The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-20

the equally large jaw of the contemporaries
Gus sovereign of France.
The House of Austria preserves to this
day the heavy lip of their homely mouthed
ancestress-Margaret Jaghellon or Maui
sasch." The German dynasty that rules
England has inherited two legacies not as
harmless as pout. Insanity and scrofula
were a part Of the dowry of Augusta of
SAKE Coburg, the mother of George III.
Her son died a maniac his son and success
sor, George w., was scrofulOus from boy
hood his sisters were infected with the
same malady. Their brother, Ernest Au-
gustus, was guilty of crimes, of which, we
hope, insanity was the cause his son and
successor on the throne of Hanover, the off
spring of another marriage between cousins,
is stone blind. Her re eigning Majesty, it
has been more than once limited, is sub.
ject to occasional fits Of great mental excite
ment.
We might show how the children of
Louis XIV. of France died prematurely,
after life cursed by disgusting and painful
maladies, tell how the unpuri6ed current of
Bourbon blood has prepared for more than
one of the Neapolitan Princes death like
those of Sylla and Herod. 1t is not neces-
sary, however, to prosecute our researches
farther into the lazaar houses OF royal in.
firmities.
Our own country, though it cannot yield
the experiences of as many generations as
the genealogies of monarchs, affords ample
illustration of the danger of disobeying the
laws of nature, which are the laws of God.
The statement of the Governor of Kentucky
has already been adduced our readers will
remember the summing up, if not all the
data, of the tables published about year
since, by an eminent physician of that State.
He proved by figures that idocy, insanity,
deformity, ills, were the rarely omitted be-.
quests of nearly related parents to their
children.
There is family in Ohio, which by inter-
marriage of two or three generations, had
become scrofulous and otherwise diseased
The union of one of its members to healthy
woman, not his relation, has give vigor
and prospects of permanency to one branch
The G-'s Of Virginia have sought, by
intermarriage, to retain their wealth and
Importance, until, to use the words of ore
who knows them well, " they are possessed
of all ills that flesh is heir to-"
We know in another State, large con-
nection, too proud to seek connubial bliss
out of its own bounds, two thirds of the
members of which have immoderately large
noses, small blue eyes, closely resembling
those of the pig, and almost as homely, and
with mental optics not disproportioned to
their physical. A medical man, of large
practice and long experience, has assured Us
that out Of many cases of the marriage of
cousins, he has but in two or three Instances
failed to perceive in the offspring mental'o
physical detormity, or both combiced. This
is the result of the infraction of law by one
generation only.
We could multiply facts indefinitely, but
perhaps have already spoken more plainly
than a fastidious social etiquette will ap-
prove. If our statements have been un-
pleasant truth must be our justification for
a trespass on good taste. 1t would be in
teresting to extend our inquiries-to trace
the cause of national decay to the want of
the invgorating influences of an infusion of
fresh blood; to consider the influences that
the immigration of thoughtful Germans may
exert in tempering the too impetuous Yam
kee character to anal lyze the attractions
and repulsions of races but the practical
aspects of our subject, must for the present,
be restricted. 1t is to be hoped that the
marriage of blood relations will be prohib-
tied, not only in Kentucky, but in every
other State and community.