Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-07-09
Judge DOuglas--Amalga.
mafi0m.

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Judge Douglas, in his Springfield speech
turned up his eyes in holy horror st ANAL
gamation Of the white and black races ant
dwelt on the great danger of it should Re
publicanism prevail. Slavery can bes
prevent the races from mixing, according tt
his theory, and the wider it is spread tht
less the danger of amalgamationl Set
how few facts and figures upset his non
amalgamation slavery theory. The Hon
A. Lincoln made speech in reply to Judge
Douglas, at Springfield, June 26th, anG
the sturdy old Kentucky-Illinoisan thu:
touched up.
DOUGLAS ON IMAGINATION
But Judge Douglas is especially horri-
fed al the thought of the mixing of the
blood by the white and black races: agreed
for once-a thousand times agreed. There
arc white men enough to marry all the
white women, and so let them be married.
On this point We fully agree with the
Judge; and when he shall show that his
policy is better adapted to prevent ANAL
gamation than ours, We shall drop ours,
and adopt his. Let US see. In 1850
there were in the United States 4O5, ,761
mulattoes. Very few of these were the
offspring of whites and free blacks; nearly
all have sprung from black slaves and white
masters. A separation of the races is the
only preventive of amalgamation; the next
best thing is to keep them apart whers
they are not already together. If white
and black people never get together in
Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kan
sas. That is atleast one self-eyident truth.
A few free colored persons may get into
the free States, in any event, but their num-
Der is too Insignificant to amount to much
in the way of mixing blood. In 1850,
there were in the free States, 56,649 mu-
lattoes; but for the most part they were
not born there-they came from the slave
States, ready made up. In the same year
the slave States had 34S,S74 mulatoes all
of home production. The proportion of
the free mulattoes to free blacks-the only
colored classes in the free States-is much
greater in the slave than in the free States.
1t is worthy of note, tco, among the free
States, those which make the colored man
the nearest to equal the white, have pro-
portionably the fewest mulattoes-the least
OF amalgamation. In New Hampshire,
the State which goes the farthest towards
equality between the races, there are just
1S4 mulattoes; while there are in Virginia
how many do you think ?-97,775, be-
ing 43, l2S more than in all the free States
togeter.
DOUGLAS IN FAVOR OF AMALGAMATION.
These statistics show that slavery is the
greatest source of amalgamation; and next
to it, not the elevation, but the degenera-
tion of the free blacks. Yet Judge Doug
las breads tho slightest restraints on the
spread of slavery, and the slightest human
Of the negro as tending horri-
bly, to amalgamation
This very Dred Scott ease affords
strong test as to which party most favors
amalgamation-the Republicans, or the
dear, Union saving Democracy. Dred
Scott, his wife, and two daughters, were all
involved in the suit. We desired the court
to have held that they were citizens, so far
ut least as to entitle them to hearing as
to whether they were free or not; and then,
also, that they were in fact and in law real
" free. Could we have our way, the
chances of these black girls ever mixing
heir blood with that of white people,
would have been diminished at least to the
extent that it could not have been without
heir consent. But Judge Douglas is de-
lighted to have them decided to be slaves,
and not human enough to have hearing,
,yen if they were free, and thus left to their
masters, and mullsttoes in spite of them
elves-the very state of the case that pro-
luces nine-tenths of all the mulattoes-all
he mixing of blood in the nation.
Of fcourse 1 state this as an illustration
'nly, not meaning to say or intimate that
he master of Dred Scott and his family,
II any more than per centage of masters
are inclined to exercise this par
icular power which they hold over their
emale slaves.
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