The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-31

uldu.r SOn IuhQ9 QlIn gSuCn as he Is
for wise purposes, as he made the ass
inferior tozthe horse. It is as foolish
to think of,making poets, artists and
statesmen out Of negroes as it would
be to makeia race horse or, o spirited
charger in battle out of o jaekass. You
may give. the negro the right of suf-
frage and the right to hold Office, and
make him a legislator, and so You
may enter the ass fora four mile heat
with the 'blooded horse, or,you may
mount him in battle for charge on
the enemy; bu. both would be equally
unwise and disastrous, for you are
attempting to pervert nature and the
laws of God. ,r- a,. 90.
Professor Agassiz, of Harvard Col
lege, Massachusetts,, tho most learned
and scientific naturalist the world
has ever produced, declares most
confidently, after a lifetime of
thought and obser alton on the SUBJ
ject, ..That the negro and the white
man were created as specifically diff
ferent as the owl and the eagle. They
were, designed to fill different places
in the system of nature. The negro
is no more negro by accident or.
misfortune than the owl is tho kind
of bird, he is by accident or misfor-
tune. The negro is no more the
white. mans brother than the owl is
the sister of the eagle, or than the
ASS is. the brother of the horse.
There are, says the same great au-
.thority, ..'over ono hundred specific
differences between the. bonal and
nervous system of tho white man
and the negro Indeed, their forms
are alike in no particular. There is
not o bone in the negro's body rcJa-
lively of the same shape, size, articn-
lation, or chemically of t. same COM
position, rs that OF the white man.
The negro's bones contains m cfar
greatcrper centage of calcareous Suits
than those Of the white man. Even
the negro's blood is chemically very
different fluid from that which
courses III the veins of the white
man. The whole physical organiza-
ton of the negro differs quite as
much from the white man as it does
from that of the chimpanzee-.rthatl
is, in his bones, muscles, nerves and
fibres. The chimpanzee has not;
much further to progress to become
a negro, than the negro has to be-
come white man. This fact science
inexorably demonstrates. m 0..r
1t isagrced, by all scientific men
who have turned their attention to
this subject, that "the capacity, by
measurement, OF the skull of the
white man is ninety-seven cubic
inches, that is, the average OF one
thousand. or any greater numoer of
skulls. The negro has sixty-six cubic
inches; the North American Indian
has siXty-three cubic inches; the na-
tive Australian has fifty-six cubic
inches" " Sir Charles Lyall, than
whom there can be. no higher author
ity, says the feet and hands, the arms
and legs OF the white man and negro
are unlike in measurement. The hand
of the negro is one-twelfth larger,
and one-tenth broader, than the
hand of the white man; yhis foot is
oneeighth longer, and one-ninth
broader, tLan the white mans; his
forearm is one-tenth shorter; and
the same is true of the bones from the
knee to the ankle. The skeleton is
unlike in the whole in weight and
measurement, and unlike in every
bone ofIit.
In the most admirable speech of
the Hon. W. Mungen, of Ohio, lately
delivered in Congress, land to which
l am greatly indebted for much that
1 have said, it is boldly asserted, on
the authority of scientific men, that
the world does not afford an instance
of mulatto in the fifth generation.
The hybrid race becomes extinct,
after the fourth generation, unless
they have intermixed with one or the
other of the original races. So it is