The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-06-09
RACES OF MEN AND THEIR ANAL
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uo as hhO RSaSAS WV
compose them. These races have ever oc-
cupied various relations to each other, with
! varying consequences to themselves
! Whenever they have como in contact, ono
or the other has been compelled to give
way, or one has absorbed the other. The
population of the earth has been continual
ly changing. either its locality or the rela-
| tive Importance of the races which make up
its aggregate. The number of races, their
individual Importance and relative merits,
we do not propose to discuss. Universal
history teaches us that one race has pressed
upon another, and displaced its locality, or
occasioned its extinction. Races have
never amalgamated without virtual destruc-
ton. Wherever it has been attempted, al
most without AN exception, the superior race
has sunk to the low and degraded position
of the inferior. The differences which
mark them have, to great extent, been of
character to preserve them intact and
prevent the attempt at amalgamation.
The white races of Europe have never
become identified with the colored races of
Asia, or the blacks of Africa. Few English
have commingled their blood with the In
dians of America, while the French, who
did so, have disappeared with the tribes
with whom :hey unnaturally united, or have
abandoned their loathsome embrace. The
Spaniards in Mexico and Central and South
America, who left their equals and united
with squalid and cringing interiors, have
either been dropped from recollection or
observation. or sunk below all consideration
among civilized men. While their condition
denies them the consideration and comforts
of civilization. they, we'll as those of the
inferior race. have dwindled to insignifi-
canoe in numbers, and less in the charac-
teristics which elevate and dignity civilized
nen. Wherever the attempt has been made
to elevate the Indian race to the social po-
sition of white men, Mr. Squires, in his
''Notes on Central America" truly says, it
''has entailed eternal anarchy, and threatens
complete dissolution of the body polite"
He further remarks: --.
'.To the understanding of intelligent and
rejecting men. who are superior to the par
tisan and sectional issues of the hour, these
considerations cannot fail to appeal with
controlling force for if the United States,
as compared with the Spanish American re-
publics, has achieved an immeasurable ad-
vance in all the elements of greatness, that
result is eminently due to the rigid and in
exorable refusal of the dominant Teutonic
stock to debase its blood, impair its intel
lect, lower its moral standard, or peril its
institutions by interinizture with inferior
races. In obedience to the ordinances of
Heaven it has rescued half a continent from
savage beasts and still more savage men,
whose period of existence has terminated,
and who must give place to higher organi-
cations and superior life. Short sighted
philanthropy may lament, and sympathy
drop tear as it looks forward to the total
disappearance of the lower forms of human
ity, but the laws of nature are irreversible."
In another place he adds:
"Neither the statesman nor political
economist can safely overlook or disregard
these results, since, by the course of events,
and the multiplication of means and facili-
ties of communication, nations and races
are more and more brought in contact. and
the question of the nature and character of
their relationship made of immediate and
practical importance.
sit may be claimed without hesitation
that the wide physical, intellectual and
moral differences which all history and OBJ
servation have distinguished as existing be-
tween the various families Of man, can be
no longer regarded as the consequences of
accident or of circumstances; that is to say,
it has come to be understood that their ply
sical, moral and intellectual traits are radi-
cal and permanent, and that there can be
no admixture of widely separated families.
or of superior with inferior races. which can
be harmonious or otherwise than disastrous
in its consequences. .Anthropological science
has determined the existence of two laws of
vital Importance in their application to men
and nations.
First. That in all cases where free
amalgamation takes place between two diff
ferent races unrestrained by what is some
times called prejudice, but which is. in fact.
a natural instinct. the result is the final and
absolute absorption Of one in the other
This absorption is more rapid as the races
of families thus brought in contact approx
innate in type, and in proportion as one or
the other preponderates in numbers-that
is to say, nature perpetuates no human by
birds, as, for instance, permanent race of
mulattoes-
..Seeond. That all violations of the natur-
al distinctions Of race. or of those instinct-
which were designed to perpetuate the su-
perior races in their purity, invariably en-
tail the most deplorable results. affecting
the bodies, inteIlects. and moral perceptions
of the nations who are thus blind tn the
wise designs of Nature. and unmindful OF
her laws. In other words, the offspring OF
such combinations or amalgamations are not
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