Fig. L— Page 135, NEGROES AND 55 NEGRO "SLAVERY THE FIRST AN INFERIOR RACE: THE LATTER ITS NORMAL CONDITIO 1ST. J. EL VAN EYRIE, M.D. ** To our reproach it must be said, that, though for a century and a half we have had under our eyes the races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of natural history. I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a different race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endow- ments both of mind and body." — Thomas Jefferson in his "Notes on Virginia." NEW YOEK: VAN EVRIE, HORTON & CO., 162 NASSAU STREET. 18 6 1. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by JOHN H. VAN EVKIE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. stereotyped by Smith & MoDotjgal, 82 & 84 Beekman ■ st. PREFACE. Since the first edition of this work was issued, startling and deplorable events have occurred. The great " Anti-Slavery" delusion, that originated with European monarchists more than fifty years ago, has culminated iu disunion and civil war, as its authors always predicted it would. A party strongly imbued with the false theories and absurd assumptions of British writers and abolition societies, is in possession of the Federal Government, which it stands pledged to use to reduce its assumptions to practice. It holds that the negro, except in color, is a man like themselves, and naturally entitled to the same liberty — that to deny him this liberty, is to enslave him — that, therefore, Southern society is wrong, and should be revolutionized, and it avows it to be its mission to accomplish this — to institute a policy that shall finally abolish or destroy the supremacy of the white man, and secure " impartial free- dom" for negroes ! To this the South replies, that this govern- ment was created for white men alone, and their posterity, as de- clared in the preamble to the Constitution — that the Supreme Court has recently declared the same great truth — that, seiz- ing the government by a mere sectional vote, and placing it in distinct conflict with the social order of the South, with the avowed purpose of penning up its negro population, in order to bring about some day the extinction or overthrow of the existing condition, is, therefore, an overthrow of the Constitu- tion — that the object avowed necessarily involves their future destruction, and to save themselves from the wild delusion and malignant fanaticism of the North, they are forced, in VI PREFACE. self-defense, to withdraw from the Union, hitherto, or until this hostile and dangerous party entered the field, so beneficial to all sections of the country. So stands the case between the sections. If the "anti- slavery" party was based on truth — if the negro, except in color, was a man like ourselves — if social subordination of this negro was wrong, and the four millions of these people at the South entitled to the same liberty as ourselves — and if the men who made this government designed it to include the inferior races of this continent, and it were really beneficial to equalize and fraternize with these negroes, then, though it may be doubted, if using the common government to bring it about were proper, the end in view would be so beneficent, and such a transcendent act of justice to these assumed slaves, that all honest, earnest, and patriotic citizens should promptly sustain the party now striving to accomplish it. But, on the contrary, if this party is based on a stupendous falsehood — if the negro is a different and inferior being, and in his normal condition at the South — and if the men who made this govern- ment, designed it for white men alone — then the length and breadth and width and depth of the " anti-slavery" delusion, and the crime of the " anti-slavery" party, which has broken up the Union in a blind crusade after negro freedom, will be fully comprehended by the American people. The whole mighty question, therefore, with all its vast and boundless consequences, hinges on the apparently simple question of fact — is the negro, except in color, a man like ourselves, and therefore naturally entitled to the same liberty ? It is absolutely certain that neither the liberty, the rights, nor the interests of one single northern citizen is involved ; nothing whatever but a blind and foolish theory of " negro slavery" which is attempted to be forced on the South. If the people of the two great sections of the country could PREFACE. VU change places, the vast u anti-slavery" delusion would be ex- ploded in sixty days. But as this is impossible, the next best thing is to explain the actual condition of things in the South to the northern mind. This great work the author has under- taken, not to defend an imaginary slavery, for it needs no de- fense, but to explain the social order — to demonstrate to the senses, as well as the reason, that the negro is a different and subordinate being, and in his normal condition at the South ; and thus to show the enormous and fathomless folly, crime, and impiety wrapped up in the great " anti-slavery" delusion of the day. The former edition of this work was put to press so hurriedly, that it contained many errors, but the present one has been carefully revised ; and, moreover, the introduc- tory chapter has been rewritten, in order to present a more distinct history of the origin and progress of the great British " anti-slavery" imposture which is now working out its legiti- mate and designed purpose in the destruction of the American Union. In conclusion, the author begs to say, that mere literary display or fine writing is with him quite a subordinate consid- eration. He only desires to be understood, and, that the grand and momentous truths described in this book shall be clearly comprehended by the masses, with the confident assurance that when they come to understand that their own liberty, welfare, and prosperity are all hazarded in a blind crusade after that which, could it be accomplished, would be the greatest calam- ity ever inflicted on a civilized people, the causeless and sense- less, but frightful sectional conflict now raging will be speed- ily terminated by the universal uprising of the northern masses in favor of a government of white men, and union with the South. CONTENTS PART I. CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. Page European Misconception of the Negro — Monarchical Hostility to Amer- ican Institutions — Imposture or Delusion of Wilberforce — False Issue of a Single Human Race — Dictation of European "Writers — Subservi- ency of the American Mind 17 CHAPTER II. LAWS OF ORGANIZATION. Divisions of the Organic "World — Each Form of Being an Independent Creation — Harmony in the Economy of Animal Life — The Races speci- fically different from each other — A Single Species Impossible — Fal- lacies of Linnaeus and other European Naturalists — Ignorance of Educated Men on this Subject 34 CHAPTER III. THE HUMAN CREATION. Subdivisions of Mankind— The Difierent Races of Men — Characteristics of each — The Caucasian — The Mongolian — The Malay — The Aborigi- nal American — Caucasian Remains in Mexico — The Esquimaux — The Negro Race ; its Origin ; Observations of Livingston, Garth, and others X CONTENTS. Page — Hybrids confounded with the TypicalNegro — The Dogma of a Single Eace — Mankind Created in Groups — The Bible Aspect of the Question — Inconsistency of the Advocates of the Single Race Theory 44 CHAPTER IV. HISTORICAL OUTLINE. Origin of the Caucasian Race — Bible Accounts — Invasion of Egypt by the Master Race — The Caucasians in Assyria, Persia, and Babylon — Origin of the Mongolians — The Use of the Term " Barbarian" — The History of the Greeks — Not the Authors of Political Liberty — Athens not a Democracy — The Roman Republic and Empire — Citizenship a Privilege, not a Right — The Advent of Christianity the Advent of De- mocracy — The Dark Ages — The Races that Figured in that Era — The Crusades — The Asiatic Invasion — The Carthaginians — The Arabs — The Downfall of the Roman Empire — The Reformation — All the Nu- merous Varieties of the White Race Subsiding into Three Well-known Eamilies, the Celtic, the Teutonic and Sclavonic — General Review — The Intellectual Powers of the White Race the same in all Ages — Knowledge only Progressive — The Inferior Races Incapable of Acquir- ing and Transmitting Knowledge — The Chinese no Exception 63 CHAPTER V COLOR. The Cause of Color Unknown — The Caucasian Color the Index of the Character ; the Contrary the Case with the Negro Race — The Black Complexion a Sign of Inferiority — Misuse of the term " Colored Man" 88 CHAPTER VI. FIGURE. Differences in Form — The Negro Incapable of Standing Upright — Other Marks of Inferiority — The Relative Approximation of the Ourang- Outang to the Negro and the Caucasian 92 CHAPTER VII. THE HAIR. The Hair of the Caucasian and Negro Contrasted — The Beard of the Caucasian indicative of Superiority — The Negro and other Races have not the Flowing Beard of the Caucasian 98 CONTENTS. XI CHAPTER VIII. THE FEATURES. Page The Features the True Reflex of the Inner Nature — "Variations of Size, Outlines, Complexion, etc., of the Caucasian Race — Resemblance of Negroes to each other in Size and Appearance — Inability of the Negro Features to express the Emotional Feelings peculiar to the Caucasian, etc., etc 105 CHAPTER IX. LANGUAGE. Divided into two Portions— First Capacity of Expression— Second Ar- rangement into Parts of Speech — All Beings have a Language, each Specific and in Accordance with its Organism — The Vocal Organs of the Negro — No Negro can Speak the Language of the White Man Correctly — Negroes can be Distinguished by their Voices — A Negro Musical Artist Unknown — Musical Genius Requires a Drain of Cor- responding Complexity — The Negro's Love of Music merely Sensuous, and Manifested by the Feet as much as by the Brain 109 CHAPTER X. THE SENSES. Organism of the Senses — Their Strength and Acuteness in Inferior Races —The Cause of Negro Indolence Explained — The Necessity of Govern- ing the Negro — Incapacity of the " Free Negro" to Produce Sufficient for his own Support — His Ultimate Extinction Simply a Question of Time — Incapacity of the Negro for the Higher Branches of Mechanism =— Effect of Flogging on the Negro Senses, etc,, etc 115 CHAPTER XI. THE BRAIN. Erroneous Impressions Relative to the Brain — What Constitutes the Brain — Its Size the True Test of Intelligence — General Uniformity of the Negro Brain — Its Correspondence with the Body — Its Size, when Compared with that of the White Man — The Folly and Impiety of At- tempting to Equalize those whom God has made Unequal, etc 125 xii CONTENTS. CHAPTER XII. GENERAL SUMMARY. Page Eecapitulation and Review of the Outward Characteristics of the Negro — Color, etc., seen to be only a Single Pact out of the Millions of Facts separating Races — Inner Qualities necessarily Correspondent with the Outward ones — Conclusion 132 P A It T II. CHAPTER XIII. HYBRIDISM. The Laws of Interunion fully Explained — A fixed and well-defined Limit to Mulattoism — Prostitution in the North, and Mulattoism in the South — Amalgamation and its Consequences — The Physiological Laws governing Mulattoism and Mongrelism— Condition of the Negro in Jamaica, Hayti, etc.— The Negro, when Isolated, certain to Relapse into his Original Barbarism — Intellectual Difference between Negroes and Mulattoes — The Viciousness and Cowardice of the Mongrel — His Low Grade of Vitality, etc., etc 143 CHAPTER XIV. THE "SLAVE TRADE," OR THE IMPORTATION OF NEGROES, General Review of the Subject — The Absurdity of Attempting to Civilize Africa — The Adaptability of the Negro to Tropical Labor — Las Casas and the Negroes and Indians — How the Spanish Government con- ducted " the Slave Trade" — Its Inhumanity, as practiced by the Dutch and English— The Benefits of the Original " Slave Trade"— The Reason why England is so Anxious to Abolish " Slavery," etc., etc... 168 CHAPTER XV. NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. The Law of Adaptation — The Natural Relation of Men to Animals, of Parents to Offspring, of Men of the Same Species to Each Other — CONTENTS. Xlll Page American Institutions based on the Natural Relations, or the Natural Equality of the Race — Political Equality the Normal Order of the "White Man — Disregard of the Natural Relations in Europe — Repres- sion of the Natural Order — Result of the Employment of Force to Pre- serve the Existing Condition — Popular Ignorance of the Relations of Races — Juxtaposition of White Men and Negroes — Natural Inferiority and Social Subordination of the latter — The Natural, or Uneducated Negro of Africa, compared with the Civilized Negro of America — Free Negroism a Social Disease — Social Subordination, with the Pro- tection of the White Man, the Normal Condition of the Negro 119 CHAPTER XVI. CHATTELISM. Historic Slavery — Its Origin — Its Character — All White People — Often Highly Educated Men — Their Abject Dependence on the Wih or Cap- rice of the Owner — Their Incapacity to Propagate Themselves — Their Restoration to Citizenship, etc. — Nothing whatever in Common with the Social Subordination of Negroes in our Time — The Industrial Ca- pacity of the Negro all that the Master owns — Care and Kindness of the Master — Rapid Increase of the Negro Population when in their Normal Condition, etc 204 CHAPTER XVII. EDUCATION OF NEGROES, The Education of the Negro should be in Harmony with his Wants and Mental Capacity — The Folly of Attempting to Educate the Negro as we do the Caucasian — The Negro always a Child in Intellect — The Duty of the Master to set his " Slave" a Good Example — The Imitative Faculty of the Negro mistaken for Intelligence, etc 215 CHAPTER XVIII. THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS. Love of the Caucasian Mother for her Offspring — Relative Capacity of White and Black Children — The Negress, after a certain period, loses all Love for, or Interest in, her Offspring — Affection for his Master the Strongest Feeling of which the Negro is capable, etc., etc 223 XIV CONTENTS. CHAPTER XIX. MARRIAGE. Page The Idea that Marriage does not Exist among " Slaves" Repugnant to the Northern Mind — Its Effect on Increasing the Anti-Slavery De- lusion — New England Women — Their Domestic Education Admirable — Their Mistake as to the Pacts of Marriage at the South — Their Southern Sisters— "What is Marriage ?— Not Simply a Civil Contract— A Natural Relation — The Love of Negroes Impulsive and Capricious. 223 CHAPTER XX. CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. How the Earth is Divided — Its Fauna and Flora; — All Organized Beings have their Centres of Existence peculiar to Themselves — No such thing as the Creation of the same Species in Different Centres of Life — The more elevated the Organism, the less subject to Exter- nal Circumstances — Incapacity of the Negro to Live in Northern , Latitudes — Their Miserable Condition and Rapid Extinction in Can- ada — Industrial Adaptation of the Caucasian to Intemperate Latitudes — Why white Labor is worth more than that of the Negro at the North — Industrial Adaptation of the Negro to Tropical and Tropicoid Products — Absurdity of the Ordinance of 1181 — The Acquisition of Southern Territory always saves the North from so-called Negro Slavery — "Extension of Slavery" vital to both White and Black — Absolute Necessity of Negro Labor in the Tropics — Production, and therefore Civilization, otherwise Impossible 245 CHAPTER XXI. NORTH AND SOUTH THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN IDEA OF GOVERNMENT. The Progenitors of our so-called Slaves, though mainly Imported at the North, ultimately found their way South — Difference between the Early Colonists of both Sections of the Country — Virginia Mainly Settled by the Cavaliers — The Southern Leaders the Originators and Upholders of our Present System of Government — The Presence of CONTENTS. XV Page the Negro, in his Natural Condition, conducive to the Equality of "White Men — The Harmony of Southern Society — The Interests of " Slaveholder" and "Non-Slaveholder," and of Master and "Slave" are Indivisible — The Presence of the Negro in his Normal Condition the Happiest Event in Human Affairs, etc 270 CHAPTER XXII. THE ALLIANCE OF NORTHERN" AND SOUTHERN PRODUCERS. The Antagonism of Ideas after the Constitution was formed — The Two Opposing Leaders, Hamilton and Jefferson, in Washington's Cabinet — Hamilton's Financial Policy Wrong — The British System — The Alien and Sedition Laws — British " Liberty" — Conflict of Labor and Capital — The Producing Classes at the North without Leaders — The "Wealth and Power in the hands of the Federalists — At the South the Slave- holders were Producers — Mr. Jefferson's Declaration that they were the Allies of the Northern Laborers True — The Kentucky and Vir- ginia Resolutions of 1798 the True Exposition of our Federal System —Civil Revolution of 1800 293 CHAPTER XXIII. THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO. The Number of Negroes on this Continent — The " Free" Negro — Im- possibility of his Living out the Life of the White Man — The " Free" Negroes of Virginia and Maryland — The Drawback of the " Free" Negro Population — Its Dangerous Elements — Its Immoral Charac- ter — Its Tax on the Laboring Classes — Its Ultimate Extinction — Slavery in Brazil and Cuba — The White Man Degraded there— Social Danger — Tropical Civilization — Intellect of the White Man, and the Labor of the Negro Essential to it — The Condition of Jamaica — White Blood being Extinguished — The Tendency of the British System to Force Negroes to a Forbidden Level with White Men — Negro Officials — Knighting a Negro — The Effect of Legal and Social Equality — The Extinction of the White Race in the West Indies only a Question of Time — The Negro Returning to Savageism — Hayti — Terrible Results of the British Anti-Slavery Policy — An African Heathenism in America 309 XVI CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXIV. CONCLUSION. Page Review of the Subject — Juxtaposition with the Subordinate Race has Originated New Ideas in the Master Race, and Rendered Republican Liberty Practicable — Beneficent Union of Capital and Labor in the South — A Southern Majority and Northern Minority have Acquired all the Territory, Fought all the Battles, and Conducted the Nation in every Step of its Growth, since its Foundation to the Present Time — The Acquisition of the Gulf States has Secured Equal Rights to the Masses at the North — Final Acquisition of Cuba, Central America, etc., Essential to the National Development — Extension of so-called Slavery a Vital Law of National Existence, and Absolutely Essential to American Civilization 336 CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. " American slavery," though having no existence in fact, is a phrase which, for the last forty years, has been oftener heard than American democracy ; yet the latter is one of the great powers of the earth, and destined, in the course of time, to revolutionize the world. But in this promin- ence of an abstraction, and indifference, or apparent indiffer- ence, to the grandest fact of modern times, is witnessed the wide-spread and almost despotic influence of the European over the American mind. What is here termed " American slavery," is the status of the negro in American society — the jsocial relation of the negro to the white man — which, being in accord with the natural relations of the races, springs spon- taneously from the necessities of human society. The white citizen is superior, the negro inferior; and, therefore, when- ever or wherever they happen to be in juxtaposition, the human law should accord, as it does accord in the South, with these relations thus inherent in their organizations, and thus fixed forever by the hand of God. And were America isolated from Europe — did that sea of fire, which Mr. Jefferson once wished for, really divide the Old World and the New, and thus separate us from the mental obliquities and moral per- versities of the former — then any other relation than that now common to the South, would be an impossible conception to the American mind. The words "slave" and "slavery" were scarcely heard a hundred years ago, as indeed they will be unheard a hun- 18 CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. clred years hence; and prior to the Revolution of 1776, the people of America were quite unconscious of that mighty " evil," now so oppressive to many otherwise sensible minds, though this imaginary slavery then spread over the whole continent. All new communities are distinguished by a cer- tain advance in civilization over the elder ones, however rude the former may appear in some respects, or whatever may be the over-refinement, or seeming refinement, of the latter. Truth lives forever — "the eternal years of God are hers;" and all real knowledge, all true progress made by the race, is treasured up, and carried with it in all its wanderings, whether from the Nile to the Tiber, or from the Thames to the Hudson ; while the errors, the foolish traditions and vicious habits, men- tal and moral, that gather about it, and weaken, and sometimes so overlie and conceal the truth as to render it useless, are left behind. We see this even in our own energetic and progres- sive society. The younger States are the most enlightened States ; and the West, whatever may be its wants, or supposed wants among a certain class, is really more civilized than the East. That community which is the most prosperous — where there is the greatest amount of happiness — where there is relatively the greatest number of independent citizens — is per se and of necessity the most civilized; for the end of existence, the object of the All- wise and beneficent Creator — happiness for His creatures — is here most fully accom- plished. And when we contemplate the history of this continent, and compare the character of the early colonists, their history, and their influence over the present condition of things, it will be found that they remained stationary in exact propor- tion as they clung to the ideas and habitudes of the Old World ; or advanced towards a better and higher condition just as they cast off these influences, and lived in natural CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. 19 accord with the circumstances that surrounded them. The Spanish conquerors were often the pets and favorites of the court, and always the faithful sons of the Church, and brought with them the pomps and vanities of the former, and the rigid ecclesiastical observances of the latter. When Cortez and Pizzaro took possession of a province, they pompously paraded the titles and dignities of the emperor before the wondering savages, and added vast multitudes of " Christian converts" to " Holy Church" with a zeal and fervor that the Beechers and Cheevers of our times might envy, but surely could not equal. The English colonists, on the contrary, were almost all disaffected, or at all events, were charged with disaffection to the mother country. This, it is true, was masked under religious beliefs and scruples of conscience, but was none the less hostile to the political order under which they had been persecuted and suffered so long. As soon, therefore, as they found themselves in a New World, and relieved from the tyranny of the Old, they abandoned, to a great extent, the forms, as they already had abandoned many of the ideas, of the latter. They recognized the nominal sovereignty of the mother country, or rather of the Crown ; but from the landing at Jamestown, as well as at Plymouth, all the British colonists really governed themselves, made their own laws, provided for their own safety, and, except the governor, and occasion- ally some subordinate officials, elected their own rulers. The result was a corresponding prosperity ; for not only did the discipline of self-reliance strengthen the character, and call out a higher phase of citizenship among the English colonists, but in casting off the habitudes of the old societies, and adopting those that were suited to the circumstances surrounding them, they soon exhibited a striking contrast to those of Spain and of other European powers, who cluug to the ideas and habits of Europe. 20 CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. But this drawback on American progress — this clinging to the habitudes of the Old World, which kept the Spanish and French colonies in abject submission to the mother country, and which England, at a later period, sought to force on her colonies — was not the sole embarrassment in the progress of the colonists. They were confronted by wild and ferocious savages, who disputed every step of the white European ; and though, previous to the independence of the colonies, the mother country united with the latter against the former, from the breaking out of hostilities in 1776 to the close of the War of 1812 the interests of monarchy and savagism may be said to have been inseparable, and to have formed a common barrier against the march of republicanism. Indeed, it is a truth, attested by the whole history of the past, and equally so by the circumstances of the present, that the subordinate races of this continent — the Indian, Negro, Mongrel, etc. — constitute the material, the very stock in trade, of European monarchists, to embarrass the progress of American institu- tions ; and in every instance where we have been engaged in Indian wars, that portion of our people who, in their ignorance and blindness, have condemned the course of their own gov- ernment, have been the unconscious instruments of the enemies of their country, and in their sickly sentimentality and folly, they have sought to obstruct the progress of American civiliza- tion. Monarchy consists in artificial distinctions of kings, nobles, peasants, etc., or it may be defined as the rule of classes of the same race, and, from the inherent necessities of its organization, it is forced to make war on the natural dis- tinction of races. Prior to the breaking out of the American Revolution, there was no necessity for calling in the aid of the Negro or the Indian to crush out the libertv of the white man. The colonists, as has been observed, were practical republi- cans, and substantially governed themselves ; but they had not CAUSES OF POPULAE DELUSION. 