Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1857-01-12
From the Memphis Bulletin, Jan. 3.
Who Should Govern, and who should
be Governed

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! To our country, peopled by emigrants from
| all quarters of the globe, where Irish and Eng
! lish, Scotch and French, German and Italian.
/ Russian and Turk, are supposed to throw off
/ their national antipathies, and aid in preserv-
( ing the Republic-where "Freedom shriekers"
/ howl for the emancipation of the Negro and
/ his recognition as a Citizen-where long tail
/ ed Cinnamon and Kanakers squat on our Pas
/ ciic shores-the science of Ethnoogy, or in
/ other words, researches into the natural and
I physical history of Man, should not be neg
/ lected by our Statesmen. Such researches
/ afford the only explanations of that intellec-
! tual and physical superiority of some races
over others, upon the supposed existence of
which 50 many legislators have based their
laws from time immemorial. As illustrative
Of the Importance of these studies, we would
! remark that the question OF the legal status
of the Indian may soon assume an impor>
! lance II has never yet possessed. We do rot
refer 10 Indians in their unreelaimed and saw
4 age state, but TO tribes of them, like the Cher.
/ okees aud Choctaws, who (mainly owing to
I inter. marriage with whites have settled down
/ into q peaceful agricultural life, governing
/ themselves 10 a rational manner, under the
protection of our Federal Government. These
! people, increasing as they are in population,
/ wealth and knowledge of selfgoyernment,
may soon be expected TO discard the now
weakened power of their chiefs, and adopt
political constitutions as republican as any
Surprising them DESTROYS aud prepared for
admission into the Union, is their supposed in
tellectual inleriority to as Whites, TO prevent
them or notl Possessing laws which reeog-
nze aud foster negro slavery, and an amount
Of slave property which sets at rest any fear
=. a., fhaaa Taurfforiaa ar
only probable chances for the increase of
Southern States, with the exception of new
ones TO be carved out Of Texas.
OF course we do not forget that the course
of events may sooner or later bring us a fur
Their Increase Of Mexican Terriory-may get
as Cubs; yet these acquisitions, however bea-
efloial TO us in some respects, would bring as
in contact with RaORgret races TO a degree un-
known. Is the too common compound OF
Spanish, Indian and Negro to be preserved or
not in the civil rights he now enjoys under
Mexican lawsl Color is no legal barrier In
Mexico, while in Cuba il Is 10 the interest Of
Spain 10 foster very numerous class of free
people of color, as u set OF TO any aspirations
Of The whites 10 throw off her yoke. In short,
inundated BY Chinese labOrers, Cuba now pre-
senIs a very motley population.
Important deductions could be thus drawn
from the above stated facts, which are simply
gwen 10 the belief aud hope that they may
induce useful discussion, according 10 Byron,
"words are things and a small drop Of ink,
Falling Ike dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions
think"
Books on Ethnology are Of easy access and
among the most celebrated Published within
The las, few years, ranks Types Of Mankind"
rhe bitter attacks upon it In some quarters,
and the praises lavished IN others, On this
country and IN Europe) can only be compared
20 the reception OF The world renowned "Nes.
lirel Of Creation Whatever faults il may
contain, lis Southern readers must aeknowl-
edge that the book, while it carefully avoids
politics, Is fearless Eindioati0n OF their insti-
tutions. A circular before Us announces that
the two largest contributors 20 that book lDr
I NoTT, ~ Mobile, aud GEoRGR ). GnnRoSl
are again IN the Geld with q forthcoming work,
"fhe Indigenous Races OF the EArth"-to be
/ published early next spring by Lpplneoti of
I Philadelphia Special contributions are prom
ised BIZ other scientific writers Of repate, such
/ as Maary, OF Paris, Librarian 10 the French To-
/ stiinte; Pnlsky. al London, DIR. >. Aitken
Msirs, Of Philadelphia, and Dr.. Leidy, PROBES
soy Of Anatomy IN the University OF Peunsli
I sania Want Of space 10 our columns prevents
o1r giving further Information regarding the
I promised book, bat Ne presume oar ho0ksel-
ieis en-.