Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-23
These diversIties,- physical and mental, 4

oil the Jnree' principal pes OI ulanklnu,
are constant. They characterize the types
wherever found! AS far as anything Is
known of former times they have always
been present. The white man Is to-day
what he was when the historian first took
notice of him; and the negro man SNOW
what his efiigies represent him to have
been I'm the daVs of the Pharaohs. As long
as race remains unmixed, these diversities
never undergo any change. There is no
power in nature that has shown itself COM
petent to change white man into negro,
or Uice UerSd. Climatic influences may
temporarily alter the color of the skin,
but they do not flatten the nose, crisp the
hair, thicken the lips, or dwarf the brain.
Even the impression on the skin OF the
white man by a tropical sun is ephemeral,
and not extended In any degree his chill
dren. Nor have northern latitudes ever
been known tomake any permanent change
on the African skin. ~ .G->Hos.T"
The peculiarities of q race, taken alto
gether, constitute forit what may be de-
nominated race IefilLS, the influences OF
which are seen in institutions political, So
cial and religious. NJ = y .ta.dFH
Physical organization really has very
intimate and constant relation to sociology
Ito the kind of government race selects
to live under BY his superior nervous
systemiJ is that man stands a the head OF
the entire animal kingdom, and by superb
Ority of the same tissue, 1t is that one type
of mankind takes precedence of another.
| The brain being the organ of thought, the
race having, on an average, the largest
brain, other things being alike, VIII slow
the greatest perfection in whatever relates
| to social organization. 1t Is the large brain
| that gives rise to large ideas, large Judgment.
| The white mans civilization rises higher
| than that of the negro because his organ OF
ciyilization is larger. In other words, his
civilization Is the result OF an investment
of motepsycolo9 capital.3. s-- o. r. 81. ,
| What now may reasonably be- expected
| from the commiDgling of the different types
of mankind in a political government, al
lowing each full aud free participation IN
the administration of its different depart
ments? Ths physical admiXture OF the
white and black races gives rise to mulat5
| to race; a race destitute of the vitality OF
| either Of the elements of the compound,
and unable to perpetuate its own existence.
| In such q coniugation natures laws are
violated, and as a consequence the penalty
lis death. Cam political admiXture have
a different result? Ifhomogeneity of blood
! is a condition of physical welfare, why
should not the same law apply to the works
of the mind? A government the Joint
| product of the white man and negro, could
not of necessity express the pecuiiaritles
i Of either. 1t would express what would
be q compromise between the two races.
1t would express the white mans prefer
ence for freedom, for civil and religious lib
erty, and the negros preference for abso-
lutism and slavery. 1t would express the
tendency of the white man to industry, and
that of the negro to Incidence and indiffer-
ence to the future. 1t would express the
Ilove of the white man for science, the arts,
| and benevolent Institutions; and the love
| of the negro for ignorance and sensualism.
| ItWould express the white mans adherence
always to a purpose, one OF the mostValua-
BILE traits of his character; and the negr0's
inconsistency and fickleness in whatever he
undertakes to do. In short, it would eX-
press condition of things founded upon a
mean of the brain capital belonging to the
white man and the negro. This mean ls5&
| cubic inches less than that upon which our
| institutions now rest. r.. ..-
Such an amalgamation of characters
| would destroy the individuality of both
races. When a perspnlOses his indiyidual-
| ity he loses the maipspFipg of all his most
valuable Notwithstanding in fact,
that gives him force and usefulness. Nor
allv and intellectually, he becomes COM
pletely emascIlated. The most, extensive
observations go to show that there is some
| thing of the same character that pertains to
4 nations. The people Of a nation have hab-
4 It's. modes of thought, customs, &c, that
differentiate them from Others. Destroy
these, or dilute them even, and you have, as
| the consequence, derangement of purpose
1 and anarchy, A race without its idiosyn-
craey amounts to nothing. 1t would be as
powerless in constructing for itself a civil
ization as would be a swarm OF bees IN at
tempting to build their scientifically con-
structed cells without the aid of an in
stinct . a'. -aI. O.. .l.. .ilH'
| 1t has been suggested, in view of the OBJ
iections to mixing the whites and negroes
4 of our. country in the same government,
that the whites, being superior in number,
4 and also in mental and moral Qualities,
will of necessity take precedence, and give
cast and character to the measures OF
; State, There is no more probability that
: such would be the case than that a physi-
D cal blending of the two races would give
rise to white children. Moreover, were
such an event possible, the government
would lose its representative character.
What advantage would 1T be to the black
man to have share in the affairs of State,
if not allowed a free and full expression OF
his race peculiarites-of those traits OF
4 character which are seen in their purity in
his fatherland! g..
Il There is no animal, however low in the
scale of creation, but what loves Itself and
its kind supremely. The same great nat
. ural law applies to races. 1t is not neces-
sarv to cite examples in the way of proof.
They crowd the mind on the mere state
ment of the fact. The negro loves his
own race better than he loves any other.
Thisis seen wherever his instincts are not
Influenced by foreign causes. Look at
him, for example, at home, and in the West
Indies. Wherever he has the opportunity,
he discriminates in favor of his oWnpeo-
ple and where he has the power he pushes
] other races to the wall. 1t is gratuitous,
then, to suppose that the negro enfranchised
, with all the rights of American citizens,
w01ld ignore himself, or really be- con-
T tented with anything short OF full and
free ventilation of all his race peculiarities
in all the important measures of State.
For the purpose of illustrating the cor
] rectness of the opinions expressed, will
J mass briefly in review few of the leading
Governments of modern times. No one is
J more sensible, however, than the writer, OF
: the danger, there Is to the cause OF truth,
in making general deductions from his
I torical facts, especially when remote. His
matters of the character before us its les
I snns are. to saw the least, very valuable.
) ENGLAND is often referred to as an exam
) ple Of a great and successful government,
0 made up of heterogeneous elements. Eng
. land is great in territory and she is great
/ | In popuiatiun. Her territory reaches from
!. The Arctic circle to the SD degree of south
: IatitIIde. the four seasons of the year being
|. | nvnerienced within her domihionS at ht