Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-03-24
Miscegenation.

the South for years, the democracy
have only Just awakened to its enormi-
~. The matter is presented by them in
this light by the war, the Presidents
proclamation, ETC., the slaves are being
freed, and as soon as their emancipation
is completed every single Northern
white man will be bound to marry a sa-
BILE partner, and every man who has
manageable daughter must give her,
aolens rolens, into the bonds of matrimo-
ny with black, or black and tan, de-
scendant of Ethiopia. This democrat
ics argument is reduced to the form of |
syllogism by the New York Times,
thus -" If all blacks are fit to be free,
every white man is bound to marry a
black niggers are blacks therefore
every white man is bound to marry
Niger This certainly presents
horrible state of affairs and fornid-
able obstacle to negro emancipation is
thus furnished by the copperheads. 1t
is useless to deny that there is existing
on the part of the Northern white pco-
pie an ineradicable prejudice against in
termarriage with the blacks and If the
conceding to blacks the right, possessed
by the rest of mankind, to work for
whom they choose and for such wages
as they can get, at once creates the alb
solute necessity of their marrying our
sisters or our marrying theirs, why
there is evidently an end of anti-slavery
at once. The mattereis reduced, then,
to this question OF the necessity of In
termarriage following emancipation.
Now as marriage has been considered
practically matter of individual pref
erence, which is not likely to be much
affected by politics or philosophy, it
must be confessed that The Republicans
have not generally become much alarm
ed on this subject; but is it not time
for them to awaken to sense of their
danger of being compelled to e throw
themselves away (matrimonially,)
when they behold such indications of
New York Daily News {Rebel paper) as
sures us that "the Trisnne has formally
pronounced miscegesation 70 be one of
thecardinal dogmas Of the Black RE
publican faith )" and the New York
World (copperhea6 paper says substan-
TALLY that there is strong reason to
believe that all unmarried Republicans
Of both sexes will tbe compelled toy
marry negroes and neg resses Immediate
ly after the meeting of the Baltimore
Convention" That seems tosettle the
matter for the Republicans Is it NOT
surprising, then lt.lat the ccpperheads,
in their extreme anxiety for the welfare
of the Repolbliscan party and of man
kind in genprtl, '-eem much more fright
ened than do the Repuhlicans them
selves lisa thair great excitement tic
Copperheaa aSSciety for tie diffusion o
political Information" have held meet
ing. According to the New York Times
account, themeeting was called at sid
night, ON Saturday, st Delmonico's, ant
Bishop Hopkins, Mr.. James Brooks anc
the Count Joannes, were telegrsphet
for. The Times say 8 .sR
AFTER much deli.bes4 ton it was re
solved that Homethi ng had to be Gone
and th8st quickly to- prevent the degen-
Grafton of the white race on this CONT
nent by the ynnnaturai alliance with
blacks &C msem,plated by the Republican
~ Lar s<,vSo n
preventin, this HON ible consummation
and that was by the cireuiation Q
tracts, and of plaster casts, calculated
to enlighten the public as to the proba
Bile effects of an intel1nixture OF races
and to recall to1heir. minds the stand
ard of beau, w. both male and female
which existed at the thine of the RevO
linton We h GlieEe we are not commit
ting an indisc, eti0n in mentioning thai
Professor Mois e thas been chargodkwitf
the task of wri Ti,g Tract No.iI, which
is intended to sh ow to young men and
women the looical s,5ssuriity of marrying
n negro Rishop HOPKINS is to furnish
No 3 which ID to- We devoted to prov
ing that Ham w, Is AS nau ID n.:ssiaho
and father as he " IS .a>soh. "hIie "a
Italian gentleman, Nhlose hsIhe we AK
not permitted to me usion, has been en-
gagged to furnish tn, :assoelaton Win
$4,000 busts of the Nc diicean Venus ansl
Apollo Belvidere, at on, cent apiece 'ioi
distribution"
This, it will be motto es, is the Cop
perhead view of the apr saching BLACK
and-white crisis. The r.. 4.ubllcans, as
before remarked, have not yet reached
this pitch of alarm What cph happen
when they are enlightened by Nhe tracts rae
and plaster casts of the O ssperhea2o
Diffusion Society" it is di Vfsllt 70
tell
As to. the present views of r epaoii-
cans it may be briefly said, LIST, Tlsas an
attentive reader of the Tribune IS GER
tain that that paper has not "pronoNnc-
ed" as claimed by the rebel Nescs toa'
If it had it would not be regarded ~
binding upon the Republican party; but
that Whist it did admit was in substance
80, a xh.< a. ouv CoupQvhpad insisted