The Dawson journal., 1885-06-25
AMALGAMATION.

| How to adjust the relations Of
the negroes tothe more, enlighten-
ed and powerful race with whom
their lot has been cast is the great
problem of problems for the
South to-day, and one whose right
solution her future welfare and
greatness depend. Whatever that
solution may be, it should be
sought along the line Of strict and
impa4tial Justice tnaboth Eaces; it
should promote the highest inter-
est of each; it should, Ii possible.
avert the jealousies and rivHhies,
Che connections and convulsions
HAT have attended the working
out of such problems ia the past;
and it shoald promote rather than
retard the development Of the
country and the civilizing and en-
Tightening of the whole people,
The rage problem has frequent
ly been solved in the past by
amalgamation, resulting from in
terinarriage, This has often result
cd most happily. Where it is pos
sihle, there is nothing like inter-
marriage with the .endsaring rela-
tiopships that spring from it to
dlsslpate Face prejudice, to har-
moaize conflicting interests, and
to knit distinct and, it may be,
hostile people into one homQge-
neoQs whole. Where the racss so
uniting are offshoots from COM
mon stock, the union results in
the production of a third fully
equaling and often excelling the
parent races in physical and men
tai yigor. Thus was settled the
great race question in England,
where four distinct raees-Celt,
Saxon, Dane and Normap-coa-
lesced to form the English, that
most imperial race, which has so
long led the van of civilization, the
circuit Of whose power is daily ex-
tending, and which seems qestin-
ed to WELD the controlling infu-
ence in shaping the worlds fu-
tpre.
The same process is daily going
on upon this continent. Repre-
sentatives Of every race in Eu-
rope, the English largely prepon-
der2ting, are uniting to form the
American, which will doubtless
differ from them al, but will
prove Inferior to none.
This has been suggested as the
ISOLATION Of the race problem in
the South. But it is one which
tho whites cannot afford to adopt,
wAich they ought not to adopt,
and which, in my opinion, they
never will adopt. Its bare sag-
gestion, save for the purpose Of
refuting and depouneing it, is an
insult to their intelligence and
pride. Let Us see what it would
involve. Its ethnic purity and in
tegrity would be forever destroy
ed. This would be matter for
sill regret. if it should result in
producing race equal to or
stronger than itself and capable
Of equal or greater attainments
and progress. But such could
not possibly be the case. The
Apglo-Saxon and the negro'races
are the most widely diverse races in
the world. The one is perhaps
the highest Development of the
old Aryah stock, the mother of
most Of the great dominant races
Of tho world, The other is Of Af-
ricap origin a Eace that has al
ways been oQtrsnked by both tae
Caucasian and Mongolian The
ene has long been in the forefront
Of civilization. The other is just
emerging from barbarism, the
the darkest that ever enthralled
the miads and souls of mon. The
one possesses a lqfty pride, a
aauntless courage, a noble spirit
Of independence, which the imme-
morial halsit Of self-assertion has
ingrained alad intensified. These
are qualities which, to say Gae
3east Of it. the pegro has failed to
aequire duri4g the cen@lries Of
barbarism and slavery. The for
mer is fer the superior in physi-
cad beauty, in intellectual devel-
oppent in moral and religious
sentiments and habits. Whatey-
er maS he the natural capabilities