21 questioned the European system or theory of monarch ism. When they did this, however, in that grand Declaration of Mr. Jefferson, that all men (meaning, of course, his own race) were created free and equal, the British monarchists instinct- ively and, indeed necessarily, resorted to the means at hand — to the subordinate races of America — to demoralize and break down this immortal truth. An English judge, anticipating the coming rebellion of the Americans, had already ruled that " slavery," or social subordination of the negro to the white man, was a result of municipal law — a creature of the lex loci / and though this was' in language that led vast numbers of people into error, its technical as well as absolute falsehood is apparent, when we remember that no such " law" has ever existed, either now or at any other time, in American history, from the Canadian Lakes to Cape Horn. But it served as a foundation and stand-point for that wide-spread imposture and world-wide delusion which has since so overshadowed the land, and, with the best intentions on their part, so deluded Americans themselves into a blind warfare against the prog- ress, prosperity, and indeed the civilization, of their coun- try and continent. In the seven years' war waged to crush out the rebellion of the Colonies, England subsidized the savage Indian tribes wherever it was possible to do so; and in the subsequent War of 1812, her agents partially suc- ceeded in combining all the savages on our western border, under Tecumseh, with the design of shutting us out forever from the country west of the Mississippi. The result of this monstrous alliance of European monarchists and American savages to beat back the advancing civilization of the New World, to hold in check, and, if possible, to defeat and over- throw republicanism, has ended in the destruction and almost utter annihilation of the North American Indians. General Jackson's campaigns in Florida, as well as those of Harrison 22 CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. in the West, and, to a certain extent, even the later Seminole War, all had their origin in the same causes, the open or secret intrigues of British agents, stimulating the savages to resist the onward march of American civilization. Nor was it anything like the former contests of the agents of England and France to enlist the aid of the savages against each other ; for, repulsive and iniquitous as it may be for men of the same race to employ subordinate races against their own blood, they were struggling for possession of a continent, and all means, doubtless, seemed legitimate that should give them victory. But in this case it was a war against Americanism — against a new order of political society — against a system based on a principle of utter antagonism to monarchism, and which if permitted to develop its legitimate results, to grow into a new and grander order of civilized society than the world had ever yet witnessed, the rotten and worn-out sys- tems of Europe were doomed to certain and perhaps early overthrow. It is true, the agents employed did not know this — indeed, their European masters were ignorant, perhaps, of the principles involved ; but the instinct of self-preservation, the instinct inherent in hostile systems impelled them forward, while the ends to be reached, or the consequences of success, were always too apparent to be mistaken. But their savage instruments were destroyed in the conflict, in the uses to which they were applied by their European allies ; and what- ever may be the future fate of the Aborigines in Spanish America, the North American Indian is virtually annihilated. A few wild tribes of the West and South-west, whose means for preserving existence are every day growing less, still remain, and some remnants of semi-civilized tribes, which are perishing even more rapidly than the former, are to be found on our Western frontier ; but the time is not distant, perhaps, when they will be wholly and absolutely extinct. CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. 23 What might have been, it is useless to conjecture ; but the notion of a certain class of sentimentalists among us, that we have done the Indian great wrong, and that, had we treated him with kindness and justice, he might have become civil- ized, and a part of our permanent population, of course, is ab- surd ; for it is founded on that foolish dogma of a single race, which Europe has fastened on the American mind, and which supposes the Indian, as the Negro, etc., to have the same na- ture as themselves. Nor is the notion of others, that the Indian is incapable of civilization, and therefore destined to give way before the advance of the white man, worthy of any consideration ; for this involves the paradox of being created without a purpose, a supposition not to be entertained a mo- ment ; for the most insignificant beings in the lowest forms of organic life have their uses, and the human creature, surely, was not created in vain. The simple truth is, that we need to know what the Indian is in fact, his true nature and true rela- tions to our own race, and then, as we have done in the case of the Negro, adapt the social and governmental machinery to the wants of both races. But this employment and con- sequent destruction of the Indians of America by the monarch- ists of Europe, though often inflicting great temporary evil on our border settlements, did not retard our progress in the least, nor did England, to any appreciable extent, succeed in her objects. The theory or dogma of a single race, which her writers and publicists had set up about the time of the Revo- lution, produced, however, immense practical results both in Europe and America. The doctrines of the American Revolu- tion, as was foreseen by British statesmen, soon became uni- versally accepted in France, and threatened to overturn mon- archy all over the Continent, and indeed in England itself. Dr. Johnson, Wilberforce, Pitt, and all the great writers and leaders of England, naturally enough adopted the notion that 24 CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. Indians, Negroes, etc., were men like themselves, except in color, cultivation, etc. ; but they were impelled, by the necessities of their system and the preservation of monarchical institutions, to practicalize this theory to the utmost extent in their power, and thus divert the attention of their own oppressed white people from their wrongs, by holding up before them con- tinually the imaginary wrongs of " American slaves.'" They said, " It is true, you laborers of Yorkshire and operatives of Birmingham have a hard life, a life of constant toil and priva- tion ; but you are free-born Englishmen, and your own mas- ters, and in all England there is not a single slave ; while in America, in that so-called land of freedom, where there is no king, or noble, or law of primogeniture, and where, in theory, it is declared that all men are created free and equal, one sixth of the population are slaves, so abject and miserable that they are sold in the public markets, like horses and oxen. What, then, are your oppressions or your wrongs in comparison with those of American slaves ? or what are the evils or the injus- tice of monarchy when contrasted with those dark and damn- ing crimes of American democracy, that thus, in these enlight- ened times, dooms one sixth of the population to open and undisguised slavery ?" Such was the argument of the British writers, and it was unanswerable if it had rested on fact — if the foundation were true, then the inference, of course, was unavoidable. If the so-called American slave was created free and equal with his master, then all that the British writers charged would have been true enough, and American slavery, in comparison with British liberty — or what passed for such in Yorkshire and Birmingham — would have been a wrong, so deep, damning, and fathomless, that no words in our language would be able to express its enormity. How was the poor, ignorant, and helpless laborer, or even his defenders, Fox, Sheridan, and other liberal leaders of the day, to answer this CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. 25 argument ? They did not attempt it. They admitted that " American slavery" was all that it was charged to be — that it was a wrong and evil immeasurably greater and more atro- cious than any of those which the people of France had risen against, or that the masses in England suffered under ; but they hoped that the great principle of the American Revolution was strong enough to overcome this wrong, and in the pro- cess of time, to " abolish slavery," and that liberty would be- come universal among Americans. Indeed, some of those who had been the most devoted believers in the great American doc- trine, both in England and France, were so painfully impressed by the seeming wrong done the negro, that they lost their in- terest, to a great extent, in the real wrongs of the white man, and devoted all their efforts to the former. Societies were formed in London and Paris, funds contributed, books pub- lished, tracts distributed, and extensive arrangements entered into, with the sole purpose of relieving the " American slave" from the fancied wrongs that were heaped on him ; and their societies, these " Amis des JVoirs" patronized by Robes- pierre and other leaders of the people, which were formed in almost every town in France and England, popularized the movement, and so identified the imaginary cause of the negro with that of the European masses, that to this day they doubt- less seem inseparable. And even in our own times, we have witnessed the sorry spectacle of English laborers contributing of their wretched pittance to glorify some abolition hero or heroine of the " Uncle Tom" pattern, under the deplorable misconception, of course, that these blind tools of the enemies of liberty were faithful defenders of a common cause, when, in truth, they were vastly more dangerous to that cause than the open and avowed friends of despotism. But this very natural mistake of the friends of freedom in Europe, this ig- norance and misconception of the negro nature and relations 2 26 CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. to the white man, which led Fox in England, and Robespierre in France, to confound the cause of the oppressed multitudes of their own race with the imaginary interests of negrodom, extended and unfortunate as it was and still is, was surpassed by a still more insidious and more extended influence. Wil- berforce, who, more than any other man, gave form and direc- tion to the great " anti-slavery" delusion of modern times, was eminently pious — as piety is accepted by a large portion of the religious world. He was an Episcopalian in form, but pre- eminently a Puritan in practice ; and, while doubtless sin- cere in his belief, and perfectly correct in his religious habits, he was one of the most complete bigots, religious, political, and social, the world ever saw. Belonging to the ruling class, and possessed of a considerable fortune, he believed that his own status was the stand-point, and himself the model, for the government of societv, and therefore was as doLj-o-edlv and bitterly opposed to any change in England, or to any reform in English society, as he was earnest in his efforts to relieve the " sufferings of the slave" in America. In a public career of some forty years, as a member of Parliament, he never failed to record his vote against any increase of popular freedom, or any change that tended to ameliorate the condition of the white masses, and just as steadily and uniformly labored to " elevate" the negro to the status of the English laborer, or, at all events, to favor that final " abolition of slavery," which he* himself was not, however, destined to witness in the British American possessions. But throughout he regarded the question rather as a religious than a political one, and at an early period, in this respect, impressed his own character on it. Identified with the Church, all his notions those of the High Church party — substantially the notions that Archbishop Laud enter- tained two centuries before — by birth and association con- nected, with the landed aristocracy, and yet distinguished for CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. 27 practical piety, for a zeal and devotion to his religious duties that the most zealous among the Dissenters and Evangelicals might imitate but could not surpass, this was just the man to impress a great movement with his own characteristics, and the " anti-slavery cause" became the cause of religion as well as of liberty with the religious world. Nor was it confined to the " American slave ;" it embraced the whole world of heath- endom ; and a religious crusade sprang up, that finally became more extended, and, in some respects, more permanent, than the great political movement inaugurated by Jefferson a few years before. And if the Father of Lies, Lucifer himself, had plotted a plan or scheme for concealing a great truth, and embarrassing a great cause, he could have accomplished noth- ing more effective than the movement that Wilberforce inaug- urated for the professed benefit of the negro and other subor- dinate races of mankind, which, masked under the form of religious duty, and appealing to the conscience, the love of proselytism, the enthusiasm, and even the bigotries of the religious world, has, for more than half a century, held in thrall the conscience as well as the reason of Christendom. Robespierre, and other patrons of the Amis des JVbirs, could only present a common cause, that " universal liberty" which they declared to be the birthright of all men, and which it were better that every conceivable calamity should happen rather than this " great principle" should perish ; but when it became the duty of every Christian man and woman, every follower of Christ and professor of religion, to work and pray for "the deliverance of the slave," then a power was aroused that nothing could resist, for it became an imme- diate and sacred duty to labor in this cause. Missionary so- cieties were organized, money contributed by millions both in Europe and America, enthusiastic men and women offered their services, even children were taught to give their pocket- 28 CAUSES OF POPULAR DELISION. money for a cause so holy as that of redeeming the " slave," while all this time innumerable multitudes of their own race, their own blood, those whom God had created their equals, and endowed with like capacities, instincts, and wants, and therefore designed for the same happiness as themselves, were left to grovel in midnight darkness and abject misery. It is not intended to sneer at or to indulge in unkind criti- cism on missionary efforts. On the contrary, it is frankly admit- ted that they sprang from the sincerest conviction, and were generally pursued with an utter disregard of selfish and merce- nary considerations ; but in not understanding the diversity of races, these efforts were more likely to do harm than good. A man's first duties are to his own household ; and no amount or extent of benefits conferred on strangers, can excuse him for neglecting the former ; and even if the " heathen" — the Negro, Indian, and Sandwich Islander — had been benefited by the efforts of Wilberforce and his followers, the neglect of the ig- norant, darkened, and miserable millions of their own race, was a wrong that scarcely has a parallel in history. But they did not benefit the subordinate races, but, on the contrary, assuming them to be beings like themselves, when they were widely different beings, they necessarily injured them; and when it is reflected that they not only neglected the ignorant and degraded multitudes of their own race, but got up a false issue, in order to distract the attention and conceal the wrongs of their own people, then an unequalled crime was committed. The government of England, which is simply an embodi- ment of the class to which Wilberforce belonged, acted in con- cert with these religious efforts ; and thus we see the leaders of the popular cause in the Old World, Fox and Robespierre, the Church and Aristocracy, all acting together in a common cause, and laboring, in fact, to retard the progress and the liberation of millions upon millions of their own race, under CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. 29 the pretence, find doubtless with many, in the belief, that they were laboring for the benefit of the negro and other subordi- nate races. The government expended about a thousand millions to crush out American liberty in 1776 ; but it is quite likely that an almost equal sum, expended for the pro- fessed benefit of the negro, has accomplished vastly more than all other things together to protract the liberation of her own masses. It has been estimated that six hundred millions have been expended nominally to put down the slave trade, but in reality to pervert the natural relations of races, and force the subordinate negro to the status of the British laborer. The interest on this enormous sum is annually drawn from the sweat and toil of the English masses ; and every hut and cot- tage in the British Islands is forced to surrender a portion of its daily food, or of the daily earnings of its owner, to pay the interest on money squandered on the negro in America! The amount thus paid, properly expended, would be amply sufficient to give a good English education to the entire labor- ing class ; but that would be an overwhelming calamity to the governing class, who could not retain their power for a single day after the masses were thus enlightened. A few years since, famine and pestilence swept over Ireland, carrying oif some three millions of the Irish people, all of whom might have been saved if the annual amount wasted on negroes in America had been applied to this beneficent and legitimate purpose. Indeed, it is quite possible that if the money wrung from the sweat and toil of Irishmen alone, for the pretended benefit of the negro, had been appropriated to the relief of the suffering multitudes of that unhappy people, few would really have perished. The mortgage on the bodies and souls of future generations of British laborers, for the avowed purpose of " doing good" to the negro, enormous as the amount mav be — and it has been estimated as high as one thou- 30 CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. sand million dollars — is only a portion of the vast waste and wholesale destruction of property involved in the British Free Negro policy, or so-called schemes of philanthropy. Farms and plantations in Jamaica and other islands, valued at fifty thousand pounds prior to the " emancipation," were afterward sold with difficulty at ten and even five thousand pounds; and indeed extensive districts were abandoned by their unfortu- nate owners. An infamous system of fraud and inhumanity, practiced of late years on the ignorant and simple Chinese and other Asiatics, has enabled some planters to recover and re- store their wasted and plundered estates ; and the vile -hypo- crites who filled the world with their doleful lamentations over the sorrows of Africa, not only wink at this infinitely greater wrong practiced on Asiatics, but resort to the effects attending it, as a proof that emancipation has not ruined these beautiful islands! Could audacity and hypocrisy surpass, or did they ever surpass, this shameless fraud ? But this new and vastly more atrocious system of " man-stealing," is transitional and tem- porary. The Mongol or Asiatic is rapidly worked up and destroyed in the West Indies ; and, as no females are intro- duced, they' can never become an essential or permanent ele- ment of the population. The negro, forced from his normal condition, and into un- natural relation to the white man, must relapse into his African habits, just as fast as the white element disappears ; and as the latter is relatively feeble, the time must soon come, unless we take possession and restore the natural order, when civiliza- tion itself will utterly perish, and the great heart of the con- tinent be surrendered to African savagism ! The eternal and immovable laws fixed forever in the heart and organism of things, can not be changed or modified by human folly, fraud, or power; and therefore the climate, the soil, the products, and the means that the Almighty has ordained shall be CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. 31 used to make them tributary to human welfare, have their fixed and everlasting relations since time began. The brain of the white man and the muscles ^of the negro, the mind ot the superior and the body of the inferior race, in natural rela- tion to each other, are the vital principles of tropical civiliza- tion, without which it is as impossible that civilization should exist in the great centre of the continent, as that vegetation should spring from granite, or animals exist without atmos- pheric air ; and, therefore, thrusting the negro from his natural sphere into unnatural relations with the white man, necessa- rily destroys the latter, and drives the other into his inherent and original Africanism. The delusion, the folly, or the fraud of Wilberforce and his associates, in presenting a false issue to their own wronged and oppressed millions, and thus diverting their attention from their own oppressions to the imaginary sufferings of negroes and other subordinate races, is so transcendent, its magnitude so enormous, that we have no terms in our lan- guage that can express it ; but great and indeed awful as may be this wrong on the white man, it is in some respects really surpassed by the evils, if not the wrongs, inflicted on the negro. More than one million of negroes are believed to have perished, through the means resorted to to suppress the slave trade ; and now it is admitted that those attempts have not prevented the importation of one single negro ! The world needed the products of the tropics ; the labor of a certain number of negroes were needed to furnish these products ; and therefore, when fifty thousand were required in Cuba, eighty thousand were shipped on the African coast, thus leaving a margin of thirty thousand to be destroyed by interference with the laws of demand and supply. Who can contemplate these frightful results without awe, and sorrow, and pity, not alone for the victims, but for the authors of such w T ide-spread 32 CAUSES OP POPULAR DELUSION. and boundless calamity. The crusades of the middle ages are now recognized as utterly baseless — simple human delusions, in which millions of lives were sacrificed, not to an idea, but to a false assumption — an assumption that the Holy Sepulchre could be recovered at Jerusalem. That crusade of " human- ity," in behalf of the subordinate races, set up by Wilberforce and his associates in modern times, is also a simple delusion, based on a false assumption, the assumption that negroes are Nock-white men, or men like ourselves, and though not so fatal to human life as the former, its effects or influences on human welfare are vastly and immeasurably more deplorable. Such is the great " anti-slavery" delusion of our times. It is wholly European and monarchical in its origin ; and leaving out of view all other considerations, its mere existence among us, or that any considerable number of Americans could be so deluded and mentally so degraded, as to embrace it, will aston- ish posterity to the latest generations. We are in contact with the negro — we see he is a negro — a different being from ourselves. We will not — even the most deluded Abolitionist will not, in his own case or family, act on the assumption that he is a being like himself, indeed, would rather see his child carried to the grave than intermarried with a negro, however rich, cultivated, and pious ; and rather than thus live out his own professed belief, he would prefer the death of his whole household. The European, on the contrary, naturally enough supposes the negro to differ only in color ; and the monarchist — the enemy of Democracy — the man opposed to the great principle of equality underlying our system — just as naturally demands that we shall be consistent and apply it to negroes. But instead of enlightening this European ignorance, and indignantly rejecting this monarchical impudence, which pro- poses that we shall degrade our blood and destroy our institu- tions, by including a subordinate race in our political system, CAUSES OF POPULAR DELUSION. 