The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-04-13

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a invariably are da knees, blackness and 90 a
seurity. identifed with the ideas OF misery, SIN
fitness and punishment. We have DOT '"e d
slightest suspicion that there ever was or ever
will be black prognathOus, fat nOsed Adamie
man.
are other races than the Adamic immortal!
We have no reason 10 doubt that they are IN
mortal, and embraced in all the gracious DE
signs OF Providence The glory OF the white
ace il, that il u the head OF animate Inteligent
creation; the chosen type in which the wisdom
OF God became ncarnate. Though shorn oil ils
beauty 10 4 great degree by the fall and actual
Elm, il retains enough Of its pre- eminence 70
make it the chief object Of Satan's attack
and inst now he assumes the guise OF phiianthfo-
py, and breaches - Interrogation ID hopes
that once more " all fesh may corrupt us way
upon the earth" and God in righteous anger
sweep it of.
We have hitherto been entirely silent on TINS
subject first, because We have no taste Tor IT,
aud do not care straw for il; secondly, We 90
not regard it as the most profitable subject tor
discussion ia a family newspaper and lastly Il
ve we're to discuss il all, should prefer TO e1
anime the physiological questions involved III the
light Of permauent scientific Inquiries and Lot
as so many political points got up to inhoence
single election. But as the whole body OF he
pubrcans are represented favoring this ne"
doctrine, We are bound, in self defence. to set
ourselves right on the record.
First then, We do not believe at all in the
cocIrine. as laid down in the pamphlet. Com
men sense and experience teach that the union
If tao races, one Of the highest type OF minc
H. - her hive II
ike the black, will result in posterty inferior
90 the white and superior 10 the back il can
not be others wise, for the children inherit the
iacu Ities Of both parents. But a union OF one
portion Of the white race Ike the Teutoas, with
another portion ferent fom, but equal or su
perior in some respects to them, a. the Gets
NAV produce race superior 10 either. This
vas the ground advocated by President Havens
ia bis lecture in this place. Any nnscegenation
OF the white race with the black, brown, red OF
yellow races all of ahch are inferior to the white,
sould result ia the degradation OF the white
race The posterity would 10, be equal TO the
mike ancestors. So much tor our belief.
As TO the opinions OF Greeley and Beecher,
they are competent TO speak for themselves
We have have not learned that they have taken
suy Steps for obtaining black wives ard &c IN
derstaud the height # their offence at present tc
De the maintaining shat miscegenatlon IL 70 s.r
that there is nothing morally wrong IN the
; prsctce-w whereas the COpperneads hold Is Ii
o the greatest sin Republican can commit. l.
B their minds, it seems TO be far more oonoxiou
I than treason In the mean time, We eau trui,
d say for the assurance o! the timld, that We d.
; not know, nor have We heard OF practical mis-
= cegenator who was Republican, IN any OF tn
81 United States There may be some such, bu
% where one could be found, the records OF Sat
2 Prisons aud Police Courts would reveal at eas
20 twenty Of the Democratic and Copperhea
0 stripe We will cite single instance. lt
ID vel knOur,' saws the Boston Commonwealth
'e " that Andrews the rioter, who was consPicu
lie Gus leader OF the mob that hunted, hanged, sho
C aud roasted unOfFeLding negroes-and burDe
ID down the negro orphan asylum, was prosaver
{, man, a pot house democrats copperhead-
n, secession st-a Mcclellan peace man, who mad
tine UUuper institute, repeater II 10 the r
at Oters.
'g That pink of professionalism scion of ii
't, F. F. ", that acle OF wisdom, was practic
L mscegenationist. On the morning of his ARE
he he was dragged from the bed OF his black mi
BE tress. lie had lived long time with his co
lie ored charmer. She supported him on the VI
ne ges OF intamy, and made her house bis hom
'n He was in favor OF slavery. He spouted abol
nj the horrors of amagamation. He sympathize
e, With the mob whose path was marked with mu
pc der and couAagraton."
&c Some Infamous slanderers have declared mi
ne cegenation to be ." pure Yankee invention.
" We do not see how it is possible for man
ed muster sufficient assurance to make such a dec
e laration with the facts of the last census sta
We ing him in the face "0ur Southern brethren
IS as the Copperheads delight to call the r., b.
he lsveholders, are the great mscegeuators The
have practiced it for $50 years, from it, grea
on est men, like Jefferson, John TYLER, r. NJ. JOhT
he son and such like, to the lowest slave driver O
to the plantation. And what is the result9 tn
er Pittsburgh Gazette has examined the censu
T" and saws that " more than halt a million of III
be colored people of the South, or about one
eight, are the blood kindred of the white pee
pie of that section. Thus. in Louisiana. Of n
ly tree colored people. eighty one and on,
OF fourth per cent. are Of mixed blood In Ala
Gu bama the percentage of mixed blood il seventy
. seven per cent in Texas il is almost seventy
seven; IN South Carolina almost seventy two
all in North Carolina, over seventy one in Florida
sixty nine So much for miscegenarion prac
=. ticed with the free colored population OF IN
South by their white Southern ueighbors
I'd the six States named. about serenity five out Q
20 every hundred of the free eolOred population
: have white blood in their veins. Now look a
!. the slave population of the entire South. B
lie the census OF $50 there we're of mixed bloO
among that class bnt and three tentbs pc
= cent. and in 1850 so busy had our Southern
), brethren" of the Democratic party been in aug
ID meuting the numerical power of the "diyine in
r stitution. that the sevsn and three-.eu.h. ha,
'e been increased to ten and four-tenths That i
: 10 say, in 1850, when the Southern wing Of n,
l. Democratic party concluded to secede from N.
u Union Que slave out OF every ten coulc
I boast that in his or her veins coursed The booc
: of the chivalry ofthe South"
3 The statements of the census. however. ",