The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-02-06
SsaheTe are The Descendants G<'
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/ when Rome conquered the city Of
carthage and its dependent tcrritoryt
there were many negroes captured who
were slaves to the whites of Africa
| These were carried to Rome aud sold
there. After that period there were Al,
ways numbers Of black slaves in the
city and its immediate nei ghborhool a.
long as the eempire lasted. There are 10 da-
ia by which We can judge of the number
OF thousands of these negroes in Rome;
but from the Incidental mention made of
them IN the 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 million brought into Italy,
though this is most probably but a very
moderate estimate. These must have
mixed in with the white race to s;.ch an
Fextent that under the empire there must
have been many mulattocs.
What has become of this negro blood?
There is certainly no trace Of it now to
be found in Italy, whose inhabitants are
entirely free from the slightest taint o.
1t as are those of Sweden. The theory
that it might have been SO diluted with
white blood as to be ut this time untra-
ceable, is simply absurd; for every one
who has studied the subject of races, or
observed the effect of mixture, knows
that the original type, if it exists at all,
will crop up from time to time in most
unmistaka bic manner, down to the thou
sandth generation.
In Egypt there were also immense
numbers OF slaves imported from the
negro tribes on its borders, from he days
OF the early monuments down to the
present time. But though there exists
a few mulattoes descended from the inn
portations Of the last two hundred years,
yet among. the bulk of the Inhabitants of
Egypt there are no traces whatever of |
negro blood. Indeed; considering the
large lumber of negro slaves in Egypt, |
at all times, this freedom from admixture |
in that country is3even much more re-
markable than in the casesof Italy.
50 There is~one way of accounting for
these f cts, and but one, and, that is, that
so different are the Caucasian and
African races that they cannot be per
mingled together The mix
ture produces being which, if not
partial hybrid, is at least SO subec: to
disease that it can be propagated TO but
l few generations, when it dies out.
We see this tendency in this country
almost forcibly shown in the small mum
Der of the descendant of mulattoes. Now
and then we see quadroon in Virginia,
very seldom an octoroon, and beyond
hat degree the blood cannot be said to
exist at all. We. '.'..'.
tits this tendency Of the mongrel to
lie out that has destroyed all traces of
negro blood among the Indians and E.
yyptlans. Those of them who were
sprung from negroes died out many cen.
uries ago, leaving the original stock as
pure as If there had never been
IN African imported into either Rome OF ,
he kingdom of the Pharaohs.
ri And thus will it be in the South. Not
'nly will the pure negro race vanish from
he earth. ia the course of a very few gen.
rations, from causes which must make :
very inferior race disappear, but not g.
en the slightest admixture of blood will
'es left among us; the same effects will !
esult in the South as in Italy and E. 9
,ypt, and there will not be left trace, 9
ave in history, of the African race hav- ,
ng!ever existed ip, Ameriea.-E Norfolk
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