The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-01-19

} The wisdom of the above remarks
| is fully proved by the past history of
: every attemptto unite different species
of men, as Caucasians, Negroes, In
dians, Mongolians, etc., on terms of
equality under a common policy
} There is no instance where such an
experiment has not resulted disastrous
} trously to all parties, and finally ruin
ed the civilization of the superior race.
A hybrid civil policy is as great an
outrage upon nature as physical hy-
bridity. The penalties which God has.
attached to the crime of mixing the
bloods of different species, have also
their parallel in the results of civil
amalgamation. The institutions Of
the superior race are as surely spoHcd
by the infusion of the social. elements
of lower race, as its physical excel
lence is by .nescegenation. No time
has given the world an instance of the
successful erasement of raceal pecu-
liarities Professor Schaaf hausen, Ia
La late, lecture before the Assembly of
German Naturalists and Physicians,
at Bonn, says: Gas regards the ques-
tion of the Perfectibility of savage
races, it must mott be forgotten that
Nature takes no leaps from savagery
to culture. It is for this reason that
the selfsacrifcing activity of mission
aries has not had the desired success:
Christianity, no doubt, spreads the
seeds of civilization but a crop cans
not be expected, unless it falls upon
cultivated soil. The inhabitants OF
Central America have, for three hum
dred years, been converted to Chris
tianity but still in the mountains, IL
often occurs that behind the Christian
affairs they secrete their idols and. their
heather priests, who add a heathen
name to the Christian name by which
the child has been baptised. - nsm
The eminent and cautious Tschudi
says: 'The negro will never as pep
pie, even with the most careful educa->
ton, reach any considerable degree of
civilization, because the structure of
skull, and the development of the.
brain too much resembles the. animal
form" Carus asserts the same: And
the learned and pious Count de Cobb
neau sBys: Because negroes, during
SO many centuries, as they are known,
have never been anything by them
selves, and scarcely by the impulse
from without, it is not likely that they
can become much in the future. >" But
we cannot prolong this kind of testi-
mony. 1t is the united voice of near
ly all profound historians and scientific
scholars. Those who write or talk
otherwise are, almost invariably, eth
er ignorant dreamers, or wild partizan
propaganists. A political community
composed of Caucasians, Indians, Ne
groes, Chinese, Eskemos, would be a.
civil amalgamation that might well,
frighten the,devil himself The ANAL
gamation of Caucasians, Indians, and
slight infusion of Negro in Mexico,
and in South and Central America,
gives us some slight idea of what such
community would become after a
few generations. And such is pre-
cisely the future which our atheistic
politics and theology are preparing for
this country. The man who talks of
the @negro question" as "dead is
sue," in any other sense than that of
the death of our civilization, must be
ignorant alike of all science, and all
history bearing upon the subject. Both
the State and the Church Gf these
tangled knots and strings of quarrel
ing sects can be called sect, have
their destiny irretrievably bound up IN
that issue. If these Indians, Chinese5'
and Negroes are only men like our
selves, transformed by climate and 9TH
er physical agencies, the whole grand
temple of Christian Theisni must fall, :.
and give place to new structure OF
scientific Pantheism, in which the eter-.
nal forces of matter take the place of
the sublime attributes of personal
deity. And, on the other hand, If
they are not men like ourselves, but
different species of the genus homo, as
the horse, ass, zebra, and quagga,r arc
different species of the genus eqtius,
then our civilization must inevitably
be spoiled in the vain attempt to make
equal what God has created unequal :
or in trying;to mix equally in COM
mon civilization, SO many different,
and to greater or less extent, unciv-
ilizable social elements. sesss-.s
The. State and the Church-lif We
have a church)-must take their
choice of these dilemmas, if fhey are
determined to hang on one or the 9TH,
er of them. But for one, we shall
cling, TO the grand old theology that
God made the world and all things
therein, and that He has made men
to differ, just as He has all the var
ious species in the lover animal king
dom to differ Those whom God hath
made mhke, let no man attempt to-
make alike.
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