The Placer herald., 1867-05-11
A Learned Professor on the "Nigger'

tors to that negro-ovipg periodical devoted
to the interests Of the African race and the
dissemination Of ideas pertaining to the
Massachusetts school Of theology, ethics and
religion, known as the Atlantic Monthly.
The Professor, in the course of recent
lecture delivered in New York, upon the
different races of men, somewhat surprised
the advocates of negro equality by taking
the position that the white and negro races
were distinct species and by pointing out
radical differences proving the correctness Of
his theory, and the soundness Of bis views.
From this lecture we make the following
quotations.
II have pointed out over a hundred spe.
cifc differences between the bonal and Derv.
Gus systems Of the white man and negro.
Indeed, their frames are alike ip 20 partcu-
lar. There is not a bone in the negro's
body which is relatively the same shape,
size, articulation or chemically Of the same
composition, as that Of the white man. The
negro's bones contain far greater per cents
age Of calcareous salts than those of the
white man. Even the negro's blood is
chemically very different fluid from that
which courses 10 the veins of the white man.
The whole physical organism Of the negro
differs quite as much from the white mans
as it does from that Of the champanzee-
that is in his bones, muscles, nerves, and
fibers, the cbampanzee has not much further
to progress to become negro than the me-
gro has to become white man. This fact
science inexoraby demonstrates.
Il
Cl;ro oto hoo m rooro ~ d,o Nth ,ho J;f,r
ence between the white man and negro than
it has with that between the negro and the
cbimpanzee, or than it has between the
horse and the ass, or the eagle and the owl.
Each is distinct and separate creation.
The negro and the white man were created
as specifically different 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 the kind of bird be is by &C.
cident or misfortune. 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. How stupendous, and
yet how simple, is the doctrine that the AL.
mighty Maker of the universe has created
different species of men, just as be has differ
ent species of the lower animals, TO fill diff.
ferent places and Offices in the grand scenery
of nature!"
The late Professor Morton, of Philadel.
phia, long ago arrived at conclusions, virtu.
ally the same. He also demonstrated, by
the most extensive observations, that the
brain capacity of the negro's skull averages
fourteen inches less than that of the Cau-
casian. The largest genealogical collection
in the world was gathered by Professor Nor,
ton so that his authority on this point is incon.
trovertable; and it may every day be corrob-
Grated in any community where unmixed
negroes can be found The Morton collec.
ton was donated to the Academy of Natural
Sciences 10 Philadelphia, where it is at all
times to be seen.
'Such" observes the N. Y. Day Book, is
the negro race-never supposed to be any
thing else than interiors, until transcendent.
alism, propagated by knavish Puritans,
turned the heads ofthe people, made them
disregard their Constitution, neglect the adj
vice Of Washington, foment sectional hatred,
from geographical parties, fall into deadly
strife, and bring mourning, desolation and
ruin upon the country. And al! for the de-
graded negro, created our inferior for wise
purposes-pe -perversely made the occasion Of
national chastisemen'; when to behold him
we should have been simply inspired with
gratitude that we were not made like him,
and with benevolence to treat him kindly
and put him to the uses he was evidently
intended for by the Creator"