Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-27

an, African and Malayan races. Were /
Mr. douglass views OF intermaTTiAse be-
tween the several varieties of the human /
species correct, there would not be hu- !
man race few thousand years hence,
because nature has placed limit TO such |
intermixture.
A few facts (elieited partly from forty |
years observation, partly from statistics, |
and partly from conversations had some
years ago with DR.. j. Wakefield, an Indo-
English physieian) will probably eRlight-
en- us little on the subject of intermar-
riage between the different varieties of
Mr.. DIS own race. Mortuary statistics
shoW-hTst, that the average length of
life of halfbreeds is but about one-Quar-
ter that oftheir parents second, that the
average life of quadrOOns, or one-fourth
bloods, is about One-third less than that
of their parentage, and that this average
length of life is still lessened with the
quintrOOns, or fifth bloOds. In the
OctOroOn, or eighth blood, reproduction
ceases altogether-that is, a male and
female OctOroon cannot beget children.
And here, now, is something not gener-
ally known: Suppose a, white man,
marries b, a Negro woman, and that they
have a SOn-a mulattO; suppose again,
that Q, black man, marrieS E, a white
woman, and that they have daughter
| likewise a mulatto. Now, further, sup
pose the mulattO boy with white father
marries the mulatto girl with white
mother, is there a product from such a
union? No. But had the fathers of
| both children been white and their
mothers black, or had their fathers been
black and their mothers white, quad
room progeny would be the result of the
union. Under natures law 1t seems
| either the fathers or the mothers must
be of the same degree of blood and color
or continuous intermixture cannot go
on
To make it clearer: The daughter of
a quadroon father and quadFoon mother
cannot bring forth children if her hus-
| band be the quadrOon son of a quadrOOn
! father and quadrOOn mother. Further,
if two purely black men marry two pure
| ly white women, or two purely white
men marry two purely black women, the
number of children these women will
| bear will be about half the number they
would have borne had their husbands
been of the same color as themselves.
In this country, where, unfortunately,
there is more of race-miXing than any
where else, how few quadroons (three
parts white, one part black bloody are
| seen. And quintrOOns, titth-blOOds, are
still scarcer. When we look for octo-
rooms, or eight-bloOds, we find but very,
very few of them. Even in New Orleans
(where it is generally supposed there are
many pretty OctorOOn girls), a genuine
quintroons and quadrOons there who
claim to be octOrOons, but they are not.
A months search in. that city some
years ago resulted in the finding of but
two real OctOrOOns. The CreOles, who
are sometimes taken for OctOrOOns, are
not such, there being no Negro blood
whatever in them. They are descended
from the early Spaniards and French,
who intermarried with the native In
dams.
I Mrs Jane Grey Swisshelm, in her re-
cent article published in your paper,
claims there is no law of nature against
this thing of intermarriage between
whites and blacks. I am surprised at
this, as Mrs. S. is assuredly deeply read
woman. It may Dc, however, that she
J has not given the subject full investiga-
ton. She has written "Of-hand" about
it, evidently. There is a law of nature
Il against miscegenation-a law that brings
severe punishment, tOO-that punishment
, being extinction. If a black man has a
| right to marry a white woman, his son
the mulatto, has also that right. So has
! squadron grandson and OCtOrOOn great
|
: says: ''No further" and if this warning
: is not needed reproduction ceases entire
ly, for no OctorOon male can become the
} father of child with an octoroon mother
That is the limit nature permits in mis-
: cegenation.
This same law of nature holds good in
the vegetable as well as the animal king
dom. Any fruit grower will tell you that
budded or grated peach, apple or peal
tree lives but half as long as standard
tree; and he will further tell you thai
seed from budded or grated trees will
not bring forth fruit bearing trees. The
life of standard tree is not only twice
, as long as budded or grated tree, bu
it's years Of bearing are also abou
double.
Dog fanciers well understand this Law
! of nature, and work according to it il
the rearing of fancy puppies. 10 get rio
of the originally vicious terrier they in
, breed, each successive generation being
: smaller, handsomer, and more docile; bu
the limit comes The offspring of the
original pair being bred down to the
fourth and fifth generation, reproduction
, ceases. r. D'UEGER, NJ. d,