The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1864-03-19

| erS, sisters, anu cnllurcn Oh tne democracy
of the South that in the veins of that num-
Der of colored people tingles the blood of
what the gentlemen have been pleased to
consider the master race Of this country
The gentleman intimated that, by reason of
the utterances to which he referred. he was
satisfied that the Republicans and Abolition
lists of the North would fall into the practice
of amalgamation. Sir, he knows very well
that the complaint of the alleged illegal and
unconstitutional arrest of that specimen of
Southern chivalry, that representative of
Virginia manners and morals, that leader of
the New York Democracy, Captain j. U.
Andrews, Is not their real grievance in the
premises. He knows very well that their
| expected to make most capital while they
hoped to restore slavery to its old political
power, is that when the officers tore that
husband of a white woman ruthlessly from
the swetering embrace of his African ina
mOrata they violated Democratic psages. -
Yes, sir, this is their real cause Of com plant
in the premises.
1t is not the men of the North who have
been cnamorcd by that complexion which is
described as the " Swallowed livery of the
burning sun 1t is not the men of the
North who have laid their <" snowy hands :"
in "palms Of russell" or hung Europe's
priceless pearl that shamcs the Orient on
Alrics swarthy neck or realized expert
mentally the truth of the poets aphorism,
that
In joining contrast lieth Loves delight"
These exquisite and delicate sources of
enjoyment have been in the exclusive pos
session of the Southern Democracy, the CO.
laborcrs in politics of the gentluman who
charges them so wantonly upon the people
of his own section. He has never seen the
white Northern man choose his companion
from that race. | have by me the picture of
n band of slaves sent North by Gen. Banks,
four of whom are as white as we who hold
this discussion. They came from the color
ed schools recently established in New Or
leans They are children of Southern Dem
ocrats, born in Virginia and Louisiana they
were owned or sold by their fathers as negro
slaves.
look, sir, upon that picture of Washing
tons companion in the Revolution Tpointing
to the picture Of Lafayette and his fit asso-
cate 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 finding the negro
population 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 discover the solution of
the slavery question.
But few weeks ago, in conversation with
distinguished son of Kentucky, himself
stakeholder, upon the question now under
discussion, he said to me that in 1919 he
was at school at Danville, Kentucky that
there were there on an average three hun;
drcd young men, and that though the colorcd
population of the town numbered six hun
dred, there were but six OF pure African
blood. The students at that school were
not Northern Abolitionists or Republicans.
They were the wealthy and educated young
gentlemen of the Democratic South.
But, sir, let this question not rest upon
isolated instances Of narrow localities Let
us look at the census of 1860. / find by ii
that more than half million of the coored
people Of that section are. as have already
minated, the kindred of the white race of
the South. Thus in Louisiana, of the free
colorcd people, 81. per cent are of mixed
blood, while in Pennsylvania only 1857 are
of mixed blood And here let me say tie
latter are nearly all of Southern birth.
remember that while litigation was pending
in our courts between two colored natives of
Charleston, there were on one occasion about
fifty witnesses in court. Some of my col
leagues remember the occasion. The CON
test was between Robert J. Douglass and
Wilkinson Jones, and, among the fifty wi
ncsses, all of whom were natives of Charls.
ton South Carolina, and in its immediate Vi
ciniy, there was not 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 centage Of mixed blood is 1899,
and in Vermont 27.GS. In Texas it swells
to 1885, in Rhode Island it sinks to
1923 in South Carolina it rises again to
7l.9G, notwithstanding her expectations to
Pennsylvania and elsewhere in Conrecti
necticut it sinks to 22.04. In North Carroll
ma it is 7l.59 in New York it is 1888: in
Florida it is Gs.09 in New Jersey it is but
1864. But these, you say, are freed people ;
| these are persons whose fathers, unwilling
to sell their own blood, have manumittcd
their children. Let US look, then, to the
statistics of the slave population. | find
| that by the census of 1850 there were of
mixed blood among the slave population but
| 7.30 per cent and in 1860 so busy had the
pro slavery Democracy been in augmenting
the numerical power of the institutions that
the 7.30 had swollen to 1O.41; and if the
| negro race is to be saved as distinct race
the only way to do it is to take it from the
embrace of the shareholders, to acknowledg
the humanity of the slave, to give him the
rite of marriage, and to teach him those
truths which, according to the gentleman
from New J ork, in twelve or fifteen Hundred