The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-07-17
AnALGAMAr. ON an THE SOUTH.
Extracts from N ~. Fanny Kemesc's
journal of "a Residcnce ON q Ssor-
rIa Plantation.


lam rather surprised at the outbreak
of violent diacust which Mr.. 49, ipdul-
ges in on the subject OF algamailon, as
That formed no part of our discussion,
aud seems to ne very curious sntJact
for abstract argument. l should think
the intermarrying between blacks and
whites n matier 10 be as little insisted up
on if repaenant, as prevented If asreea
bic TO the majority OF the two races. Al
the same lime. | cannot help being aston
ished at the furious and ungoverned ex-
eeratiou which, all reference to the possi-
bilny of fusion of the races draws down
upon those who suggest 1t, because nobody
preteuds to deny that, throughout the
South. large proportion of the popuIa-
ton is the offspring Of white men and col
ored women. In New Orleans class OF
unhappy females exists whose mingled
blood does not prevent their being remark
able for their benuiy, and with whom no
man, no gentleman, IN that city shrinks
from assocatiug; aud while the slave own
ers Of the Southern States insist vehe-
menlly upon the mental and physical IN
ferority of the blacks, they are benevo
len,ly doing their best, 10 one way at least,
TO raise aud improve tho degraded race,
and the ha4taTa pses4(s1tea which f.rttts
70 omnous an element in the social safety
of their cities certainly exhibit In their
forms and features the beno fl they derive
from their white pr0genltors. 1t IS hard
TO conceive that some mental improve
nent does not accompany this physical
change Already the fner forms OF the
European races are cast in these duskJ
fHe44l4s the outward eeHHga#sttet ests
hardly thus improve without correspond
ing progress in the inward capacities. -
The white MATS blood and bones have
begotten this bronzs race and bequeath to
it, 10 snme degree, qualities, tendencies
capabilities such as are the inheritance OF
tho highest orler of human animals. -
Mr. --- land many others speak as IT
there were natural rtpugnSnce In all
whites to any alliance with the black
race; and yet it Is notorious. that almost
every Southern planter has faniily more
or less numerous OF illegiiimae colored
CHI dTcn. Most certainly. few penp'e
would lik6 to assert that such connec.
tioas are formed because it il the iateyesi
Of these planters to increase the number
of their properly, and that they add II
their revenue by the closest intimacy will
creatures that they ioath in order 10 reck
on among their wealth the children o.
their body. Surely that this is mon
strous and unnatural position, and utterly
unworthy of belief. That such connec
tons exist commonly is sufficient prooI
that they are not abhorrenl 10 nature but
it seems, indeed, as il marriage (and mol
concukinage) WAS the horrible enormity
which cannot be tolerated, and against
which, moreover, il has been deemed ex
pedient To enact laws. Now il appears
very evident that there is no law In til,
white mans nature which prevents hin
from making eolored woman the mother
ssatute-books forbidding him TO make heI
his wife aud ii we are To admit The the
Org that The mixing If The races is mon
strosi,y. 1t seems almost as cu.i,u tia
llws should be enacted 10 prevent me,
marrying women toward whom they hev,
an iovincible natural Iepugnanee, as tina
education should by law be prohibited Il
TO creatures incapable of r., iving it,
Having thus svowed her hostility I,
slavery in the frs. cbspter, Mrs. kembl,
in her second describes her husband I
plantation. near Darien, Georgia. and II
the opening of 1t affirins that she has
heard It s,ated ssnd much eloried in tba,
Miss Msriincau was purposely misled
by the persons to whom she addressed he
inquiries, who did not scrupls to disgr4c c.
themselves ny imposing IN the crosses
manner upon her credulity and anxiety /,
obtain information
A DELICATE sUBJYCT