Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-11-04
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here Are the Descendants Of the
Negro Slaves of Antiquity {?


here Are the Descendants Of thu
Negro Slaves of Antiquity >.
WhenrRome conquered, the city O.
arthage and its dependent territory
Esere were many negroes captured who
EMere aslaves to the whites of Africa
Elheseswere carried to Rome and sold
Etksre. iaAfteri that period there were
always numbers of black slaves in the
tysand its Immediate neighborhood as
long as-the Empire lasted. % -
M There are no data by which we can
EjudgeSof the number of thousands Of
Hhese negroes in Rome; but from the
incidental mention made of them in
IMe Latin authors, they must have been
quite numerous, In the centuries from
their first importation to the end of the
Empire, there must have been at least
amillior brought into Italy-though
tms,is most probably but a very moder-
ate estimate. These must have mixed
in-Mith the white race to such an extent
Fthat,under the Empire there must have
been.many mulattoes.
3 What has become of this negro blood
Mere are certainly no traces of it now
ta'be found in Italy, whose inhabitants
are as entirely free from the slightest
tiiiint of itsas are those of Sweden. The
theory that it might have been so di-
lifted with white blood as to be at this
time untraceable, is simply absurd; for
every one who has studied the subject
81 races, Or observed, the effect of mix
ttpre, knows that the original type, if it
exists at all, will crop out from time to
61ne in most unmistakable manner
down to The thousandth generation.
| In Egypt there were also immense
numbers ,of<slaves imported from the
negro tribes on Its borders from the
I days of the carly monuments down, to
tie present time. But !. though there
exist a few mulattoes descended from
the imporfations of the last two hun:
sdred years, yet among the bulk of the
Inhabitants Of Egypt there are no traces
whatever of negro blood: Indeed, con:
slleilng the large number, Of. negro
slaves in Egypt at-all times, this free
dom from admixture in that country is
even much more remarkable than in the
case of Italy - - - z.s
sThere is one way. Of accounting for
these facts, and but one-and that is,
that. so different are the Caucasian and
Africamraces, that they cannot be per
1aanently mingled together, The mix
lure produces a being, which,. if mot a
ipgrtial hybrid, is at1least so, subject to
disease thqtsit can be propagated to but
ff4w generations, when it dies out, We
sse this tendency in this country already
Most forcibly shownSin, the small mum
Of the descend ,mulattoes.
E5W and then we sec a=1 5latlir0on HI II
Virginia, very seldom an octoroon, and
beyond that degree the blood cannot be
said to exist at all.
1t is this tendency of the mongrel to
die out that has destroyed all traces Of
negro blood among the Indians and
Egyptians. Those Of them who were
sprung from, negroes died out many
centuries ago, leaving the original stock
as perfectly pure as if there had never
been an African imported into either
Rome or the Kingdom of the Pharaohs.
And thus will it be,be in the South:
Not only will the pure negro race van
ish, from the earth, in the course of a
very few generations, from causes which
must make every inferior race disap--
pear, but not even the, slightest admix-'
ture of blood will be left among us :
the same effects, will result in the South
as in Italy and Egypt, an. there will
not be left a trace, save in history, of
the African race having exer evisted in
America ga SO . -''a- "
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SECRETARY .SfwARD's PosrT1oN.--
The N. Y. Sun, referring to Mr.. Sew
ards recent visit to that city, and the,
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