New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-16


Europe, restore the India tade by urgin
Monsieur de Lesseps to complete his Egrptia
lcanal, put down the rebellion in China, bur
The cities Of New Zealand, because their il
habitants persist in eating missionaries, and d
4 the Diggars have no villages OF lodges to burr
Fl we trust he will make one Of has eha4at
teristic speeches to persuade them not t
massacre ortnlolest the newly made citizens {
Chinese descent.
4 INSTINCTS OF RACES.
DIR. J. @. Mott, OF Mobile, is an eminer
member Of the medical profession He is II
membered where he is not personally know
as the associate of Gliddon in compiling thu
great work, Types OF Mankind" In tia
work, and in other labors he has undertaken
he has eyinced a deep research and wonder
full powers Of analysis. His previous stulIie
have peculiarly fitted him for applying tn
knowledge which be has amassed to the pres
ent condition of the races in our country. We
are gratifed, therefore, to find an article from
hispen on the g Instincts of Races" in the
| last number Of that able periodical, the New
Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. While
the knowledge he has acquired fits him for the
temperate discussion of the question, his an
teeedents are an assurance that his Judgment
is not influenced by prejudice. BY birth ana
education he is Northerner but a long resi-.
dence at the South has forced upon his atten.
tive observance the characteristics of the
African race. And while he has never entered
into the wild visions which have been built IN
by the New England Aboitonists, we under
stand that he has never been a convert to tbe
extreme Southern views of the negro question.
He has therefore approached the subject as a
philosopher who looks at facts as they are, and
deduces inevitable consequences from estab.
lished anteeedents.
The object Of the article before us, which is
to be followed in the succeeding number OF
the journal by another paper on the same sub
jeet is to show the instructive dislike of the
negro race to agricultural labor The present
article establishes, we should think beyond
all controversy, distinctive orders Of intellect
and OF moral and physical qualities in the
different races of mankind.
We will not follow the able writer through
the series of facts and the learned discus
sion Of the question which he proposes to
himself We will come at once to some Of
his conelusions-and these, it may be re-
marked, are SO logically drawn, that it may be
said Of them as has been remarked of another
distinguished gentleman the mere state
ment Of his conclusions carries with it the
proof of his propositions. In alluding to the
different races, he says Have the instincts
of the Indian or negro been changed? The
full-blooded Indian has invariably wandered
off to the forest and resumed the habits Of
his race. He is essentially wild animal by
nature, untameable, unimitative, unciviliz-
able, The negro, on the contrary, is irnita-
tive, social, easily dolnesticated and, as long
as kept in subordination to ia higher race. viii
ape to certain extent its manners
and customs. But the negro rises only
70 certain point of imitation-his in
elect permits no approach to civilization
out that of imitation, and, as soon as
he race is thrown back upon itself and SEN
rated from the whites, as in the West Indies,
t becomes savage. The semi-ciyiliza-
ion of China and India, and the savagism of
he red men Of America, have remained ste |
eotyped for ages, while the Gipsies have been
itching their tents in the four quarters of the
lobe, resisting all climates and all moral
lfuences which philanthropy could bring to
ear on them"
After having shown that the agricultural in
ustry Of the people of China and India has
walled itself of every foot of arabic soil and
as thereby supported, amidst every political
onyulsion, teeming population, our author
emonstrates that the inaptitude of the negro
II agricultural pursuits has left his African
ONE undexeloped for ages, scarcely sustain
lg one-fourth of the population of China
lone. He then continues The same inert
ess which characterizes the negro physically
haracterizes him intellectually No negro
yer invented an alphabet and from the
'reat Desert to the Cape of Good Hope, no
ulned temple, no erumbling monument no
york otart, no relic Of science, no fragment of
eeorded history, points to any spot in This
fide expanse as the cradle or grave Of ciyiliza-
ion. The negro has no excuse, but that Of
ace. for the want of agriculture and science
u he has been from the time of Moses to the
resent day, in constant intercourse with
gypt the great granary of antiquity, and
'untain from which the civilization Of Pales-
ne, Assyria and Greece flowed
La following the history of the free negro to
e Omitted States, DR. Mott says 1.-THE pro-
ssional philanthropists had done everything )
their power 10 educate, to humanize, to /,
mulate them to mental and physical ac- \
'ity, but without result. No one can call
E name of a full-blooded negro in this coun- +
7 that has ever reached mediocrity in intel I
It not one has made discovery in science, Il
invention in the mechanic arts, written or n
oxen line that has been preserved in
mt. What has been the history of a
> colony Of Liberia? Missionaries :,
sehool,masters have done their best and q
the end of half century, the experiment Vi
$ proved such dead failure, that tits now sD