Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-07-07
from the Marion Courier, Rep
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MR. EDIroR:-The question 4" What is to be-
come Of the negro ?" has occupied some consid
cradle space in your local columns; and while
Yourself, President johnson, and the Congress of
the United States are ongaged in settling the
negro. let me ask: What is to become OF the
mulat,o ~ Unless it be in the sugar and rice
growing States, the mulatto by far outnumbers
the pure black race.
In city in the State of Kentucky where we
once resided there we're some Ave hundred
1" cclored people, while there was but one
negro" Every shade was represented from
that Of the old native OF Guinea TO the whites.
This may be an extreme example. but in Vir-
ginia, orth Carolina, and all the Border States,
che mixed breed by far outnumbers the pure
blood
This state Of things. this "miscegenation, "
wide 5. ). Co.. may be justly attributed 10
slavery with its system OF forced adultery, polyg-
amy and concubinage
We believe that the restoration Of the black
race to freedom will in great measure obviate
the above state of things, for there is a law
which most efectualy iorbids the mixture of the
two races to any great extent. Oh, says one,
you mean the prejudice of color.
We mean something deeper than color, for
that is only "skin deep" We mean q physical
and Psychological difference which is as great as
can exist between any two Of the human races
The expression of this wide difference is what
you are pleased to call prejudice OF color" but
re call il the antipathy of races.
Have you examined the word mulano and as
certsined its meaning? Look into your " Web
ster," I'VE know you have one,) and you will
find that il comes from MEius, "a mule. which
is "a hybrid" the offspring from the union of
two different species.
The law of hybrids Is we'll known. In the
case of the mule it is unable to propagate itself
tor a single generation. though some hybrds
have limited power OF propagation, but il is
confined 10 very few generations, when they
cease TO exist.
Did any one every see or hear of a mulatto
racer Oh, yes, says one. you have told US that
such race exists south OF Msson's and Dixon 5
line. But, stop we We did not say race; we
said colored people.
How do they EXIST BY the constant infusion
of the blood Of the two pure races into this by
brid production. Leave them alone q few gen
erstions aud YOU will see . different result.
Your AIbino will spring up with bis day blind.
ness" his feeble. scrofulous and rickety consd-
tuition. In few generations your mulatto be
comes extinct IL Is the fate Of tho 40 called
mixed races" They either fail to perpetuate
themselves ss such or they run back and are
absorbed into one or other OF the original races
Wherever one of the mixed races has been
separated stom the parent stocks aud have come
10 contact with pure race. they have invaria-
bly, been compelled TO yield, and In most cases
nothing short OF annihilaton has been the re
suit
How do you propose 70 remedy tins state OF
things 2" says Que The two races must be
separated. They cannot. nor will not. live 20.
gclhsr on terms OF political aud social equality
The civilization OF which the black Is capable.
ia totally different in degree and Kind from that
OF the white. The two mus, be allowed TO work
out their sepstetc destinie-,
The white races have ever been at war With
the black /. lsouly IN n,et'ttopica Africa,
h.s original home. where he Was placed by the
Creator. that The black man has been free from
the domination OF the white nan, and then oaly
protected by tho "haia,ng sword Z" OF pesttleuee,
which guards The way OF his paradise.
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