Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-08
MIXED BLOOD.
The Canadian HaIf-Breeds---The
Spanish Blood i'm Mexico ana
Central Americas--PeOpIe OIL
Mountain and PIain---Our
Future.

The Spanish blood in the countries to
! the south of us shows all the changes the
English blood will show under strange
coalitions. The English blood has mixed
with but two other races; the Americans
have greatly mixed with the negroes, and
the British have somewhat mixed with
the Hindoos or the general inhabitants of
India. You see the same results In these
two mixtures; the American negro will
take hand in any future wars of this
country, and the British Hindoo is show
ing an embarrassing zeal just now to do
ali the fighting for the British. The
Americans have never mixed much with
the Indian squaws; the half-breeds of In
dian 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 are two distinct types of Indian
half-breeds, of whom Riel is an illustra-
ton, and the Scotch half-breed. 1t seems
that the Scotch and French half-breeds
at this time rather fraternize. There is
nothing wonderful in this. Scotland had
long political connection with the
French. Before Scotland, under the
great individuality of John Knox, allied
herself 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 McGilvrav Old John
Knox himself derived his political educa-
ton from the French, just as Mary Queen
of Scots, whom he betrayed to the Eng
lish, derived her interesting characters
tics from her French mother and hus-
band.
The Spanish countries have shown
very different degrees of liberality, ac-
cording 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 type often exists clear and
there it is seldom tranquil. Brazil is but
little Spanish, and chiefly Portuguese.
In Paraguay the Indian element in the
ruling class is almost paramount. In the
Argentine country and in Uruguay there
is an admiXture of Italian and of Anglo
Saxon. After all, the nature of the coun-
try itself very much affects the race In
the Argentine country is good land,
adapted for grazing and for pastoral life,
and hence the people are tranquil They
had their guerillas, as the Texans with
a similar country had. The Chilians
have kept their race somewhat clear, and
they adjoin the Argentine country and
its great possibilities, and have but little
desert land at hand. When you 90 north
to Bolivia and Peru you have an arid and
wild country close at hand, whose cow
boys and ex-slaves affect the race.
The United States is tranquil topo-
graphically; as where the land is good
and nature does not shake up the coun-
try much, the society is better than conld
have been expected from its components.
When you strike rough and Jagged noun
tain countries like mountain Kentucky
and Tennessee, and the broken parts of
Missouri, you have a people differing,
yet alike, as upon the slopes of the !
Pyrenees, where the Pasques defy all
civilization. On the other. hand, strong
channels of emigration poured through a
people for years, as through the Swiss, or
even through the Mormons, will turn
In our country the changes of thought |
and opinion are wonderful considering !
our youth. We are in danger of losing |
our entire interest in everything outside |
OF our own country, and having no foreign
policy whatever, and perhaps in time of |
losing our distinctive national prejudice. |
There seems to be i'll the United States
an immense number OF people who are |
chiefly hostile to the Americans, and to |
Whatever among them has heretofore |
been considered admirable and success
ful. There will be an awakening from |
this state OF things. Some dav brash |
and little enemy will thunder at our ports,
and the people will suddenly wake up
from their books of philosophy and liter |
ary reviews to understand that if thev do
not have faith in themselves thev will
destroy faith in them from every other
quarter. 1t is better to possess a patriotic
ignorance than peevish and unpatriotic
No nation on the globe to-day is so hos
Tile to foreign influence, to naturalization
and to the lessons of history as the Eng
Ilsh nation from which we come. The
stability OF those people, their belief in
however misinform,.d
to national passion. Our
country is full of half-educated snobs ont
9f college who consider that there is no
iuty worth performing like disabusing
he American mind OF its traditional self.
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