New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-15


pathize. of course, with the pure white and
red Sern-we have head of pink stern, but
that was of schooner-we condole with
Stern. upon the dreadful fact that the Stems
of the third or fourth generation to come, may
all be as yellow as the river rlber-a degener-
ate and snuff coored tribe! Stern himself, 1t
msy be, will not begin this pitful discoloration,
but eau he answer for the good taste Of those
who may inherit bis alabaster epidermis 7
One tbing, however, puzzles US. This cham.
pion Of clear compilations made not the most
remote allusion to the extensive mulatto-manu-
facture which Slavery originates and encour-
ages. Caucasus is rather than else getting the
worst of it on the plantation. Many man
with deal Of money, and with what is better
than all, facial angle Of 800, many Type
Of the White Race, has children with thick
p., hair crisp, aud a crocus complexion. 1t
isn't for us to cay how it happens that SO
many cream-colored patriarchs have dusky
family circle Of little Busbmen. Stern didn't
explain tive wish he had For, to our sim
pie mind, it appears that it is Slavery, not
Freedom, that is smearing aud staining the
Caucasian cheeks, and crispiog the Caucasian
hair, and 6attening tho Caucasian nose. and
disturbing the facial angles Of 90o which
marks the yeri able Caucasian strain. We
cannot say that we see any "mongrel ANAL
gamatiOn horrible to Contemplate IN any
section of the country uncursed by Slavery.
II any argument at all is 70 be deduced in The
premises, it is against Slavery and in favor OF
Freedom. IL is the shameless adultery it is
the unblusbng concubinage Of shareholders,
which is threatening the well.beloved Caucasian
rose and snow 10 America, just as it has mixed
the base blood of Congo with the blue blood
Of Spain, and made mongrcls of the grand
children of grandees.
We do ro, know what are the particular
incDatons Of this Caucasian Of Boston. He
is just now proud Of his beauty, but we think
that be is in a perilous position. The pruri-
ence of bis speech betrays The baseness Of his
passions; for we Lave never known man OF
purity who was in the least alarmed at any
threatened admixture of races; and should we
hear that this Mr. Stern had led TO the altar
the duskiest Of brides, il would not in the least
ostonish US. The fathers OF mulastOeS, We
have noticed, are seldom AboitOnsts." So
we warn Stern 10 take care of himself, and
not to trust, as Virgil has it, too much to Bis
color.
As Il seems to be matter Of so much
importance. we wish that Stern had tod US
where in this country he finds any pure Car-
casian race. He and the ethnoOgists do not
ogree. They tell us that pure Caucasian blood
i. hardly to be found in oil the world-only,
indeed. in a locality of limited extent The
notifications of human types are unceasing.
Stern. if he will permit us 10 say sO cannot,
if bis valuable skin depended upon it, tell us
wheher be ia semi. Caucasian or quarter
Caucasian; whether he came from the Berbers
Of the Atlas or the Galas of Abyssinis, or the
Eel atahs Of soudsn, or the Tapoos Of New
Guinea. For anything be knows to the con-
trary, his great eat-grandiather may
have been Mongolian. II he disputes this,
let him bring out the family.tree, and disabuse
our minds Let him show that he is not
related to the Pecherays Of Terra del Fuego,
OF the E.quimau1 Of the North We do not
believe that lie can do it. We chall, Dge him
to bis proof.
Tor the rest we do not remember TO have
read IN any scientific treatise OF repute that, III
any age Of the world, the mixture of races was
by silly speech. We are inclined
Just little to suspect that this all-important
process, upon which human destiny so directly
bangs, is governed by some law the existence
of which has not yet dawned upon this Boston
eentleman's brain. He may find this law
:. horrible to contemplate" but all bis horrors
y in not repeal it, The world will continue TO
spin, and the due succession Of the seasons Will
90 on, and dominant races will succumb, and
serye races rise to power, and the human
complexion .hiit from dark to light and from
light to DARK, long after Mr. Stern is dead and
buried and of no color at all. We leave the
whole matter with Nature, convinced as we are
that she knows better how TO deal with it than
We do. As between Mr.. Stern and Nature, We
confde in the latter, no matter how white the
gentleman may be.
And now, in conclusion, we wish mildly but
firmly to express our contempt for the crea-
ture who, in these troubled days, while our
very existence is at stake, suffers himself to
perspire with apprehension ut the bugaboO of
" AmalgamatiOn." 1t appears to us that there
are several things which require our more im-
mediate attention. We have boosted, and not
without cause, of the achievements Of our own
white race; but whether there be anything in