The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-04-07
The Reunion of the Races.

The discussion in Darwin's ''Origin OF
Species" of the blending of different va
rieties of plants aud animals to produce new
forms, and the perpetuation of the best va
Iieties on the principle of natural selec-
TONS" suggests some curious speculations
as to the reunion and combination of the
various races of men. That this process is
going on any one may see who will use his
eyes, and it never was 80 rapid as at the
present day, when the increased means OF
intercourse and locomotion are bringing all
nations and tribes of men into intimate re-
lations with each other. In Europe the dis
tinctions of race are already nearly oblitera-
ted, and the Celt, the Frank, the Teuton and
the Anglo Saxon are combined 80 that on
" in some isolated districts do we find a
pure breed of these human varieties. In
the East Indies less than two centuries Of
connection with the Anglo-Saxon race has
produced new and quite numerous race
called the Eurosians, in which the white and
Indian bloods are combined. In Canada We
have similar result in the union of French
Canadians, or Canucks. In century or
two the polyglot now occupying the United
States will be SO thoroughly commingled
that there will be few specimens left of any
pure blood.
In South America the mixtures of races,
Spanish, Indian and negro goes on more
freely, and although the various hybrid ra-
ces thus produced have not as yet vindica-
ted the wisdom of the combination, who
shall say what the new race will be a thous-
and years hence, when the combination is
perfected?
Facts show that the blood of the most
Ofo xuh no
brought int association. The delicate ro-
contempt upon the coarse, thick-lipped At
rican, and affects to consider him something
less than human, and yet the intermingling
of no races on the globe is at this moment
going on so freely and rapidly as that of the
whites and negroes in our Southern States.
The pure African is hard to find. even on
the plantation. and much less in the plant
er's house or in the kitchens of southern
cities. Disgusting ae this process of bleach
ing out the African race is, it goes on and
will 90 on, and it is one of the problems
southern philosophers are debating, how the
distinction between the ruling and the SER
vile classes, shall be kept up, after the diff
ferences of race shall have been obliterated.
A century more will increase the difficulty
of this question.
Everywhere on the globe, this process of
reunion of the races Of men is going on
or commencing. What is to be the end of
it? Are all distinctions of race to be OBJ
liberated, and mankind to be restored at last
to complete unity-to the image of the
original man, from whom all the divers ra-
ces are supposed to have descended? And
as the strongest and best varieties of plants
and animals are perpetuated by natural Sc
lection, and overpower and absorb the in
ferior and weak, so also are the superior
races to prevail and swallow up and over
power the characteristics of the inferior ra
ces, producing as the final result eonglom-
crate race, inheriting the best qualities of
races? And in that ultimate and perfect
race will the Anglo-Saxon blood be the
dominant element Such questions may be
more curious than wise, but there lies vein
of fact and reason at the bottom of them af-
ter all. SEE