New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-24


leisure hours in the Public School, aud have
class of colored childrcn-One Of them son
Of Gov. Magrath." This reminds VA of prac-
teal and important fuct--important, consider
ing all the difficulties and distractions Of recon.
struction-the fact that 10 many Of the class
generally prescribed and distrusted. because OF
it, complexion. do not have the complexion
which Is necessary premise Of colorphobic con-
illusions, and might a. well b. green, or purple,
or variegstcd. for all the purposes of tho dcduc-
ton which IA 20 non-scquaciously established.
Blood il blood. Race is race. We arc not told
how rapidly Gov. Magrsth's little Magrsth gets
on in his primer; but, Us he Is by inheritance at
least semi.elect, factonally blessed Us to brains
with only moety Of him under the ban re-
corded in the early Jewish history Of mankind,
it il fair to suppose that be ia triumphantly ad-
vancing from Sab" 10 valctudinmian. and
that, By the blessing Of Heaven. and By virtue
OF his half-tintcd faoo, he will soon spell nearly
AZ correctly IA his Anglo-Saxon papa! Nay, We
DO not despair Of this poor little base-born IN re-
spcct OF geography aud reading, writing aud
arithmetic. May be, as IN the white part OF
him. he will speedily grow into sucking Mas
ter Of Arts; tLo other part, tho part that MAS
cursed in the ancient days Of Canaan, will con-
tinue positively benighted. The left or right
side of his esrebrxm will DO filled with all man
ncr Of erudition-what will become Of the nm
illuminated half Of the BRAIN is known Only to
the ghost Of Dr.. Gall.
1t might be argued that this young gentle
mau--we bog pardon this young half.genue-
man-is likely. in his white capacity, to be
anything but an ornament TO the Common
wealth Chips OF such Saxon blocks as Gov.
Magroth, it might be urged, are not likely to
turn out available timber in the work of recon-
struction. The poor boy Is himself the of'pring
Of base and unreasoning appetite; and, should
he manifest an early passion for old Bourbon,
nobody will bc filed with sstonishment. But
we plead, upon the other side, that he is not
all Magrath; aud. although his chance Of getting
much merit from his mother may he slim. it ia
botter than if his mother had sunk to the dogra-
Gaion Of biz father. Nor must it DO forgotten
that no comes Of patriarchL s.ock-that he Il
of the born and predestinste rulers, this small,
yellow Isaac that he is in the direct line oil
succession from the ordained Of Mount Sinai
that he IL hereditarily an aristocrat-that, II he
had only been twice ~ MaSratby" as be Is
now, he would according to the Hanovcrian.
Lord theology have bcen anointed from birth
to rlle aud to gnde. tn fog and 10 pickle, and
to DO the architect Of his own fortunes, in the
shape of fine, lively. Eght-colorcd chattels--thc
very goods for the Eew-Orleans market We
cannot bear To think Of even limited supply
OF the Magrnth blood wasted. Moreover. these
hybrids Clearing zine aristocratic names, or, at
least, entitled to thcm) are by no means
rare birds in tho late Slave States;
and, Il BALI that is told ia Of The
virtues Of their fathers be true, these
representatives of two races--the one claiming
exclusive executive authority, tho other traineJ
by suffering to obodienoo-muJt DO extremely
useful in breaking down the barriers Of caste,
aud in maintaining the links Of connection be.
tween two classss. the frat irritatcd by NOR.
tilted pride, and tho second by injuries which
! 10 the nature Of things can never lie forgiven al
together by the present generation, and only
redressed by long period Of sorupulous justice
usretofore, tlis mulatto element in The South.
ern population has been wholly ignored. Those
who were no, perfectly white might as well, RI
far % protection fruu cruelty and wrong was
concerned, have been absolutely black. Slavery
made positive purity of blood necessary TO d
good socisl positIon-ihc slightest faint wa'
fstal-lhtal In courts II justice; fh'sl in ihc
houses Of religions fatal in tho ordinary 'ntcr
eourse Of society," fatal TO all hope Of cie'at.or
in the scale Of spectablity--as fatal az If ih'
victim were darker than midnight, " were
spotted all over by IN incurlble leprosy j
wac the ban of Slavery, eursing more sayagely
than liz supporters intended, and including
among tic victims Of It's mcrciless injuries oven
those who we're closely aIl'od TO the class which
it sought impsrlously to nggrandizs. Now that
Slavery is dead, tho long train Of selfish interests
which were promoted byit will disappear, and IL
will no longer be worth while for tho arrogant
class to claim an Improbable end fictitious su.
periority. The littlo Migrants will serve as
perpetual indicators, at least, of tho equal
humanity of all mon, whatever their complex
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