Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-08-21


thus I'VE hold these truths to be self
evident: that all British subjects rLo nere
on this continent eiyhty-one gears ago nere
created equal to all British subjects born
and tica residing in Great Britain"
A DIRECT APPEAL.
And now | appeal to ALTO D mocrats
as we'll as Others, are you really willing that
the Declaration shall be thus frittercd
away? thus left no more, at most, than an
Interesting memorial of the dead past
thus shorn of its vitality and practical
value, and left without the germ or even
suggestion Of the individual rights of man
in it!
AMALGAMATIoN AGAIN.
But Judge Douglas is especially horri-
fled at the thought Of the mixing blood by
the white and black race. Agreed, for
onee-a thousand times agreed. There
arc black men enough to marry all the
black women and so let them be mar.
ried. On this point we will fully agree
with the Judge; and when be shall show
that his policy is better adapted to prevent
anal gamation than ours, We shal! drop
ours, sand adopt his. Let us see. In 1850,
there were, in the United States, 405,-
15l mulattoes. Very few of these were
tie offspring Of whites and free blacks !;
nearly all have sprung from jtdck stac.s
and whde masters. A separation Of races,
is the only perfect preventative of ANAL
gamation but as an immediate separation
is impossible, the next best thing is to
keep them apart ,cheye they are not alrca-
dy together. If white and black people
never get together in Kansas, they will
never mix blood in Kansas: that is at
least one self-evident truth. A few free
colored persons may get into the free
States, in any event, but their number is
too Insignificant to amount to much in the
way of mixing blood. In 1850, there
were in the free States, 56, $40 mulattoes;
but for the most part they were not born
there-they came from the Stare States,
reddy made up. In the same year, the
slave States bad 34S,S74 mulattocs, all
Of home production. The proportion of
free mulattoes to free blacks (the only
colored classes in the free States is much
greater in the slave States. 1t is worthy
of note, too, that among the free States,
those who make the colored man the near
est to equal the white, have proportiona-
bly, the fewest mulattoes-the least of
amalgamation. In New Hampshire, the
State which goes furthest towards equali-
ty between the races, there are just lS4
mulattoes while there are in Virginia
how many do you think ?-97,775, being
43,12G more than in all the free States to-
gether!
DOUGLAS IN FAVOR OF AMALGAMATIoN.
These statistics show that slavery is
the greatest source of anal gamation; and,
next to it, not the elevation, but the de.
generation Of the free blacks. Yet Judge
Douglas breads the slightest restraints on
the spread of slavery, and the slightest
human recognition of the negro, as tend
Ing horribly to amalgamation
This very Dred Scott case affords a
strong test as to which party most favors
amalgamation-the Republicans, or the
Democracy. Dred Scott, his wife and
two daughters, were all involvod in tho
suit. We desired the court to have held
that they were citizens, so far at 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, really
free Could we have had our way, the
chances Of these black girls ever mixing
their blood with that Of white people,
,.lJ h..a hoo, eo J;,o;n;sboJ ,t la,ct
that it could not have been without their
consent But Judge Douglas is delighted
to have them decided to be slaves, and
not human enough to have hearing,
even if they were free, and thus left to the
forced concubinage of their masters, and
liable to become the mothers of mulattoes
in spite of themselves-the very state Of
the case that produces nine-tenths of all
the mulattoes-all the mixing Of blood in
the nation
OF course, state this as an illustration
only, not meaning to say or intimate that
the master of Dred Scott and family, or
any more than per centage of masters,
generally, are inclined to exercise this par
ticular power which they hold over their
female slaves
SEPARATION OF THE SLAVES.
have said, that the separation of the
races, is the only perfect preventative of
amalgamation. l have no right to say all
the members of the Republican party are
in favor of it. There is nothing in their
platform directly on the subject But l
can say very large proportion ofits MEM
bers are for it, and that the chief plank
in their pla,form-oppOsition to the spread
of slavery-is most favorable to that sep
aration. Such separation, if evef effected
at all, must be effected by colonization
and no political party, as such, is now do
ing anything for colonization. Party op-
eratious at pressn. only favor or retard
colonization incidentally. The enterprise
if difficult one but "where there is a
will there is way !" aud wtatcolonization
needs most, is hearty will. VIII springs
from the two elements Of moral sense and
self interest. Let US be brought to be.
lieve it is morally right, and, at the same
time, favorable to, or, at least, not against,
our interest, to transfer the African to his
native cline, and we shall find way to
DO il, however great the task may be