Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-04-03
msCEdEKA1GON IN AMERICA.


New OK OOEIes pOhG5uCe lAOlluoN lluiea
NEW YORK, February - It has
been discovered by the advanced spirits Of the
Abolition party that the negro is in many i'm
porssnt respects the superior Of tho whites, and
that if the latter do not forget their pride of race
and blocd and color, aud smslgsmats With the
purer and richer blood Of the blacks, they viii
die out of Ameriez and Withsr away in unpTo-
Efc aknniness meriting by their obstinEcy and
folly the fate Of the red man, whom they have
either exterminated or driven into the wilder
ness. The first to give tongue to the new doc
trine was the Rev. Theodore TIlton, ths eosdja-
tor Of the Rev. Henry Ward Bsecbor in the edi-
torship of the Independent, who, few months
ago, declared in an asBsmblage principally COM
posed of womeu-p0sBibly al Of the strong
minded order-thRt Is was good for HhIts women
to marry black men, and that the "psssiOnsl"
and emotional" nsture Of the blacks was
needed 20 improve the white Tfcs.
Mr. Wendell Phillips has often hiRted the
same thing, no doubt 70 the great joy OF the
stslwart negroes who have attended his lectures,
if not to shAt of the shameless white women
who have not thought it unworthy of
their modesty to Gstsn- The doctrine once
bYosehed has found believers and adheTenls, and
little tract called - Miscegenstion has recent
ly been widely circulated, iu which the whole
subject is discussed for the study Of sueh Yam
kse girls IS have exhausted the Sensational no
Vels, and of such Abolitioniss preachers and lee
turers as have not yet risen TO the height of this
black argument When Miss Dickinson repeat
Cd on Monday evening Last at the Cooper In
sitcts, the lecture which she delivered before the
President at Washington fortnight ago, she
was somewhat late in making her sppearsnco on
the platform, and to pseify the audience (mostly
composed of W0men,) who were growing impa-
tient of delay, the advertisements and lsudaiory
notices Of this tract Were handed round ioT their
perussl, 6 circumstance which suggested 10 ma
ny thst the lecturer was either the author Of the
book or peculiarly interested in its sale.
a few extracts from this work will serve to
convey to Edropean readers some notion of tho
fAnsticism thsi so easily takes root In America,
and of the fermentation of ideas, even of the
most disgusting kind, which may be msds to
prevail among people in times of social and
political revelation. Ths fundamental idea of
the new ADschzIis Cloo;z, or Worse than he,
who is guilty of tho treatise, is this: Whatever
there is of power and vitality IN tha American
race is derived, lot from its Anglo-Saxon pTogen-
isors, but from ell tho different nationalitie5
which go to make up this people. All that is
needed to make Us the finest race on earth is to
engTsft upon our stock the negro element which
Providence has placed by our side upon this
continent or all the hch treasures Of blood
Vouchssved to us, that OF the negro is the most
precious, because il is tho most unlike any
other that enters into the composition Of our
national life They (the negroes) are
cur brothers and sisters. By minglng with
them wo become powerful, progressive and
prosperous by refusing to do so, we become
| feeble, unheslthy, narToT-IniDded, unfit for
| the nobler Offices of freedom, and csTtain Of
early decay" The author cites various Wi
teTs to show that ia marriage people ara attract
ed by their oppositesi that ths Intellectual man
does not seek for intellect in bis wife, but for sf
| faeriou without much intellect; that the dark
prefsr the blonde, the short the tall, the lean the
| plump, and pice vsTsa. He then goes on to
| prove, with an unction which might almost make
one suspect him of being amasUais taresur, why
| Il is that the American white race must inter-
| miDg,e with the black race, or die out. The
white people, he says "aIe perishing for want Of
assh aud blood They have bone and sinew;
| but they are dry and shrivelsd for lack Of the
hsslthful Juices of life. The cheeks sre sunken,
the lips are thin and bloodlszs, the under isW
narrow and reircatiDg, the teeth decsysd and
| painfal the nose sharp and cold, the eyes small
and wasery, the complexion Of blue and yell
low hue, the hesd and shoulders bent forward,
the hsir dry And struggling" This is his pic
tuIe Of the meD; that of the wemen is scarcely
more fattering 'The waists Of the women are
thin snd pinched, telling of sterihly and con-
sumption; the general appearance gauut and es-
dsvarous from head to foot You see them"
be adds, " with eye glasses and spectac'es, false
teeth artificial color in the face, artificial plump
ness to the form" while the social intercourse Of
the sexes be describes as being "foTnsl and une-
motional" How different, he says sis an as
senblage Of negroes! Every cheek is plump,
the teeth are whittier than ivory; there sre no
bald heads, the eyes are large aud bright; every
face wears q smile every form il stalWsrE" !"
In short, be says that American white men need
contact with healthy, loving, warm -bleoded ns-
lures to ELL up the lean intersticss of their
anatomy, and that such natures are only to be
found among negresses Il is possible, and
| highly probable, that the author himself Is one
of the lean, gaunt, bloodless Yankees whom he
so elcquenhy describes, and that, falling to
iud wife TO his mind among the strong
minded ladies', Of whom Miss ARna Dickinson
and Mrs. Bsecher Stowe are the types, he longs
for congenial partner from the Southern plan
tations. "Whss, he inquiries, " does the Anglo
Saxon (American) look for in lovely woman :
Her cheeks must be rounded and have tint OF
the sun, her lips must be pouting, her teeth
white and regular, her eyes large and bright,
her hair must curl shout her head, and descend
in crinkling waves she must be merry, gay,
full of poetry and sentiment, fond of song
, ehildlik9 and srtlsss." "The most besutifnl
girl I ever saw, he adds, was q mulatto. Shs
was 4 ripe and eomplete woman. Her complex
ion wsrm, and dark, and golden, with the hsa
of tropical suns; her lips full and luscious, hs
. cheeks perfectly moulded, her hair curling, ant
black a the ravens wing"