The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-02

expected by way OF negro elevation
through recognition of the laws of
heredity rs these relate to intermar-
rage of negroes and mulattoes. The
article makes no reference to the white
man. except in the matter OF laws and
counsel.
1t is matter OF sincere regret that
should have been so completely mis-
understood and made to appear to take
such totally false position. The mis-
! take OF course. Is my own for should
have better guarded certain of my
statements. l am extremely sorry that
left the slightest intimaton that
could possibly favor miscegenation No
sane man would advocate it. My pri-
mary concern is for the white race;
Tor II amalgamation would be suicidal
My article takes this for granted; it
never occurred TO me that 1t needed tho
definite statement to the effect that
had no Intention Of suggesting misce-
genation.
The burden of my paper is to show
that the mulatto is not. us seems TO be
generally supposed. necessarily inferior
10 The pure blooded negro; that he is.
on the other hand. generally superior;
and that he could be OF great eugenic
service to the colored race. My argu-
ment is perhaps overdevelopcd at this
point. cue to my effort to make very
clear that tho mulatto need not ucces-
sarily suffer deterioration through ne
gro marriage if the ,narriage is always
between good stocks. The interpreta-
ton that l am arguing for miscegena-
ton actually appalls me. But read as
it was intended. with the understand
ing that all thought OF miscegenation
is totally dismissed as an unthinkable
proposition. my real position would be
apparent. ] seem to have left the inn
preston that since L regard the mu-
latto superior to the pure negro. iogi-
cally l must favor further production
OF mulattoes by black white crossings
To this | most emphatically object. y
mulatto in the general sense is any
colored Individual with any degree Of
white ancestry. The great bulk Of the
100000 mulattocs has appeared sim
ply through natural multiplication OF
their own numbers. and will continue
10 Increase in the same way. My
thought included only the gradual al
iteration of the proportion Of mulatto
to negro until the whole mass was es-
sentially mulatto, by the utilization of
present colored material in such a way
that the laws of hcredity may best
operate for the production of the best
colored type. This may he thought
visionary. but 1t involves no scheme of
misCegcnation
In view or what I have said. think
that dispassionate rereading OF my
entire article Will show that my argu-
. ment was in favor of the interinar-
rage of mulattoes and negroes. Now
that my attention has been called TO it,.
confess that the statement that the
negro aspires TO he muiatto and the
mulatto TO be white, and that in this
they should be encouraged. was most
unfortunate. To interpret this as
meaning that intermarriage between
the white and the negro should bc en-
cour0ged contradicts, however, all the
rest % the argument rs / intended IL.
do not defend the sentence as writ
ten. | explicitly deny that ] approve.
or ever approved or meant TO suggest
the nisceg euation Of the white and
colored races. If deserve ccnsurc. IL
is for the unfortunate manner in which
WAS expressed the idea that the am bi =
ton on the part of an inferior race to
ascend from a lower to q higher moral
and Intellectual status Is "A worthy one.
II. L. JORDAN.
University of Virginia