Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-28
Emancipation, Absorption, or Conn
mingling of Races.

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The Boston Post in discussing these topics,
remarks: Touching The amalgamation or peace
ful union of opposite races on terms of equality
which earnest but uniform philanthropy of the
day sees, fancies it sees, practical between
the masters and slaves of The South, or the
whites and blacks at the North, Off the slaves
were freed and sent North for absorpton) there
are tie achings of history as well as of instincts
which cannot be disregarded. Let us recur to
some of them.
PREscoTT, in mis- brilliant history Of PHILIP III
informs us that in the eighth century the warlike
Arabs met the whole Gothic army the banks
of the Guadalete, and after the fatal battle in
which King RoDERIcK fell, they conquered Spain
and the whole peninsula. But although the
Gothic and Moorish races lived together for
eight hundred years. they never amalgama-
ted or assimilated, and the Arabs were
always looked upon as intruders, whom
it the sacred duty of the Spaniards
to exterminate or expel. In five centuries
the Moors reduced to the small kingdom of
Granada, and il took two centuries more before
FERDINAND and ISABELLA, after war which ri
vailed that OF Troy. for duration. conquered the
last hold of the race. For centuries after it was
attempted in vain by civil laws and the Inquisition
to absorb the Moor in the Christian. The differ
ence of religious faith. doubtless. entered largely
into this ineOngruity, but the repulsion of races
was the strongest element.
The like result followed the conquest of Mex
fI,e nh l-o1
distinction; but there the result has been either
a deseneracy of the mixed race or a superior
claim ON the part of the European race and
corresponding hatred toward them of the Mex
leans.
In the intercourse between our New England
ancestors and the Indians, repugnance of races
resulted not only ia conquest but in the extermi-
nation of the inferior race For two centuries
and half the latter have receded just as the for
mer advanced in civilization and power.
History teaches the lesson by the oppo-
site results of successful and healthful amalga-
nation in conquests and contracts between like
races. Thus in the eleventh century the Nor
mans conquered the Saxons, and dictated terms
10 the vanquished of a sterper character than the
Saracens had imposed on the Spaniards. yet in
less than three centuries after the conquest Of
England the two nations had impcrceptibIy
melted into one. so that the Englishman of that
day might trace the current that flowed through
his veins to both Norman and Saxon origin.
Bat the reason given is obvious The Norman
and the Saxon were the same blood, sprung from
common stock. and could not permanently be
kept under by the barrier which at first
iuterposed between the conqueror and the en-
shaved.
Thus if the slaves and their masters at the
South or the negro and the white men Of the
North were Of the same race, we might hope
from the examples of the NOrmans and Sax
ons, that in three centuries the two classes
might be absorbed into each other But there
are vastly greater repuIsious between the white
man and the negro, even in New England, than