The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-10-31
Practical Amalyamation.

to the consideration of the question,
"Who are practical gamationists p
and demonstrated that they are the demo-
Gratis. Our arguments were met with RI
dicule, and advantage was taken of the
canvass, to declare the article mere elcc-
tionccring document. The heat of the
campaign being over, we again turn to
the subject, not so much for the purpose
of trying to convince Democratic journal
lists that their party upholds anal ama-
ton, as to place before the people few
statistics, collected from the L. s. census
of lS5O-that will serve them as food
for reflection, and on which they can base
their future action.
New York, with population Of near
ly 10000 had but about 5000 mulat-
toes; New Hampshire, with $40 900 pop
ulation, had 1870; Massachusetts,, with L.
600, 600, had 2,3OO; Illinois, with 900,-
900, had 800; while Virginia, with
population of 900, 900, had sc, 900 mulat-
toes; Louisiana, with PSI 900, had a.
! 900. Mississippi, with POI 900, had 81
600; and Kentucky, with 100000, had
| SO 900.
These figures will be sufficient for IL
lustration, though the comparison would
hold out about the same with all the free
aud slave States. 1t will be seen that the
four free States mentioned, with popu-
lation Of about ], 200, 900, have less than
1900 mulattoes, while the four slave
states, with about 1000 600 population,
I |, Il IL,
States is an average of one mulattoe to
every Ago of the population, while in the
slave States is an average OF one mulattoe
to G. cry - of their population. Virgin
Ia alone has onc-third more mulat toes than
all the free States, and had the southern
! masters Ill their children at home, there
would not be n sufficient number Of
nlulattoes left in the north to work a re
spectacle sized western farm.
In New York, New Hampshire, and
Massachusetts, negroes may be educated,
admitted to the bar, practice in the pro-
fess .ons, carry on business, vote, testify
In courts Of justice, and in many other
res poets have the rights Of frecnen, and
We. mulattoes are almost anomalous. In
these otatcs the Republicans are greatly
in the asc, ndant. In Virginia, Louisl-
and, Mississippi and Kentucky, negroes
are not allowed to be educated, and can
neither vote nor testify in any court Of
Justice, and have not single right Of
trccmcn, and yet mulattoes compose one
thirteenth Of their population. In these
States the democrats are greatly Ia. the
majority and a Republican could not liv ,
in them and avow his sentiments, though
they did not differ in u single letter from
those of Washington, Jefferson, Madison
or Henry. The iuterences are fair, that
where the Democrats are the most album
dant, mulattoes are the same; that the
latter, in the north, not properly belong
ing to the south, must have democratic
blood running in their veins, and their
amalgamation abatcs as Republication
prevails.
1t is absurd to say that the political
equality OF the negro with the white race
tcndto amalgation. Facts and philosophy
show the reverse.
We charge it home upon the Democrats
that they arc practical amalgamat;onists,
and that they basely seek to hide their
shame b. falschood Without the slight
est shadow of foundation for it, they de-
clare that the tendency of Repubicanism
is to the social equality Of the white and
black races, when even the E!ost superb
cial view OF the facts, demonstrates that
the hostility Of the Republican party to
nractical amal,ranatin * the Great nhirc-