Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-11-04
OUR CLIMATE AND RACE.


OUR CLIMATE AND RACE.
10 the recently published volume OF the
Transaction OF the British Ethnoiogical Soci-
ely the question, '.How far Man Is Cosmopoii.
isn,' is discussed By several writer's, but
more particularly by Mr.. Hunt. While the
animals most useful TO man have spread all
ever the habitable world, ethnologists are
forced 70 confess that the different varieties or
Faces of mankind sro by no means capable o I
the same diffusion. The power OF accimati-
zation 10 limited in man. Captain Halls Es-
qIimsuK suffered intolerabIy from New York
Summer, and could not endure permanent
;ranspianting to this temperate region and
whoever has had the i'll luck To double the
Caps OF Good Hope with 4 crew of Hindoo or
Lascar sailors knows, to MS SORROW, that the
first touch Of cool weather turns these brave
and nmble fellows int0 very towards as a
pack of helpless ours. Ler the Esquimaux and
fhe Hindoos change places, and neither
would long survive the transportation.
Nor are Europeans climate proof. Captain
Kane was Of opinion that he could have lived
with the natives in the Arctic regions but il
IS we'll known that Europeans and Americans
are subject to dysentery in the hot climate of
India; and the nnmber of European children
,sised in British India is so small that the
-5idest English regiment I'm that country, the
Bombay "Toughs, notwithstanding that mar
risges with British women are encouraged
=
IL, to this day, to raise boys enough 10 supply |
dIumm-is and ffer, Tor the regiment. Mr. |
Il ant mentions the testimony ot Sir Ranaid |
Martin, that third generation OF unulixed /
Europeans is nowhere to De found in Bengal; |
from which fact it wonid appear that if the
constant recruiting of adults from Great
Britain were to Cease, the English dominance
ia India would quickly coms to an end
The Jews, the gypsies aud the Chinese are
those among mankind who have shown them
sri'es possessed Of the greatest power of ac-
chmatizaiion, and Mr.. Hnat ascriDes this 10
their being what hs calis ''pure Faces" All
pure races support the inituence OF change
better than mixed races, ne says; and he cites
snOUg Other interesting examples the fact
,hGt the statistics of disease and death among
The Jews and other coio0ists in 4 Igeria show
'hat the former are less injuri0nsIy Influenced
iy the climate than ang other strangers 1t
Is curious that the Spaniards and Italians suf-
Tered less in the great Russian expedition OF
Napoleon, than any other Contingents of his
Iuutifarous army.
Mr.. Hunt THINKS that the Anglo Saxon race
has tendency TO die out IN America but he I
give, this opinion upOn insufficient date. In ,
chose iew pats of New England where there
has been the least addition by Immigration
ss, for instance, on Cape Cod, where a |
"siranger' was a rarity until within the last
hai dcZen years. and the race was Kept pure .
the people did not deteriorste either in .
mental or bodily vigor. The Yankee OF such {
districts as ''the Cape" has developed pecu- !
'Iar traits of Character; these the results !
"i hIs manner Of life, the products of his ne
cesities; but no one who is familiar with these
people DOUBTS that they are as hardy enter
pflsing and prolific as their English ancestors. .
New England, which contains the only un- 4
mixed ing fish blood in this country, is in r
tae tFns sense, our mother of States. The
Ne" khglsnder is our Scotchman; he is T
FOUND every where away from home. South, 2
" est ana Northwest; and the Yankees have | y
more strongly developed than any Americans q
ne ',coionizing" spirit for which the English "
Aad Scotch arr so notable. In almost every n
nee state there is ANEW England Associa- =
unh = and one of Mr. Douglass sayings n
efmont Is good State to come from. .''had .
n'gher significance than the author intended n
NoE does the Yankee deteriorate when he y
raves his New England home. He has great i,
power OF acclimatiZation,' Mr.. Hunt a
Sas It; and the descendants of New Eng n
'auueFS Ia The Western States maintain to Il
'afge extent the vigor and peculiar virtues of n
'"eH fathers. Even in the South while they c
0'e ihelF virtues too often, they keep their a.
'eiey and thrift and not few OF the rebeI
Yankees
II ls true that in the Southern States the :. :.
H1Hs'o Saxon race seems TO have deteriorated. ~
~I 'he Carolinas are degenerate descendants :,
- English, Scotch and Irish coonists and il a. a.
aay o. said that here is proof OF Mr.. Hunts a,
80 non But We believe the real cause of =.
a'' SAD deterioration to be the deprivation of r.
sUeF'!. The Anglo Saxon race seems to re- =,
t-"e me widest liberty in order TO maintain !,
r. "'sinai stamina. As people OF weak a.
e' peiIsh quickly in close rooms, for the .,
a.I.l a"s ol the fresh open air. SO men OF noble II.
..ales expire under physical and social re- \.
raS.s' a~,"s' This is seen if we compare the .,,
SSa1tTy called The poor "white trash of
go. 80" osrolina with the peasantry OF Massa-
In.,Ss': In neither State has immigration
xb.aiiy affected the race, but in that one tb
I,s. liberty. in the true sense has never ex- tiC
d., Tue poorer class is weak in BODY and on
ro. .ofated in mind while in the other where Ca
sNo,,ie the earliest days equality has been ac- os
IN. ,".eaeed aud the widest liberty obtained, fal
mia Aane class is as vigorous in body and da
70 M,oday as the parent stock, II not more so
C,,,is,@ s@Se another Massachusetts, of South ca
d,,,. and in half century the descen- by
as-rn.sS VI 'ne ''poor white trash" i'll be re- Pc
er.,1sa, and made 10 equal thes, northern tn.
''''F'0 10 every respect h hi,