Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-04-20
"Misceg egenation."


The word '.miscegenation" is fast becoming ia
miliar from the frequency with which it occurs IN
the newspapers of the day. The late number OF
the Copper,ieai Fuim1aGtor, of this place, pro-
nounces it "the last grand idea of Abolitionism
and states that Greeley. Congressman Kelly and
''the dog Forney are all in favor of it, while we,
though we do not quite support it, have not "a
| word of rebuke" It might be interesting, if not
profitable to inquire what the so-caled new doc
! trine'' is who in favor of it, and who prac-
! tice it?
aMscegenation'' is but another word for 'a-
malgamaton." and means, strictly, the intermar-
riage of different races-but, more generally: the
mixture of white and black blood Using it in
the sense of intermarriage between whites and
blacks there are certain circumstances under
which would not utter "a word of rebuke" !;
ss, for instance, when leading disciple of the
political school of the "CoPperhead Fulminator"
brings himself to the level of a negro wench,
and so far evercomes his repugnance to the race
to make her the mother of his children, then,we
say, according to the laws of God and man, he
ought to marry her. When John U. Andrews,
one of the Copperhead leaders, who figured large
iy at the celebrated Peace meeting in the Cooper
Institute, in New-York, and in the bloody riots
which followed (he was president of the Sth ward
Democratic club in 1860, arrested by the Po-
lice, he was found in bed with negro wench at
No 10, Eleventh St Eight months before, when
the same negroes was indicted for keeping house
of prostitution, Andrews appeared before the bar
of the court and demanded to plead her cause.
When she was subsequently arrested on bench
warrant, she was found in his company at an up
town hotel. Now, we say if she was not his wife,
she ought to have been. In such cases it no t
be said that 'sdo not quite support the doctrine
for decidedly in favor of it,
Again: when a Copperhead prefers to marry
negress however little we may admire his taste,
do not think he ought to be permitted, after
wards, to take advantage of the fact of her color
to procure divorce. Therefore Perley Vallan-
digham, nephew of the great Ohio martyr (for
whom the editors of the "Fulminator'' and cer-
tain ''ladies'' not thousand miles from Cearfed,
lately raised ten cent subscription ought not to
have his marital rights interfered with bu should
be permitted to enjoy undisturbed the society of
| the colored woman to whom he is married and
with whom he lives in the city of Muscatine. His
brother, living the opposite side of the river,
also married to megreSs, should enjoy the same
! immunity from interference by the opponents of
mscegenation. They have but followed the H.
lustrious example of that distinguished Democrat,
| Richard NJ. Johnston, once Vice President, who
married negress and raised large family by
| her. "There is accounting for tastes" and, as
| there would seem, from these examples, to be a
sort of affinity between copperheads and niggers,
we see no good reason why any one should for
| bid the banna."
| But the editors Of the ''Funinator," who re-
! gard slavery as sDivine Institution and sym
pathise strongly with the ''chivalry,n ought to
be the last persons in the world to object to the
| doctrine of miscegenaton for the promiscuous
conoubinage that has so long, and so shamelessy,
prevailed on the Southern plantations, has become
veritabe part and parcel Of that institution,
while, instead Of the idea of mixture of white
and black blood being revolving to their South
friends, 1t is rather subject for congratula-
| ton. Tie breeding of brigbt-eyed mulatto boy,
or of quadroon girl for the brothes of Charles
| ton and New Orleans, is regarded fit achieve
ment to boast Of The fact of the practice of mis-
cegenation throughout the entire ''Confederacy'
| is too patent TO be denied. Only short time ago
a number of emancipated slaves, set free by Gen
| Butler were brought from New-Orleans by Col.
| Hanks, and among them was a daughter and a
| son of two distinguished Generals in the R5be
| Army. Rebecca Huger the daughter of Briga-
| dier-General Huger, was slave in her father s
house, and IS, to all appearance, perfectly white.
| The son of Brigadier-GeneraI Withers is eight
years old, with fair complexion and light hair.
He has been twice sold as a sIave-frst by his own
| father to a slave-trader named Harrison, who sold
him to Mr.. Thornhill of New Orleans. Rosina
| Downes another of the children, is fair little
| girl of seven years with blonde complexion and
| silky hair. Her father is now in the Rebel army
| She has sister white herself, and three
| brothers that are darker. Rer mother is uulatto
| These instances might be multiplied thousand
fold, but it is useless to adduce evidence to prove
| that which is too manifest to be denied. Those
who sympathise with the 'chivalry' that sells its
| children, and with the gentlemen" who seduce
the most fricndess and defenceless of women-who
see nothing to condemn in men that doom their
| own flesh and blood to the fate of brutes, and so
| far as they can, destroy the light of humanity in
| their souls-may harp about miscegenation,
| and seek to up their infamy by misrep-
! resenting the sentiments and opinions of others
but all such efforts to conceal the hideous enormi-
ties of the institution will prove abortve. The
war has brought the people of this country face to
face with the unspeakable infamy of slavery. No
amount of Misrepresentation, prevarication and
falsehood on the part of the apologists of the sys
TEN, prevent the full and entire exposure of
its loathsome, and heretofore, secret history The
! freemen of the North-now soldiers in the field
no longer obtain their knowledge of it from such
teachers the editors of the tFulminator" and
their political idols for they see the thing itself
| as it really is "a double-handed curse shifting
both slave and master''-and their appalled, and
indignant common sense sees also. that no honor
able and permanent peace is possible, except upon