New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-10
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. found their way to Massachusetts,, where
there being q spreponderence of inhabi
. tants of the female persuasion, bent, o.
course, on marrying something. shit OF
MISS" they, so the manor born" find
themselves face 10 face with the practical
question, ''can zee abord to permit Tie DE-
bassmsst n Ansr;can rocetypss By insr'
Mcguire r;1h On inferior race % -.as 3 1
We can not refrain in passing from
congratulating the HE population of the
old Bay State, upon the fact that this
solemn query is propounded, while yet the
feminines aforesaid are denied the ballot;
otherwise in their desperation for we'd
lock, there might come voice from the
ballot-box like a bark, from the tomb, y
to all sticklers for pure Anglo-Saxon
blood! Thanks to the prudence and fore
thought of "the lords of creation, woman
can not yet vote, even on Puritan soil, so
that in answering the question of &C. to mix,
or not to mix" it is not really necessary
to consult the wishes of the most thor
oughly withered old maid among them
The thought makes US breathe freer,
even at this distance.
Our contemporary also informs us that
time was ''when the degradation Of the
South being determined upon, and the
interests of the Radical party at stake, all
such questions were ignored" though the
threatened evil then was African instead
of Chinese amalgamation, and though it
was undeniable that the African was in
ferior even to the Monaghan. But now
the first invoice of Cinnamon wakes Mr..
Yankee of Massachusetts, to fearful peril
at his own door and some earnest
writer" rushes into the Tribune, pro-
pounding the momentous questions above
quoted, and further philosophising as fol-
lows:
The deepest dividing line between men is
that of race" Deeper than politics or
religion; deeper than the contemporary
differences Of laws or manners, are the
depths and differences Of ''race." It enters
into the elements Of the blood; establishes
itself in the forms of the bones; expresses
itself through the material and size of the
brain. 1t is related to the last results Of
existence, experience and action. 1t is ut
once the beginning of history, and the sum-
ming up of history.
The latter part of this extract is so clear
that babe can comprehend its precise
meaning as easily as we can. Without
stopping to worry our brains to fathom its
deep wisdom, this hot weather, we accept
our neighbours assertion that it is the ex-
preston of truths as applicable to the AZ
rican as to the Chinese. -
We can not so readily assent to his idea
that the. Radicals, in dealing with slavery,
have ignored these solemn questions of |
brains, bones and blood. Seriously, and |
without dwelling long upon facts as un-
pleasant as they are undsniable, We sug-
gest that the less said by the enemies of |
the Radicals, and the apologists for
slavery about amalgamation, the better.
When the bleaching business becomes
more active under Radical rule than it |
was under the domination of slavery, it
will be soon enough to sound an alarm on
that subject Meantime, We may reason
ably hope that now that the colored |
people are free, with wills of their own,
there will be certainly no more mixing of
races, probably much less, than when
they had no wills but their masters.
Equally ridiculous is the opinion of the
PicayIne, that the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments of the constitution ignore all
physical and mental differences Of races.
It is simply laughable to say that they
either assert or deny such differences.
They do not even assert, nor does any other
provision, or law, that we are aware of, that
Ill Caucassians are equals physically,
or morally. They only COM
nand equal protection and rights before
he law for the weakest in body, and
ieeblest in mind, whether white, black or
yellow. If this feature puts them .at
Tariance with the eternal laws of nature"
We are too obtuse to see how 1t is some
What amusing to read in a subsequent
number of the same paper the assertion,
EDITORIAL, that ''the only serious opposi-
ion to the negro comes from those who
we're most jealous in the adoption of the
fifteenth amendment" and that 1.-The
blacks will soon learn that their true
iends and well-wishers are the so-called
ebels!
We make one more quotation from the
rticle first mentioned, viz:
IL it not known that slavery was abol-
shed for the express purpose Of cheapen- :
heir energies might reduce the price of
oreign labor; they were freed to compete
With the Irish and German element: they |
vere freed to degrade labor and to enable |
capitalists to pile up more capital.
We take the responsibility of answer
ng the interrogatory with which this ex-
ract begins by an emphatic No. With
quail emphasis We deny that the slaves
we're set free that their energies might re-
luce the price of foreign labor or to COM
'ete with the Irish and German element,
u to degrade labor Thus the square
ssue is rendered, and the affirmative is
With the Picayune When it is unquali-
iedly asserted that slavery was abolished
or so base an end, and from such un-
worthy motives, the facts to warrant so
rave charge should be neither few nor {
quivocal. We challenge their produc- {
ion. If; meantime, We may venture for
moment to assume the Office of tennh., | {