Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1864-03-24


Sustain this Southern" institution. Oc-
casionally man will be found at the
North like Andrews. the leader of the anti
negro.rioters. and of the anti abolition
burners ofthe colored orphan asylums III
New York. who keeps black mistress
But both he and, his mistress were from
Virginia. and she. we believe, was his
slave. While we are writing. the Peoria
Transcript comes to us with the following
lease in point" -as5 gs..-i -,
"Over in Iowa, in the city of lluscatine.
lives Perley Vallanjigham. nephew OF
the martyred Ohioan, who is married to
and lives with ''lub!y wench" as black
and greasy as Guinea native. A brother
Of the last named Vallandigham lives on
this sile ofthe river opposite Muscatine.-
He too is married to n,gress-"
But these rare exceptions seem to be
confined to men of Southern tastes and
Copperhead principles. Ifwhitc men cease
to desire ''miscegenation" when they come
Into contact with the cclored race in a
state Of freedom, need we carry our argu-
ments or our fears further? Has "misce-
genation" failed to exist in the Northern
States from any scarcity among us of the
colored race? Would it have existed in
any greater degree if the negroes had been
twice as numerous? 1t is not their num-
bers but their slavery which causes it at
the South. Were all the free negroes Of
the North enslaved to-day, to Copperhead
masters, need we argue that miscegenation
would actively commence before to-mor-
row morning? We claim, therefore. in
this respect no special uniikeness between
human nature at the North and at the
South. 1t is the institution Of slavery and
not any special depravity Of human nature
at the South which causes "miscegenation"
TO flourish there. If it lives at the North
at all it is only in, practices or imagina-
,ions OF those who have peculiar relish
ton to the Constitution as it is and the
Union as it was.' which in fact means
nothing more nor less to them, than "slaver
nv as it is and amaigamation, as it was"
The more elevated, educated, Christian and
refined portion Of the Northern people.
that class which would give least encour-
agement to miscegena,ion. is the element
OF Northern society which favors the me-
groes' freedom. The more degraded. ig-
norant, vicious and brutal portion OF the
Northern people, whose depraved instincts
place them in full accord with slavery, and
only whose limited opportunities have pre-
vented them from indulging in its vices,
particularly in that of miscegenation.-
are all opposed to freeing the coiored race.
The Christian churches OF the Protestant
stamp are nearly all Abolitionists, and
the rest are becoming so. Many of the
Roman Catholic clergy in this country.
deaf to the authoritative and distinct anti
slavery teachings Of the Roman Catholic
Church in all ages, are only withheld from
taking sides with the Protestant churches
on this question, not by The teachings Of
their religion but by the prejudices of their
members. Whenever they speak out bold
ly without bias. and in the name of their
church, as does the Bishop Of Cincinnati,
its antecedents compel them to be anti
slavery. On the other hand, wherever hu-
man dcpravity gets tho better OF human
nature, we will not stop to enumerate in
what various forms. there slavery has its
fast friends; aud there, and there alone, at
the North--either in their practices or in
their lewd imaginations. lacking only the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" exists.
AS this class would be incapable Of do
ing otherwise than practicing it themselves
they are incapable Of attributing to others
more refined taste or higher virtue
Nevertheless the feet remains, bitter pill
though it be to them, that with the dawn
of freedom 20 the black race "miscegena-
ton" ends.
Thus of all the magnifcence. the fra
GRANGE, and the roseate coloring which
s'miscegenation' wears under slavery. aye,
Of all its bloom of foliage. flowers and
fruit there is Left under freedom but the
blcached, liieless.. scentless tissue Of a dis
eased fancy. which the ingenuity ola cop
perhead barely holds together, while this
imagination. so carefully arranges it. re-
wolves and gloats over It though its life,
pulp, circulation, substance, bloom and
odor have all passed. OF ell that eollec-
ton of rich t,opic owers--iudulgence, la
seriousness, lechery, lust--and of their
fruits. qnadroons, octoroons. and white
slaves, with the bloom Of the peach on
their cheeks and the azure Of the sky in
their eyes-and Of their rrofts-ricbes and
honor. there remains only phantom to-
quet." Let the poor coppsrhead who
mourns over the loss Of the substance of q
great vice. still hold up its shadow, II be