The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-10-10
Position Of the Black Race.

Position Of the Black Race.
We amalgamate all white races, however
distinct, well enough with our own original
English race. Numerous instances are
known to everybody Of the successful union
of the Celtic and the German varieties Of
the genus homo without the slightest injury
but rather with decided and great benefit
The animal man is certainly improved by
the combination. Far otherwise is it, how
ever, with the African. Mixture Of blood
with that race does not improve the species
On the contrary, we believe the mulatto to
be inferior in capacity, character, and or
ganization, to the full blooded-black, and
still farther below the standard of the white
races. Amalgamation cannot be effected,
therefore, except at the cost Of deprecia.
ton Of the character of the Caucasian race.
And we hazard little in predicting that no
amalgamation will ever take place. The
small extent to which breed between the
two races has been produced thus far, is
sufficient evidence, one would think, that a
general mixture is utterly improbable, as
we'll as undesirable. A most pertinent
question to be put to the Abolitionist, then,
is, "What do you propose to do with the
African, when he is freed from his bonds ?'
If he is left to OBJ ain a subsistence by la
Dor, with no one to direct it, he will soon
perish, except in that climate, and in those
fertile regions adapted by Providence to
precisely his organization. 1t seems to be
imagined by the generous, phlanthropic,
wise and considerate Abolitionist, that the
negro is endowed with the same love of
freedom, the same ambition of distinction,
the same passion for haranguing his fellow
mortals, that is so conspicuous in that sin
gle-hearted band of brothers. Unhappily
for the theory, but happily for the race,
these motives are all wanting in the black
man, at least to the extent and with the
power they exert over the white man. A
trace, as the chemists call an immeasurable
small amount of a substance, may he found
in their constitutions, of ambition, or of
enterprise; but glance at the condition of
Hayti, or Jamaica, where they have had all
their own way for quarter to half CEN
fury, is quite sufficient to exhibit with I'M
mistakable distinctness the difference be-
tween the white man and the black.
Itappears, then, that neither will they
mix, so as to become one race with the
whites, nor have they power to compete
with the Caucasian blood. 1t is sufficiently
obvious, therefore, that the answer to the
question, what is to be done with them, is
not an easv one; that it is not for us to
say to our brother, you shall do thus and so
with your negroes. We know as little
what is the best course to take as he does !;
and let us remember the ancient law,
"When you don't know what to do, don't
do what you don't know" When you
have nothing practicable to propose, do
not be angry because others do not take
up your vague notions and more vague
theories Wait for the development of the
Divine plan, and do not imagine that be-
cause your schemeis not instantly adopted,
perversr AbolitioniSul, as exhibited here
at the North, is the very essence and quint-
essence of self-conceit and arrogance
Without the smallest practical experience
we coolly sit down in our closets to specu.
late and theories about one of the most
difficult problems of human thought; and
because all men do not at once agree with
US, we set ourselves to work to turn the
world upside down, to scramble over the
heads of the rest of mankind, and proclaim
ourselves the only true Christian philan-
throphists. 1t is time that such prcpostcr-
Gus decisions were dispelled, and that we
looked at our own position, our own char
actcr, as well as at those of our ncighbors,
with little discrimination, modesty and
reserve.-Boston Courier (Union.)
EXCESSIVE MoDEsTY young lady re-
Gently stepped into fancy dry goods store
and called for pair of stockings, address.
ing herself to a nice little specimen of i'm.
perial SPOT and moustached lip that stood
behind the counter.
"Havn't any article of that name, Miss,
but we have beautiful hose of silk and La
mas hair-which do you prefer, and what
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