Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20
MIXED BLOOD.
GATH PHILOSOPHERS ON THE
AMERICAN MIXED RACES.
rbe Canadian Half Breeds-The Spanfsh
Blood in Mexico and Central Amer
ica-People Of Mountain and Of
Plain-Our Future.
TCincinnati Enauirer.l

Cincinnati Enquirer.l
The Spanish blood in the countries 70
The south of US shows all the changes the
English blood will show under strange coali-
ions The English blood has mixed with
out two other races; the Americans have
greatly mixed with the negroes, and the
British have somewhat mixed with the Hin
ioos or the general inhabitants Of India
You SOS the same results in these two mix
lures; the American negro will take hand
IN any future wars OF this country, and the
British Hindoo is showing an embarrassing
zeal Just now to do all the fighting for the
British. The Americans have never mixed
much with the Indian squaws; the
half-breeds of Indian blood in our
country were mainly made by the
Scotch Of the southern states among the
Cherokees and one or two other nations
Hence you find in the northwestern part OF
British America that there ara two distinct
types of Indian half-brseds, Of whom Riel
is an illustration, and the Scotch half
breed 1t seems that tine Scotch and French
half-breeds at this time rather fraternize.
There is nothing wonderful in this. Scot
land had q long political connection with
the French. Before Scotland, under the
great individuality of John Knox, allied her
Elf politically with England, the Scottish
throne was occupied by French half-breeds
Of whom Mary Queen of Scots was the most
celebrated
You will observe that the belligerent
families among the Cherokees nearly all
have Scotch names, like Ross, or Ridge, or
Macintosh. or McGilvray. Old John Knox
hims.lf derived his political education from
the French, just as Mary Queen Of Scots.
whom he betrayed to the English, derived
her interesting characteristics from her
French mother and husband.
The Spanish countries have shown very
different degrees Of liberality, according to
the element with which the Spanish blood
fraternized In Mexico the Spanish race is
mixed with Aztec or Indian. In Central
America it is mixed with Indian, also, but
with very frequent exceptions In northern
South America the Spanish typo often
exists clear, and there it is seldom tran
quill Brazil is but little Spanish. and
chiefly Portuguese In Paraguay the In
dian element in the ruling class is almost
paramount In the Argentine country and
in Uruguay there is an admixture Of italian
and of Augio-Saxon After all, the nature
of tho country itself very much affects The
race In tho argentine country is good
lan1, adapted for grazing and for pastoral
life, and hence the people are tranquil.
They had t,eir guerrillas, as the Texans
with SINH. A. country had. The Chilians
have kept their race somewhat clear, and
they adjoin the Argentine country and its
great possibilities AMI have but little desert
land at hand. When you go north to Be-
livia and Peru you have an arid and wild
country close at hand, whose cowboys and
ex-s,aves affect the race.
The United States is tranquil Topographic
cally; as where the land is good and nature
does not shake up the country much, the so
ciety is better than could have been ex-
pected from its components- When you
strike rough and jagged mountain countries
like mountain Kentucky AMI Tennessee, and
the broken PARTS OF Missouri you have q
people differing, yet alike, rs upon the slopes
of the Pyrenees where the Pasques defy all
civil.zat .ons. Ga the other hand, strong
channels Of emigration poursi through
;eople for years as through the Swiss, or
even through the MorInons, will turn them
into a race Of inn-keepers.
Ia cur country the changes Of
Thought and opinion are Won
der. al considering our youth. We
are in danger Of losing our entire interest in
everything ouIsi,le of our own country, and
having no foreign policy whatever. and per-
hap in time Of / sing our distinctive ma
ii nal prejudice There seems 10 be in the
United State, an immense number OF people
vino ara chiefly hostile to the Americans,
AMI 70 whatever among them has heretofore
been considered admirable and successful
There viii lie an awakening from this state
of things. Some day brash and little
enemy Will thunder at our ports, and the
people will suddenly wake up from their
books Of philosophy and literary reviews to
understand that II they do not have faith in
them elves they will destroy faith in them
from every other quarter. Ii is better to
possess a patriotic Ignorance than a peevish
ami unpatriotic enlightenment
No nation on the globe t;-day is so hostile
to foreign influence, TO naturalization and to
the lessons Of history a. the English nation
from which we come. The stability OF those
people, their belief in themselves, however
nisinformed, amounts to national passion.
Our country is full of half-elucated snobs
out of college who consider that there Is no
duty worth performing like disabusing the
American mind of its traditional self re-
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