The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17

the abolition movement, and Mrs. Stowe
whose writings have almost redeemed b
their genius the hate and discord whicl
they aided to create; when | shall hav
done all this, | am sure the progresSives Of
the other side will begin to prick up thei
cars and study the new science of misceg
nation with a view of its practical realiza
tion by a bureau. Laughter. First hea
the testimony of Wendell Phillips. Ii,
says:
Now | am going to say something that
know will make the New York Herald us:
Its small capitals and notes Of admiration
and yet no well informed man this side o
China but believes it in the very core of hi
heart That is, 'amal lgamation wore
that the Northern apologist for slavery ha,
always used so gibly, but which you never
heard from Southerner Amalgamation
Remember that, the youngest of you, that
on the 4th day of july, 1868, you heard {
man say, that in the light Of all history, il
virtue of every page ever read, he was an
amalgamationist to the utmost extent. |
have no hope for the future, as this coun-
try has no past, and Europe has 10 past
but in that sublime mingling of races
which is Ged's own method of civilizing
and elevating the world. God, by the
events of His providence is crushing out
the hatred of race which has crippled this
county until to-day.
| put it to you gentlemen on the other
side: Are you responsible for him? All.
you received him, how ardently in this city
and Capitol last year.
Mr. ELIOT. TO who does the gentleman
refer?
Mr.. Cox Wendell Phillips. The Sen
ate doors few open for him; the Vice Pres
ilent Of the United Stltes welcomed him;
Senators surrounded him; Representatives
cheered his disunion utterances at the
Smithsonian; and you will follow him
wherever he leads. He is practical ANAL
nmationists, and he is leading, and will
ead you up to the platform on which you
will finally stand You may seem coy and
reluctant now, but so you were about the
political quality of the negro year ago,
Sd you were about abolishing slavery in the
States two years ago. Now you are in the
milicnnial glory Of abolition. SO it will
be hereafter with amalgamation. Here is
what Theodore Tilton. editor Of the hide
pendent. says in the circular to which |
have referred:
lave you not seen with your own eyes
no man can have escaped it---that the
black race in this country is losing its
typical blackncss? The Indian is dying
out, the negro is only changing color
Wen who by and by, shall ask for the In
dians, will be pointed to their graves
There lie their ashes. Men who by and
by, shall ask for the negro. will be told
There they go, clad in white mems skins,
\ hundred years ago a mulatto was cur
iosity; now the mulattoes are half million
You can yourself predict the future.
The circular referred to has other in
dorscments shall quote before l reach
that Warwick Of Republicanism, Horace
Greely. The Anti-Slavcry Standard of
January, 80 says:
This pamphlet comes dire eetly and fear
essl ly to the advocacy of an idea OF which
the American people are more afraid than
any other Assuredly Gods laws will full
ill and vindicate themselves. 1t is in the
highest degree improbable that He has
placed natural repugnance between any
two families of His children If He has
done so, that decree will execute itself, and
these two will never seek intimate compan-
ionship together. If. on the contrary, He
has made no such barrier, no such one is
needful or desirable, and every attempt to
restrain these parties from exercising their
natural choice is in contravention OF
His will, and is an unjust exercise of
power. The future must decide how far
black and white are disposed to seek each
other in marriage. The probability is that
there will be a progressive intermingling,
and that the nation will be benefited by it,
The editor of the Anglo African con-
fcsses that he is little staggered in his
theories by what he calls the evident deter
H. nation Of the mixed bloods of Central
America, but he finds the solution of the
difficulty in the fact that the races there
mixed, Indian and Spanish, are not com
plimentary of each other This, to my OBJ
servation, Mr.. Speaker is as absurd as it
is untrue. Sir, am not now arguing the
reasonableness ofthis doctrine of mixed ra-
ces | only propose to show what it is,
and whittier it is tending The New
York Tribune, the great organ
of the detcrminant party, is not so frank
as the Anglo-African, but its exposition of
''miscegcnation" is one of the signs which
point to the Republican solution of our
African troubles by amalgamation of the
races. In indorsing the doctrines of the
pamphlet, Mr.. Greeley holds that
No statesman in his senses cares to put
morsels of cuticle under microscope be-
fnre no determines upon the Drudence of n