Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1864-03-24
INSTRUMENTATION.

Such is the newly invented term to ex-
press the minglinS of races generally, and
especially Of the mingling Of the white and
black races on this continent as q conse-
qnence Of the freedom of the latter This
last idea, remarks the Chicago Tribune, is
now the phantom boquet" Of the copper
head fancy Divcstcd of all actuality or
reality, stripped Of all motive and Of all
possibility, like the leaves Of a veri;able
"phantom boquet." from which ell the
aeiicsfe verdure and bloom is bleached out
and the dry skeleton only is left, still the
theory delights the copperbead imagina-
tion., lie is neyer tired of exhibiting, re-
yOlsing. Saimiring, talking about his
phantom boquet" "miscegenation." He
apparently unconscious that its imagin-
ed beauties can never again bloom, being
bet the fancifully. arranged skeleton of
lie; that has departed. Among all the
worlds poor fools are there any who doubt
among oil her far more pitiablc knaves
ara there any who would deny-that slave
Tis the great mother Of amalgamation,
while freedom gives to the eolored woman
Chat right OF virtue, and to the white man
dat more refined taste, which defends each
from lie other? Upon the tropical soil of
slsteTy :s..niscegena,ion" takes quick root,
hssrapid growth. anti is favored by all the
elements OF society. Passion warns it,
eFpidity waters it. Custom cultivates it.
Power. c,npels it. 1t flowers early and,
bears fruit long and abundan,ly. The
fruit itself is precious to the eye. and sweet
to the taste of those who planted it. II
they would rart with it. its price is the
liehS~. IL siv laashes. rvhat plant 10 81
precious, Is that whose leaves are dissipa-
ton, yet whose flowers are wealth, whose
every branch of lust bears the harvest Of
riches and honor. whose growth requires
Only that soil which is most universal-de-i
prasity. and that culture which is easiest
-Giieentioas indulgence. Do we wonder
then that ..miscegenation'' is. a plant of
rank growth on slave soil! Look at its
blossoms, its flowers and its fruit They
sDthe mulattoes, quadrons, and octaroons
@New Orleans and Charleston. These
terms are unknown at the North, except in
c91aection with slavery, because the facts
which they. describe do not here exist
They are, the "white slaves whose moth
ers or grandmothers were octaroons--but
whose cheek has the bloom of the peach,
whose eys'is blue as the Southern sky, and
whose price at the auction block in the
bloom of youth and beauty is thrice what
it will be at their maturity, when greater
strength and fewer charms 6t them only for
nfssial service as domestics. IS 1.sii
-;sAIiscegenation" is so systematized in
many parts Of the South that The lawful
&e regards the various members of the
''other family" without jealousy. indeed.
viii aSertAin affection. as they save her
from childbirth and add to her dowry.-
Often the father of the "other family"
s5amed at the thought of handing down
hisiown offspring to perpetual moral deg
radiation and bondage. frees them, not out
Of any love for freedom. for he is conscious
that the moment they are free they are re-
moved from his embraces. bat ont of pa
rsafslregard' for them. and that they may
beffemoved from involuntary degradation
byothers. No sooner are they freed than
fuxther "miscegenation' ceases as rule.
Tin 6ssblacks. duadroons and oetoroons
ptsfeFto marry among their own class
The colofd man assumes the natural right
apds obeys the instructive impulse of de-
Tending hisswife or sister from "miscege-
nssiqu." The colcred woman prefers the
fsitEful affection of a husband and q free
Offspring, to The degrading amours of a
master, resulting in an offspring OF slaves.
liabls 1t say mement to be torn from her
s<msdespite al her tears and prayers, and
sold into like slavery 1t is an undeniable
fact nat- the ,free, blacks Of New Orleans
ase not only equal in moral responsibility
bstsshes ne actually superior in syerage
wealth. decofdfng to the most reliable WI
tiers and statistics, to any other class
Slavery facilitates amalgsmation by saw
ing The white man the trouble of seducing
his.victiaaa Freedom. by giving her her
natural rights, subjects him to this new
apd Importsnt Inconvenience" Who
stf5& siy thst sqoh . change does not sub
stkafis1lx put IN end to Ymiscegenation?''
Bod il islunnecsssary to reason a prio,i'
Hxpe4enes simply demonstrates that when
lie fzffey$e hn ceased to be slave "nis-
essszdIisn las disappeared, Travel The
lenrfh AMI breadth Of the entire free States