Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-03-08
New York York Correspondence Of the London Times
Miscegenation i'm America.


New York York Correspondence Of the London Times
INCARCERATION i'm America.
NEW YORK, February g.
1t has been discovered by the ad
vanced spirits of the abolition party that the ne
gro is in many importont respects the superior of
the whites and that if tie latter do not forget
their pride of race and blood and color, and ANAL
gamate with the purer and richer blood OF the
blacks, they will die out of America and wither
away in Improbable sknnness, meriting by their
obstinacy and folly the fate of the red man. whom
thsy have either extermnated driven into the
wilderness.
The first to give tongue to the new doctrine
was the Rev. Theodore Tilton, the coaddjutor of
the Rev Henry Ward Beecher in the edtOrshp
OF the Independent. who few months ago de
clared in assemblage principally composed of
women-possibly all ofthe strong minded order
that it was good for white women To marry black
men. and that the ''passional'' and emotional
nature OF the blacks was needed 10 improve the
white race.
Mr. w endell Phillips has often limited the ga me
thing, no doubt TO the great JOY of the stalwart
negroes who has attended his lectures if not to
that of the shameless white women who have not
thought it unworthy of their modesty to listen
The doctrine once preached has found believers
and adherents. and a little tract called "Misce
genation" has recently been widely circulated in
which the whole subject is discussed for the study
of such Yankee girls as have exhausted the SEN
sational novels, aud of such abolitonist preachers
and lecturers have not yet risen to the hight
of this black argument.
When Miss Dickinson repeated, on Monday
evening last, the Cooper Institute. the lecture
which she delivered before the President at
Washington fortnight ago. she somewhat
late in making her appearance on the plat
form, and to pacify the audience, (mOstly
composed of women.) who growing
impatient of delay, the advertisements
and Mandatory notices of this tract
were handed around for their perusal, a
circumstance which suggested TO many that the
lecturer was either the author of the book or pc
cuiarly interested in its sale. A few extracts
from this work will serve to convey to European
readers some notion of the fanaticsm that so
easily takes root in America. and of the ferment-
alton of ideas even of the most disgusting kind
which may be made to prevail among people in
times of social and political revolution. The
fundamental idea Of the new Anacharsis ClOotz,
or worse than he who is guilty OF the treatise is
this: "W hatever there is OF power aud vitality in
the American race is derived not from its Anglo
Saxon orogenitors. but from all the different ma
tionalities which go TO make up this people. All
that is needed TO make US the finest race on earth
is 60 engraft upon our stock the negro element
which Providence has placed by our side upon
this continent OF all the rich treasures OF blood
vouchsafed to us, that of the negro is the most
precious. because it is the most unlike any other
that enters into the composition of our national
life They (the negroes) are our brothers
and sisters. BY 1ningling with them, we become
powerful, progressive and prosperous; by refus-
ing to do SO, we become feeble, unhealthy. mar
row minded, unfit for the nobler offices of free
dom, aud certain of early decay"
The uthOr cited various writers to show that
in marriage. people attracted by their Oppos-
ties; that the intellectual man does not seek FOR
intellect IL his wife. but for affection without
much intellect; that the dark prefer the blonde,
the short the tall, the lean the plump and vice
He then goes TO prove, with unc-
ton which might almost make one suspect him
of being maurais tarceur, why it l. that the
American white race must intermingie with the
American black race. or die out. The white
people. he saws. are Derishing FOR want of flesh
and blood. They have bone and sinew: but they
are dry and shrivelled for lack of the healthful
juices of life The cheeks are shrunk
en-. the lips are thin and bloodless, the
under Aw narrow and retreaIing, the
teeth are decsyed and painful, the nose
sharp and cold, the eyes small and waiery, the
complexion OF a blue and yellow hue, the head
and shoulders bent forward, the hair dry and
Struggling" This is his picture of the men; that
OF the women is scarcely more flatteTng "The
waists of the women are thin and pinched. tell
ing of sterility and consumption; the general ap-
pearance gaunt aud cadaverous from head to
foot You them" he adds. with eve glasses
and slectacles. false teeth. artificial color in the
face, artificial plumpness to the FORM while the
social Intercourse OF the sexes he describes as
being 'siOrmal ascetic and International " How
different, he says. is an sssembage of negroes,
Every cheek Is plump. the teeth are whittier than
ivory. there no bald heads, the ewes are large
and bright. every face wears a smile ev.ry form
i stalwart" Ia short, he saws that American
white men need contact with healthy, loving
warm-blooded natures, to fill up the lean inter
stices of their anatomy, and that such natures
are only 10 be found among Gegresses. Ii il
poSs BILE and highly probable. that the author
himself is one OF the lean. gaunt. blOodess Yam
KEGS whom he so eloquently describes. and that.
failing 10 find wife TO his mind among the
strong-minded ladies of whom Miss Anna z
Dickinson and Mrs. Beecher Stowe are the types.
he longs for genial partner from be Southern
plantations What" he inquiries. docs the
Anglo Saxon American look for in lovely
woman? Her cheeks must be rounded and have
a tint of the sun. her ips must be pouiing her
teeth white aud regular her ewes large and
bright her hair must curl about her head and de
scend in crnkling waves; she must be merry.
CAV. full of poetry aud sentiment, fond of song.
chdlike and artless " " The most beautiful
woman ] ever saw" he adds, twas a mulatto.
She ripe and complete woman. Her com
plexion wa warm. and dark, and golden, with
the heat of tropical suns her lips full and lus
cious. her cheeks perfectly nodded, her hair
curling and black the ravens wing
IL u jus, possible that this lean Yankee -ifh be
be one, and have the means 10 maintain a wife
might hud suitable one among the Caucasian
race in Europe. IL he were 10 Try. especially in
England Scotland. withou; resorting to ne
gresses mulstto girls; bot there is no account
ing either for the vitiated tastes Of sane men or
the vagAries of mad philosophers But not for
his own individual pleasure does the American
Clootz urge hi plea for more than brotherhood
with the people he loves. IL ID for his country