The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17
PLYMOUTH INDIANA THURSDAY, MARCH H. 1861

material differences to the amellOraCln:
influence of an honest and unlimited rec
! ognition Of one common nature.
To "assimilatc these various races is tn
problem which Mr.. Greeley approaches
We cannot but admire the delicate phrase
ology by which his approaches are couched
Not so the pamphlet to which | referred
1t is bold and outspoken. 1t advocates
preference of the black over the white a
partne ers The followingare the points in
culcated by its author.
l. Since the whole human race is of on,
family, there should be in republic NJ
:. distinction in political or social rights OF
account Of color, race, or nativity.
. The doctrine of human brotherhood
implies the right of white and black to in
termarry.
3. The solution of the negro pro oblen
will not be reached in this country until
public opinion sanctions union ofthe two
races
4. As the negro is here and cannot be
driven out, there should be no impeachment
to the absorption Of one race into the other
s. Legitimate unions between whites
and blacks could not possibly have any
worse effect than illegitlmate unions which
have been going on for more than a cen
tury at the South.
g. The mingling of the diverse races is
proved by all history to have been posi-
tive benefit to the progeny.
I. The Sou hcrn rebellion is caused less
by slavery than by the base prejudice re-
sulting from distinction of color; and per
feet peace can come only by a cessation of
that distinction through an absorption OF
the black race by the white.
g. 1t is the duty of anti slavery men ev
erywhere to advocate the mingling of the
! two races.
.. The next Presidential election should
secure to the blacks all their social and po-
litical rights; and the progressive party
should not finch from conclusions fairly
deducible from their own principles.
10. In the millennial future, the highest
type OF manhood will not be white or black
but brown; and the union OF black with
white in marriage will help the human
family the sooner to realize its destiny.
The author finds as emblem of success
in the blending of many to make one new
race, in the crowning Of the dome above
this Capitol with the bronze statue Of LIB
erty. 1t is neither black nor white, but
the intermediate miseegen, typifyinG the
exquisite composite race which is to rise
out of this war for abolition, and whose
destiny is to rule the continent. Well
might the correspondent of the New York
Tribune, in describing the lifting Of the
uncouth masses and boiling them together
joint by joint till they are blended into the
majestic Freedom which lifts her head
in the blue sky above us, regard the scenes
as prophetic of the time when the recon-
structed symbol Of freedom in America
shall be a colored goddess of liberty. But
to the pamphlet itself. Here we have it,
Mr.. Speaker. This new evanGel for the
redemption of the black and white, upon
its Introductory page begins as follows:
The word is spoken at last 1t is mis-
eegcnation-the blending of the races of
men-the practical recognition of the
brotherhood of all the children Of the com
mon Father Lau ghter.
Just what our miscegenetic chaplain
prays for here almost every morning; and
you all voted for him, even some of my
friends from the border States The au-
thor, in his second chapter, devotes many
pages to considering the superiority of
mixed races. Without combating his facts
or deductions, let me quote this grand con-
clusiOn:
Whatever Of power and vitality there is
in the American race is derived, not from
its Anglo Saxon progenitors, but from all
the different nationalities which 90 to make
up this peoble. All that is needed to make
us the finest race on the earth is TO engraft
upon our stock the negro element which
Providence has placed by our side on this
continent. Laughter OF all the rich
treasures of blood vouchsafed to us, that of
the negro is the most precious laughter
because it is the most unlike any other that
enters into the composition of our national
life Laughter.
This enthusiastic theorists then shows
that all religions are derived from the d; rk
races. lie calls us from the tombs of Egg
ypt, and so'ves the Sphynx riddles of our
national destiny. That solution is this
that elf we would fill our proper places in
nature, We must mingle our blood with all
the children of the common Father Of hu
manity." Thus aud thus only can we hope
for redemption by "A pure religion. The
cold skepticism of the Caucasian will then
be expunged in the more genial faith which
miscegenation will produce Hear him:
May we not hope that in the happier
hereafter of this continent, when the Mon
golian from China and Japan, and the ne
gro from his own Africa, shall have blent
their more emotional natures with ours,
that there may be witnessed at once the
most perfect religion as we'll as the most
perfect type of mankind the world has yet
seen? Let us then embrace our black
brother; let us give him the intellect, the