The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-10-20
From the New York Evening Post
TIE INCREASE OF NEGROES.
differentiation Of the United ,Sates-Hosc ii
May be PrereRted.


May be Preuented.
The destiny of the white and black races of
the United States is undoubtedly one of the
most important considerations ever offered for
solution to the people of this or any other coun-
try throughout the civilized world. The ques-
ton naturally arises, what is to become of the
two races? This may be safely answered by
declaring that if they remain in their present
commingled association, they will continue to
amalgamate as heretofore, and in time become
one homogeneous people.
The proof of this ought to be apparent to
every one who has given the subject moments
consideration, or who has travelled any great
portion of our country with his eyes open. The
proportion of blacks TO whites in 1850 was
about one to six in the whole Union. The CEN
sus of 1850 gave US the number of whites and
the number of eoiored, but the distinction
between the colored was not taken, except in
two or three localities, it havizts been forgotten
until nearly all the esrS--ss.~a.,a ssenared.
o. :cssZ->sers nerated IN 1885, at least
- --,ssiro --ss- nixed-mulattoes, auadroons.
and the fractional divisions above and below.
The African race has Inhabited America for
about two hundred years; and if one-third has
become mixed in that tine it follows that all
will become amalgamated in four hundred years
more. Likewise, in thus reasoning, it is also
OF the very greatest Importance TO consider
that, throughout this long-extended period, the
mixed will continue to be absorbed within the
white or more numerous race until at PERHAPS
the end of five or six hundred years, the two
races Will have become thoroughly merged one
within the other, and constitute one homoge-
neouS people of a nearly uniform color It is to
be expected that the census of 1860 will not
omit TO give Us the accurate number Of blacks
and the mixed or colored, as a separate class
which will enable us to determine approximate
ly when they will all become mixed. But when
we shall have obtained the census of 1870, and
have ascertained the increase in ten years, then
we Will be enabled to determine with great pre-
cision when the whole African race will have
become mixed, and also the era at which the
white and colorcd races viii have become
one common people.
Is not this frightful picture, and is It not
worthy OF the serious consideration of every
lover of the white race and of our beloved
countryP Are we TO suffer ourselves to become
a colored racer Are we In time To he STIGMA
tzed by Europeans a race of yellow men
LIS our snow-whIte skin, aud the blooming
cheeks of our children, youths and maidens. to
become enshrouded beneath the impeuetrabIe
shadow of African darkness? God forbid II
Nature forbid it
The above view is taken as IT applies TO the
whole Union bat when we come to apply the
same theory to the slave States, the picture be-
comes many degrees more frightful. The
proportion of blacks TO whites in the South
is about about one-third, and here ANAL.
gsmatlon is going on to horrid extent. espe.
cially IN the cities, towns, and villages. where
at least one-haf Of the African race is mixed
The proportion IN the South being about one
black to two whites, it follows that, when both
snail have become thoroughly amalgamated,
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dark quadroon. This reasoning is upon the
supposition that neither race is to receive anv
unusual accession in numbes from any quar-
ter by immigration; but suppose the South
should succeed IN reopening the African slave
trade, then the result would be entirely differ.
ent-
With the means and immense appliances of
commerce, from fourth to a half million of
Africans might be landed in the slave States
yearly. This would make the proportion of
races about equal in twenty years. and. before
the close oil the present century, the proportion
of col0red to white would be about three foprtbs
of the whole, the colored being ope.balf mnlat
toes or fractional degrees of mixture. Tb;nk
of this, Southern Shareholders and Southern
slavetrade revivahsts, and consider that evarv
African now IA the country, and every one 70
be brought into 1t, is some day to mix his Hood
with your own race and your ehildren's children
the latest posterityl No plan better Calculated
10 PROSTATE the South could be invented hv ;ts
greatest enemies. If England and France
should wish to destroy the Southern States. and
crush out Republicanism in America, thew
could adopt no plan so certainly efIectual as to
assist the South in the revival of the Infamous
slave trade. And will the North permit it
VIII the North permit Africans to be imported
into the South In such numbers as to submerge
the white race by amalgamation. destroy its
identity and supremacy, ultimately to form a
mulatto Republic or Empire on our border or
within our Union2 In word, will the North
permit the South to become Afrieanized? And
viii not the North be attending to its own bust
ness when it tells the South that the slave trade
cannot be reopened2 But perhaps the sober
second thought of the South will give them to
better counsels. 1t is to. be hoped that it NAV.
II, then. the slave trade should never be re.
opened, and no unusual migrations of either of
the races should take place. from North 10
South, or rice rersa, the color of races. when
they shall have become completely mixed, one
within the other, wiz in the North be about the