33 we have foolishly, wickedly, and abjectly assented to the Eu- ropean assumption, and millions of Americans have based their reasonings, and to a certain extent their actions, on this pal- pable, fundamental, and monstrous falsehood. Those portions of the country most directly under the mental dictation of the Old World, are those, of course, most given up to the delu- sion, but nearly the whole northern mind has adopted it as a mental habit. The time, however, has come when it must be exploded, and the reason of the people restored, or it will drag after it consequences and calamities that one shudders to con- template. Eighty years ago it was an abstraction, universally assented to, and just as universally rejected in practice; for all the States save one then recognized the legal subordination of the negro as a social necessity, whatever the speculative notions were on this subject. They generally believed that, in some indefinite or mysterious manner, it would — or rather that the negro would — become extinct ; and as the industrial powers of this element of the general population was not specifically adapted to our then territory, all perhaps were willing to hope that it should some day disappear. But the vast acquisition of Southern territory, the discovery and open- ing up of new channels of industry, and the extensive cultiva- tion of those great staples so essential to human welfare, which are only to be attained on this continent by the labor of the negro when directed by the white man ; and, moreover, the rapid increase of this population, and the certainty that it must remain forever an element of our population, demand that this mighty delusion shall be exposed, as it is in fact the vilest and most infamous fraud on the freedom, dignity, and welfare of the white millions ever witnessed since the world began. CHAPTER II. GENERAL LAWS OF ORGANIZATION. The organic world is separated into two great divisions, animal and vegetable, or into an 'mate and inanimate beings. In regard to the vegetable kingdom, as it is termed, it is not necessary to say a word; those desirous of obtaining a thorough knowledge of animal life, however, had better begin their stud- ies with the more elementary and simple forms of vegetable being. Many persons suppose that the whole animate exist- ence is linked together by connecting or continuous gradations. In a certain sense this may be said to be so ; nevertheless, absolutely considered, each family or form of being is a com- plete and independent creation. There are resemblances and approximations as well as gradations, yet each is perfect in itself, and makes up an entire world of its own. The Almighty Creator, in His infinite wisdom, has provided against chance," or accident, or human caprice, and placed each and every one of His works in a position of such absolute independence, that one of them, or more, perhaps, might utterly perish, and yet the beauty and harmony of nature would remain unimpaired. It is certain that some species of animals belonging to the ex- isting order have utterly disappeared, and it is quite probable chat some species of men have perished ; but the grand econ- omy of nature is unaffected by it. It is thought that the abor- igines of this continent will, in time, utterly perish, and yet no one supposes that that event will disturb the operations of nature or deface the fair form of creation. This shows that GENERAL LAWS OF ORGANIZATION 35 there is no continuous or connecting link even among species of the same family or form of being. If there were such — if all the forms of life were continuous and connecting gradations — then it is evident that the destruction of one of these con- necting links would cast the whole economy of being into utter confusion. In a watch, or any other elaborate machinery of human contrivance, a single wheel, or cog, or link, however minute, torn from its place, involves the disruption, if not ab- solute destruction, of the whole machine. And so it is in the economy of individual life, for, though one organ may be dis- abled, another, to a certain extent, and for a given time, sup- plies its place ; yet the vital forces are enfeebled from the instant of such accident, and life, if not interrupted, is always impaired. But a species, a genus, a class, perhaps, a great nimiber of these, might disappear, utterly vanish from exist- ence, and those remaining would preserve the integrity and completeness the Creator had endowed them with at the beginning. While each and every form of life is, therefore, perfect in itself and independent of all others, there are resem- blances and approximations that must be regarded as of vital importance. Naturalists have divided or separated the organic world into classes, orders, genera, species and varieties. Classes are those like the mammalia — that is, all animals where the female nour- ishes its offspring by mammary glands. Orders are those like the quadrumana — all those having four hands. A genus, or a family proper, is composed of species ; and a species in- cludes varieties, or possible varieties, of the same being under different circumstances. But these classifications are, to a considerable extent, arbitrary ; and though they serve the pur- pose of facilitating our studies, they may also lead us astray, if too closely followed. Genera, or families proper, in many cases at least, are, however, susceptible of very exact defin- 36 GENERAL LAWS OF ORGANIZATION. itions. So, too, are species. For example : — The simiadre, or monkey family, are so entirely distinct that they will not be or need not be confounded with anything else. Some ignorant or superficial persons, with the false 1 otion of continuous and connecting gradations, have supposed the negro something midway between men and animals. But there is no such monstrosity in nature, for, as already observed, each form of being is a complete and independent creation in itself. A genus is composed of a given number of species, all diff—^t from each other, and, it need not be repeated, independent of each other. These genera are believed to be incapable of in- terunion with other genera, though this has been questioned in some cases. Species are capable of a limited interunion, though it may be doubted if such interunion ever occurs in a wild or savage state. And as each species is different in form and character from others, so the limited capacity for interunion varies, or in other words, hybrids — the product of different species — vary in their virility or power of reproduction. The given number of species of which a genus is composed, ascends or descends in the scale of being, that is, there is a head and base to the generic column. The one next above the most inferior has all the qualities of the latter, but these qualities have a fuller development, that is, the organization is more elaborate and the corresponding faculties are of a higher order. And indeed this is not confined to mere species or genera even, but is true of widely separated beings. Thus, the exalted and elegant Caucasian mother — the habitue of the Fifth avenue or St. Germain — nourishes her offspring by the same process common to the meanest of the mammalia. So, too, in the process of gestation, the function of mastication, deglutition, digestion, the sense of taste, of sight, etc. — the function is ab- solutely the same, but what a world of difference in the mode yENEEAL LAWS OF ORGANIZATION. 37 of its manifestation, that distinguishes the human being from the animal ! Investigations made by some French physiologists would seem to show that the mysterious problem of animal life might be simplified, and clearly grasped by the human intellect, by simply tracing this great fact to its elementary sources. It is said that the embryo (Caucasian) foetus passes through all the forms of an innumerable number of lower gradations before it reaches its own specific development. And be this as it may, enough is seemingly established to demonstrate its truth in re- spect to a genus or family, and especially is it demonstrated in the human creation. At a certain stage of foetal develop- ment there is the cranial manifestation of the Negro, then the aboriginal American, the Malay, the. Mongolian, and finally the broad expansion and oval perfection of the most perfect of all, the superior Caucasian. Nor can these demonstrations be mistaken, for it is not a mere question of size but of form. The negro brain is small and longitudinal — thus approximat- ing to the si niadce and other animals. The aboriginal is larger and quadrangular, almost square in its general outline. The Mongolian pyramidal, and still larger than either of the others. Finally, at the period of complete gestation, there is the full and complete oval development, alone peculiar to the Cauca- sian. The force of these distinctions may be easily grasped by the non-scientific reader by bearing in mind that a female of either of these races or species could no more give birth to a child with the cranial development of a race different from her own, than she could to that of an inferior animal. The dis- tinctions of nature, or the boundaries which separate even species from each other, are absolutely impassable ; each has the hand of the Eternal impressed upon it forever, which neither accident nor time can modify in the slightest particular. They have, it is true, a limited capacity for interunion, and we 38 GENERAL LAWS OF ORGANIZATION. sometimes witness the disgusting spectacle of a white woman with a so-called negro husband. But while the offspring of this unnatural connection is limited in number, they partake of the nature of* both the parents, and thus the birth becomes possible, though at the expense of great physical suffering to the mother and perhaps in every case shortening her existence. In another place this subject will be more especially discussed; it is only referred to in this connection to show the perfect order and harmony in the economy of animal life. The primal steps — the process of reproduction — the starting point of crea- tion — being in complete harmony with the laws governing the being, man or animal, after it has readied its mature develop- ment. The same eternal separation of all the forms of being and the same eternal approximations, however varied the manifes- tations may be at different periods, remain unaltered and un- alterable. Linnreus ventured to place " man" in the category or class mammalia, while at the same time he separated the mammalia from birds and other forms of being — thus assum- ing that the human creation had a closer union with pigs and dogs, than the latter have with birds, etc. At this every Christian and believer in a future state of being must revolt, for though there are certain approximations that cannot be disregarded, nevertheless it is absolutely certain that the human creation is separated by an interval wider than that separating any of the forms of mere animal life, and therefore his classifi- cation must be wrong. It is not intended to make this a scientific work, but on the contrary, to popularize for the general reading of the people, some few elementary truths of zoology and physiology in order that they can better comprehend the subject really to be dis- cussed, viz. : — the specific differences and specific relations of the white and black races. But the author feels himself con- GENERAL LAWS OF ORGANIZATION. 39 scientiously impelled to dissent from the # classifications of Lin- naeus, and those modern naturalists who follow him, not only as being untrue in point of fact, but pregnant with mighty mis- chief. Linnaeus placed " man" in the category mammalia, but made him an order, a genus and species by himself. This is false as a matter of fact, for in the entire world of animal existence there is no such fact as a single species. All the forms of life are made up of groups or families, properly gen- era, and each of these is composed of a certain number of species. These species, as already observed, differ from each other. They begin with the lowest, or simplest, or grossest formation, and rise, one above the other, in the scale of being, until the group is completed ; so that they are all, not only specifically different from each other, but absolutely unlike each other in every thing, in the minutest particle of elemen- tary matter as well as in those things palpable to the sense. Generally considered, they resemble each other, but specifically considered, they are absolutely distinct, and, it need not be repeated, the distinctions in each case or each individual spe- cies are also specific. That Linnaeus and other European naturalists, and especially the ethnologists, should make such a mistake, and suppose that the human creation is composed of a single species, is perhaps natural enough, for they saw but one— the two hundred mil- lions of Europe, except a few thousand Laplanders, being all Caucasians. But then it is strange how those so ready to class men with animals should so widely depart from the spirit and order of their own classification. They must have known that in the whole world of animate existence there was no such fact as a single species, and therefore when assuming only a single human species, that they directly contradicted or ig- nored the most constant, universal and uniform fact in organic life, a fact underlying and forming the very basis of all with 40 GENERAL LAWS OF ORGANIZATION. which they were dealing. This mistake, or misconception, or ignorance of European ethnologists, however, is of no particu- lar importance. They saw no other and therefore could know of no other species of men except their own, and though its effect on ourselves has been mischievous, the cause of their misconception is so palpable to men's common sense that it only needs to be pointed out to be utterly rejected. It is about as respectable as the assumptions of the northern Abol- itionists, who, though not even venturing out of Massachusetts, aifect to know, and doubtless really believe that they do know, more about the internal condition of South Carolina or Vir- ginia than the people of those States themselves. But facts are stubborn things, and, as the Spanish proverb says, " seeing is believing." It is impossible that the northern Abolitionist who never ventured out of New England can comprehend a condi- tion of society that he has never seen. So, too, the authority of European writers, necessarily ignorant of the subject, will be rejected by those whose very senses assure them that negroes are specifically different from white men. And that mental dominion which, beginning with the early planting of Enropean colonies on this continent, has continued long after political independence has been secured, only needs to be cast off altogether, to convince every one of the utter absurdity of European teachings on the subject. But there is an objection to the LinnaBan classification infin- itely more important than this misconception in regard to species. He places his one human species (Caucasian) in the class mammalia, and therefore assumes that the human creation has a closer connection with a class of animals, than these ani- mals themselves have with some other forms of animal life. For example : men (and white men, too) approximate more closely to dogs and cats than the latter do to owls and eagles ! It does not help the matter to say that this is only in their GENERAL LAWS OF ORGANIZATION. 41 animal structures, for there is an invariable and imperishable unity between the material organization and the external man- ifestations or faculties, which is fixed forever, and the conclu- sion or inference from the Linnsean assumption is unavoidable — if men approximate more closely to a class of animals than these animals do to some other class, then it is absurd to sup- pose the purposes assigned them by the Almighty are so widely different as our reason and instinct alike impel us to believe. To hope for or to believe in immortality, or in a des- tiny so transcendent, while beings that closely resembled us perished with this life, in common with those still farther separated from themselves, was such a contradiction to reason, that men involuntarily shrunk from it, and the result has been to repel vast numbers of people from the study and investigation of this most essential element of all knowl- edge. The Materialists promptly accepted it, and wielded it with tremendous effect in advancing their gloomy and forbid- ding philosophy, while those impelled by that innate and inde- scribable consciousness of the soul itself, which, in its Godlike knowledge, rises high beyond the realms of reason and mere human wdll, and assures them of a life immortal and everlast- ing, shrunk from all study or investigation of the laws of phys- ical life, as if it involved consequences fatal to that higher life of the soul. The former said, and said truly, if men have a closer union with the quadrumana than the latter have with birds, etc., then it is all nonsense to suppose that they have an eternity of life, while those separated by a still wider interval are limited to the present. And the only reply to their reason- ing has been the refusal to investigate the subject or to study the laws of God, and to admit, inferentially at least, that there was a contradiction between the word and the works of the Almighty. Nothing is more common than to find men of great intehV 42 GENERAL LAWS OF ORGANIZATION. gence on almost every subject except this, the most vital, indeed the foundation and starting point of all real knowledge. Especially are clergymen ignorant, and those who assume to be the interpreters of the laws of God are not unfrequently the most ignorant of the most palpable and fundamental of these laws. This should not be so, and in all reasonable prob- ability would not be so had it not been for the untruthful and unfortunate classification of Linnaeus. Instead of meeting the Materialists on their own ground, and showing them that how- ever approximating to certain forms of animal life, the human creation was yet separated by an absolutely boundless as well as impassable interval — for the distinctions between them are utterly unlike those separating mere animal beings — they tacitly admitted the truth of their assumptions, and met it by a blind and foolish refusal to investigate the matter, in- deed have generally cast their influence on the side of ignor- ance, and advised against the study of nature and the noblest works of God. But there can be no contradiction ; God cannot lie ; and whatever seeming conflict there may be at times between His word and His works, a further search is alone needed to show their perfect uniformity. It is true that the physical resem- blances between men and beings of the class mammalia seem closer than those of the latter and some other forms of life, but while there is also an eternal correspondence between structure and functions, it is rational and philosophical to sup- pose that the difference in the qualities or external manifesta- tions is the safest standard of comparison. Or in other words, whatever may be the seeming physical resemblances, the dif- ferences in the faculties show that the former are not reliable. For example: in contemplating the intelligence of certain quadrupeds and birds, can any one suppose or believe for a moment that the difference between them in this respect equals GENERAL LAWS OF ORGANIZATION. 43 or even approaches to that separating both from human be- ings ? And in the present state of our knowledge, our igno- rance of the elementary arrangement of organic life, it is surely safer and more philosophical to be governed by our reason rather than our senses — to accept the differences which sepa- rate human intelligence from the animal world as boundless and immeasurable when compared with the apparent physical approximations which seem to unite us with a class of the latter. In conclusion, it is scarcely necessary to repeat that there is a fixed, uniform, and universal correspondence between struc- ture and function, or between organism and the purpose it is designed to fulfil. We do not know nor need to know the cause of this or the nature of this unity. We only know, and are only permitted to know, that it exists, and are not bound to accept the dogma of- the Materialists, that function is the result of organism ; nor that of their opponents, who still more falsely imagine results without causes, or that there can be functions without, organism. Truth, in this instance, lies be- tween extremes : — functions or faculties cannot exist without a given structuv s or organism, but they are not a result of that organism. They exist together inseparably, universally, eter- nally dependent on each other, but not a result of either. To see there must be eyes ; to hear, ears ; to walk, the organism of locomotion; to manifest a certain extent of intelligence there must be a corresponding mental organism, but there is no such thing proper as cause and effect, nothing but fact — the fact of mutual existence. CHAPTER II I. THE HUMAN CREATION. The human creation, like all other families or forms of being, is composed of a genus, which includes some half dozen or more species. It has been the fashion to call these permanent varieties, and almost every writer on ethnology has made his own classification, or rather has created what number he pleased of these " imaginary varieties." Agassiz, unquestion- ably the greatest of American naturalists, but unfortunately not much of a physiologist, and therefore unprepared to deal with the higher truths of ethnology, supposes several species of white men, and, in regard to the subordinate races, would doubtless multiply them ad infinitum. But at this time, or in the existing state of our knowledge, the number actually known to exist cannot be assumed beyond that already named. They are thus: — 1st. The Caucasian. 2d. The Mongolian. 3d. The Malay or Oceanic. 4th. The Aboriginal American. 5th. The Esquimaux ; and 6th. The Negro or typical African. The Caucasian can be confounded with no other, for though in some localities, climate and perhaps other causes darken the skin, sometimes with a deep olive tint, and extending, as with the Bedouins and the Jews of the Malabar coast, to almost black, the flowing beard (more constant than color), projecting forehead, oval features, erect posture and loraiy presence, stamp him the master man wherever found. The Mongolian, though less distinctive, is, however, suffi- ciently so, for his yellow skin, squat figure, beardless face, THE HUMAN CREATION. 45 pyramidal head, and almond eyes, can scarcely be confounded with any other form of man. The Malay is less known, and therefore more difficult to describe. They are darker than the Mongol, though in some islands of a bright copper color, and indeed, vary from light olive to dark brown, and as in the case of the Australians, to deep black, but with no other approxi- mation to the Negro. The vast populations known under the term Papuan, and mainly Malay, are doubtless extensively mixed with the Ne- 2TO, for however remote the time, or whatever the form or mode, real negro populations have resided in tropical Asia, and left behind them these remains of their former existence. In some islands, like New Zealand, etc., the ruling dynas- ties or principal families have a considerable infusion of Cau- casian blood, which is shown in their tall, erect form, more or less beard, fair complexion, and manly presence, and intel- lectually in their prompt and often mtelligent acceptance of Christianity. The Indian, American, or Aboriginal, needs no description ; suffice it to say that, from the mouth of the Columbia River to Cape Horn, they are the same species. It is quite possible, indeed probable, that some species, fomerly existing on this continent, have disappeared— utterly perished. The investiga- tions of Dr. Tschudi warrant this belief, though his nice dis- criminations in regard to some of the bones of the head are of little or no importance, as all this might be, and doubtless was, the result of artificial causes. But crania discovered in South- ern Mexico and Yucatan, as well as in Peru and Brazil, are sufficient evidence to warrant the belief that a still inferior race did once really inhabit this continent, but whether aboriginal or brought here by some superior race, may never be known. The remains of ancient structures in Yucatan, in Peru, in Mex- ico, in Brazil, all over the southern portion of the continent, 46 THE HUMAN CREATION. show simply the traces of Caucasian intrusion. It has been generally supposed that Columbus and his companions were the first white men that ever visited this continent, but it may have been discovered, and to a certain extent, occupied, at least certain localities occupied, before even Europe itself, or before the period of authentic history. Any one visiting Mex- ico, Puebla, or other cities of Spanish America, is amazed and bewildered with the contrast between the vast and magnifi- cent structures that meet his eye, and the existing population. He involuntarily asks himself, " Can these people be the au- thors of all this art, this beauty, strength and magnificence ? Can these miserable, barefooted, blanketed, idle and stolid- looking creatures have built these palaces, these churches, these bridges, these mighty structures, which seem to have been built for eternity itself, so strong and secure are their foundations?" Some years hence this contrast would be still more palpable, and. left to themselves, a time would come when it would be obvious that the existing population had nothing to do with these structures, for the mixed blood would have disappeared, and there would be only the simple, unadulterated "native American," as discovered by the Spaniards three centuries ago. And we have only to apply this to the antiquities of America to understand its history, at all events, to understand the meaning of those half-buried monuments so frequently found on its surface. Adventurers, often, doubtless, ship- wrecked mariners, were cast upon the coasts of America. Pos- sibly in some cases before Rome was founded, or Babylon itself was the mighty capital of a still more mighty empire, these enterprising or unfortunate men found themselves un- disputed sovereigns of the New World. We know that Northmen found their way here in the eighth century, and doubtless they were preceded at intervals by numerous other Caucasians. Settling in some localities they reigned undisputed THE HUMAN CREATION. 47 masters, built cities, organized governments, framed laws, and laid the foundations of a civilized society. But intermarry- ing with the natives, they were swallowed up by mongrelism, and, in obedience to an immutable law of physical life, doomed to perish, and at a given period, the white blood extinct, there remained nothing to denote its former existence, except the half-buried palaces and ruined monuments yet to be traced over large portions of" the continent. The Toltecs, Aztecs, etc., are simply the remnants of these extinct Caucasians, just as the present population, if left alone in Mexico, the latest portion of it, with Caucasian blood, would be the ruling force, and perhaps retain somewhat or some portion of the Spanish habitudes. The pure native mind is capable of a certain development, but that is fixed and determinate, and beyond which it can no more progress than it can alter the color of its skin or the form of its brain. Powhatan's empire in Virginia was undoubtedly aboriginal and probably called out the utmost resources and reached the utmost limit of the Indian mind. The Indian has, and does manifest to a certain extent, a capacity of mental action, but this is too feeble and limited to make a permanent impres- sion on the physical agents that surround him, and therefore he can have no history, for there are no materials — nothing to record. The term, therefore, " Indian antiquities," is a mis- nomer and the great congressional enterprise under the editor- ship of Mr. Schoolcraft an obvious absurdity. The Polar or Esquimaux race has been least known of all, and prior to the explorations of that true hero and true son of science, the late Dr. Kane, was scarcely known except in name. It is both Asiatic and American, but which continent is its birth-place is matter of doubt, The facilities for passing from one continent to the other were doubtless much greater at some former period than at present, and not only men but ani- 48 THE HUMAN" CREATION. mals may have done so with ease. Except a few well-known species of animals and vegetables, which are essential to the well-being of the Caucasian, and which have accompanied him in all his migrations, each species has its own centre of existence, beyond or outside of which it is limited to a deter- minate existence. The Arctic animals are quite numerous, and differ widely from all others, but they are absolutely the same in Asia as in America, and therefore 'must have passed from one to the other, and man, however subordinate or inferior to other races endowed by nature with ample powers of loco- motion and migration, could meet with only trifling obstacles in passing from one continent to the other. This race, though thus far of little or no importance, is doubtless superior to the Negro, for the necessities of its existence, the terrible strug- gle for very life in those bleak and desolate regions, infer the possession of powers superior to those of a race whose centre of life is in the fertile and luxuriant tropics, where nature pro- duces spontaneously, and where the idle and sensual Negro only needs to gather these products to exist and multiply his kind. Finally, we have the Negro — last and least, the lowest in the scale but possibly the first in the order of Creation, for there are many reasons in the nature and structure of things that indicate, if they do not altogether warrant, the inference that the Negro was first and the Caucasian latest in the pro- gramme or order of Creation. The typical, woolly-haired Ne- gro may have been created in tropical Asia, and carried thence to Africa, as in modern times he has been carried to tropical America. Like other subordinate races, it never migrates, but the extensive traces of its former existence in Asia show be- yond doubt that that was either its primal home, or that it had been carried there by the Caucasian long anterior to the historic era. But it is now found in its pure state or specific THE HUMAN CREATION. 