The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17
s.NaESCEGENATEOE.o
Extract from the Speech of Hon. s.
s. Cox of Ohio. in the United
states House OfEscprescntatives
Feb. nth.

. another name for amalgamation; but it wi
!. not save the negro. True Wendell Phi
!. lips says sit is Gods own method Of crush
ing out the hatred Of race, and of civilizin
L and elevating the world" and Theodor
Tilton, the editor of the Independent. {
. paper publishing the laws of the United
: States by authority holds that hereafte
the negro will lose his typical blacknes
and be found clad in white mems skins.
But, sir, no system so repugnant to the ma
ture OF our race-and to organize whicl
doubtless the next Congress of progress
slyes, and perhaps the gentleman from
Massachusetts,, will practically provide
can save the negro.
Mr.. ELIOT. / have no doubt that my
friend understands all about it.
I Mr.. Cox. l understand all about it. fol
[ have the doctrines laid down in circulars
pamphlets, and books published by your
anti-slavery people. But it was not my in
tentiOn to discuss it now, and upon this
bill.
Mr.. PRICE If all the blacks are crush
ed out, how is amalgamation to ruin the
county?
Mr.. Cox. They will run, according to
the new gospel of abolition, into the white
people, on that side of the House. TLaugh-
ter
Mr.. ELIOT Is that what the gentleman
is afraid Off
Mr. Cox. No, Sir, for do not believe
that the doctrine of miscegcnation or the
amal@amation Of the white and black, now
strenuously urged by the abolition leaders.
will save the negro. 1t will destroy him
utterly. The physiolcgi<t will tell the
gentleman that the mulatto does not live
he does not recreate his kind he is mon
ster. Such hybrid races, by law Of Prov
ldence, scarcely survive beyond one gene
ration. promise the gentleman at some
future aud az propriatc time when better
prepared, to develop that idea of msccgc
nation as now heralGed by the Abolition
'sts, who are in the van Of the Republican
movements
Mr.. ELIOT. hope that the gentleman
will go into it.
Mr.. Cox. If such be the desire of the
gentleman | will attempt it. though reuc-
family; for my materials. like the doctrine
are little '.mixid" But since / am chal-
lenged to exhibit this doctrine of the Abo-
litionists, called after some Greek words.
misccgenaton, To mjagic and geaerGt~ call
your attention first to circular hold in
my hand. 1t was circulated at the Cooper
Institute the other night, when female
who, in the presence OF the President
Nice-Fresident, and you, Mr.. Speaker, and
your associates in this hall, made the same
saucy speech for abolition which she atl-
dressed to the people of New York Il
begins with the following significant quo
triton from 81 akspeare:
| "The elements
| So mized in him that nature might stand up,
And say to all this world, This is man I?
Laughter
"Miscegcnation; the Theory of the Blen-
ding Of the Races, applied to the American
White Man and Negro" Among the sub
jects treated of are:
81. The mixture Of Caucasias and Afri-
can Blood Essential to American progress
Laughter
80. How the American may become
Conely. [Laughter.]
3, The Type Man at Miscegan-Thc
Sphynx Riddle Solved
Il The Irish and Negro first to Com
mingle. Laughter.
%. Heart Histories of the Daughters of
the South.
''6 Miscegentic Ideal of Beauty in Wo-
man.
~. The Future-No White-No Black /"
If gentlemen doubt the authenticity of
this new movement, let them go to the
office of publication, ll3 Nassua street,
New York, and purchase. The movement
is an advance upon the doctrine of the
gentlemen opposite, but they will soon
work up to it. The more philosophical
and apostolic of the Abolition fraternity
have fully decided upon the adoption of
this amalgamation platform. j am inform
cd that the doctrines are already endorsed
by such lights as Parker Pillsbury, Lucrc-
tia Mott, Albert Brisbane, William Wells
Brown, DIR. McCune Smith (half and hall
-m'ecogon), Angelina Grimke, Theodore
J d. Weld and wife, and others. But these
are inferior lights compared with others
shall quote. When | name Theodore Til
ton, an editor of the government paper in
New York called the Independent; when
| recall the fact that the polished apostle Of
, abolition Wendell Phillips, whose golden
Tipped eloquence can make miscegenatior
| as attractive IN tho cal as n II tn the he,