The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-10

the LESSONS OF independence Is q heavy
one; but who can forget US and the
hundreds otherwise engaged for the
same end. Posterity viii hand down
their names to the end of time. A
powerful nation viii rise up and call
them blessed. j. .R.
Facts and Figures About Mlseegena-
tIOn."
In one Of his admirable speeches in
the United States House of Represent
atives, Hon. VIM. D. Kelly, Of Penn
sylvania in reply to Cox, of Ohio, pro
duced some statistics that threw the
'1miscegenation7 theories Of the latter
into confusion. The figures, presented
by Mr.. Kelly, which we subjoin, show
that slavery has broken down the great
barriers of race and legitimacy to a
degree that would be impossible if the
blacks of the South were emancipated-
Said Mr. Kelly:
at is not the men Of the North who
have been enamOred by that complex
ion which is described as the shadow
ed livery of the burning sun. II is
not the men of the North who have
laid their snowy hands in palm of
russell; or have hung Europe's price
less pearl that shames the Orient on
Africa S swarthy neck; or realized ex-
perimentally the truth of the poets
aphorism, that
In joining contrasts lieth Loves delight
"These exquisite and delicate sources
of enjoyment have been in the exclusive
possession Of the Southern Democracy,
the colaborers in politics of the gentle
man who charges them so wantonly
upon the people Of his own section.
He has never seen the white northern
man choose his companions from that
race. j have by me the picture of q
band ofslaves sent North by Gen. Banks,
four of whom are ~ white as we who
hold this discussion They come from
the colored schools recently established
in New Orleans. They are children of
southern Democrats; born in Virginia
and Louisiana, they were owned or sold
by their fathers as negro slaves.
81 look, sir, upon that picture of
WashingtOn's companion in the Revo-
luton pointing to the picture of La
Eayette) and ms fit associate in this
Hall, and / remember that when on his
tour through this country In 1924 he
visited the Southern States, he very
publicly expressed his surprise at find
ing the complexion of the negro pOpu-
lation in their cities so largely changed
from what it had been at the close Of
the revolutionary war, and expressed
the hope that in finding the two races
thus blending their blood he might dis
cover the solution of the slavery ques-
ton
"Buta few weeks ago, in converse
ton with a distinguished son of Ken
lucky; himself STAKEHOLDER, upon the
question now under discussion, he said
to me that in 1919 he was at Danviile,
Kentucky, that there were there, on
and an average, 300 young men, and
that though the colored population of
the town numbered COG, there were but
of pure African blood ghe scholars
of that school were not Northern abe
litionists or Republicans. They were
the wealthy and educated young gem
tlemen of the Democratic South
But, sir, let this question not rest
upon isolated instances or narrow To-
calities. Let us look at the census of
1860 ] find by it that more than
a million of the colOred people
of that section are, as IhaYe al
ready intimated, the kindred Of
the white race OF the South Thus in
Louisiana, of the free colored people,
81 % per cent are of mixed blood, while
in Pennsylvania only 1867 are Of mixed
blood. And here let me say the latter
are nearly all Of Southern birth / re-
member while litigation was pending
in our courts between two cClOred ma
tives of Charleston there were on one
occasion about so witnesses in court.
Some of my colleagues remember the
The contest was between
Robert J. Douglass and Wilkerson
Jones and among the so witnesses, all
of whom were natives of Charleston,
s. c., and its immediate vicinity there
was not a black or one white man
They were all Of mixed blood
And in behalf Of Pennsylvania, !
claim that the South has sent US by far
the greater portion of what we have of
that stock In Alabama, the per cent
age Of mixed blood is IS, and in Yer
mont 228 In Texas it swells TO 1000
in Rhode Island it sinks to Is % il
South Carolina it rises again to n, SO
her expectations to
and elsewhere; in Con-
necticut it sinks to 224 In North Car
0lina It it is 7L59; in New York IL Is
l5S8 in Florida it IS $3.50; in New
Jersey it is but 1854 But these, you
say, are freed people there are per
IONS whose fathers, unwilling TO sell
their own blood, have manumitted
their children Let US look, then, 10
.he statistics Of the slave population. j 1
ind that by the census Of 1850 there
we're Of mixed blood among the slave
population but I3O per cent and in
1850 50 busy had the proslayery De /
nocracy been in augnenting the nu-
nerical power Of the institution, that /
he 40 had swollen to l041 and if
he negro race is to be saved as a dis (
.inct race, the only way to do It is to
AXE it from the embrace Of the slave
holders, to acknowledge the humanity /
# the slave, to give him the rite Of
and TO teach him those great 4
truths which, according to the gentle
nan from New York, in twelve or IF
cen hundred years gave freedom, and 4
With il morals, 20 Europe
But enough and something too I
much Of This Indeed, ] crave the par
Ton Of the House for having followed I
he gentleman from Ohio 50 far into /
his discussion
Out Of three hundred and seventy
even towns Of New York State, from (
which returns are received, the Union