49 form in Africa alone, and even here large portions of it have undergone extensive adulteration. Our knowledge of Africa is very limited and consequently very imperfect. African travel- ers, explorers, missionaries, etc., ignorant of the ethnology, of the physiology, of the true nature of the Negro, and more- over, bitten by modern philanthropy, a disease more loathsome and fatal to the moral than small-pox or plague to the physical nature, have been bewildered, and perverted, and rendered »nfit for truthful observation or useful discovery before they set foot on its soil or felt a single flush of its burning sun. With the monstrous conception that the Negro was a being like themselves, with the same instincts, w^ants, etc., and the same (latent) mental capacities, all they saw, felt, or reasoned upon in Africa w r as seen through this false medium, and therefore of little or no value. Thus Barth and Livingston encountering a mongrel tribe or community, with, of course, a certain degree or extent of civilization — the result of Cau- casian inervation, or perhaps the remains of a former pure white population, note it down and spread it before the world as evidence of Negro capacity, and an indication of the future progress of the race ! Myriads and countless myriads of white men have lived and died on the soil of Africa ; vast populations and entire nations have emigrated to that continent. At one time there were half a million of Christians (white) and forty thousand inmates of religious houses in the valley of the Nile alone, while three hundred Christian Bishops assembled at Carthage, and it will be a reasonable assumption to say that since the Christian era, there have been five hundred millions of Avhites in Africa. What has become of them ? They have not emigrated — have not been slaughtered in battle, nor de- stroyed by pestilence, nor devoured by famine, and yet these countless hosts, these innumerable millions, these Christian devotees and holy bishops have all disappeared, as utterly 3 50 THE HUMAN CREATION. perished as if the earth had opened and swallowed them np. With the downfall of the Roman empire, civilization receded from Africa, and the white population were gradually swal- lowed up "by mongrehsm. The Negro, being the predominant element,absorbed,or rather annihilated, the lesser one, and the result is now seen in numerous, almost countless, mixed hybrid or mongrel tribes and populations spread all over that conti- nent. It is certainly possible, indeed probable, that there are two or three, or more species of men, closely approximating, it is true, nevertheless specifically different from the woolly-haired or typical Negro. One of these (the Hottentots or Bushmen) with the true negro features but of dirty yellow color, it would seem almost certain must be a separate species ; but until some one better qualified to judge, than those hitherto relied on, has investigated this subject, it is only safe to assume but a single species, and that the other and numerous populations of Africa, however resembling or approximating to the typical Negro, are hybrids and mongrels, the effete and expiring re- mains of the mighty populations and imposing civilizations that once flourished upon its soil. There may be also other species besides the Mongol in Asia, and beside the Malay in Oceanica, and it is quite probable that some species have totally perished. But it is certain that those thus briefly dis- cussed now exist; that their location, their history, as far as they can be said to have a history, their physical qualities and mental condition, in short, their specific characters, are plainly marked and well understood. Nevertheless, and though all this belongs to the domain of fact, and it is as absurd to ques- tion it as it would be to question the existence of diverse spe- cies in any of the genera or families of the animal creation, the " world" generally holds to the notion of a single human race. It is not designed to expressly argue this point, for, to the American mind, it is so obvious, if not self-evident, that the THE HUMAN CREATION - . 51 Human Creation is composed of diverse species, that argument is misplaced if not absolutely absurd. The European people rarely see the Negro or other species of men, and therefore tho notion of a single human race or species (with them) is natural enough, indeed a mental necessity. Ethnologists — men of vast erudition, of noble intellect and honest and conscientious intentions — have devoted their powers to this subject, and volume upon volume has been published to demonstrate the assumption of a single race. Buffon, Blumenbach, Tiedemann, Prichard, even Cuvier himself, have given in their adherence to this dogma, or rather it should be said have set out with the assumption of a single race and collected a vast amount of material — of fact or presumed fact — to demonstrate its sup- posed truth. Nor is it an easy matter to explode their sophis- tries or to disprove their assumptions. With great and admitted claims to scientific acquirement and powers of reasoning, they combine undoubted honesty of intention and seemingly careful and patient investigation, and the amount or extent of evi- dence adduced, the elaborate and mighty array of fact, of learned and imposing authority appealed to, and the fatiguing if not unwarrantable argument put forward, made it, and still make it difficult to reply to them or to disprove their assump- tions. Any question, no matter what its nature, or however deficient in the elements of truth, still admits of argument, and falsehood may often lead astray the reason even when the judgment itself is convinced to the contrary. And these Eu- ropean advocates of the dogma of a single race have such a boundless field for discussion, can so bewilder and fatigue the reason as well as pervert the imagination by their plausible arguments, drawn from the analysis of animal life, that it is not wonderful they should lead astray the popular mind ; nor is it surprising that those among us claiming to be men of science should bow to their authority, for though common sense 52 THE HUMAN CREATION. rejects their arguments, there are few of sufficient mental inde- pendence to withstand that authority, when backed up by such an imposing array of distinguished names. But the strong common sense that distinguishes our people will not be, indeed, cannot be, deceived on this subject. The American or the Southern knows that the Negro is a Negro, and is not a Caucasian, just as clearly, absolutely and unmistakably as he knows that black is black and is not white, that a man is a man and is not a woman — that a pigeon is a pigeon and is not a robin — or a shad a shad and not a salmon. He sees negro parents have negro offspring; that Indians have Indian off- spring ; and that whites have white offspring, " each after its kind," with the same regularity, uniformity and perfect cer- tainty that is witnessed in all other forms of existence. There is not a white man or woman in the Union who, if told of such a thing as white parents with negro offspring, or negroes with white offspring, would believe it, even if sworn to by a million of witnesses. Such a belief or such a conception would be as monstrous, and indeed impossible, as to suppose that robins had begotten pigeons or horses asses. And the con- stant witnessing of this — this undeviating and perpetual order in the economy of animal life, demonstrates the specific char- acter of the Negro beyond doubt or possible mistake. Irish- men, Germans, Frenchmen, etc., come here, settle down, be- come citizens, and their offspring born and raised on American soil differ in no appreciable or perceptible manner from other Americans. But Negroes may have been brought here three centuries ago, and their offspring of to-day is exactly as it was then, as absolutely and specifically unlike the American as when the race first touched the soil and first breathed the air of the New World. It is not intended, as already observed, to argue this matter, for it is a palpable and unavoidable fact that Negroes are a separate species ; and though in succeeding THE HUMAN CREATION, 53 chapters of this work the specific qualities are examined in detail, these detailed demonstrations are merely designed to present the physical differences in order to determine the moral relations, and not by any means to demonstrate a fact ahvays palpable to the senses. Even those foolish people, dis- posed to pervert terms or play upon words — to admit the fact, thus palpable, but ready to confound and distort the reason by the application or use of false terms, cannot avoid the inevi table conclusion of distinct species. To conceal or keep out of sight this truth, some have thus admitted these every day seen and unmistakable specific differences in dividing races, but a silly as strange perversity has prompted them to use the term "permanent varieties" instead of "species," as if white and black were variations and not specialties. It is a fact, an existing, unalterable, demonstrable, and unmistakable fact, that the Negro is specifically different from ourselves — a fact uniform and invariable, which has accompanied each generation, and under every condition of circumstances, of climate, social con- dition, education, time and accident, from the landing at James- town to the present day. The Naturalist, reasoning alone on this basis of Fact, says, that which has been uniform and undi- viating for three hundred years, in all kinds of climate and under all kinds of circumstances, in a state of " freedom" or condition of " slavery," under the burning Equator and amid the snows of Canada, without change or symptom of change, must have been tb us three thousand years ago. And he rea- sons truly, f'/r the excavations of Champolion and others de- monstrate the specific character of this race four thousand years ago, with as absolute and unmistakable certainty as it is now actually demonstrated to the external sense of the present generation. And the Naturalist, reasoning still further on this basis of fact, says, "that which has existed four thousand years, without the slightest change or modification, which in 54 THE HUMAN CREATION. all kinds of climate and under every condition of circumstances preserves its integrity and transmits, in the regular and nor- mal order, to each succeeding generation the exact and com- plete type of itself, must have been thus at the beginning, and when the existing order was first called into being by the Almighty Creator." And contemplating the subject from this stand-point, and reasoning from analogy, or exactly as we do in respect to other and all other forms of existence, the conclu- sion is irresistible and unavoidable that the several human races or species originally came into being exactly as they now exist, as we know they have existed through all human experi- ence, and without a re-creation, must continue to exist so long as the world itself lasts, or the existing order remains. But a large portion of the " world" believe that the Bible teaches the descent of all mankind from a single pair, and consequently that there must have been a supernatural interposition at some subsequent period, which changed the human creation into its actual and existing form of being. And if there has been, at any time a special revelation made to man, and supernatural interposition in regard to other things, then this alteration or re-creation of separate species is no more irrational or improb- able than other things pertaining to that revelation, and which are universally assented to by the religious world. A revela- tion is necessarily supernatural — that is, in direct contradiction to the normal order ; but it may be said that the Creator is not the slave of His own laws, and in His immaculate wisdom and boundless power might see fit to change the order of the human creation; and certainly the same Almighty power which took the Hebrews over the Red Sea on dry land, that saved a pair of all living things in the ark of Noah, or dispersed the builders of Babel, could, with equal^ease, reform, or re-create human' life, and in future ordain that instead of one there should be several species of men. This is a matter, however, THE HUMAN CREATION. 55 in regard to which the author does not assume to decide, to question, to venture an opinion, or even to hazard a conjecture. It is clearly and absolutely beyond the reach of human intelli- gence, and therefore not within the province of legitimate enquiry. The Almighty has, in His infinite wisdom and bound- less beneficence, hidden from us many things, a knowledge of which would doubtless injure us, and the origin of the human races belongs to this catalogue. Men may labor to investigate it, to tear aside the veil the Creator has drawn about it, to unlock the mystery in which He has shrouded it, and after mil- lions of years thus appropriated, come back to the starting- point, the simple, palpable, unavoidable truth. They exist, but why 01* wherefore, whither they came or whence they go, is beyond the range of human intelligence. We only know, and are only permitted to know, that the several species now known to exist have been exactly as at present in their phys- ical natures and intellectual capacities, through all human ex- perience and without a supernatural interposition or re-creation, must continue thus through countless ages, and as long as the existing: order of creation itself continues. This we know beyond doubt or possible mistake, while, whether it was thus at the beginning, or changed by a supernatural interposition at some subsequent period, is now, and always must be, left to conjecture. Those who interpret the Book of Genesis, or who believe that the Book of Genesis teaches the origin of the hu- man family from a single pair, will, of course believe that the Creator subsequently changed them into their present form, while those who do not thus interpret the Bible will believe, with equal confidence perhaps, that they were created thus at the beginning. It is not, nor could it be of the slightest ben- efit to us to really and truly know the truth of this matter. All that is essential to our welfare we already know, or may know, if we properly apply the faculties with which the Cre- qQ the human creation. ator has so beneficently endowed us. We only need to apply these faculties — to investigate the question — to study the dif- ferences existing among the general species of men, and com- pare their natures and capabilities with our own, to under- stand our true relations with them, and thus to secure our own happiness as well as their well-being, when placed in jux- taposition with them. All this is so obvious, and the remote and abstract question of origin so hypothetical and entirely non-essential, that it seems impossible that intelligent and con- scientious men would ever seek to raise an issue on it, or that they would overlook the great practical duties involved in the question and engage in a visionary and unprofitable discussion about that of which they neither do nor can know anything whatever. Nevertheless, some few persons seem to be especi- ally desirous to provoke an issue on this matter, not only with science but with common sense, and a certain reverend and rather distinguished gentleman has publicly and repeatedly de- clared "that the doctrine of a single human race underlies the whole fabric of religious belief, and if it is rejected, Christianity will be lost to mankind !" What miserable folly, if nothing worse, is this ! It is a virtual declaration that we must believe or pretend to believe, what we know to be a lie, in order to preserve what we believe to be a truth. The existence of differ- ent species of men belongs to the category of physical fact — a thing subject to the decision of the senses, and belief neither has nor can have anything to do with the matter. It is true, the reverend gentleman in question may shut his eyes and re- main in utter ignorance of the fact, or rather of the laws gov- erning the fact, and while thus ignorant, may believe, or pre- tend to believe, that widely different things constitute the same thing — that white and black are identical — that white parents had at some remote time and in some strange and unaccountable manner given birth to Negro offspring ; but THE HUMAN CREATION. 51 what right has he to say, to those who are conscious of the fact of different species, and who know, moreover, that negroes could no more originate from white parentage than they could from dogs or cats, that they shall stultify themselves and dishonestly pretend to believe otherwise, on pain of eternal reprobation, or what he doubtless considers such, the loss of Christianity to the world ? It is not the desire of the writer to either reconcile the merits of science with those peculiar inter- pretations of the Bible, or to exhibit any contradictions with those interpretations. An undoubting believer himself in the great doctrines of Christianity, he finds no difficulty whatever in this respect, and would desire to simply state the facts or what he knows to be truth, and leave the reader to form his own conclusions. But the seemingly predetermined design of some to make an issue on this matter, to appeal to a supposed popular bigotry and fanaticism in order to* conceal the most vital and most stupendous truth of modern times — a truth un- derlying all our sectional difficulties, and which, truly appre- hended by the mind of the masses, will instantly explode those difficulties — renders it an imperative duty to expose the folly and sophistry of those who strive to keep it out of sight. They assume that the Bible teaches the origin of all mankind from a single pair — that the Mongol, Indian, Xegro, etc., with the same origin, have the same nature as the white man, and consequently have the same natural rights, and that we owe to them the same duties that we owe to ourselves or to our own race. And, moreover, they proclaim a belief in this assump- tion as essential to salvation, or, in other words, that if it be rejected Christianity will disappear from the world. It need not be repeated that the writer will not condescend to argue a self-evident, actually existing, every-dny palpable and unavoid- able physical fact, or insult the reader's understanding by pre- senting proofs to show that the Negro is specifically different 3* 58 THE HUMAN CREATION. from himself — that is a matter beyond the province of ra- tional discussion, and entirely within the domain of the senses; yet, as already observed, in the subsequent chapters of this work the extent of these differences separating whites and blacks will be demonstrated, their physical differences and approximations shown, in order to determine their moral relations and social adaptations. But the assumption that belief in the dogma of a single human race or species is vital to the preservation of Christianity needs to be exposed, as it is in reality as monstrous in morals as stupid and absurd in fact. We cannot believe that which we know to be untrue, and to affect such belief, however good the motive may seem, must necessarily debauch and demoralize the whole moral structure. There are many things — such as the belief in the doctrine of election, original sin, of justification by faith, that admit of belief — honest, earnest, undoubting belief — for they are abstractions and purely matters of faith that can never be brought to the test of physical demonstration, or to the standard of material fact, but the question of race — the fact of distinct races or rather the existence of species of Cauca- sian, Mongols, Negroes, etc., are physical facts, subject to the senses, and it is beyond the control of the will to refuse assent to their actual presence. Can a man, by taking thought, add a cubit to his stature ? Can he believe himself something else — a woman, a dog, or that he does not exist — that black is white, or that red is yellow, or that the Negro is a white man? It is possible to deceive and delude ourselves, and believe or think that we believe many things which our interest, our prejudices, and our caprices prompt us to believe, but they must be things of an abstract nature, where there are no phys- ical tests to embarrass us or to compel the will to bow to that fixed and immutable standard of truth which the Eternal has planted in the very heart of things, and which otherwise the THE HUMAN CREATION. 59 laws of the mental organism absolutely force us to recognize. But the existence of distinct species of men does not belong to this category. It is fact, a palpable, immediate, demonstrable and nnescapable fact. We know, and we cannot avoid know- ing, that the negro is a negro and is not a white man, and therefore we cannot believe, however much we may strive to do so, that he is the same being that we are, or in other words, that all mankind constitute a single race or species. All that is possible or permissible is to make liars and hypocrites of ourselves — to pretend to believe in a thing that we do not and cannot believe in — to force this hypocrisy and pretended belief on others who may happen to have confidence in our honesty and respect for our ability; and finally, as a salve for our out- raged conscience, to deceive ourselves with the notion that our motives are good, and the end justifies the means. But the advocates of the European theory of a single race are faced by other difficulties, which are quite as unavoid- able as those thus briefly glanced at. They demand that the world shall believe in the dogma of a single race, but not one among them will act upon it m practice, or convince others of their sincerity by living up to their avowed belief. If the Ne- gro had descended from the same parentage, or, except in color merely, was the same being as ourselves, then there could be no reason for refusing to amalgamate with him as with the several branches of our race. But on the contrary, the reverend and distinguished gentleman who has ventured to declare that the belief that the Negro is a being like ourselves, is essential to Christianity, would infinitely prefer the death of : his daughter to that of marriage with the most accomplished and most pious Negro in existence ! If he believed in his own assertions in regard to this matter, then it would be his first and most imperative duty, as a Christian minister, to set an example to others, to labor night and day to elevate this (in 60 THE HUMAN CREATION. that case) wronged and outraged race— indeed, to suffer every personal inconvenience, even martyrdom itself, in the per- formance of a duty so obvious and necessary. And when this theory was at last reduced to practice, and all the existing distinctions and " prejudices" against the Negro were obliter- ated, and the four millions of Negroes amalgamated with the whites, society would be rewarded by the increased morality and purity that would follow an act of such transcendent jus- tice. But will any one believe in such a result — that, reducing to practice the belief, or pretended belief of a single race, will or would benefit American society ? No, indeed ; on the con- trary, every one knows — even the wildest and most perverted abolitionist knows — that to reduce this dogma to practice, to honestly live out this pretended belief, to affiliate with these negroes, would result in the absolute destruction of American society. Nothing, therefore, can be more certain than the hypocrisy of those who pretend to believe in this single-race doctrine, for it need not be repeated, that they do not and can- not believe in it in reality. But why should they deem this absurd doctrine essential to their interpretation of the Bible ? That the Almighty Creator subsequently changed the order of the human creation is in entire harmony with the univer- sally received history of the Christian Revelation. All the Christian sects of the day admit the doctrine of miracles, or supernatural interposition, down to the time of the Apostles, and the largest of all (the Roman Catholics) credit this inter- position at the present day, and therefore those ready to re- cognize it in such numerous instances, many, too, of relatively trifling importance, but, determined to reject it in this matter of races, are only imitating their brethren of old, and straining at gnats while swallowing camels with the greatest ease. To many persons the great doctrines of the Christian faith carry with them innate and irresistible proof of their divine THE HUMAN CREATION. 