New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-13
VOLUME XII.
Meu Orleans 4ailp Grestent.
MORNING, OCTOBER ls, 1853.
A FEARFUL CONSEQUENCE.


Alearned Northern writer takes exceedingly dark
aye, black-vews of futurity, for in an elaborate
paper entitled Authorization of the United States
How 1t may be prevented" he predicts that as the
African race has inhabited America for about two
hundred years, (Which is mistake in the matter Of
degree, for two centuries since the only blacks in
the Western hemisphere were few in the West
lndles) and one-third have become mixed in that
time, it follows that all will become amalgamated in
four hundred years more, or at the outside, in five
or six hundred years, at which time the two races
will have become thoroughly merged one within the
other, and constitute one homogeneous people of
nearly uniform color. "ls not this frightful pic
ture!" exclams this shrewd Spectator, "and is it
not worthy of the serious consideration of every lover
of the white race and of our beloved country! Are
we to suffer ourselves to become coored race ls
our snow white skin and the blooming cheeks OF our
children youths and maidens, to become enshrouded
beneath the impenetrable shadow Of African dark
/ ness God forbid it Nature forbid it "
This is certainly most horrible and shocking por-
traiture Of the manifest destiny Of the great Anglo
American race-a destiny which will be so accele-
rated the writer thinks, by the opening of the Ari-
can slave trade, ms to ensue within century. But
an idea is suggested by these calculations which
seems to have entered the brain of the ethno
logical speculator He might have logically reasoned
out disastrous result even than that which he
has arrived at and have come straight to the conclu-
sion that within the lapse Of time given we should
have no negroes in America, but that all the now
colored population would have turned white by
amalgamation, instead of the white becoming "en-
shrouded in the impenetrable shadow Of African
darkness" The white element is now greatly in the
excess, and has, therefore, far better chance OF
overcoming and extinguishng the black element
than rce rersa as everybody must allow, and if the
process which is predicted by the of the New
York Post is to follow We shall be utterly without
negroes to work cotton fields, within the specified
period, for everybody will be Of the same brilliant
white hue of skin and of the caber Of intellect
and slavery will gradually extingnish ITSELF
At the expiration of the number of centuries al.
lowed for this astonishing change to take place. the
Northern philosopher decides, the color Of all North.
erners will be that impaired by the possession of
one.iftieth part negro bocd while all Southerners
will be dark quadroons. THAT this frightful condi-
tion is not now upon u.s. and will not he in its full
development for centuries to come,' writes he,
makes it none the less certain, as all must see.
That it is distant makes it important that we
should adopt some means before it is too late by
which we may ward off the impending evil" The
charitable scheme which this ominous scamp proposes
is neither more less than that by plan yet
to be devised and which is too deep for himself
to figure out, the Northern slave States should
be induced to sell their negroes to the belt of Gulf
States, where they should be penned up and we all
be permitted to grow black together and be excluded
like Pariahs from all intercourse with the whites Of
the country! Really, a most diabolical plan! We
are doomed TO have our snow white skn and bloom
ing cheeks of our children youths and maidens, be-
come enshrouded beneath the impenetrable shadow
of African darkness! God forbid it! Nature forbid
it Let sell out and leave this dangerous region
before we are amalgamated, nolens uolens.
1t is by such supremely silly and absurd nonsense
this that abolition propagandists excite the antipa
thies and passions of the vulgar and nstgate hostile
sectional sentiment.