The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-05-22

will not be ruled by wise counsels, they
must abide disaster; if they won't hear
advice they must expect reverses. When
our half measure Generals are again beaten
in the field and driven out of Virginia,
then we shall have whole Generals called
into service. Then we shall not see regi-
lnents returning while the battles of the
country are being fought. 100000 men
from the Northwest, and 100, 900 from the
Northeast will spring to arms, side by side
with the negro, to fight the battle to the
bitter end. Massachusetts, is to have the
honor and we are thankful ofsuch privi-
ege-handkerchiet State as we are-that
we will send the first negro Union regi-
ment to the war. (Applause.) Toombs
once said that he would yet call the roll
of his slaves on Bunker Hill but before
he could succeed Higginson got ahead of
him, and called the roll of Toombs' slaves
on the soil of South Carolina. cloud ap-
plause.) And now Massachusetts, gathers
a thousand for the fight, and has three
thousand more behind (applause) while
the Southwest, in response to the call of
General Thomas, has promised to raise
fifty thousand in three months. The fu-
ture, therefore, looks cheerful. In another
year the ranks of liberty will be full, and
we shall then have leave to conquer or dis
solve.
SPEECH OF THEODORE TILTON.
Mr.. Tlton said he came to them once
again, bringing his annual gift of the ne
gro. Not the slave; not the contraband.
The times have changed. The opposition
now is to the negro.
AN ARGUMENT FOR AMALGAMATION.
Mr.. Tilton then spoke of the relative
position of the Ethiop plan race as higher
than several other races in the world, and
then entered into an elaborate argument
in favor of amalgamation as the great fu-
ture of this country and race-its highest
perfection coming when the amalgamation
is most complete. We are not to have a
pure negro race here. We have not an
isolated race among US except the Jews,
and will any one say that they have gain
ed anything by that isolation? This Amer
lean people is made up of all peoples.
HOW AMALGAMAT1ON WILL BENEFIT US.
Great nations get the fiber of their
strength out of mixed blood. It is stop
page Of the worlds growth to prevent a
union of the races. The history of the
worlds progress, the history of the civili-
zation of all empires, is written in one
comprehensive word, which many men
are afraid to speak and many others afraid
to hear, and that word is-Amalgamation.
(Whispers, "Oh, good gracious" Ap-
plause.)
HOW AMALGAMATION is COMING ABOUT.
What is the progress of amalgamation
in this country? We have no isolated
case among US. The blood of all nations
is mingled here. What Of the negro blood?
Our fathers wrote in the preamble of the
constitution: "This constitution is Or
dained to secure the blessings of liberty to
US and our posterity." The Southern inter-
prefers say that means white men. But
who are the posterity of Southern white
men? They are half black men. (Ap-
plause.) What record of white blood
written in the black race on this continent
would be seen if it were suddenly to be
summoned from three-fourths of the four
millions in this country! Your own eyes
have seen how the black race is losing its
distinctive character. The speaker had
been to negro wedding the other day,
and was called to notice that not one in ten
OF the company were of pure African fea-
ture and pure African color What does
it argue? That the negro race is passing
away like the Indian? No. Just ,he
opposite.
WE SHALL BE A NATION OF NEGROES WITH
WHITE SKINS.
1t is not black blood tina. comes to pour
Itself into white veins; it is white blood
that comes to pour itself into black veins,
and it is truer and better statement to
say, not that the black race in this coun-
try is passing away, but that it is being
absorbed by the white, and large part
of the white population in the South is
melting away into the black. We are alb
sorbing the great Irish race and the Ger
man race, and the negro race is absorbing
a large portion of the white race Before
long, when we are asked, "Where is the
negro?" we shall point out negroes clad
in white skin. The negro is filling his
veins from our fountains of life.
The church of Christ in the past may
nave been pre-eminently the black race.
HOW THE NEGRO IS BETTER THAN THE
WHITE MAN.
1t is said that the most perfect develop
ment of the skull is that of the Arab, yet
there is no slave in Mississippi who does
not know more, by having reachedup into
a perfect manhood, than the Arab. In all
those intellectual activities which take
their strange quickening from the moral
faculties, the negro is superior to the white
man. The negro race, as has been said,
is the woman of the world.
WHAT NEGRO ELEMENTS THE WHITE RACE
NEEDS.
We have need Of the negro mirth-
need his initiating faculties. Othello will
never be fitly represented until you per-
init negro to 60 upon the boards to rep
resent that character. We have need of