61 origin, but the professional teachers of theology depend mainly upon supernatural interposition to convince the world of its truth, and y«;t by a strange and unaccountable perversity, some of them would reject it in the most important, or, at all events one of the most important instances in which it ever did or ever could occur. But will the sensible and really con- scientious Christian priest or layman venture to persist in forcing this assumption, this palpable, demonstrable, unmis- takable falsehood, that the single race-dogma is essential to the preservation of Christianity, upon the public ? If he does, and if it is accepted by those who look upon him as a teacher, then it is certain that he will inflict infinite mischief on the cause of Christianity. To assume that all mankind have white skins, or straight hair, or any other specific feature of our own race, involves no greater absurdity, indeed, involves the exact absurdity, that the assumption of a single human species does. If it were assumed that we must stultify ourselves, and believe, or pretend to believe, that all mankind have white skins, or Christianity would be lost to the world, there is not a single man in this Republic that would not reject such an assumption with scorn and contempt. White and black are, of course, specialties, but no more so than (as will hereafter be shown) all the other things that constitute the negro being, and therefore the assumption put forward substantially and indeed exactly, is thus : We must believe that whites, Indians, Ne- groes, etc., have the same color, or the whole fabric of Christianity will be overthrown and lost to mankind ! But enough — all Americans know — for they cannot avoid knowing — that negroes are negroes and specifically different from themselves ; they know, moreover, that they differed just as widely when first brought to this continent, and all who understand the simplest laws of organization know that they must always remain thus different from ourselves, and therefore g 2 THE HUMAN CREATION. they know that they were made so by the act and will of the Almighty Creator, while when, or how, or why they are thus, m beyond the province of human enquiry, and of no manner of importance whatever. CHAPTER IV. HISTORICAL SUMMARY. The white or Caucasian is the only historic race — the race which is alone capable of those mental manifestations which, written or unwritten, leave a permanent impression behind. What was its first or earliest condition upon the earth ? This, except the meagre account given by Moses, is unknown, nor is it of much importance that it should be known, for though it never was nor could be savage or bar- barous, as these terms are understood in modem times, still its intellectual acquisitions were doubtless so limited that if really known to us, they would be of little or no service. Moses scarcely attempts any description of social life before the time of Abraham, and that then presented does not differ very materially from what exists in the same locality at the present day. The pastoral habitudes of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the sale of Joseph to the Ishmaelites by his brethren, his purchase in Egypt, and sudden exaltation at the court of the Egyptian Monarch, is an almost exact counterpart of scenes witnessed now, and with little varieties in the same lands, for the last four thousand years. The starting-point — ■ the locality where the race first came into being, is equally hidden as the time or period of its creation. Biblical writ- ers have usually supposed somewhere in Asia Minor, on the banks of the Euphrates, while ethnologists are inclined to be- lieve that the high table lands of Thibet and Hindoo Koosh may have been the cradle of the race. Nor is a knowledge of 64 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. this material, or indeed of the slightest consequence, except as an aid in determining its true centre of existence — that is, its physical adaptation or specific affinities for a certain locality. But this is determined by experience ; and it is demonstrated beyond doubt that while the elaborate and relatively perfect structure of the Caucasian Man enables him to resist all ex- ternal agencies, and to exist in all climates capable of support- ing animal life, he can only till the soil or perform manual labor in the temperate zones. It is, therefore, immaterial when or where he first came into being, or what was the starting point of the race — its centre of existence is alike in all the great temperate latitudes of Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. The history of the race may be said to be divided into three great cycles or distinct periods ; all, however, con- necting with each other, and doubtless mainly resembling each other in their essential nature, however widely different in their external manifestation. The first period, beginning with its actual existence on the earth, may be said to terminate in the era of authentic history. The second, or historic era, may be assumed as extending to the overthrow of the Roman Empire by the so-called northern barbarians, or, perhaps, to what is usually termed the dark ages. And finally, there is another grand cycle in human destiny, which, beginning with the restoration of learning, comes down to and includes our own times. In regard to the first, we actually know little of it, for, leaving out of view the Sacred Scriptures, we have only a few imperfect glimpses of the actual life of the count- less millions that preceded the historic period. What little knowledge we have depends on tradition and mythology, sometimes, perhaps, true enough, but the greater portion thus transmitted to our times we know is false, because con- ditions are assumed that are in contradiction with the laws that govern our animal being. If the race, however, was HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 65 created in Asia, we know that portions of it migrated to Africa, at a very remote period ; indeed, leaving the Bible out of view, the first knowledge we have of its existence, or the earliest traces of its existence, is in Africa. Caucasian tribes or communities entered the valley of the Nile possibly before the delta of the lower country was sufficiently hardened to admit of cultivation, as they evidently occupied localities con- siderably removed from the outlet of that great river. These early adventurers conquered the aboriginal population, subjected them to their control, compelled them to labor for them, built magnificent cities, temples, palaces, founded a mighty Empire and advanced, to a certain extent, in civilization. But wealth and luxury, with their effeminate consequences, probably, too, injustice and crime in the rulers, and certainly, and worst of all, interunion and affiliation with the conquered races, tempted purer and hardier branches of the race to invade them, and indeed the delicious climate and fertile soil must have always tempted Caucasian tribes into the Valley of the Nile, from the earliest periods, and whenever they felt them- selves strong enough to attack the existing community. Of course we can only deal in conjecture in regard to this matter, but it is probable that numerous invasions took place, each passing through much the same course as its predecessors. First came conquest, then the erection of a mighty Empire, followed by a grand civilization ; then came effeminacy, affilia- tion with the subject races, debauchment and debility inviting a new conquest by pure Caucasians, and they, in their turn, going through the same round of glory and decay, of con- quest and degradation. Such seems to have been the condition of Egypt when the Romans invaded it, and made it a province of that great Empire. The effete remains of these Egyptian populations afterward, became known to the Roman writers, and, to a certain extent, may be said still to exist. The great 66 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. Asiatic empires were doubtless similar to the Egyptian, except in respect to the debauchment of blood. The Assyrians, Per- sians, Chaldeans, Babylonians, Hebrews, etc., each in their turn, were conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, but their downfall, in one essential respect, differed widely from those of Africa. They were pure, unmixed Caucasians, for at that time the Mongol element was unknown in that portion of Asia, and the Negro, except a few household servants, never existed on that continent. The Mongolian race was first known about five hundred years anterior to the Christian Era, and whether originally it existed in a more northern region, or had not reached a full development as regards num- bers, can not be known, on account of our limited knowledge of the earth at that time. The old Caucasian populations of Asia knew nothing of it, and had no admixture of Mongolic blood. But all is conjecture, mystery, doubt and uncertainty, in regard to these ancient and extinct Empires. We know that they existed — that they were white men — beings like ourselves — our own ancestors, with the same wants, the same instincts, in short, the same nature that we have, and therefore, in the main, acted, as we do now. Of course we call them heathens, pagans, savages, barbarians, etc., but were they thus ? In the modern times there are no white barbarians or heath- ens. In all modern history, wherever found, white men are much the same ; why, then, should it not have been so always ? The fanatic Jew called all others gentiles, savages ; the super- cilious Greek called even their Roman conquerors barbarians ; even the manly and liberal Roman did not rise above this fool- ish bigotry, and not only called the Gauls, Britons, Germans, etc., barbarians, but reduced them to slavery, as if they were inferior beings. We witness the same ignorance and folly in our own enlightened times. The Englishman believes that the English are alone truly Christian and civilized ; the French- HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 67 man honestly believes that La Belle France is at the head of modern civilization ; even the advanced and liberal American Democrat thinks, and perhaps correctly, that the Americans alone are truly civilized ; while some among ns would exclude all from the privilege of citizenship who happen to be born elsewhere, as rigidly as the Jew did the uncircumcised Gentile or the Moslem the dog of a Christian. Is not this notion of a outside barbarians," therefore, the result of ignorance, or foolish egotism, without sense or reason? Some nations or communities were doubtless advanced more than others in ancient times, as at present, but in the main the race must have approximated to the same common standard we wit- ness now. If it is said that in early times the obstacles in the way of frequent intercourse prevented this general approxi- mation to a common standard of enlightenment, it may be re- plied that the same obstacles would also prevent a wide depar- ture, and when we know that they had the same wants, the same instincts, the same tendencies, etc., the conclusion seems unavoidable that no nation or community could at any time in history assume, with any justice, that others were barbarians, or that they alone were civilized. The traditions and imper- fect knowledge which we have hitherto possessed in respect to these long-buried populations, may, perhaps, be replaced by that which is almost or quite as reliable as written history itself. Within a few years past a class of men have sprung up who, excavating the dead remains of long forgotten empires, promise revelations that will bring us face to face with the buried gen- erations that we now only know through the dim perspec- tive of uncertain tradition. Champolion, Belzoni, Rawlinson, Layard and their companions have already made discoveries in Egypt and Nineveh that open to our minds much of the social condition and daily life of those remote times, and future explorations, it is probable, will give us nearly as accurate a 68 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. knowledge as we have of those embraced within the cycle of authentic history. The next great period in the history of the race — the his- toric era — is supposed to be entirely within the province of real knowledge. It begins with the history of the Greeks — not the symbolic but the real — that grand and glowing intellec- tualism which, in many respects, may be said to equal the in- tellectual development of our own times. The history of Greece and Rome is in truth the history of the race, of the world, of mankind. There were cotemporary nations of great power, extent and cultivation, but the Greeks and Romans, ' and the subject or servile populations that acknowledged their supremacy, made up the larger portion of the race. It is true the Persians were then pure Caucasians, and, in respect to numbers, largely surpassed the Greeks, but while they did not differ much in their general character, they were on the de- cline before the Greeks had reached their full national devel- opment. The latter always referred to Egypt as the source of their civilization, but it is more probable that they borrowed from Asia most of those things supposed to be of foreign origin. It is, however, quite possible that the earliest civiliza- tion was developed in Africa, that it receded from thence to Asia, as we know it afterwards did from the latter to Europe, and as we now witness it, passing to America. But what is civilization ? It is, or it may be defined as, the result of intel- lectual manifestation. A nation or people who have most deeply studied and understood the laws of nature or the nature of things, and applied their knowledge to their own welfare, are the most civilized or we might say, in a word, that the nation that has the most knowledge is the most civilized. The Greeks, certainly, surpassed all cotemporary nations in the most essential of all knowledge, yet even this seems to have been rather a thing of chance than otherwise. Political intel- HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 69 ligence, or a knowledge of men's social relations to each other, is the most vital they can possess. The Greeks may be said both to have possessed this knowledge and to have been entirely deficient in it. Athens, with thirty thousand citizens all recognized as political equals, was a Democracy, but this so-called Democracy, with, perhaps, a hundred thou- sand slaves, was a burlesque on a democratic government. The Helots of Greece, the servile and subject population of which history gives no account, except to refer to them, were white men — men with all the natural capacities of Socrates, Demosthenes, or Alcibiades, but the Greek orators and writers of the day never even seemed to imagine that they had any rights whatever. They had much the same relation to the Greeks that the Saxons had to the Normans, that the Irish have to the English, and yet with all their political enlightenment and high intellectual development, the Greeks gave them no rights, and treated them as different and subor- dinate beings. The notion, therefore, taught in our schools, that the Greeks were the authors of political liberty, is unsound — they neither practised nor understood liberty, and the exter- nal forms mistaken for democracy had no necessary connection with it. Aristotle could not form even a conception of a polit- ical system that did not rest upon slavery, and this was doubt- less the general condition of the Greek mind. It was merely accidental that the Greek States assumed a democratic form, or rather approximated to a democratic form ; but while they were utterly ignorant of individual relations they certainly had clear views of the relations of states and the duties that inde- pendent communities owe to each other. The Asiatic nations seem to have had no conception wha ever of these duties — conquest or slavery were the only ilternatives. A nation must conquer or be conquered — a dynasty must destroy all others, or expect to fall itself — and the Asiatic character still YO HISTOEICAL SUMMARY. partakes Largely of these habitudes. Except, therefore, in the mere externals or outward arrangements of political society, the Greeks can hardly be said to have done anything for polit- ical liberty or to advance political science. The Romans did more — vastly more — but they had little or no conception of democracy or of individual liberty. The proud boast," I am a Roman citizen," unlike the idea of the American democrat, partook of the spirit of a British aristocrat of our own days, claiming the privileges of his order. The men who founded the city of Rome, though doubtless fillibusters and adventur- ers, perhaps even outcasts of the neighboring populations, were assumed to be superior to the later emigrants, and their de- scendants especially claimed exclusive privileges. And when Rome expanded into a mighty empire and ruled the world, the senatorial order ruled the empire — at all events, until Ca?sar crossed the Rubicon and seized the supreme power. The change from a republic to an empire had little or no bear- ing upon the question of liberty, for the condition of the great body of the people remained the same. Rome conquered all, or nearly all, the then known world, for, except the Persians, and perhaps some few populations in the far North, the whole Caucasian race recognized the Romans as their rulers. The Parthians, so often waging desperate war with the Romans, were doubtless a mixed people, something like the modern Turks, and very possibly their ancestors. Following the rude code of early times, the Romans enslaved the conquered popu- lations. All the prisoners of war were deemed to have for- feited their lives, and were parceled out among the Roman conquerors, while the rural populations were compelled to pay tribute to the Roman civil officers. It is quite probable that the Romans conquered some of the inferior races, but except the Numidians, Lybians, Ethiopians, etc., of Africa, Roman writers are silent on the subject. It has been said that the HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 71 history of the Romans was the history of the Caucasian race, and that was the history of the world. This is literally true, for though we cannot suppose that the conquered populations were the miserable barbarians that the Roman writers represent them to have been, Rome was the most advanced portion of the race, and therefore the embodiment of its civilization and intellectual life. At this moment Paris represents all France ; and the city of Rome bore a somewhat similar relation' to the populations that composed the empire, however distant they may have been from the capital. It was not an unusual thing for the same general that commanded in Britain or that had conquered in Gaul, to administer the government of the Afri- can provinces or to conduct a campaign against the Persians on the bank of the Euphrates. And however much the vanity of Roman authors may have been gratified by assuming that they alone were civilized, it is altogether irrational to suppose that the conquered populations, with the same nature and same capacities as themselves, and moreover, in frequent and often intimate intercourse with themselves, could have differed widely or remained barbarians, even if such when conquered. The Romans advanced far beyond the Greeks in political knowledge, but with them also the state was every thing and the individual nothing. As with the Greeks, the great major- ity were slaves ; and Roman citizenship, or the rights claimed by a Roman citizen, was at best a special privilege ; and prior to the advent of Christianity, the idea of individual rights, of equality, of democracy, seems never to have dawned upon the intellectual horizon of the race. Nor did the primitive Chris- tians (even) accept it in theory, though they lived it out in practice. Their mental habits were formed under the old social order, and though the spirit of the new doctrine impelled them to live it out in practice, few, if any, ever adopted it in theory. Christ had said, " love each other," and " do unto 72 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. others as you would have them do unto you," that is, " grant to others the rights claimed for yourselves," but while they often lived together, owning things in common like the mod- ern communists and socialists, perhaps not one in a million ever thought of applying their doctrines to the state, or even supposing for a moment that the artificial distinctions which separated classes could ever be altered or modified. Even the forced* and unnatural relation of master and slave, which neces- sarily violated the fundamental doctrine of their religion, was clung to and respected in theory, and it" needed several centu- ries of practice and faithful obedience to the spirit of the new faith before this ancient barbarism was finally obliterated from the Roman world. The conquest of Rome, by the so-called northern barbarians, was followed by an eclipse of learning — by a mental darkness in Western Europe at least, that is fitly enough denominated the dark ages. Was this irruption of the northern nations into Italy the true cause of this darkness ? For sev- eral centuries previous there had been an immense and almost continuous emigration from Asia, not of individuals, as we witness in the present day, to America, but of tribes, commu- nities, whole nations. History is indeed imperfect, if not altogether silent, in respect to the cause of these mighty migra- tions which so long pressed upon Europe. But there can be little doubt that the Mongolian race about this time changed, to a considerable extent, its location, and pressing down on the old Caucasian populations of Asia, impelled those vast masses to seek shelter and safety, if not homes and happiness, in Eu- rope. In the mighty invasions of Italy in the fifth century by Attila, the truth of this is certainly demonstrated. He himself was doubtless a white man, and so were his chiefs; but the mighty populations he ruled over, and which extended from the Danube to the frontiers of China, were mainly Mon- golian. But no Mongolians settled permanently in Europe — HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 73 none but Caucasians, and except the modern Turks, none but pure Caucasians — and, being the same men as the Romans themselves, why should they be barbarians ? They were con- querors ; a pretty good proof that, though not so refined per- haps, certainly not so effeminate as the Romans had become, they could not have been barbarians. Other things being equal, the nation that has made the greatest advance in knowledge will be able to conquer, because it has only to apply its knowledge to this object to succeed. There can be no doubt that we ourselves surpass all the nations of our times in knowledge, or in our capacity to apply our knowledge to the purposes of material existence. Our railroads, canals, public works, our ship-building, commerce, etc., prove this, and we have only to apply this knowledge to purposes of offence or defence, to invade others or to defend ourselves, to demonstrate our immense superiority. Nevertheless, if we should conquer Spain, or any other ancient and effete empire, doubtless their writers would take their revenge in calling us barbarians, as indeed the poor, feeble, and adulterated hybrids of Mexico actually did thus represent us when in possession of their capital. Nothing, therefore, can be more improbable than the theory of Gibbon and others, that the nations that conquered Rome were barbarians, and that the dark ages were the result of that conquest. But there was a cause for the subsequent darkness which so long spread over the European world much more palpable. Christianity had become gener- ally accepted, and bad and ambitious men, in the then gen- eral ignorance of the masses of the populations, might wield it with stupendous effect in advancing their ambition and securing their own personal objects. The assumption that Christ had delegated a power on earth to interpret the will of Heaven, both as to temporal as well as religious interests, 74 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. was enough ; of course all human investigation and mental activity terminated, and was denounced as impiety. The subordinate clergy were often, perhaps generally, faith- ful to the great truths transmitted by the primitive Christians, but, dependent on tradition, and subject to the rule of their sacerdotal superiors, they in vain resisted these influences, and these truths became in time so corrupted as scarcely to retain any resemblance to the original faith. It is believed that, except in these " dark ages," the Caucasian mind has never retrograded or indeed remained stationaiy. Progress is the law, the instinct, the necessity of the Caucasian mind, and however much some branches or some nations may decline, there is always some portion, nationality, or community, that embodies the wants of the race, and that moves forward in pursuit of that indefinite perfectability which is its specific and distinguishing characteristic. Bat it is easily understood how this might have suffered an eclipse under the circumstan- ces then existing. A great proportion of the so-called barba- rian conquerors of Rome were ignorant of Christianity, and when they became the converts of the conquered Romans, they naturally exalted their teachers as beings almost super- human in their superior knowledge ; and the general ignorance of the times favored any pretension of the priests, however absurd it might be. In fact a body of men claiming to be, and universally believed to be, the interpreters of the will of the Almighty, necessarily interrupted all inquiry into the taws of nature (the real laws of God), and though some monks them- selves, immured in their cells, continued to think, to experi- ment, to acquire knowledge, as well as in many instances to preserve that already acquired by others, the great mass of the people as well as the great body of the clergy looked upon everything of the kind as wicked, impious, and heretical. And we have only to suppose an intellectual activity and free- HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 75 dom corresponding with our own times throughout these dark centuries, to realize the stupendous evil inflicted on the world by this priestly arrogance and ambition. The races, so-called,that figured most prominently during the period beginning with authentic history and terminating in the dark ages, are first, the Semitic, which included the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Persians, Syrians, Hebrews or Jews, Saracens, Arabians, etc., indeed under the term Semitic may be included all the Orientals, except the Parthians, who were doubtless a mixed people, and those northern tribes, historically known as Scythians, afterwards the conquerors of Egypt and the pro- genitors of that extraordinary military autocracy known in modern times by the name of Mamelukes. The second great branch was the Pelasgian, which included the Macedonians, the Romans, the Hellenic tribes, Dorians, Thracians, etc., and of which the Romans were for nearly two thousand years the main representatives. Between these great branches of the Caucasian — for they were both doubtless, typical Caucasians, though Agassiz thinks that the Semitic constituted a separate species — there was almost constant war, from the very begin- ning of history to the capture of Constantinople. The Greek and Trojan war was doubtless a collision of this kind — and so were the wars of the Greeks and Persians — the conquests of Alexander, which, for a time, almost annihilated the Persian empire — the terrible life-and-death struggle of the Romans and Carthaginians, and finally the invasion and conquest of Spain by the Arabians, with their ultimate defeat by the Franks under Charles Martel. Indeed, coming down to more modern times, we find the Crusades, when nearly all Europe, in a fit of un- controllable phrensy, precipitated itself on Asia; and in the col- lapse which folio wed, Asiatic hordes, though not exactly Semitic, again seeking to penetrate into Europe, and actually conquering the remains of the old Roman empire, in the eastern capital of 76 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. which they are now firmly established. Historians are wont to magnify the results of these contests, especially the defeat of Han- nibal and the overthrow of the Carthaginians by the Romans, and the defeat of the Arabians by the Franks, as of vital import- ance to the world and the best interests of mankind ; but it is quite possible that they over-estimate these things, especially the victory of the Romans