Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-04-07
TnE REUNION OF THE RACES

The discussion in DaIwin's "Omgin Of
Species Of the blendingof different yalie-
ties Of plants and animals to produce new
forms, and the perpetuation Of the best
varieties On the principle Of material selec-
tions,' suggests some curious specuations
as to the reunion and combination Of the
various races Of men. That this process il
going on any one may see Who viii use his
eyes, and it never was SO rapid as ut The
present day, when he increased means d
intercourse and loeomotion are bringing all
nations and trios Of men into intimate re-
lations with each other. III Europe the
distinctions Of race are already nearly OBJ
liberated, and The Celt, the Frank. the Tell-
ton and the Anglo-Saxon are combined 50
that only 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 a new and quite numerous
race called the Eurosians, in which the
white and Indian bloods ere combined,
In Canada We have a similar result in the
union Of French and Indian blood in the
French Canadians or Canucks. In a cen
t..gy or two the poIyglot now occupying
the United States viii be 50 thoroughly
co-mingled that there viii be few specimens
left Of any pure blood.
In South America the mixtures Of races,
Spanish, Indian and negro goes on more
fire. ely, and although the various hybrid
races thus produced have not as yet yindi-
Gated the wisdom Of the combination, who
shall say what the new race will be- thou-
sand years hence, when the combination is
pertectedl
Facts show that the blood Of the most
diverse races will mingle when {hey are
brought into association. The delicate, ro-
sy-cheeked Anglo-Saxon looks down with
contempt upon the coarse, thick-lippod At
rican, and affects to consider him some
thing less than human, and yet the inter-
mingling of no races on the globe at this
moment going on SO freely and rapidly as
that Of the whites and negroes in our South
ern States. The pure African is hard to
find, even on the plantation, and much less
ia the planters house or In the kitchens Of
the Southern cities. Disgusting as this
process Of bleaching out the African race is,
it goes on and will go on, and it is one o.
the problems Southern philosophers are
debating, how the distinction between tn.
ruling aud seryile classes shall be kept up
after the differences Of race shall have been
obliterated. A century more viii 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 to a
complete unity-to the image Of the orig
inal man, from whom all the diverse races
are supposed to have descended! And Is
the strongest and best varieties Of plants
and animals are perpetuated BY natural Sc
lection, and oyerpower and absorb the IN
ferior aud weak SO also are the superior
race, producing as the final result a con
glomarate race, inheriting the best qualities
Of all 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 wien Of fact and reason at the bottom
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