New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-03-19


them 1t was exactly the same case with the lowsst
man. be was some miles In the animal direction. but
the distance between him and the very highest animal
Nas far greater than between him and the highest man.
This was sufficiently proved by the facility with which
the lowest end highest mingled without stery.
one who had been whore the white and dark races
coexsted need only his eyes that their inter.
course was fertile showing indsputably their unity Of
epecee Much might be said. doubt of the Inferior.
ny oil such offspring. ant its liability 70 dscase bus
tEere were other facts which accounted Tor that Whe1
ever the European race came in contact with inferior
races 1t carried along with 1.-The blessings of civi5s-
ton drink syphilis. ard The Generalization Of the in
el10r race. The only exception 10 this perhaps
in Mcxico where tue cross6reed does weI enough In
the other eases the offspring Of the Dixtare WA dea.
pised the men taking - tine lowest occupations the
wUnlcn 10 prostitution These facts would explain any
tendencies 70 disease md any ilferiority.
The Professor said that he had dwer upon this point
With the more emphasis because were all conscious
that behind tbeE all was iornidsbls shadow--the
social end political position Of the negrowhch nearly
a civilized nations bad fen and which hsd brought
me two sections OF the American nation into terrible
conflict Il was he said impossible 10 feel attracted
somewhat 70 q people who so bravery end vigorously
defended their position this any questions but at
the sane the expressed it his conviction that tho
Treasure to destroy an Institution which was utterly
eoruPting and opposed 10 the highest interests OF
humanity Ia tbs 10 did not speak Of the negro, fer
nhom ne lad never professed cny special sympathy
Du hethccght more particularly vi It's degrading and
eyea destructive influence upon cry people among
whom slavery was suffered 10 eyiss
But his object In abiding 10 this conflict was only "a
empheticaiy protest against the introduction, from tho
party spirit excited either SIDE of fase statements
as legitimate scientific facts Some. IL seemed, had
gone far In tho North TO claim for tho negro an
equality with and superiority in some re-
specs over the whites 1t ess say that such
claims uRiounded. But, en- the other side, there
lad been made of the widest Character lie
would refer the statements which from the
other SIDE OF tho water where there we've many tempta-
tons 10 strain the facts Of nature ~ suit party endsy
but s must most earnestly protest sgninst come state
made this side OF the water which were with
OFT such temptations. and utterly incxcusable.
Prof Huxley then read extensive extracts nom Dr.
James Hunts pamphlet entitled "On the Negroes place
Ia Mature" Some pGrog rnhs In the dcdicai0n OF tnas
pamphlet taken from tire letter VI Confederate LADY
~ tie auhor wsre read and excited great laughter
amorg tao eminent ges;lemcu present. These para
graphs were as follows: 1.-The skeleton u the negro
can never be placed upright. lLaugLter:I There 2
always slight angle in the legs, greater In the thigh
bones and still more u tie beCy until In some instances
Il curves backward" THE blood Is vastly disswiar
the red corpusoles arc greatly 10 excess and tho cob
tie molecular movement within the dscs diors IN every
respect ard whom tiled With solution Of potass, the
prorusions from the cell walls take every Intermediate
form reyeTting with great Tapidy 20 tie normal con-
dfion The hair u very pecuisr three hairs sprnging
from different erifceshink Of Il said the lecturer
will unts into onei II is very irs5e, Ike moss, the
ends splitting up" lGreat laughter IN which NE Loo
II Is but justice to the snthor Of this pamphlet tsad
Prof Huxley to say that he aid not write this YET 10
says, the above Intelligent remarSs and may be sup
posed 10 indorse them The Professor called attention
" Statement. of the writer that FIok has asserted
that the peiys q TIE male negro bear. great re-
VrOiik did say has bearing on the point: 10 that
This part II taken from certain wild boasts could NOT
be OF frTner substance or have harder Dore.'f
Prof Huxley then alluded to DR.. Hunts declsIstioa
that in the negroes brain The pa mater contains brown
spots which found 10 the brain of European
lie referred TO Caters paper before tao Antbro-
biological Society feag proving tbs occurrence OF the
same coloraton in white persons. 10 tProL ~ aso
little doubt that tbo same Spots might be found IN
bis own pid mater and that OF many present. bat aers
IL the erowniDg sentence. 1t 10 quoted without con-
tradiction or quaineation from CERTAIN ~. Van
Eayrie AZ apologist Of Slavery in New York; The
negro Incapable Of erect oz direct pcrpennepar
posture The general structure Vi his limbs. tue form
vi the peiys the spine the way the head - 500 On boc
shoulder in short the ios e,ssm5s OF tae anatomlcs
formation forh;ds an erect POSITION Mith the proaa
forehead ard small cerpbeum OF the white man, it -
perfectly obvious that tho negro would no longer pos
sees center Of gravity. and therefore those pnlsn
thronc PEOPLE who would educate him into ihteoetsaa
equaty or change the mental organism OF The nsgrc
would simply render hin incapable Of standing OIL Ms
feet OF OF ~ upright position. on any terms"
When tho great LAUGHTER which these paragraphs,
and especially the Last excited had ceased Prof Hux-
ey sod that DO felt IL his duty 10 protect against Sscn
bsseess and ridiculous assertions which might 90 con-
oeiyed II ths spirit OF party but certainly were NOT Ia
that Of science. The upright skeletons OF AjiiealS
before then made serious r-py unueee-sfry
On Fob ~ Prof. Huzleys lecture waS upon the CHM
Eushwor.n s,ardag side b. side and showed the yass
ehnsm between them. He also exhibited The skuI Oh
particularly low snd brutal by the side OF thar o.
Chn~..se. showing thst not only wss the bfa!n OF
the Chimpanzee less than half the volume Of thot of tie
negro bat that there were fundamental differences
e. the absence OF pit at the bottom vi the skull VI
the negro which ia that of the ape contained
ton II the brainhe fact indicating the separation in
the spe between the o. lnsl marrow and the brain. In
the Bus1Eoman the pevis war abeut inches higher
than that OF the Chimpan,cc The latter had more ribs
than line former In the Buswolan the Uranium over
balanced the bones of face: In the Chimpanzee was
The reverse Many other organic differences, such a.
the greater looseRess and dyarieaton OF the thumb ON
The hand depivng the Ape OF that power OF meohsn-
ical contrivsacs which Is essentially human, we're also
indicated
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