Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-12-08

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sy-The Future ~r the Ansrlcaa
Negro.
Frsn the Norfolk Journal.
When Rome conquered the city Of Car
thsge and ita dependent territory, there
were many negroes captured whs we're
slaves . the whi'ss Of Africa. These were
carried 70 Rene aud sold there. Alter that
period there we're always num6ess Of blsek
slaves in the city and IN in0sdiats neigh
borhood, - lsne % the empire lasted
There are Ne data By which ws can Judge
Of the number Of thousands Of these ne.
grsss 10 R'ms but lsem The incidental
0eo,ion oade Of then IL the Latin autheea.
they most have been quite saosseus. II
the centuries ffem their dsst Importation q
The end II the sopies, seses mset Aavs besn
q least million brought into lsaly, though
The b nest DrsbsSly but vsey msdsvsts
estimate. These must have 0ixs1 10 viii
the white race - such - exteut that under
the empire there must have bseo many NJ.
lattess.
What has become Of this negro blood :
There 10 certsiply no trace Of It nov 70 b
found In ftaly, whose. Inhabitants are entire.
" free from the slightest faint Of it, q ere
these Of Swsisn. The theory that it might
have been % dilated With white blood - 70
Be At this time untraessbls. 10 simply ab-
sud! for every one Who has studied the
subject Of races. Or ebserved The effect OF
mixture, knows that The original type, II Il
saisas q ell, will essp up fsoo tine to tine
in most unmistakabls manser, down to
The thousandth esastetiss.
10 Egypt there we're also immenss nun.
bsrs 81 slaves imported from the negro
tribes sAits borders, from the days Of The
early menuments down 70 the present time.
But though there exist . few mulsttoss, de-
eesndod from tie impesta Of the last
200 years, yet smoug the bulk Of the in
habitaees Of Egypt there ere - traces
Whatever Of negro bleed. Indeed, consid.
ssins The lssge nuotses Of segro slaves 10
Egypt, st al times, this freedom from "a.
mixturD 10 Shet ceaotsy 10 even much more
remarkable than In the case Of Italy.
There 10 one wsy Of accounting for these
fasts, and but enc, and that 10, that % dr.
fsrsnt are the Oausasisn and African races,
that they cannet permanently b mingled
together. The mixture preducss being
which. IL mot parsial hybrid, 10. ct least,
% subject 70 disease, tha: il can be prspa>
eaasd . but few genssasisss, when 4 dies
out. We sse this tendency in tois country
slnoss fsseibly shews 10 the ssnall numbes
Of descendants Of mulsttssa. Now and thel
~ zee qea1feen 10 virgisis, very ssldea
- ectoreen, and beyond that degree tha
bleed eaanot 30 oaid 10 exist at oil.
Il is this tendency Of The menersl y lie
cut that hes destroyed oil trsees 81 Assre
bleed snose the Italiass and ERypsiaos
These Of then whe were sprung fssn ~
esoss died out many csoturiss ase, lsavinG
tho original slsck - pssisetly pure % Il
th.rs had never bsen % African imported
ists either Rene - Ne kingdom Of tht
Pharaohs.
AID tkus IL will b 10 The South No,
snly will the pure nsgrs vanish from th,
earth 10 the course Of . very few genera
tions, from causes which must make ever
inferior race disappear, but not even th,
slightest admixture Of bleed will Be lsf
amens ~; the same effects will result il
TIE South % 10 Italy and Egypt, and Their
will net Be left . trace, save in history, .
The African race having ever existed il
America.