over the Carthaginians. They were both of the same species of men, both branches of the Cauca- sian, with the same nature, the same tendencies, and, under the same circumstances, the same beings. The Carthaginians were, for the time, highly civilized. They were the heirs of the Egyptian and Asiatic civilizations, as Rome was of that of the Greeks. They were a great commercial people, with boundless wealth, science, arts, manufactures, everything but a warlike spirit ; while Rome, at the time without commerce, poor and torn by factions, was a mere military aristocracy, and the capital itself little more than a military encampment. Why, then, should the defeat of the former have been bene- ficial to the progress of the race, or to the general interests of mankind ? In regard to the defeat of the Arabians by the Franks, the case is altogether different. They were the same species, and doubtless, at that time, more advanced than the Europeans, but they were Mohammedans, and in the full flush of enthusi- asm for their faith, which they invariably propagated by the sword. And if they had overrun Europe as they did Asia, somewhat similar results would doubtless have followed, for though it is altogether improbable, indeed, in view of its Divine origin, impossible, that they could have exterminated the Christian religion, they would have done it and the gen- eral cause of civilization incalculable injury. But both of these great branches of the race have long since disappeared from history. The Semitic element can scarcely be said to exist HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 77 at all. In Africa it is adulterated by the blood of the Negro, and perhaps the blood of some race or races not so low in the scale as the Negro. In Asia it is mixed with the Mongolian blood, and though the Arab and Persian populations of our day are mainly white, there is more or less taint pervading all the Asiatic communities. The great Pelasgian branch has long since disappeared and been swallowed up in the more modern branches of the race, and though the modern Italian claims to be, and doubtless is, the lineal descendant of the ancient Roman, no portions of the race are wider apart than the ancient Roman and his modern descendant, a striking proof that accidental consanguinity does not affect the univer- sality of the race. The last great cycle of history, commencing with the Refor- mation, comes down to and includes our own times. It is quite unnecessary to dwell upon it, as all intelligent persons have much the same view of it. With the downfall of the Roman empire, however, new varieties of the Caucasian, or, as historians have termed them, new races, have emerged into vuew, and in their turn struggled for the empire of the world. The hordes that, under Alaric and other leaders, overran Italy, were generally known as Goths, a generic term that is applied to great numbers of very different people, though, of course, all were white men, and therefore of the same race or species. But after varying fortunes, and passing through numerous mutations, all these races have subsided into several well-marked and well-known divisions or families now existing. There are — First. The Celts — including a large portion of the French, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese, and the remains of the primitive people of the British Islands. Second. The Teutonic or German, including the Germans of all kinds, the Swiss, the mythical Anglo-Saxon and perhaps the Danes, the Scandina- vians, etc. Third. The Sclavonians, embracing the Russians, 70 hlSTUKKAL SUMJUAKY. Poles, Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins, etc. There are some few populations that, either in language or historical facts, have little or no connection with those enumerated. These are the modern Hungarians, the European Turks, the Circassians, etc, They are, however, Caucasians: even the Turks and Circas- sians are, in our times, pure or mainly pure Caucasians. Finally there remain our own people, the offspring of every country and of every variety of the race, and as the more the blood is crossed the more energetic and healthy the product or progeny, the American people should become, as it doubt- less will become, the most powerful and the most civilized people in existence. Such, briefly considered, is an imperfect summary or outline of the history of our race, the only race that has a history or that is capable of those mental manifestations whose record constitutes history. It is a favorite theory of most historians to represent the mental development of the race as divided into distinct categories, not as the author has ventured, into historic periods, but into different phases of intellectual man- ifestation. They have supposed that men (white men) were first hunters and lived wholly by the chase — that after a while they became shepherds, and lived on their herds or flocks — that then they made another advance and became cultivators, and finally artisans, merchants, etc. Each of these conditions, it has been supposed, were dependent on, or were associated with, a corresponding mental development. The hunter had intellect enough to run down the stag or wit sufficient to entrap the game necessary for his support, but had not sufficient capacity to take care of his flocks or sense sufficient to till the earth ! This notion has doubtless arisen from observing the habits of the subordinate races of men, though it is quite possible that our own race has passed through some such stages as those suggested. But there has never been any vari- Jii&iuiniiAij DimmAui ations in its actual intellectual powers. The mental capacities given it in the morning of creation were just what they are now, and what they will be millions of years hence. Thus is explained the (to many persons) seeming anomaly that in the very dawn of history there were men like Homer, Plato, So- crates, Pythagoras, and others, with a breadth and depth of intellect corresponding to the most intellectual men of our own times. Mental power, like physical strength, remains always the same through all ages and mutations of human society, while knowledge, or the uses made of the intellectual forces, is constantly varying from age to age, and changing from one country to another. The miserable Italian organ-grinder un- der our window, it is somewhat difficult to suppose, embodies the high intellect and powerful will, which two thousand years ago, made his ancestors masters of the world, but such is the fact, however latent, unknown or unfelt by himself may be these powers. The amount or extent or degrees of knowl- edge, the perceptions of external things, their relations, the laws that govern them, their uses, their influences on our well- being or the contrary, in short, our capacities for acquiring knowledge, for comprehending ourselves and the things about us, are limitless, and therefore progress and indefinite perfect- ibility are the specific attributes of the Caucasian. Each gen- eration applies its capabilities and acquires a certain amount of knowledge which the succeeding one is heir to, and which, in turn, transmits its acquisition to those following ; thus its march is ever onward, and except during the " dark ages" it is believed that the great law of progress which God has imposed on the race as a duty as well as given it as a blessing, has never been interrupted. But the inferior races of mankind present a very different aspect in this respect. The Negro, isolated by himself, seems utterly incapable of transmitting anything whatever to the 80 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. succeeding generation, and the Aboriginal American, Malay, etc., doubtless approximate to him in these respects. The Aztecs and Peruvians, at the time of the Spanish conquest, however, had advanced to the grade of cultivators, and were therefore, doubtless, capable of a limited or imperfect trans- mission of their knowledge. The Malay is probably capable of still greater development in these respects ; but its limita- tions are too decided to be mistaken. The Mongolian, on the contrary, approximates much closer to ourselves, and while it cannot be said to have a history in any proper sense, it is doubtless capable of transmitting its knowledge to future gen- erations to a much greater extent than others, but it, too, is at an immeasurable distance from the Caucasian in this respect. The Chinese, it is true, pretend to trace back their history to a period long anterior to our own, but this claim is itself suf- ficient proof of its own worthlessness. No one will suppose that the individual Chinaman has a larger brain or greater breadth of intellect than the individual Caucasian, and if not, what folly to suppose that the aggregate Chinese mind was capable of doing that which is impossible to the aggregate Caucasian intellect! The truth is, what is supposed to be Chinese history is a mere collection of fables and nonsensical impossibilities, and it may be doubted if they can trace back their annals even five hundred years with any certainty or with sufficient accuracy to merit a claim to historic dignity. There can be no doubt, however, that at some remote period, a considerable portion of the Chinese population was Cauca- casian, as indeed a portion is still Caucasian, and it is perhaps certain that Confucius and other renowned names known to the modern Chinese, were white men, and what shadowy and uncertain historical data they now possess are therefore likely to have originated from these sources. The Mongolian race was in fact unknown to ancient writers, though there has HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 81 doubtless been contact with these races from a very early period. It is sujyposed by Hamilton Smith and others, that the Mon- golian formally existed much further North than at present, and that its immense development in regard to numbers finally pressed so heavily on the Caucasian populations of Cen- tral Asia, that it displaced them, and hence that those mighty migrations into Europe, a short time after the beginning of the Christian era, were the results of this pressure in their rear. Be this as it may, it is certain that those vast inunda- tions which at times swept over the Asiatic world, and also threatened Europe with their terrible results, were mainly composed of Mongolic elements. Attila was of pure Caucasian blood, and his chiefs were doubtless also white men or of a predominating Caucasian innervation ; but it is equally certain that the larger portion of his terrible hordes were Mongolians. His seat of empire was on the Danube and somewhere near the modern Buda, from which he threatened France as well as Rome and the Italian Peninsula, while his dominion extended to the frontiers of China, and embraced the vast regions and almost countless populations intervening between these widely separated points. His invasion of France, and his repulse if not defeat at Chalons, is one of those transcendent events that, for good or evil, change the order of history, and for centuries affect the fortunes of mankind. Had this not happened — had his march been uninterrupted — had his terrible legions swept over Western as they already had over Eastern Europe, and a vast Mongolian population become permanently settled there, the destinies of mankind would have been widely different. But his repulse — his desperate retreat and his subsequent death, which occurred soon after — changed the current of events, and his desolating hordes instead of effecting a permanent lodge- ment in the heart of Europe, vanished so utterly that, except 4* 82 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. a few thousand Laplanders, they have left no trace or evidence of their terrible invasion of the European world. Genghis Khan, in the twelfth century, was the next great conqueror and mighty leader of those vast Mongolic hordes which, at various times, have inundated the ancient world, and in their desolating march swept away numerous empires and extinguished whole populations. Genghis Khan, though of predominating Caucasian blood, was mixed with Mongo- lian, but his successors for several centuries after were mainly Caucasians or the children of Caucasian mothers. Finally, the the last and the greatest of these terrible conquerors, Tamerlane, in the sixteenth century, made a conquest of nearly the whole of Asia, penetrating even into Africa and conquering Egypt, while his defeat of Bajazet, the Emperor of the Turks, then at the zenith of their power, opened Europe to the march of his desolating hordes, and could his life have been extended a few years longer, it is quite possible that he would have accom- plished what seems to have been the object of Attila, and sub- jected the European as well as the Asiatic world to his terri- ble sway. As it was, he invaded and conquered India as well as Egypt, and the master of, or wearer of twenty-eight crowns, he reigned over the whole of Asia to the borders of China, except the Turkish dominions, and even here he was the re- cognized master though he gave back the empire to the sons of Bajazet. The character of his conquests — the death and desolation that marked his path — was the most terrible as well as the most extensive ever witnessed before or since, and many of the largest and most powerful empires of Asia were as utterly blotted from the earth as if it had opened and swallowed them up. He himself was of pure Caucasian extraction, and doubtless his generals and chiefs were the same, and the Cau- casian Tartars formed a very considerable portion of his forces. There was doubtless also a large mixed or mongrel element, nioi y iviuajj BUJUJiAni for of the throngs of female captives taken in these Mongolian invasions, few ever returned to their homes, but becoming the wives of Mongolian chiefs, those numerous and often powerful dynasties which have ruled over the Asiatic populations had their origin. Nevertheless a vast majority of these almost countless hordes led by Tamerlane were unmixed Mongolian, and, therefore, though the leader was himself a Caucasian or white man, the bloody and desolating character of his con- quests were stamped by the cruelty and ferocity of that race. Perhaps no better illustration of the Caucasian and Mongolian character could be presented than the contrast between Alex- ander's invasion of Persia and India and similar invasions of Tamerlane. The first, though a "Pagan" several centuries before the Christian era, was humane and merciful to the con- quered, and except in battle shed no blood, while the latter not content with the enforcement of the Moslem rule of tribute or death or the religion of the Prophet, slaughtered whole populations after the battle was over, and for the gratification of his ferocious hordes. His conquest of Bagdad and his pyr- amid of ninety thousand heads is one of those terrible things that historians are generally puzzled with, for not only is there nothing resembling it in history, but there seems to be no motive or sufficient cause for it. It was the result, the offspring of Mongol ferocity and apathetic cruelty, such as we now wit- ness in India and China, and springs as much, perhaps, from a low grade of sensibility or incapacity to feel or sympathize with suffering, as from a sentiment of cruelty. The Hindoos or East Indians, like the Chinese, also pretend to trace back their history to a time long anterior to our own historic era. Their claim, in this respect, is doubtless better founded than that of the former, but it, too, is absurd and valueless. The Hindoos were originally Caucasian, who, at some remote period, invaded and conquered India, and stamped 84 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. their civilization and religion on the whole peninsula. It is quite likely, indeed it is certain, that India had been invaded and conquered by numerous nations or tribes of Caucasians long anterior to the Hindoo conquest. There are in our day too many traces of this, too many evidences of the former ex- istence of the great master race of mankind in India, to per- mit us to doubt. The vast debris spread all over India, indeed the sixty or seventy dialects of Sanscrit proves that India must have been long subject to the dominion of the Caucasian. It is believed by many that Jfindoo JToosh, or the high table land of Thibet, was the cradle of the race, and it is rational to sup- pose that long anterior to our own historic era white men may have formed the principal portion of the Indian popula- tion. They doubtless thus spread themselves over the penin- sula ; or if that was the birth-place of the Mongolian, then it is certain that restless and energetic Caucasian tribes at a very early day invaded and conquered the country. Even now there is a large Caucasian element in India. The Affghans are pure Caucasian, while the Sikhs, the Rajpoots, and a large portion of the people of Oude are doubtless of predominating Caucasian blood. That caste which English writers have so much to say about, and the good people of Exeter Hall desire so much to " abolish," is, to a great extent, mere mongrel- ism, and that which is not mongrelism is simply what England itself suffers from to a greater extent than any other country or people. The Normans invaded the latter country, took possession of their lands, and reduced the conquered Anglo- Saxons to slavery, where they have remained, ever since, and though the Norman blood has long since disappeared, the theory or system remains, for a few cunning and adroit " An- glo-Saxons," claiming to be the descendants of Norman Con- querors, now monopolize the land and rule the great body of the people as absolutely as the real Normans did in their day. HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 85 The early invaders of India grasped everything, as did the Normans in England, but they amalgamated with the con- quered, and thus enfeebling themselves, fell a victim to fresh invasions of pure Caucasians. They, in their turn, underwent the same fate, and thus, from time immemorial there grew up those multitudinous dynasties, each of which had its own char- acter, and which became a caste, often, doubtless, as a means for governing the people, and preserved by the cdnquerors as care- fully as that which they in their turn imposed on the country. The Normans and Saxons were of the same race, and the greater the admixture of blood, the more energetic the popu- lation, while the admixture of the conquering Caucasian with the conquered Mongolian, has rendered the modern Hindoo powerless and contemptible in comparison with the English or European invader of our times. The general subject of the human races has been so little studied, and our actual knowl- edge of these great Asiatic populations is so limited and so imperfect, that it is difficult to determine their present charac- ter, let alone their former history, and it is quite possible that the present native of India is specifically different from the Chinese. It has been the custom of writers on this subject to assume that the Caucasian and Mongolian, with their often extensive affiliations, constitute the sole population of the Asiatic continent, and that the differences which are actually presented are those produced alone by climate and external influences. The writer has adopted this view, but without assenting to it in fact, for the actual differences between Nena Sahib or an Indian prince, and the true Mongol of the Chinese model, are certainly as distinct as those sepa- rating the former from a modern Englishman, and therefore he thinks it quite probable that further investigation will show a" race or species of men, mainly to be found in India, that are yet to be known and to take their place in the great human 86 HISTORICAL SUMMARY. family, midway between the Caucasian and Mongolian. Be this as it may, however, it is certain that our own race alone has a history or is capable of those mental manifestations which constitute the materials of history. The Mongoiic ele- ment, though often invading and temporarily conquering large portions of territory occupied by Caucasian populations, has receded almost as rapidly as it advanced, and therefore their actual centre of existence remains substantially the same at all times. There is, however, a trace of Mongolian blood now found outside of its own proper centre, but probably there is a much larger Caucasian element among Mongoiic nations. The Caucasian Tartars invaded and conquered China a few centu- ries ago, and though doubtless mixed up with and mainly Mon- gol at this time, they are the ruling dynasty. The instincts of this race naturally impelled it to escape from contact or col- lision with the superior race ; thus, the great wall of China was a vain attempt to keep out a race it fears and hates, and which its instincts assure it must rule over itself wherever they exist in juxtaposition. Many persons fancy that our trea- ties with Japan and China will bring these vast populations within the circle of modern civilization, and open up to our- selves a fancied Asiatic commerce, which, through California and a Pacific railroad, we shall mainly monopolize. Of course these notions originate in utter ignorance of what China is in reality, and except in degree do not differ from that of the Abolitionists in respect to negroes and negro " slavery." The Mongol never will, as indeed he never can, become. an element in the modern or Christian civilization of our times and of our race, and though there may be a certain trade carried on be- tween us and China, it is not 1 kely to vary to any considerable extent from that existing now, while any attempt to establish a diplomatic intercourse or equality is simply absurd, and must end in nothing. HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 87 This, then, is the history of the Mongolian race — the race nearest our own — all the history we have of it, and indeed all the history there is of it, for however brief or imperfect our own knowledge of the race, it is doubtless better and more reliable than is its own pretended history of itself. As has been said, unlike the Negro, whose capacities cannot go beyond the living or actual generation, and with whom millions of generations are the same as a single one, the Mongolian mind may perhaps, with more or less correctness, grasp the life of a few generations, but in no proper sense is it capable of acting, and consequently of writing history. CHAPTER V. COLOR. Anatomists and physiologists have labored very earnestly to account for or to show the u cause" of color, not of the Negro alone, but in the case of our own race. They have generally supposed that the pigmentum nigrum, a substance lying im- mediately beneath the outward skin, or cuticle, constituted that cause, and therefore the complexion was fair or dark, blonde or brunette, just as the " coloring" matter might hap- pen to be dark or otherwise. This, in a sense, is doubtless true, but to speak of it as a cause is an abuse of terms, for it is simply a fact, and no more a cause than it is an effect. Cause and causes in natural phenomena are known only to Omnipotence, and why the Caucasian color is white or the Mongol yellow, or the Negro black, is as absolutely hidden from us as the cause of their existence at all — as wholly be- yond the scope of human intelligence, and therefore of rational inquiry, as the cause of the return of the seasons, or why men and animals at a certain time arrive at maturity or finally decay and die. The divine wisdom and perfect fitness of the fact itself, however, are clearly appreciable, and we are able to see, not only its transcendent importance, but the utter impos- sibility of its being otherwise. There is in all the works of God perfect harmony, as well as perfect wisdom, and, there- fore, such a monstrosity as a " colored man" — or a being like ourselves in all except the color of the negro — is not merely absurd, but as impossible in fact, though not so palpable to a COLOR. 89 superficial intelligence, as a white body with a negro head on its shoulders, or indeed as a dog with the head of any other animal or form of being. The face of the Caucasian reflects the character, the emo- tions, the instincts, to a certain extent the intellectual forces, and even the acquired habits, the virtues or vices of the indi- vidual. This, to a certain extent, depends on the mobility of the facial muscles, and the general anatomical structure and outline of the features ; but without our color, the expression would be very imperfect, and the face wholly incapable of ex- pressing the inner nature and specific character of the race. For example : What is there at the same time so charming and so indicative of inner purity and innocence as the blush of maiden modesty? For an instant the face is scarlet, then, perhaps, paler than ever in its delicate transparency ; and these physical changes, beautiful as they may be to the eye, are ren- dered a thousand times more so by our consciousness that they reflect moral emotions infinitely more beautiful. Can any one suppose such a thing possible to a black face ? that these sud- den and startling alternations of color, which reflect the moral perceptions and elevated nature of the white woman, are pos- sible to the negress ? And if the latter cannot reflect these things in her face — if her features are utterly incapable of expressing emotions so elevated and beautiful, is it not certain that she is without them — that they have no existence in her inner being, are no portion of her moral nature ? To suppose otherwise is not only absurd, but impious ; it is to suppose that the Almighty Creator would endow a being with moral wants and capacities that could have no development — with an inner nature denied any external reflection or manifestation of its wants or of itself. Of course, it is not intended to say that the negress has not a moral nature ; it is only intended to demonstrate the fact that she has not the moral nature of the 90 COLOR white woman; and, therefore, those who would endow her inner nature with these qualities, must necessarily charge the Creator with the gross injustice of withholding from her any expression of qualities so essential to her own happiness, as well as to our conception of the dignity and beauty of woman- hood. This same illustration is extensively diversified in re- gard to the other sex. It is seen every day in our social life, and confronts us at every step. The white man is flushed with anger, or livid with fear, or pale with grief. He is at one moment so charged with the darker passions as to be almost black, and the next so softened by sorrow or stricken by grief that the face is bloodless and absolutely white. All these out- ward manifestations of the inner nature — of the moral being with which God has endowed us— are familiar to every one. They form a portion of our daily experience, and constitute an essential part of our social life. There are great differences among our people in regard to the general expression of the features. Some reflect in their faces all the emotions by which they are moved, while others are so stolid, or they have acquired such a control over them- selves in these respects, as to appear impenetrable. But this has no connection with color, or any relation to that great fundamental and specific fact by which and through which the Almighty has adapted the character and revealed the relative conditions of the several human races. Like all the other great facts involved, color is the standard and exact admeasurement of the specific character. The Caucasian is white, the Negro is black ; the first is the most superior, ', he latter the most in- ferior — an d between these extremes of humanity are the inter- mediate races, approximating to the former or approaching the latter, just as the Almighty, in His boundless wisdom and ineffable beneficence, has seen fit to order it. Color is no more radical or universal, or no more a difference between white men and negroes, than any other fact out of the countless mil- COLOR. 