Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-26
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lE1E :lzli=l INCREASE OF NEGROES
AEE1cANlzATIoN= OF TnR UNITED sTATEs-How N
NAY BE PREVENTED.
!, INC destiny Of the white and black races sof
the United States is undoubtedly one ar Etba
u.3sE important consideratonssover offered for
solution TO the peopleiof this or IN 3 I1e,o,1
Try throughout sthe civilized world. TN. owes.
non naturally arises, what's to become Of Sthn
| t"o @ races. This may he safely answered I5r
ueclarlng that IT they remain @ingther present
commlnSled association, they will continue to
. an!a satllate as heretofore, andsin time become
one homogeneous people,. - 4 $50;
The proof of this ought TO be annara1t 90
ever one who has given subject a moments
considerations, rEwho has Travelled anvs soraot
Pornons OF our country with his eyes ope6. The
proportion of blacks to whites in 1880 was
noon[ . one TO slx IN the whole Union. The cen
Sus ot5l630 gave us the mum Der of whites and
the number of colored, but the distinction sbes
tween the coIorcd was not AIKEN, except in two
or three localities, il having been forgotten M
III nearly all the census lists were prepared. 1T
may, however, be safely stated, that Of the four
.niltlon colored enumerated in 1850, ateast one
thlrd were Observation-Disclosures, ouadrOOns and
tue ctional divisions above and below.
Inc african race has inhabited America for
about two hundred years; and if one.third has
become mixed in that time 1T follows tha+ o1l
viii oecot9e 9e;amalgamated in4fonr hundred wears
~ likewise, in thus reasoning, tits also
OF tue very greatest importance to consider that
throughout this long.cxtcnded period the7mjxei
VIII continue to be absorbed within the white
OF more numerous race, until a, perhapS the
end oi live or six hundred years, the two races
Viii nave become thoroughly merged one within
me otler, ana constitute one homogeneous peo.
pie OF a. nearly uniform color It is to be sex.@
rJeCtcCt that the ,,,;t
Siyes us the accurate number Of blacks and the
mixed or c0lorSd, as separate class which will
ehaolez US to determine approximately when
sthey will all become mixed. But when We
shall have obtained tho censt;sz OF 1870, and
nave ascertained the increase in ten vars zthon
We will be enabled to determine with great nre
clSlOn when the whole African race will have
bec0mc mixed, and also the era ut which The
I=whltezand colorcd races will haYe become ono
Econmon people
ls,n0t this fiightrulg picture, aud is it not
worthy OF the serious consideration of every
lover#of the white race aud of our beloved
country! Are we to suffer ourselves to- become
! . cotoredETace Are we in time to be stigma
tlzed by Europeans asa race of yellow men p
| IS our snow white skin, and the blooming
cheeGs otz9urschlldrcn, youths and maillens, 10
hecome cnshron1ed beneath the impenetrob!e
a
Nature torbdit!
The above view is taken5as it applies to the
whole UnIon;4 but 5when=wo come TO apply the
same theory to the slave States the DictuTp
becomes# many degrees more iriehtf,ll. The
proportion oil blackS to=whites inthe South is
about one-third, and here a1nag cation is going on
to horrid extent, especially the cities, towns
and villages, whore at least one-haf ofthe Afri.#
can race Is mixed The proportion in.the South
being about one black toftwo whites it follows
that, when both shall have become thoroughly
amalgamated, one withnathe other, the uniform
race will be a dark quadGoon. This reasoning.
IS uPon5the superstition that neither race is to
receive any unusual accession in numbers from
n. Any quarter by imtnigration;a but suppose the
south should succeed in re.opcning the African
slave trade, then the eresult would be entirely
different.
With the means and immense pliances of
commerce, from fourth TO n half million of
Africans might he landed inZthe slave States
yearly. This would make the proportion of
races about equal in twenty years, ard before
the close OF the present century, the proportion
Of colored to wllite wouldb about three .[ourths
OF the whole, the colored being one~haf nuatS
|. toes or fractional degrees of mixture Think
OF this Southern Shareholders and Southern
lSaye-trade revivaIistS and consider that every
African now in the country, and every one 10
oe brought into it, is Someday to mix his blood
with your own race and your childreU's children
TO the latest posteriD Noplan better calculated
to PROSTATE the South.coultl be Invented by it's
greatest enemies. If England and France
should wish to destroy the Southern States and
crush out Republicanism in America, they
could adopt no plan certainly clfectual as 10
assist the South i'll the revival Of the infamous
slave trade. And wiltzthe North permit t?-=
VIII the North permit Africans TO be imported
| into the South in such numbers as to subncrge=
the white race by aHialgamaton, destroy its
identity and supremacy, ultimately to form a
mulatto Republic or Empire on our border or
within our Union? In word, will the North
Permitthe South to become Afrcanized? And