Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-04
PUBLIC LEDGER.
omo.. Ss.1is lsiaai.on stree,
CITY, CIRCULATION.
Horrible.

The Montgomery MAI brings AGAIN 70
light the following atrocious editorial
published in the New York Tribune in
1865:
Whatever Of power and vitality there
ia In the American race Is derived, not
from its Anglo Saxon progentors, put
from all the different nationalities winch
20 10 make up this people. All that IS
needed 10 make us the finest race on
earth Is 10 engraft upon our stock the
negro element which Providence has
placed BY our side on this continent VI
all the rich treasures Of blood vouch-
safed 10 us, that of the negro is the most
nrecious, because il is the most unlike
any other that enters into the compost
ton of our national life.
Ii is clear that no race can long en-,
dure without commingling OF its blood
with that Of other races. The condition
of ell human progress is miscegenation'
The Anglo-Saxon should learn this in
time for his own salvation. II we will
not heed the demands Of justice, let us,
at least, respect the laws Of self-preser--
vation. Providence has kindly placed
on the American soil for His own wise
purposes, four millions OF colored people
They are our brothers, our sisters. by
mingling with them we become power
full, prosperous and progressive; by re-
fusinr TO do so we become feeble, I'M
healthy, narrow-minded, unfit for the
nobler offices of freedom, and certain OF
early decay.
1t will be our noble prerogative to set
the example of this rich blending OF
blood. 1t is idle to maintain that this
present war is not war for the negro.
Not simply for his personal rights or his
physical freedom-it is q war, II you
please, of amalgamation, so-called-a
war looking, as its final fruit, to the
blending of the whites and black. All
attempts to end il without recognition
Of the political, civil and social rights OF
the negro will only lead to still bloodier
battles in the future Let US be wise and
look to the end. Let the war go on until
every black man and every black woman
is free. Let it 90 on until the pride Of
caste is done away. Let it 90 on until
church, and State, and society recognize
not only the propriety but the necessity
of the white and black--in short, until
The great truth shall be declared in our
public documents and announced in the
messages of our Presidents, that 1t is
desirable the white man should marry the
black woman and the white woman the
black man.
Nav we not hope that in the happy
hereafter of this continent, when the
Monaghan from China and japan, and
the negro from his own Africa, shall
have blended their more emotional ma
tures with ours, that here may be wit
messed, at once, the most perfect religion,
as we'll as the most perfect type OF man
kind the world has yet seen. Let US then
embrace our black brother; let us give
him the intellect, the energy, the nervous
endurance of the cold North, which be
needs, and let us take from him bis emo
tiopal power, his love of the spiritual,
his delight in the wonders which we un-
derstand only through faith. The negro
now declares that he loves the white man,
and the progressive party of the North
asserts The rights of the negro The lead
ers of Progress--among whom we quote
Phillips and Tilton-urge miscegenetic
reform. The people are ripe to receive
the truth. Through the fiery gate OF war
thew are being led to deliverance from
old prides and prejudices. And, indeed,
the instinct OF the white man responded
to the call of the negro for fraternity
There were wants in his nature which
only the negro could Gil. There were
defects in physical organization that
ONLY the negro could comfort and satisfy.
II ia n mean pride, unworthy of Chris
t;an or enlightened community, that
should lead any to deny this. The sue.
cess of the anti-slavery party has proved
Il so that denial of the principle is de :
NAL Of facts universally known. They
have touched chord that has vibrated
with a sweet, strange and marvellous
music. awakening slumbering instincts
in the heart of'the nation and OF the
world, SEQ
Nor are the Southern women indif-
ferent to the strange magnetism OF
association with tropical race Far
otherwise. Tke mothers and daughters
of the aristocratic shareholders are
thrilled with strange delight by daily
contact with their dusky male servitors.
The Southern beauty, as she parades
her bright dresses and inappropriate
coIors in our Northern cities and water
ing places, proclaims by every massive
ornament in her shining hair, and by
her every yellow shade in the wavy fold
&c her dress. {" | love the black man.
Nor. in view Of the powerful attrac-
ton Of the two races, is this frenzy oil
love in the white Southern women for
the negro altogether inexplicable. The
family is isolated on the plantations.
The white young man is alvey at col.
lepe. travelling in Europe, or practieing
Mt his profession in the large cities,
while the white girl who natures early,
"a at her home, surrounded by the
brightest and most intelligent OF the
young colored men ON the estate. Pas
s;onate. full of sensibility, without the
cold prudence of her Northern sister
who can wonder at the wild dreams o
love which FIRE the hearts and fill the i'm
agination of the impressibe Southern
maiden. The awkward, rude girl q
yesterday, under the influence 'of tn
master passion of our common humanity
is changed in a day to the full measure
of glorious womanh0od.
Il is safe to say that the first heart ex
perience Of nearly every Southern
maiden-the towering sweetness ant
grace of her young life-is associated
with a sad dream Of some bondman lover
He may have been the waiter, or coach
man, or the bright yellow lad who as
sisted the overseer; but to her be is
hero, blazing with all the splendor OF i'm
nerial manhood. She treasures the lool
from those dark eyes which made he
pulses bound; every spot Of earth wher'
he had awaited her coming, is TO her hol,
rAnnd