The Placer herald., 1864-05-07
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the day; and but few have the rem ,test ides
Of lis Specification. As it is becoming in
American politics and sociology point o.
some importance, the European journals are
paying their respects to it. In the London
Saturday Review of March 18th, we find
the following searching article in relation to
Misregenation:
Words being the signs of ideas, for ne y
nation new term is necessary. Tue bar
barous word "miscegenation," has been in
vented by the fanatics Of aboilionsm to
express doctrine which it was for time
found convenient to wrap up in the term
"amalgamation," but which, after a briel
tribute to modesty, it is now found no, an
insult to American morality to disclose in
all its indecency and immodesty. Tha,
doctrine is, that the white race in general
and the white of the Northern States in
particular, is dying out, and that, to preserve
II from utter destructson it must be mixed
with the richer, purer and nobler blood of
the negro.
The sum and substance OF the whole mat
ter is, that this nasty doctrine of the phy'
sical necessity of absorbing the white race
into the negro population, or rather Of
creating for the necessities Of the American
States mixed and creole race, is proclaimed
not only by the author Of this tract on
Mlscegenation but by the Rev. Henry w.
Beecher's partner in the editorship Of the
Independent, Mr.. Theodore Tilton, by Horace
Greeley, by Mr.. Wendell Phillips, and by
"the inspired maid of Philadelphia" the
lecturug woman, Miss Anna Dickinson. |,
is perhaps incoDvenient to remember that
some such experiment has been tried in
Hayt-with what success, we all know
ut is mean PRIDE" we are told, "unworthy
of Christian, which would lead any one to
deny that there are wants in the white
nature which on the negro could fill; defects
in physical organization that only the negro
could supply; cravings toward fraternity that
only the negro could comfort and satisfy" ="
POtiphars wife anticipated this argument,
and in her plain spoken language of the
good'y Hebrew slave only put the doctrine
OF miscegenation into practice; and if the
ladies of NV England want another prece.
dent for their abandonment of an unwbole-
some prejudice" the history of the Byzantine
Court and the life of the Empress Tbeodosia
may satisfy them that a negro lover though
a soecism, is by no means an absolute
novelty in female taste. A strong bodied
and strong favored partner is perhaps the
complement to that strong mind of which
the Yankee femals has furnished so many
and such unfeminine instances.
The wonderful and horrible thing is that
this filthy nonsense 10 not only not hoo,ed
down, bat that it represents the more ad-
vanced, adherents Of that political party
which, If the smallest, is undoubtedly the
most vigorous in America. All Abo,ionists
are perhaps not, or perhaps not as yet,
avowsd adherents Of the doctrine of mis-
cegenation; but all AboIiIlonists, with the
very best regard to consistency, must render
the jus connubii to those who are in every
respect their equals. The miscegenaton
writer's, of course, go further, and exalt the
relative superiority of the nigger. and expa
tiate on his necessity in the great economy
OF things for renova,ng with his fiery energies
the cold and languid circulation of the North.
Yet even this might do comparatively little
harm, for the women who will listen to Miss
Anna Dickinson lecturng on these nauseous
subjects, are far beyond any other corrupting
influences. The shamelessness which sees
"al the spendors of imperial manhood" in
a woolly headed coschman, may be left to
that natural Indignation which is due to the
sight Of Messalina vindicating her life on
philosophical principles. But the evil is
not going to end here. We may we'll
despair of the future of America if, in it's
gloomest hour of civil strife, not one single
streak Of light breaks the thick darkness.
Is there no patriot, no man of letters, no man
of common honesty and integrity, who can
venture even to lift voice against the
advancing tide Of fanalicism and folly, Of
Immortality and indecencyl