Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-04-16
From the San Francisco Examiner.
The Negro 40 he is.

The forcing the negro into public schools with
white children seems to US so injurious in its ef
fects, and SO demoralizing and degrading in its
tendency, and proposition 90 preposterous a. to
be unworthy OF comment were 1t not for the mag
nitude Of the svil with which the movement is
frausht, should 1t chance to be carried into prac-
ticai operation. Looking upon it in this light, in
deiereuce TO the opinion of well-meaning persons,
who are entirely uHacquainted with the anatomy
OF the negro, as well as with the natural laws
that govern the negro and mulatto, we not only |
Intend to deal with the question In q serious |
style, but alse adduce such evidence will con- |
vince any reasonable mind that moral and physi- |
cal death and destruction would be the natural |
result of such wicked and suicidal act as the |
contemplated amagamation of the races.
That practical miscegenatIon In after life would
be the natural result Of such early training and
association, there can not be the slightest ques-
ton and view Of this fact it behooves u.s. not
only to ponder the immulable laws governing
our being, but also to bear in mind that "the
proper study Of mankind Is man."
Some one has truihtully said "lt is fitting
| that Que Of the most characteristic aud beautiful
laws OF life should be announced in the opening
| chapter Of the Holy Bible. II clothed in the
form of a divine ordinance: "Let tue earth bring
forth the living creature after his kind, cattle,
and creeping thug, and beast OF the earth, after
| his kind From that day to this, every living
ttiug-beast, bird and insect tree, shrub and
plant-has produced after its kind. 1t is a law
that runs through all animal aud vegetable life.
| Each family in the great world OF living forms
was created for a special purpose, and was in
tended to remain pure and dlstnctiye until the
termination OF its mission. Whenever the family
boundaries are overstepped the course OF nature
IS breathed upon the gensratiye functions, and
the illogitimate product dies out or subsidies into
hopeless degeneration. The mule is m illastr,-
uon OF this truth. Ii has no progeny.
But let us now turn Gus attention To the anato-
my OF tho negro, AMI sec wherein he differs from
the white inau; and II, after having closely eN.
ammed the assertions oi the best standard au-
thorities upon the subject hil to find any ina
terlal difference existing between the negro and
The white man, other than that Of mere color oil
the skin, We are free to confess that 1t would be
very cruel, and as unjust as cruel, to mako the
slightest distinction between the children OF the
! white man aud those ol the negro.
| Louis FIguer, in his celebrated work on Race
says ON pages -, go j0l-2, 5U4 sos: "lu the white
man the nervous centres, that is the brain and
spinal cord. are OF much greater volume than they
are In the negro. In the latter the expansion:
from these nervous centres, that is the nerve,
properly so called, have relatively greater vol
, | lImS A similar difference, quite on "A par viii
tbis exists III the clrculntory system In the whit
man the urterlal system is more developed thai
the nervous; the rsyerse is the case with the ne
Igro. LASTLY the blood oil the negro ia NOR
visceus and OF deeper red than thrt OF the whit
Imam,
"What renders the Europeans face pleasing
that each OF his features exhibit particular SHADE
The cheeks, forehead, nose and chin OF the whit,
have each Il different tinge. On tho contrary, a
| ID black on an African vlsage, even the eyebrow,
"A | as lnkY as the lest are merged IN the geneIa
color; scarcely another shade is perce ble exccI
. where the lips Join each other. The skin OF ne
groes Is very POROUS, SO much - that the pore
show vlslbly; but il is Tar from hard IN all Sc,
being In some quite the reyerse, smooth, stain,
and extremity soft TO the touch The most III
tpleasant thing about negro's skin is the uau
seous odor it emits when tho individual is heate
Q by perspiration or exercise. These emanatien
J., are as hard to endure those which some anima
$ | exhale."
Carl Vogt, in his Lectures on Man, j." says on
J.. | l26: IAN Italian or Pfoveucal, eating gaIll
onions, and celery, will no doubt emit an ode
: different from the Nocewgian or Icelander wi,
itives on fish, bluber, aud rancid butter; still tt
odor may bs avoided by different mode OF llf
II Is not so with the negro which persists, was
or iced the negro as YOU ike. 1t resembles eI
tIrely the odof of the musk animal, ana depeu,
upon the peculior secretion of the sudorifc gland
| which, however, 10 their structure, are similar
= | arranged as in the other races, though tLsy al
ilaIger and more numerous"
d. Fieuier goes ON To say, ''the masticatory mu
lie ces are more powerful IN the negro than in Il
g. white, account OF The great length OF the ia,
Their occput 10 hstter than that OF the white al
the great ocCipitsl hole placed further back"
ldI DR.. Madden has noticed skeletons OF negroes
lg Upper Egypt, showing six lumbar vertebIe /
= their ioins and shambling gait. The hips are e
A, q eminent than ina white man. We may add tn
/. iu this race the trunk Is not SO broad as In Il
other human families; the arms are slightly lon
Ter in proportion, and the legs rather psrceptib
bent, with fat aud high placed calves. The bon
OF the skull and those OF the body thicker al
harder than in the other races. The thighs al
differ in the negro and the white, being very p.
:, ceptibly aattened in the former. The iooi part
T. tipates In this general uginess Of the limbs II
IN
A duty among the French, are not only no deforn
Il ty In the negro but normal Characteristic 4
stead of forming that curve which imparts elast
ity 10 the whole frame, the under part of the u
u gro's foot Is fat, thus rendering it iess fitted
support the body on marches. The complex
of the negro's skin Is one of the most apparel
Though not most characteristic attributes Of /
negro race
u The belief was long entertained that the col
l of the blacks resulted from the prolonged acti,
8. OF the sun on their bodies; but observation h
- sho wn that such Is not tho case and that III,
/ extremely dark hue by no means depeu
either on the intensity or brilliancy of the sol
Trays
sR ans 10 the inhu5nce OF stimulants. The strou
est spirit, rum, pepper, irritant spices on
Itesby rouse their inert palate. Their soft ,thic
- oily skin, smooth and hairless, Is encrusted
meath the epidsrnis, as we have said, with
thick deposit which gives it its color. tt
/ yiscid tilm envelopes the nervous ramifcatio
4 beneath the cuticle, thus bunting the sensibi
y tty, The line ami delicate skin OF the Europe
1experiences horrible torture under the kslI;b
nd even when he is torn by leathern thongs, 4
\ y bleesllng W eas OF which are, sometimes, in
ais excess OF barbarity, rubbed with pepper al
at vinegar, the negro supports this cruel usa
"a with comparative composure. Some blac
Die are seen joining the dance after this punis
Or Il amt as If nothing had hapDeuptt
M The labors of anatomists OF our own d
have established that not only is it the bulk
: / the brain which corresponds relatively with /
ItelIeetual ACTIVITY but that the genuine indie