapid the of families thus brought in contact APP
proximatc in type, and in proportion the other
preponderates in numbers is to say nature perpe
iltes human hybrids as, for instance, permanent
race OF mulattoes.
Second That all violations of the natural distinctions
of race of those instincts which designed to per-
petuate the superior in their purity invariably
tail the most deplorabc results affecting the bodies in
telleots and moral perceptions of the nations who
thus blind to the wise designs of Nature and unmndfu
Of her laws In other words, the offspring Of such
binaons aalgamations not only generally deficient
physical constitution, in intellect and in moral
strant but to dagree which often contrasts untavorably
with any of the original stocks"
These laws Of nature, clearly stated, illus
tratcd by the history of the human race, aud as
applicable to the negro to the Indian. Each race
must be preserved distinct from the other, or
inferior from the face Of the earth
on the superior from it's position among civil
lied men No intermediate race has ever continued
long to exist; but on the contrary, all such have
soon disappeared. Those whose blood is mixture
of the white man and negro instead of rising to the
level of the former have fallen below the latter
and will soon pass away Those professed philantro
pists who propose to elevate the negro to the posi-
ton of the whites, by commingling blood by inter-