91 lions of facts that separate them. It is more palpable to the sense, more unavoidable, but no more universal or invariable than the difference in the hair, the voice, the features, the form of the limbs, the single globule of blood, or the myriads and millions of things that constitute the Negro being. It would seem that the Almighty Creator, when stamping this palpable distinction on the very surface, had designed to guard His work from any possible desecration, and therefore had marked it so legibly, that human ignorance, fraud, folly, or wickedness, could by no possibility mistake it. And indeed it is not mistaken, for those perverse creatures among us who clamor so loudly for negro equality, or that the negro shall be treated as if he were a white man, only desire to force their hideous theories on others, and would rather have their own families utterly perish from the earth than to practice or live up to their doctrine in this respect. The term "colored man," or " colored person," though natural enough to Europeans, or to those who had never seen negroes, or different races from themselves, could never have originated in a community hav- ing negroes in its midst, for it is not only a misnomer but an absurdity as gross as to say a colored fish or a colored bird. Finally, as color is the standard and the test of the specific character, revealing the inner nature and actual capabilities of the race, so, too, is it the test and standard of the normal physical condition of the individual. The highest health of the white man is distinguished by a pure and transparent skin, and exactly as he departs from this, his color is clouded and sallow ; while that of the negro is marked by perfect black- ness, and the departure from this is to dirty brown, almost ash- color — thus, as in everything else, revealing true eternal truth that life and well-being, social as well as individual, are iden- tical with an exact recognition of these extremes, and that it is only when disease and unnatural conditions prevail, that a cer- tain approximation to color or to equality become possible. CHAPTER VI. FIGURE. To consider and properly contrast the attitude or the gen- eral outline of the negro form with that of the Caucasian, needs a large space to do the subject justice. But a few brief points are sufficient to grasp its essential features and enable every one to add or to fill up the details from his own experi- ence. Cuvier, the great French zoologist, it is said might pick up a bone of any kind, however minute, in the deserts of Arabia, and from this alone determine the species, genus, and class to which it belonged. This at first seems almost incred- ible, but a moment's reflection shows not only its practicability, but the ease and certainty with which it may be accomplished. Indeed we have recently witnessed a still more remarkable instance of this tracing the life and defining the relations of organized beings from a minute and remote point. Agassiz has been able, from a single scale of a fish, to determine the specific character of fishes, and those, too, which he had never before seen ! A bone is picked up at random by the zoologist ; he roon discovers that it is a bone of the thigh of some animal, and this necessarily leads to the fact that it belonged to a quadruped, and it, in its turn, leads to other facts equally connected and dependent on each other, for that great funda- mental and eternal law of harmony or adaptation which God has stamped on the organic and material universe permits of no incongruities or contradictions to mar its beauty or deface its grandeur. Thus an anatomist, who had given a certain FIGURE. 93 amount of attention to the subject, might select the smallest bone, a carpal or bone of the finger, for example, and de- termine from among millions of similar ones, whether it was that of a white man or of a negro, with perfect certainty and the greatest ease. He would know that such bone formed part of a hand with a limited flexibility — that the bony struc- ture was in accord with the tendons and muscles that moved it, and gave it, compared with that of the Caucasian, a re- stricted capacity of action, of susceptibility, etc., and he would necessarily connect this hand with an arm of corresponding structure, and going on multiplying the connections and rela- tions, he would be led to the final result, and without possibil- ity of mistake, that the bone in question belonged to a negro. But while the analysis of a single bone or of a single feature of the negro being is thus sufficient to demonstrate the spe- cific character or to show the diversity of race, that great fact is still more obviously and with equal certainty revealed in the form, attitude, and other external qualities. The negro is inca- pable of an erect or direct perpendicular posture. The general structu|jfc of his limbs, the form of the pelvis, the spine, the way the head is set on the shoulders, in short, the tout ensem~ hie of the anatomical formation, forbids an erect position. But while the whole structure is thus adapted to a slightly stooping posture, the head would seem to be the most impor- tant agency, for with any other head or the head of any other race, it would be impossible to retain an upright position at all. The form or figure of the Caucasian is perfectly erect, with fhe eyes on a plane with the horizon, and the broad forehead, distinct features and full and flowing beard, stamp him with a superiority and even majesty denied to all other creatures, and relatively to all other races of men. On the contrary, the narrow and longitudinal head of the negro projecting posteri- 94 FIGURE. ally, places his eyes at an angle with the horizon, and thus alone enables him to approximate to an erect position. Of course, Ave are not to speculate on what is impossible or to suggest what might happen if the negro head had resembled that of the Caucasian, for the slightest change of an elementary atom in the negro structure would render him an impossible monstros- ity. But with the broad forehead and small cerebellum of the white man, it is perfectly obvious that the negro would no longer possess a centre of gravity, and therefore those philan- thropic people who would " educate" him into intellectual equality or change the mental organism of the negro, would simply render him incapable of standing on his feet or of an upright position on any terms. Every one must have remarked this peculiarity in the form and attitude of the negro. His head is thrown upwards and backwards, showing a certain though remote approximation to the quadruped both in its actual formation and the manner in which it is set on his shoulders. The narrow forehead and small cerebrum — the centre of the intellectual powers — and the projection of the posterior portion — the centre of the animal functions — render the neSfro head radically and widely different from that of the white man. This every one knows, because every one sees it every day, and the universal and all pervading law of adaptation which God has eternally stamped upon the structure of all His creatures en- ables the negro to thus preserve a centre of gravity and com- paratively an upright posture. But were it true that men can make themselves, can push aside the Almighty Creator Him- self, as taught by certain " reformers" of the day, and vastly improve the " breed" and, as the " friends of humanity" hold, that the negro can be made to conform in his intellectual qualities to those of the white man, then it is certain that their difficulties would become greater than ever. That the cere- brum or anterior portion of the brain is the centre, the seat, FIGURE . 95 the organism, in fact, of the intellectual nature, is as certain as that the eye is the organ of sight, and that in proportion to its size relatively with the cerebellum — the centre of the animal instincts — is there mental capacity, however latent it may be in the case of individuals, is equally certain. And should these would-be reformers of the work of the Almighty change the intellectual nature of the negro, they would necessarily change the organism through which, and by which, that nature is manifested, and thus enlarging the anterior and diminishing the posterior portion of the brain into correspondence with their own, it is perfectly evident that they would destroy the harmony which exists between the negro head and the negro body, and instead of a black-white man, or a being with the same intellectual nature as ours, they would render him as ut- terly incapable of locomotion or of an upright position at all as if they had cut off his head, instead of re-creating it on the model of their own ! The whole anatomical structure, the feet, the hands, the limbs, the size and form of the head, the fea- tures, the hair, the color, the tout ensemble of the negro beimx, as it is revealed to the sense, embodies the negro inferiority when compared with other races ; and as regards the white man or Caucasian, it presents a contrast so striking and an in- terval so broad and unmistakable that it seems impossible any- one's senses could be so blunted, or his perceptions so per- verted as to be rendered incapable of perceiving it. The flexi- ble grace of the limbs, the straight lines of the figure, the expressive features, the broad forehead and transparent color, and flowing beard, all combine to give a grace and majestv to the Caucasian that stamps him undisputed master of all living beings, and even the creatures of the animal world perceive and acknowledge this supremacy. It is not an uncommon thing in India for a tiger, rendered desperate by hunger, to suddenly leap into a crowd and to carry off a man, but instead 96 FIGURE. of a European he invariably selects a native, and while such a thing as the seizure of a white man is unknown, the negroes in Sierra Leone are frequently carried off and eaten by lions. The instinct of the animal leads it to attack the inferior, and therefore feebler being, as even our domestic animals are far more likely to attack children than adults. The negro actu- ally has nothing in common with the animal world that other races have not, but those things common to men and animals are much more prominent in him. Thus, while there is an impassable and perpetual chasm between them, there is a cer- tain resemblance between the negto and the ourang-outang. The latter is the most advanced species of the simiadse or ape family, while the negro is the lowest in the scale of the human creation, and the approximation to each other, though of course eternally incomplete, is certainly striking. As stated elsewhere, the author does not belong to that gloomy and for- bidding school of materialism which would make the faculties and even our moral emotions the mere result of organism. But there is an inseparable connection which necessarily ren- ders them the exact admeasurement of each other, and though neither cause nor result, and their ultimate relation eternally hidden from the finite mind, they are, in this existence at least, inextricably bound up together. The approximation, there- fore, of the negro to the ourang-outang, while there is a bound- less space within the circle of which there can be no resem- blence — for the negro is absolutely and entirely human — and within which it is not proposed to enter, is exactly revealed in the outward form and attitude. The negro, from the struc- ture of his limbs, his head, etc., has a decided inclination to the quadruped posture, while the ourang-outang has an equal tendency to the upright human form. The latter often walks partially erect, and sometimes even carries a club, while the typical negro in Africa or Cuba, or anywhere in his natural FIGURE. 97 state, is quite as likely to squat on his haras as to stand on his feet. Thus, an anatomist with the negro and ourang-outang before him, after a careful comparison, would say, perhaps, that nature herself had been puzzled where to place them, and had finally compromised the matter by giving them an exactly equal inclination to the form and attitude of each other. 5 CHAPTER VII. THE HAIR. Next to color, there is nothing so palpable to the sense as the hair, or nothing that reveals the specific difference of race so unmistakably as the natural covering of the head. The hair of the Caucasian is a graceful and imposing feature or quality, of course in perfect harmony with everything else, but some- times, and especially in the case of females, it is an attribute of physical beauty more striking and attractive than any other. Its color, golden or sunny brown, and the dazzling hues of black, purple, and auburn tresses, has been the theme of poets from time immemorial, while its luxuriance, and silky softness, and graceful length will continue to be the pride of one sex and the admiration of the other as long as the perception of beauty remains. In the Mongol, Malay, or Indian, as well as the Negro, it remains the same through all the stages of life, and it is only in extreme old age that it becomes gray or silvery white, or even falls off from any portion of the head. The coarse, stiff, black hair of the Indian child is that also of its parents — and a gray-headed or bald-headed Indian, except in some cases of extreme old age, is as rare perhaps as that of a bald-headed negro. But the child of the Caucasian, with perfectly white or flaxen hair, expands into the maiden with clustering ringlets of auburn or perhaps raven black, to be threaded with silver, in middle life perhaps, and though less common than with the other sex, a few years later it becomes again, as in early child- THE HAIK. 99 hood, perfectly white. But there are no exceptions to the uniform color of the hair in other races. Such a thing as a flaxen-haired or a light-haired negro child never existed. There may be sometimes a slight approximation in this respect among Mongols, but the hair of the negro, except in some cases of extreme old age, remains absolutely the same at all periods, from the cradle to the grave. The elementary struc- ture^ shown by the elaborate microscopical observations of Mr. Peter A. Browne, of Philadelphia, differs as widely as the external or superficial modifications. The popular notion that it is wool instead of hair that covers the negro head is like many others, founded on a mere external resemblance, without any actual correspondence. It is hair, but sui generis, or rather specific and common to the negro alone, and however widely different from that of white people, it is no more so than any other quality or feature of the negro nature. The variations of this feature in the white race are almost unlimited. Hair dressing even has been elevated to the respectability of an art, if not to the dignity of a science. For many gener- ations the kings of France kept artistes of this character, who often received a salary equal to the ministers of the crown, and one of them, Oliver Le Dain, became in fact, if not in form, the actual ruler of the kingdom. But it was the princesses and ladies of the court that exalted this " art" to its highest pitch of extravagance and display. Marie Antoinette — one of the most unhappy women that ever lived — made it an impor- tant part of every day's employment, and exacted the same labor from her attendants. Even in our own more sensible times, the Empress Eugenie changes the fashions in this re- spect almost every month, and the styles or modes of dressing their hair is an extravagant though amiable weakness of our own fair countrywomen. There is in fact no mere physical quality of the female so attractive, or that is capable of being 100 THE HAIB. rendered so charming, as the hair, and the elaborate dressings, the time and labor spent on its decoration, proceed as much perhaps from that delicate perception of the beautiful innate in woman as it does from female vanity or the love of display. But with this " wealth of beauty" of the Caucasian woman, what an immeasurable interval separates her from the negress ! Is it possible for any who sees the latter, with her short, stiff, uncombable fleece of seeming wool, to endow her with the attri- bute of beauty or comeliness ? And though somewhat less palpable in the other sex, the hair is an essential element of manly beauty as well as dignity, and the " love locks" of the cavaliers and even the " soap locks" of more modern times, are identified with certain conceptions of manly grace. Can any one form such conceptions in respect to the hair of the negro ? Can he identify any of these things with the crisp, stiff, seem- in^ wool that covers the head of that race ? Can the senti- ment of beauty, grace or dignity, or indeed any idea whatever — except as a necessary provision of nature for covering the negro head — attach to the hair of the negro ? This is all that is possible to the mind of a white person in actual juxtaposi- tion with the negro, and therefore while the European Abol- itionist may fancy his head adorned by " ambrosial curls," our own native Abolitionists are wholly unable to conceive of any use or purpose whatever for that dense mat of wiry and twisted hair which covers the negro head, except as a provision of na- ture for its protection. The protection of the head, or rather of the brain, is the purpose or the function of the hair in all races, but while that, in our race, is identified with elevated a. id striking qualities, it is the sole purpose in the case of the negro. The short, crisp, dense mass that covers the negro head, like every other quality or attribute of the negro nature, is in per- fect harmony with the climatic and external circumstances with which God has surrounded him. The popular notion that the THE HAIE. 101 negro skull is much thicker than that of the white man origi- nated from this peculiarity of the covering of the negro head. The hair is so dense, so curled and twisted together, and forms such a complete mat or net work as to be wholly impenetrable to the rays of a vertical jsun, and to furnish a vastly better protection for the brain than the thickest felt hat does to that of the white man. Thus, though negroes on our southern plantations, with the imitative instincts of their race, copy after the whites and wear hats, it is merely a " fashionable folly," and dictated by no natural want, nor in the slightest degree adds to their happiness. And beside the protection from the fierce heats of the tropics, the hair of the negro pro- tects his head in other respects. It is so hard and wiry, and in fact triangular in form, that a blow from the hand of a mas- ter would doubtless injure the latter vastly more than it would the head of the negro, and the common practice among them of butting each other with their heads, though knocking them off their feet, and the concussion heard at considerable dis- tances, never results in injury, for the dense mat of semi-wool that covers the head protects it from mischief. The negro hair is then designed solely for the protection of the negro head, and not only differs widely from that of the Caucasian, but from that of all other races, for the negro is a tropical race, mid the hair, like all other attributes of the negro being, phys- ical and moral, is adapted to a tropical clime, and in perfect accord with the physical wants and moral necessities of the race. But the mere covering of the head, or the mere protection of the brain, is not all that distinguishes the different races in these resj^ects. The beard is equally radical and univer- sal, though not so palpable a specialty as color, and in some respects it may be said to be a more important one. The Caucasian alone has a beard, for though all others approximate to it in this respect, it is the only bearded race, and some 102 THE HAIE. writers on ethnology have been so impressed with this impos- ing and striking distinction that they have sought to make it the basis of a classification of races. And there certainly is no physical or outward quality that so imposingly impresses itseli on the senses as a mark of superiority, or evidence of supre macy,as a full and flowing beard. Color, when in repose, or when it does not give expression to the inner nature, does not, in reality, constitute a distinction at all, but the beard is an evidence of superiority, that, however varied the action or whatever the circumstances, is equally distinct and universal as an attribute of supremacy. This is sufficiently illustrated in our own race and our every day experience. The youth is beardless, and pari passu as he approaches to the maturity of manhood there is a corresponding development of beard. The intellect — the mental strength — the moral beauty, all the qual- ities of the inner being, as well as those outward attributes tangible to the sense, harmonize perfectly with the growth of the beard, and when that has reached its full development, it is both the signal and the proof of mature manhood — an exact admeasurement and absolute proof of the maturity of the indi- vidual as well as the type and standard of the race. This is equally true when applied to different races. The Caucasian is the only bearded race, but all others approximate in this respect, and the negro is furthest removed of all, for the trop- ical woolly haired African or negro, excej>t a little tuft on the chin and sometimes on the upper lip, has nothing that can be confounded with a beard. People sometimes see negroes with considerable hair on their faces, and hence conclude that they are as likely to have beards as white men ; but they forget that all in our society who are not whites are considered negroes, and therefore those bearded negroes have a large infusion, and doubtless sometimes a vastly predominating infusion of Cauca- sian blood. The beard symbolizes our highest conceptions of THE HAIR. 103 manhood — it is the outward evidence of mature development — of complete growth, mental as well as physical — of strength, wisdom and manly grace, and the full, flowing, and majestic beard of the Caucasian, in contrast with the negro or other subordinate races, is as striking and imposing as the mane of the lion when compared with the meaner beasts of the animal world. Like color or any other of the great fundamental facts separating races, the beard is sufficient to determine their spe- cific character and their specific relations to each other, and we have only to apply our every day experience as regards this outward symbol of inner manhood to measure the relative infe- riority of the negro. The Abolitionists demand that the u equal manhood" of the negro shall be recognized, and com- plain bitterly of a government that refuses to respond to their wishes in this respect, but if this " equal manhood" was actu- ally revealed to them in the person of the negro as it is in the persons of white men, and as God has alone provided and or- dained or permitted it to be revealed, they would be over- whelmed with astonishment or convulsed with laughter. A negro with a full and flowing beard, with this symbol of per- fect manhood or with this outward manifestation of the inner (Caucasian) being, would be a ludicrous monstrosity, as impos- sible, of course, as the Caliban of Shakespeare ; but if such a supernatural being should suddenly make his appearance in an Abolition conventicle, the " friends of humanity" would be as much astonished as if an inhabitant of another world had come among them. A youth, with the majestic and flowing beard of adult life, if the monstrosity did not shock and disgust us, would be irresistibly comical, and equally so in the case of the childish and romping negro. Thus, were the leaders of the " anti-slavery enterprise" busily engaged in discussing the " equal manhood" of the negro, and in earnestly denouncing those who, unable to see it, decline to admit such a thing, and 104 THE H AIE a negro should enter the room with the actual proof of its ex- istence — with the full, flowing beard of the Caucasian, and therefore the outward symbol of an " equal manhood," as the hand of the Eternal has revealed it in the person of the former — the whole Abolition congregation, if not paralyzed with hor- ror, would burst into uncontrolable laughter. The wrongs of the " slave," the cruelties of the master, the " hopes of human- ity," the most doleful stories and the saddest tales of the suffering " bondmen," would be interrupted by screams of laughter at such a ludicrous spectacle as a negro with the majestic and flowing beard of the white man. This outward symbol of complete manhood, or this external indication which typifies the high nature and lofty qualities of the Caucasian, is no more impossible, however, to the negro than that "equal manhood" which is demanded for him, and therefore were the " friends of humanity" to vary their programme and demand an " equal" beard, or that we shall grant the negro the full and flowing beard of the Caucasian, they would render their performances more interesting without giving up any of their " principles," as the absurdity is exactly the same in either case. CHAPTER VIII. THE FEATURES. The features reflect the inner nature, the faculties or specific qualities, and they are distinct or indistinct, developed or un- developed, as we ascend or descend in the scale of being. In the simpler forms of animal existence, there is close resem- blence to vegetable life in this respect ; but ascending to the vertebrata, and especially the mammalia, there is a broad distinction between the head and body, and instead of an unde- fined uniformity pervading the whole exterior surface, the face becomes a centre in which the essential character of the crea- ture is written by the hand of Nature. It is true, that the general form of the body is significant of the grosser qualities. The muscular and motive forces of the horse are evidently de- signed for swiftness ; those of the lion, and the felinaa gener- ally, are designed both for strength and swiftness ; while that of the ox and other mammalia is adapted to a negative kind of strength which results from a combination of all the physical forces, and not, as in the former case, from an excessive muscular development. But the higher qualities, even in animals, are leg- ibly written in the face or features. In the human creation, of course, this external reflection of the inner nature in the features becomes vastly more distinct and real, and in our own race not unfrequently does the face become a very window of the soul, where may be read the sweetest and most exquisite emotions of a sensitive and delicate nature, or, as sometimes happens, the gross and sensual thoughts of a depraved and perverted 106 THE FEATURES. one. There are, indeed, countless and innumerable variations in our own race in this respect, The white or Caucasian men of Asia, of Africa, Europe, and America, are so modified by climate, habits, government, religion, etc., that those ethnolo- gists who are not anatomists have sometimes confounded them, and classed them as distinct species. Even on the same continent, in the same country, sometimes the same fam- ily, these variations are so marked that they always seem to belong to different species. The globular head, broad fore- head, oval cheeks, straight nose, and distinct, well defined lips and mouth, however, whatever may be the expression, always remain the same, and can never be confounded with any other race of men. And these modifications in the Caucasian are not confined to the face, but pervade the whole surface. White, black, and red hair, white skin and brown ones, blondes and brunettes, are often found in the same family. It is even bo in regard to size — some are short and others tall — some pigmies while others are giants — and not unfrequently in the same household, while the same nation exhibits every possible variety in this respect. The Caucasian race alone presents these variations — the other races great uniformity ; and the negro, lowest in the scale, presents an almost absolute resem- blance to each other. Of all the millions that have existed on the earth, their hair not only in color but in form has been absolutely the same, and such a being as a different-colored or straight-haired, or long-haired negro never existed. On visit- ing a plantation at the South, one sees a thousand negroes so nearly alike, that except where wide differences of age exist, they are all alike, and even in size rarely depart from that standard uniformity that nature has stamped upon the race. The entire external surface, as well as his interior organism, dif- fers radically from the Caucasian. His muscles, the form of the limbs, his feet, hands, pelvis, skeleton, all the organs of THE FEATURES. 