The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-07-09

H'h. a. Lincoln, OF Springfield, Illinois. re-
Gently delivered in the Hall Of Representa-.
tives, in the capitol Of that S.ate, a very able
speech in reply to one Of Judge Douglas, de.
iivered few days before, from which we
m.kc the following extract, showing in very
clear and conclusive manner that amalg ANA )
ton Of the white and black races is the Ieeiti.
mate fruit Of slavery. Hear Mr.. Lincoln.
"But Judge Douglas is especially horriied
at the thought Of the mixing blood BY the
white aud back races; agreed for once--a
thousand times agreed. There are white men
enough to marry all the white women, and
black men enough to marry all the black wo.
men; and % let them b. married. On this
point we fully agree with the Judge: and when
be shall show that his policy y better adapted
to prevent amalgamation than ours, we shall
drop ours and adopt lis. Let u see. III
1850 there were in the United States 405 Isl
mulsttoes. Very Few Of these are the offspring
Of whites and free blacks, nearly all have
sprung from black s!apes and white masters.
A separation OF the races is the only perfect
preventative OF amalgamation, but as an imme.
date separation is impossible, the next best
thing is TO keep them apart where they are hot
already together. II 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 colorsd per-
sons may get into the free States, in any event;
but their number II too magnificent 10 amouns
to much in the way Of mixing blood In 1850
there were in the free States, sc, $40 mulattoes:
but tor 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 $40 ,87d mulattoes ali OF home production.
The proportion Of free mrlattoes to free
blacks--the only colored classes in the free
States-is much greater in the slave than in
the free States. It's worthy Of note, too, that
among the free States those which make the
colored man the nearest to equal the white,
have rrcportionately the fewest mulattoes the
least Of amalgamation. In New Hampshire,
the State which goes farthest towards equality
between the races, there are just 1874 nulat-
toes, while there are In virginia---how many
do you think 70 IT'S, being %, l26 more than
in al the free States together.
s.These statistics show that slavery is the
greatest source Of amalgamstion and next /,
1t, not the elevation, but the degradation OF The
free blacks. Yet Judge Douglas breads the
slightest restraints on the spread of slavery.
and the slightest human recognition OF the ne
gro, As tending horribly to amalgama.ion.
"Ihe bred Scott case affords strong test
a, 10 which party most favors amalgsmation,
Republicans or dear Union-saving democracy.
bred Scott, his wifi. and two daughters were in
volved in the suit. We desired the court to
have held that they were citizens so fan at
least as to sntitls them to hearing az to
whether they were tree Or not and then, al
50, that they were 10 fact and in law really
free. Gould we have had onr way, the chances
Of these black girls. ever mixing their blood
with that of white people, would have been
diminished at least to the extent that it coald
cot have been without their consent. But
Judge Dougl,s 10 delighted to have them de-
cided to be slaves, and not human eaough to
have hearing, even il they were free, and
thus LETT subjeet to the forced eencubinaEe Of
their masters, and liable to become the moth
srs Of mulattoes In spite Of them seivss--shs
very stats Of case produces nine-t enths Of all
the mulattoes-ail the mixing of blood in the
nation.