The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1862-02-01

the exact question is simply this:--which shall be
the universally recognized position of the negro
in American society-the status of Massachusetts
or that of Mississippi? Well, we can only get at
the truth of this matter by appeal to experience
Massachusetts legally and politically assmes ne
groes to be white men, or black-white men-that
is, men entitled to just the same rights as any
other men. There are only ten thousand; they
rapidly tend to extinction because forced to live
an unnatural existence-the life of the different
and superior white man-they must die, for they
are in conflict with the higher law, the eternal
order, the nature God has given them. The
Boston City Register for the past five years shows
376 deaths with l24 births, and supposing no
more immigrations of these people, hundred
years hence they will be extinct, or nearly so.-
approximately, this holds good throughout the
so called free States-those that give them the
most "rights," or in other words that are most
cruel in forcing them to live out the life of
the white man, destroy them most surely and
rapidly. Now, if this status of the negro were
forced on Mississippi, very different result would
of course follow. They are about equal in num-
bers.to the whites, and the result would fall most
deadly on the latter. The whites in Massachusetts
are necessarily injured, of course, but we cannot
trace or measure that but where the numbers
approximate, the higher race, whom God and
nature hold responsible for such an awful crime
would be the greatest sufferers. No such thing
has ever happened or been approached even, nor
will it ever happen for no people will voluntarily
commit social suicide. In Hayti they resisted a
foreign power to the last, and preferred annihla-
tion. In Jamaica, after long struggle they did
submit not only because they were helpless to re-
sist a foreign power, but because the owners of
" slave" property, the mere pecuniary interest
involved, also were foreigners, and lived in Eng
land; and because they did not even then, as the
people of Hayti, prefer death to such doom as
the abolition of slavery God is Furnishing them
with far more terrible one, to equalize, atiliate
amalgamate and rot out through the black puddle
that stagnates in the veins of the sooty and semi
animalized negro. Who, indeed, would not pre-
fer death for his offspring than such fate, such
a punishment as that now slowly but surely and
JNoty inC'So Out W t"CutJ~uSC luOuSduu
whites of Jamaica?
But for purposes of illustration, let us suppose
the status of Massachusetts, or impartial freedom
applied to Mississippi. With the same liberty or
political rights of course, as in Jamaica, there
would come social equality, and amagamation.
True, nature, the instinct fixed forever by the
hand of God in the organism of the race, would
even then save the white woman from amalgama-
ton with the typical negro; but as in the former
she would readily mate with octoroon and quad
room, they with the muattoes, and the latter with
| the typical negro, and the process towards the
final end would be equally rapid. And this end
what would it be? Well, we may illustrate again
| If a hundred white men with negro women, and
hundred white women with negro men, were to
retire to some island isolated from the rest of the
world, in one hundred years AFTER all this disgust
ing and debauched humanity would become total
| ly extinct. In the second generation whites and
negroes would be extinct; there would be only
mulatioes, and mulattoes of the fourth generation
are as incapable of reproduction as the mule.
| Thus while we could not determine with accuracy
when the end would be in Mississippi, but the
'tabolition of slavery the theory of Massachu-
usettS impartial freedom, or the present status
of the negro in the North applied to Mississippi,
would necessarily terminate in the total extinction
ofcreatures that were such blotches on the fair face
of nature and so abhorrent to the eye of the Gre
ator. In other States, like Kentucky, Missouri,
&C., the result or the punishment for such crime
as the abolition Of slavery" or the adoption OF
the Massachusetts, theory of impartial freedom, /"
would be modified by the. facts, the difference in