The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-08-02

f they are pleased to style themselves
} who think or pretend to think, thai
5 all these inferior races of men fol
} whom they entertain such high opin
) ions, such deep affections, as enable
them to legislate for their special ben
efit-let these earnest" men who
with the utmost gravity, when speak
ing of the negro, ask the question
| 20 is he not a man and brother ?''--
let these gentlemen examine the writ
5 ings of Leibig, of Habersham, O
5 Glidden, Francis Pulsky, ALFRED
Murray, j. c. Mott, and Professor
Agassiz, all of whom have bestowed
great attention to the history of the
human races, and they will find tha
every one of those learned and dis
. tinguished gentlemen, without sin
gle exception, concur in the correct
ness of the following conclusions:
. l. That marriages between indl
viduals who belong to different types
/, or seect1s, do often produce numer.
GUS offspring; but that marriages be
tween any OF these children of mixed
blood produce only few children
and the second generation still few
er; and almost all which are produc-
ed by the third generation will die
in infancy, while the fourth genera.
ton is almost always childless and
of the fifth generation there is not in
all the world an individual twenty
years old.
2. These individuals of mixed
blood inherit all the physical diseas-
es, and all the mental iniirmaties OF
both parents, producing an average
standard of physical endurances and
mental power below that of either of
the parents; yet it is true there are
some individuals of this kind who
have great personal beauty, and some
of great physical strength, and others
again of real intellectual power, but
they are only rare exceptions to the
general rule.
3. These persons Of mixed blood
ere destitute Of all distinct type forms,
both as relates to anatomical struct-
ure and intellectual organism; in
them the type is broken.
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The mixing Of races--amalgama-
tion, miscegenation-isa q fatal pro-
ceedins fatal alike to the races, IA
tai to tae family, and q degeneration
to the individual. 1t violates the
laws of organism, it defaces the i'm
age, it joins together what Col has
separated, it creates monstrosities
and nuisances in human nature.
Miscegenatlon is subject of vast
importance to society, to posterity,
and especially at the present time to
the statesman of our country. For
( it is true in history, and true in sci
ence, that nations which allow their
national stock to be aduiterated,
which tolerate amalgamation with
other national types, will perish GER
tainly, and perish forever. l have
said that this is question of the ut
most importance to the statesmen OF
America--of that portion of it, es
ipovIaiiy, wnfcn once core oeservc,lIy
the name of "The United States of
America" and I say now, with all
the candor possible, that if those
statesmen, those gentlemen who are
molding and shaping the policy and
laws and regulations for our Govern
ment, fail to be guided by expert
ence, and science, and history in
shaping a policy to prevent amalga-
nation, miscegenation, social and
political equality of the different ra-
ces, white, black, yellow, and brown,
our nation will he suffocated, as it
were. by these foolish and suicidal
projects, these Utopian schemes of
equality of races.
But my Radical friends will laugh
to scorn all such warnings. They
sneer at the idea. They talk OF the
Anglo-Saxon race, and some of them
without much knowledge, In fact, of
race or type. They say America is
ours, ours to possess, ours to enjoy,
ours to control, ours TO transmit; but
if their present line of policy be car
ried out, they will have the "melan-
choly pleasure" if such phrase is
allowable, of transmitting this glori-
Gus heritage, purchased by the blood
and sufferings of our Revolutionary
sires, and preserved by the patriot
ism and valor OF their descendants,
TO hybrid race-a set of mongrels,
mulattos, crosses between Chinese,
Esquimax, whites, mulattos, Indians,
half breeds, nondescripts. My Rad
ical friends, who see in these predic-
tions nothing except something to
laugh at, and that the country is safe!
that nobody's daughter will marry
a negro, at least they know theirs
will not, and as they frequently say,
they are not afraid of the negro, DC,
ane only re-enacting in very plain
way what has often happened in his
tory. They virtually say, We are the
natives of the soil; we control its
destinies; we own all this country i
we are rich; we are powerful; we
do not fear the negro, the Indian, the
Chinese, the EsquimauX, the world,
the flesh, the devil, nor the Demo
cratic party.
/ cannot now think of a better
comparison or illustration than to
compare the intellectually and hu-
manity of the different races to the
different kinds of grain. Some are
wheat, some rye, some barley, some
oats, some cOrn--all grain, but vet
different totally and radically; each
kind different creation, different
kind of grain, different crop; so
with the intellectualities and human
tiles of the different races-all hu-
manities, yet each and all of the them
of different kinds of humanity, total |.
ly and radically different, each clear,
ly, broadly, and plainly human
made equally in the ''image." There
is no monkey about them.
These differences are as plainly
marked as the differences between
the horse and the OK; between the
ostrich and the duck; between the
vulture and robin or between the
swan and the mocking-bird.
Who would think of feeding the
Canary bird with the food of the ca
gle-the sparrow with the food of the
ostrich--the humming bird with the
food of the vulture !? Those who think
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