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This is the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation," which advocates the blending of the white and black races upon this continent, as a result not only inevitable from the freeing of the negro, but desirable as a means of creating a more perfect race of men than any now existing. This pamphlet is a clever political quiz; and was written by three young gentlemen of the "World" newspaper, namely.
I understand that in one decade the mixed bloods rose from one-ninth to one-eighth of the population, and that as early as 1663 a law was passed in Maryland to prevent English women from intermarrying with slaves; and, even now, your laws against miscegenation presuppose that you apprehend danger from that source." "Doctor, it is no use talking," replied Dr. Latrobe, wearily.
The results of miscegenation on this continent black with red, and white with black the results morally, intellectually, and physically, are not such as to make it attractive to the American people. It is not, however, upon sentimental grounds that we oppose this extension of the exaggerated dogma of equality. Our objection is deeper.
Through the influence of the authors, a person visited James Gordon Bennett, of the "Herald," and spoke to him about "Miscegenation." Mr. Bennett thought the idea too monstrous and absurd to waste an article upon. "But," said the gentleman, "the Democratic papers are all noticing it." "The Democratic editors are asses," said Bennett. "Senator Cox has just made a speech in Congress on it."
The southern white man, eternally dreading the miscegenation of the races, makes the life, liberty and happiness of individuals second to measures considered necessary to prevent this so-called evil that this enviable civilization, distinctly American, may not be destroyed.
The authors went to the Astor Library and secured a volume of Prichard's works, the perusal of which of course gave them the names of many other authorities, which were also consulted; and thus a very respectable array of scientific arguments in favor of Miscegenation were soon compiled.
At all events, if this kind of thing pleases the Americans, it is no more our business to interfere with them than with the French compound; and if miscegenation and free love seem to them the right manner of life, let them follow it.
But when this conclusion is closely examined it is seen to rest on debatable premises, for it is admitted that by far the greater part of the miscegenation that is now going on is between white men and coloured or black women and not between coloured or black men and white women, from which it follows, as has been pointed out by Boas, that, as the numbers of children born does not depend upon the numbers of men but upon the numbers of women, the result will be a bleaching of the black element, here and there, and not a darkening of the whites in South Africa.
But he knew now that he was fond of her as a man is of a woman and it was hell! For no rationalization in the universe would allow him to define her as human. Copper was humanoid something like human. And to live with her and love her would not be miscegenation, which was bad enough, but bestiality which was a thousand times worse.
"MISCEGENATION. DISGRACEFUL FREAK IN HIGH LIFE. FRUIT OF AN ABOLITION WAR. We are credibly informed that a young man belonging to one of the first families in the city, Mr. W.A.S., we spare his name for the sake of his relatives, who has been engaged since its outset in this fratricidal war, has just given evidence of its legitimate effect by taking to his bosom a nigger wench as his wife.
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