National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-01-03

have united, and their hybrid offspring NUNS
bcrs to-day probably 100000. DIR. Sandiiord
b. Hunt surgeon Of United States volunteers
in the late civil war, has examined tho brains
of i05 whites and negroes with results which
are most important. When white blood pre-
dominates in mixed breed there is on in
crease of cerebral development, while the
presence of one-fourth, one-eighth, or one
of white produces brain decidedly |
inferior to that of the pure negro. Topinard
says of these figures that they would lead
us TO believe that tho mixed breeds assimu.
late the bad more readily than tho good;'
Won Tschudi, speaking of mixed races, says:
" AS q general rule it may be fairly said that
they unto in themselves all the faults
without any of the virtues of their progeni-
tors; rs men they are generally inferior to the
pure races, and rs members of society they
arc the worst class of citizens" Mr. Edward
Morris says: " All recorded evidence declares
hslf-castcs to be moro liable to disease and of
shorter life than either parent" Col. Smith,
in his History Of the Human Species"
doubts exceedingly If n half-caste family
does or could exist in any part of tho tropics
continued to q fourth generation from one
stock" DR.. Knox, in his essay on " Hybrid
ity," affirms that mulattoes arc the shortest
lived of any class of the human race and,
in his Races of Men," no says with tho
cessation of the supply Of European blood
mixed race of all shades must cease"
Deterioration in brain capacity and phys
ical power arc grave evils. Even Rawlinson
makes this admission. '"rhe absorption" no
says, ''of the negroes by the whites could not
but in some respects and for time tend to-
ward deterioration of the stock" How
long does he expect this to continue? Will
son. in his prehistoric Man" states that
when the grade of quinteroon is reached the
negro type has disappeared, and Rawlinson
adds that If the present black population in
termarrv freely with the whates, the grade
Of quinteroon would DO reached generally
within century.
| have collected numerous facts from Ban
croft and Hildreths histories, from the daily
press, from recent review articles, which
prove beyond dispute that the negro has not
in the past and does not to-day enjoy in the
north tho real social equality which is ac-
corded TO him in the south. There is no in
dication of future change, but If at any
time he objects to living in tho north and
west, socially ostracised, as an alien and in
ferior, he has the option of migrating to his
southern home.
In the southern states amalgamation as
sumes n different phase. In the seven states
there are in round numbers 1000, 900 negroes
and 100000 whites. The negroes are very
evenly distributed among the whites. There
is only only one large city in tho seven
states; only thirteen with population over
10000; only seven larger than Schenectady;
only three larger than Utica.
offer this suggestion Amalgamation Is
actually taking place to-day. Southern esti-
mates prove 1t. This will continue The
negro is making rapid progress. Charleston,
Memphis, and New Orleans papers no longer
deny that he is advancing. He will continue
to acquire property, will become educated,
will gradually assert and maintain his politi-
cal equality, will approach more and more TO
the social level of the whites in his own
midst. Thirty years from to-day, in num-
bers, in the aggregate of wealth and intelli-
gence, the negro, outside of New Orleans,
Charleston, and other large cities, will be the
superior-the Caucasian the inferior race.
| In the seven states the races to-day are
| equal numerically and even now amalgama-
| ton would result in the absorption of the
| Whites, not the blacks, and the production
would represent brain capacity in no way
superior to the pure negro. Fifty years from
to-day when the negro will surpass the
whites as to l, and 100 years from to-day
| grel race will then represent brain capacity
decidedly inferior to the negro of pure blood
| Southern blacks will not move north north
ern whites will not move south, SO that anal.
gamaton in the United States means simply
| this the asorption of southern whites By
southern blacks and mongrel product re
suit which will be inferior to either Of thu
original elements.
To amalgamate the 100000 blacks, their
general distribution and immediate unior
with the whites throughout the United
| States is assumed, and yet to effect their ab
sorption will require no less than 100 years
Amalgamation ii it is to affect the entire ma
ton, is emphatically not desirable Its posi-
| blity is different consideration. In dis
cussing this question Rawlinson and othe,
amalgamationists have made q common
initial blunder. They have assumed that TIN
100000 negroes were to be absorbed by thu
i3,e00,000 whites. This can never be. TIL
blacks will remain personally in the state
designated. The 100000 in the northern
states, we may assume, will never be amalga
mated. Amalgamation is the resultant o.
social equality and intermariage.
The solutions offered for the negro problem
by writers of to-day are two-(l) amalgama
ton, (2) colonization. Ultimate absorption
of the blacks is impossible, rs We have seen
This plan may be dismissed. The plan o
exporting and colonizing the blacks-advo
Gated by Jefferson, Madison, Henry Clay, ant
the early abolitionists-ha been revived ant
advocated as the only possible solution in tn
last February number Of the Popular SCienc
| Monthly. But it seems strange that any praC
| tical person should advocate such scheme
The negro is citizen. 70 depart him t.
Mexico, Central America, or anywhere, hi
own consent must be secured As citiae
he Is proud of his citizenship, and it is foil
to expect that he will voluntarily expatriat
himself. This plan may also DO dismissed a
purely chimerical.
In Edward Il. Freeman's lately published
"lmpressions of America" occurs u very brio
reform to our race difficulties. "Tho negr
difficulty" he says, must last either till tn
WY has been found out by which tn
Ethiopian may change his skin or till cithe
the white man or black man departs out q
the land. The eternal laws of nature, tn
eternal distinctions of color, forbid the assimi
lation of tho negro" Supported by this higI
authority, l cannot be alone in what say.
The removal of the negro is impossible; an
general amalgGmatiOn in the United States
, impossible; amalgamation in the south
possible, probable, and in actual process q
fulfllmcnt. Hence, either az the white
must emgrate from the south, (2), mus
amalgamate with tho blacks, or 81, mus
remain an inferior element, and submit t
negro supremacy and rule. The more wealth
whites will gradually emigrato TO tn
north or to such cities on the outer border a
New Orleans, Charleston, or Richmond. TIL
remaining whites who profer negro suprem
acy to emigration will gradually DO absorbe,
by the blacks, and within 100 years the sove
states will actually be surrendered TO negr
supremacy. Whether the federal government
will then welcome the negro to the nationn
counsos and, extending IN him the pTotectiO
OF tho courts and arms, will maintain him n
part of tho body polite, is a question 70
conjecture. All the national traditions ar
against it, Natural history teaches tina
unity of interest, which means unity of race
is the only safeguard of the republic Tn