Nebraska advertiser., 1863-03-19
For the Nebraska Advertiser
Diversity OF Human Races.

the brain. The blood and the humors Of
the Africans; or is there any olher con
nected or added to that physical cause 2
1. 1t is pretended that the defendants
of the Portuguese went TO, and fixed
their residence in the heart Of Africa
towards the year 1850, are become per.
feet negroes as to the color, the wool of
the head and of the beard, and. the fea-
lures of the pysiognOmy ;-that the de-
pendants of the Arabs, who invaded a
part of e~quinoctial Africa in the seventh
century, are become real negroes and that
they cannot be distinguished from the in
habitants of Senegal and Angola :---that
he defendants of the Jews, who. after the
ruin of their nation, fed into the south
ern provinces of Africa and Asia, have
all been metamorphosed more OF lens in
to negroes, in proportion to the degree
of the heat of the country in which they
fixed their residence. If all these facts
were certain. and. moreover, if it were
certain that those Portuguese, those Jews
and those Arabs, have not crossed their
race with the negro race, it would be de-
monstrated that the heat of the climate is
the true physical cause of the variety of
hue, in the human species F; and it would
be the opinion preferred by US, were it
better grounded BY proofs and facts.
I'd. But it seems certain that the ne
grOes, who propagated between them
selves in cold countries, never lose their
SCOT or ebon color that the whites. in
the most burning climates of Africa and
Asia, although becoming to acertain de-
gree, more tawny, never become like ne
groes, nor like moOrs that the moOrs,
after having lourished for as many as
twenty or twenty-five generations in
Spain, left il with the same color which
their parents had when they came to il F;
that the negroes who live for Csc. years
in the cold or temperate countries of
America, have lost nothing of the spe-
cifC signs which characterize the SUBJ
stance Of their brain, of their blood, of
their humors, of their skin, of their head,
and of their hair.
8. Hence it results that to the influence
of climate must be added the influence of
some other cause, in order to metamor-
phose the whites into negroes, or moors F;
and by supposing the white race to be
the primitive race, 1t seems that that cause
ought to have been in a more or less re-
mote time, some unusual disease whose
consequence have been transmitted from
parents TO children.
VIZ know that the human species is IL
able TO an uncomfortable number Of indis-
positions, Of capriCioous diseases, ! which
successfully make their appearance on
earth. now wi5ht the same symptoms, then
with SYMPTOMS totally different and Of
which we may read the history in the
works of the naturalists and Of the phys
biologists. of diverse ages. Among those
indispositions, and whimsical diseases,
there have beer and there are still occa-
sionnlly, some which melamorphose al
most suddenly unexpectedly, q white man
into a moor, with respect 10 color, as we
may convince ourselves Of the fact in a
number of works, and in particular IN The
works of a celebrated physician and sur
eeon, who combin ed, in his speculations
and researches, experience to theory
This is Mr.. La Cats Treatise on the color
0 ftkshunsdn skin, IN particular that Cfths
negroes aud on the p~sstauOrphoses Of one Of
these colors into another, either accideaHy
or at the moment of birth. aas
1t is proved by a number Of facts which
cannot be suspected and contested las
any one may see both in the works we
have quoted and ina number of other
works whose authority cannot be equivo-
cal and doubtfrl) that in Ethiopia, negro
parents give birth to white children who
remain white, and that elsewhere uhite
parents give 6iTtkt to black children with
this difference, however, that it happens
o. H#- I ~ LI LA d.
more frequently that negro parents give
birth to white children, than it happens
tnat white parents give birth to black
children: that which isa proof that the
white color is the primitive color Of men,
that the black color is but a, degenera-
ted color, and that occasionally, among
the moOrs, nature seems to retake her
rights, as we may say, among the Eth
opians, she seems, sometimes to forget
herself. Whatever may be this specula-
tion and conjecture, the fact is certain
and incOnteslable: and this fact, viz: the
nnsiamoyphOsis 6fcOlOr from white to black
and from black TO white, is all that is in
teresting and decisive on, the present
topic,