107 locomotion, give him an outward attitude that, while radically different from the Caucasian, approaches an almost absolute uniformity of character in the negro. His longitudinal head, narrow and receding forehead, flat nose, enormous lips and protuberant jaws, in short, his flat, shapeless and indistinct fea- tures strikingly approximate to the animal creation, and they are as utterly incapable of reflecting certain emotions as so much flesh and blood of any other portion of his body. The Almighty and All- Wise Creator has made all things perfect, and adapted the negro features, as well as those of the white man, to the inner nature, but if it were true that the negro had certain qualities with which ignorance and delusion would endow him, then it would be quite evident that the Almighty Creator had made a fatal blunder in this case, for it is clearly a matter of physical demonstration that the negro features can- not reflect these qualities. The features of the animal are made to express its wants, to reflect the nature God has given it. We witness this every day among our domestic animals — the cat, the dog, the horse, all exhibit their qualities, their wants, their moods, at different times their anger, suffering, and affection, all that their natures are callable of, are reflected in their faces, and we understand them. In our own race, the transparent skin, the deeply cut and distinct features become often a perfect mirror of the inner nature, and reflect the nicest shades of feeling as well as the deepest emotions of the soul. Envy, anger, pride, shame, scowling hate and malignant fear, as well as gentle affection and the most exalted love, are writ- ten as legibly in the face as if they were things of physical form, and their innumerable modifications and variations are wit- nessed all about us, and every day of our lives. How grandly this is displayed in the case of the orator ! This must have been apparent to those who heard Mr. Clay in the Senate, and saw those wonderful changes of feature — one moment convulsed 108 THE FEATURES. with anger, then lit up with genius, or with pride and pomp of conscious power, and in another reflecting, perhaps, all a woman's sweetness or a child's gentleness. Color, of course, is essential to this, for a display of the passions and emotions on the dark ground-work of the negro skin would be as impos- sible as a rainbow at midnight, but without the deeply cut and distinctly marked features of the Caucasian, color would be comparatively useless in reflecting the grander emotions of the soul. Any one referring to his own experience for a moment will see how impossible, as a mere physical matter, that the negro face can reflect the qualities attributed to him by those who are ignorant of his real nature. The narrow and receding forehead, the shallow eyes, flat nose, almost on a level with the cheeks, the protruding and enormous lips, — the only thing that really can be said to be distinct in the negro face, — the tout ensemble without form or meaning when con- trasted with the white man, is, in connection with the color, the dark ground of the negro skin, clearly incapable of re- flecting certain qualities of our own race. The negro has, of course, moral emotions, as have all human creatures, and his face,like that of the Caucasian, is capable of reflecting all his wants, his likes and dislikes, his hopes and fears, but every one who has seen him must know that the higher qualities of the Caucasian cannot find expression in the negro features, and therefore he does not possess those qualities, or, as has been said, the All- Wise and Almighty Creator of all has committed a fetal mistake, and unjustly endowed him with qualities which he is forever forbidden to express ! CHAPTER IX. LANGUAGE. A few years since, an eminent historian, in a public lecture, discussed the probabilities of a universal language as an instru- ment of universal history, and as means for the universal civil- ization of mankind ! Another public lecturer discussing this subject, and on a professedly scientific basis, held that language had a miraculous origin, though the period when this super- natural gift was conferred on man was left wholly to the imagin- ation of his audience. Others, and among them Buffon, Prit- chard, and even several ethnologists, have scarcely risen above this nonsense, while their uses or application of this faculty have been vastly more injurious to science than even, their original misconceptions on the general subject. Language is naturally divided into two distinct and widely separated portions, having no necessary connection, though at certain points or stages uniting and combining together. First, is that universal capacity of expressing itself— its wants, its sufferings, and its enjoyments — which God has given to all His creatures, from the insect at our feet to the Caucasian man standing at the head of this vast and innumerable host of living beings. In the second place, in its structure and ar- rangement into parts or portions of speech ; in short, its gram- matical construction. With the former it is alone or mainly proposed to deal in this place, though it will be necessary occasionally to refer to the latter. As has been said, all living or rather all animal beings have the faculty of expressing their 110 LANGUAGE. wants, and they have a vocal organism in exact correspon- dence with these wants and the purposes for which they are designed by the common Creator of all. Except to a few laborious and enthusiastic students of natural history, the vast world of insect life is a terra incog?iita, but each one of these myriad of beings is adapted to some specific purpose and benefi- cently designed by the Almighty Master of Life for the same universal enjoyment which is so distinctly revealed as the end of their existence in the more elaborately organized and higher endowed classes of animal being. And millions of these mi- nute and often unseen creatures are daily and hourly singing praises to the Almighty Creator for His infinite goodness, rendering the fields and forests vocal with the music of their gratitude and the exuberance of their enjoyment. As we as- cend in the scale of animated existence, the vocal faculty or language becomes still more distinctly revealed, with a vocal apparatus or organism in exact correspondence with the func- tion or faculty that God has given to the being in question. The pigeon, of course, cannot give us the notes of the canary bird, nor the owl sing the songs of the nightingale. The ser- pent cannot exchange his hiss for the growl of the tiger, nor the ass abandon its uncouth utterances for the mighty roar or the majestic voice of the lion. Each is permitted to express its wants, its sufferings, and its joys, and each is provided with a vocal organism specific and peculiar to itself and to its kind, and in accord with the universal law of adaptation which in- separably unites organism with function. This, then, in its elementary form, is language — a faculty common to the ani- mal world, and a necessity of animal existence. It differs in no essential respect in regard to human beings, or it varies no more from that of the animal world than other functions or faculties of the human being. There is, it is true, a point of departure or divergence where the analogies of the animal LANGUAGE. Ill world are no longer applicable to human beings, or where ani- mal beings cannot furnish parallels for those endowed with a moral nature and destined for immortality ; but a vocal organ- ism with its corresponding faculty or function is essentially the same thing in both, and differs only in form and degree among the innumerable beings that compose or are comprised within the vast world of animated existence. While language, there- fore, the voice or faculty by which animals as well as human beings express their wants, is universal and only varied as the structure and nature are varied, and while the vocal organism is in exact harmony with the faculty or function in all cases and in every phase of animated existence, there is also, and oi necessity, a specific modification of this facility in the case of the several human races or species. The vocal organs of the negro differ widely from those of the white man, and of course there is a corresponding difference in the language. The spe- cific or the most essential feature of the negro nature is his imitative instincts, or his capacity for imitating the qualities and for acquiring the habitudes of the white man. This, of course, is limited to his actual juxtaposition with the superior race, for aside from that organic necessity which utterly for- bids its being otherwise, there is no historical fact better attested than that which shows him invariably relapsing into savageism whenever he is left without the restraining support of the former. But for wise and beneficent purposes, God has endowed him with a capacity of imitation, and he is enabled to apply it to such an extent that those ignorant of the negro nature actually offer it as a proof of his equal capacity ! But with all his power to thus imitate the habits and to copy the language of the white man, it is not possible that a single example can be furnished of his success in regard to the latter. With us, and especially at the North, all are negroes who are tainted with negro blood, and thus many persons will imagine 112 LANGUAGE. that they have seen negroes who were a 5 competent to speak our language as white men themselves. But no actual or typical negro will be able — no matter what pains have been taken to " educate" him — to speak the language of the white man with absolute correctness. European ethnologists have, notwithstanding, sought to make language the means for trac- ing the history and determining the character of races, the worthlessness and indeed the absurdity of which only needs a single illustration to expose it. The negroes of Hayti have imitated or copied the language of their former masters, the French, therefore they are of the same race, and the future ethnologists would pronounce them Frenchmen ! As the negro cannot preserve anything that he copies from the Caucasian beyond a certain period, the negroes of that island are rapidly losing all that they obtained from their former masters, and though the educated portion on the coasts, and especially the mongrels, yet retain the French language, those in the interior are rapidly relapsing into their native African tongue. And a century or two hence, when the French is entirely extinct and the existing negro population speak an African dialect, or what is far more probable, speak our own, the ethnological enquirer would decide that those led by Touissant and Chris- tophe in the war of "Independence" were Frenchmen instead of Negroes, because, forsooth, the public documents of the time showed they spoke the French language ! Thus, while language is an important means for tracing nationalities or varieties of our own race, as, for example, the modern Spanish, French, Italian, etc., in connection with the great Latin family of southern Europe, it is simply absurd to apply it to distinct species like Caucasians and negroes. Each race or each spe- cies, as each and every other form of life, is in perfect har- mony with itself, and therefore the voice of the negro, both in its tones and its structure, varies just as widely from that of LANGUAGE. 113 the white man as any other feature or faculty of the negro be- ing. Any one accustomed to negroes would distinguish the negro voice at night among any number of those of white men by its tones alone, and without regard to his peculiar utterances. Tones or mere sounds are of course indescribable, and therefore no comparison in this respect is possible, but all those familiar with the tones of the negro voice know that it is never musical or capable of those soft and sweet inflections or modulations common to our own race. Music is to the negro an impossible art, and therefore such a thing as a negro singer is unknown. It is true that, a few years since, certain amiable people, both at the North and in England, believed for a time that they had secured a prodigy of this kind in the person of the " Black Swan," but after a careful and patient trial, it was found to be a mistake. She was not even a ne- gress, though perhaps of predominating negro blood, and was aided and encouraged by every possible means, especially in England, where she was actually placed under the care of Queen Victoria's music master, but without avail — Nature was superior to art — the laws of God more potent than those of human invention — and the " Black Swan" finally disappeared from public view. The negro is fond of music, as are all other beings, and indeed all animal beings of the more elevated classes, but music is to him merely a thing of the senses. With the white race music is perceived as well as felt — an intel- lectual as well as sensuous thing — and though it by no means follows that intellectual persons, with minds above the common average, should also have musical powers, that sensitive and exquisite organization which is necessary to a musical genius must be united with a brain of corresponding complexity. The brain and the nerves constitute a whole — a system — however widely portions of the latter may diverge in their especial functions, and it is as impossible that the musical 114 LANGUAGE . temperament, or that the elaborate and exquisitely sensuous system of the Caucasian could be united with the brain of the negro, as it would be to unite the color of the former with the legro structure. The negro, therefore, neither perceives nor can he give expression to music — he has neither the brain nor the delicacy of nerve nor the vocal organism that is essential to this faculty — all that is possible to him is a certain approx- imation through his wonderful powers of imitation, but which is less available to him in this respect perhaps than any other. His brain is much smaller, but his nerves are much larger, and his senses are consequently much more acute, and here is the cause of that " musical power" with which ignorant and mis- taken persons have endowed him. Music is felt by the nerves rather than perceived by the brain, in his feet as much as in his head, and with an intensity unknown and unfelt by whites. His imitative instinct enables him to rapidly acquire the lan- guage of his master, but he also loses it with similar rapidity. The negroes imported to the West India Islands, though liv- ing on large plantations, soon acquired the language of the few w T hites, so far as words were concerned, but an organic necessity compelled them to retain the structure of their origi- nal tongue. Thus, those in British islands spoke English, in French islands, French, etc., but the general structure re- mained the same in all, and now, when the external force applied by the several European governments has removed the control and guidance of the superior race, they are rapidly losing the words of their former masters, and in this as well as every other respect returning to their native Africanism. In Hayti, where the imitative capacity has little or nothing to stimulate it, this process is very rapid indeed, and could they be entirely isolated, the utter extinction of the French language would doubtless occur within the present century. CHAPTER X. THE SENSES. The senses are those special organisms that connect us with the outer world through which external impressions are re- ceived and transmitted to the brain — the great sensorium or centre of the nervous system. They are popularly designated as sight, hearing, smelling, touch, and taste, each having its own peculiar organism; some, as sight, exceedingly elaborate, and others, like taste, quite simple, being little more than a delicate expansion of nervous matter spread upon the tongue and lining the inner surface of the mouth. The nervous system includes the brain and the nerves, but is, in fact, an indivisible whole, of which the brain forms the centre, and the nerves the circumference, in exact proportion as we ascend in the scale of being. The centre of the nervous system is in- creased and the circumference diminished as the brain becomes larger and the nerves smaller. Among quadrupeds — the horse, for example — the nerves are enormously large in comparison with the brain of that animal ; and this holds good through- out, so that an intelligent physiologist might determine the possible capabilities of any of the higher order of animals by a simple comparison of the brain and nerves. And in the human creation a single skull of a Mongol, or Malay, or Ne- gro, and especially of the latter, should be quite sufficient tc enable a physiologist to comprehend the essential character of the race to which it belonged. True, he might, as has often happened, mistake it for an abnormal specimen of the Caucasian, 116 THE SENSES. and thus display avast amount of learned nonsense of the Gall- Spurzheim order, but if he knew it to be an actual negro skull, and then compared it with that of the Caucasian, he should be able not only to determine the intellectual inferiority, but the vastly preponderating sensualism of the former. He would see that the relatively small cerebrum, and the large cerebel- lum, must be united with a corresponding development of the senses, and a comparatively dominating sensualism. The mere organism of the senses, of sight, hearing, etc., though of course differing widely from those of the Caucasian, it is not neces- sary to describe, for even in animals of the higher class there is a certain resemblance, and the student of anatomy studies the mechanism of the eye in the ox or horse as satisfactorily as in that of the human creature. The organisms while thus, in a sense, similar — of the eye,for example — in whites and negroes, is more elaborately and del- icately constituted in the case of the former, and therefore it is also vastly more liable to disease, to congenital defects, to strabismus, etc., and especially short-sightedness. The negro, on the contrary, rarely suffers from these things, or even from inflammation of the eyes, so common among white people, and though, in keeping with the imitative instinct of the race, the negro " preacher" dons spectacles as well as white neck-cloth, it may be doubted if there ever was a case of near-sightedness in the typical negro. Though in extreme old age they doubt- less lose the power of vision common to their youth, it is rare that negroes need spectacles at any age. The organism is supplied with a larger portion of nervous matter than in the case of the whites, and the function or sense is thus endowed with a strength and acuteness vastly greater than are the senses of the Caucasian. Travelers and others mingling among savages, Indians, negroes, etc., have observed the extraordi- nary power and acuteness of the external senses, and have THE SENSES. 117 supposed that this was a result of their savage condition, which, calling for a constant exercise of these faculties, gave them an extraordinary development. And Pritchard, carry- ing this theory or notion to an extreme, inferred that men were originally created negroes, for the exigencies of savage life demanded, as he supposed, a black color as well as acute- ness of the senses! Doubtless the civilized negro of America ordinarily displays less strength and acuteness of sense than his wild brother of Africa, but he is born with the same facul- ties, and were the surrounding circumstances changed so as to call them into more active exercise, he would exhibit similar characteristics. The Almighty Creator, with infinite wisdom, has adapted all His creatures to the ends or purposes of their creation. The Caucasian or white man, with his large brain aiid elevated reasoning powers, is thus provided with all that is necessary to guard his safety and to increase his happiness. Inferior races, with smaller brains and feebler mental powers are en- dowed with strength and acuteness of the external senses which enable them to contend specifically with surrounding circum- stances and to provide for their safety. This is strikingly manifest in the North American Indian who marks or makes a trail in the forest which he follows with unerring confidence, though the eye of the white man sees nothing whatever. The descriptions of Indian character in Cooper's novels are in these respects perfectly correct and true to nature, as are all those of the I^dianized white man, Leather-Stocking, Havvkeye, etc. The one depends upon his senses — his sight, hearing, etc., the other on his powers of reasoning or reflec- tion, which in the end enable him to " sarcumvent" his Huron enemies and to win the" victory. Each, according to his "gifts," is able to fulfil the purposes of his creation, and while the supe- rior intelligence of the Caucasian is spreading that race, with 118 THE SENSES . its benign and civilizing consequences, over the whole north- ern continent, the strength and acuteness of his senses have enabled the Indian to resist to a degree all these mighty forces for three hundred years. Some historians have advanced the notion that Rome was overrun by northern barbarians, similar to our North Amer- ican Indians, but if the mighty hordes led by Alaric and Genseric to the conquest of Italy, had been Indians, not one would have escaped to tell the tale of their destruction. A high civilization, rotten at heart, falls an easy conquest to ruder and more simple communities of the same race — thus, the effete and corrupt Roman aristocracy fell before the sim- ple and rude populations of Northern Europe, as the polished and scholastic Greeks had succumbed to the Romans, when the latter practised the simple and hardy virtues of their ear- lier history. In our own times we have seen Spain, long ruled over by an effete and worn-out aristocracy, sink from a first class to a fourth rate power, while France, relieved from the dead weight of " nobility," has in half a century become the leading power of the world. And if the English masses have not sufficient vitality to cast off the mighty pressure of a diseased and effete aristocracy by an internal reform like that which the French passed through in 1789, then it is certain that, at no distant day, the nation will fall a conquest to some external power that has greater vitality than itself, however deficient it may be in wealth and learning, and those refine- ments that pass for high civilization. But while nations ruled over by privileged classes thus carry within them the seeds of their own destruction, and sooner or later fall a conquest to ruder and simpler societies, the intellectual superiority of the white man always enables him to conquer inferior races, what- ever may be the disparity of numbers, and Clive with three thousand Europeans, attacking the Hindoo horde of one hun- THE SENSES. 119 dred thousand, or Cortez invading Mexico with five hundred followers, amply illustrates the natural supremacy of the Cauca- sian race. But, on the contrary, if the Aztecs had had the intellectual capacity of the Caucasian superadded to their own specific qualities — the strength and acuteness of the senses — common to the native race, not alone would Cortez have failed to conquer them, but it may be doubted if all Europe, com- bined together for that purpose, could have accomplished it. There are no examples for testing the capabilities of negroes in these respects, for there is no instance in history where they have contested the supremacy of the white man, the insurrec- tion in Hayti having been the work of the " colored people" and mulattoes, and the negroes only forced into it by their fears after the outbreak was complete. But we have the actual physical facts as well as our every-day experience of the negro qualities, and therefore can arrive at positive truth when com- paring him with the superior race. The large distribution of nervous matter to the organs of sense and consequent domi- nating sensualism (not mere animalism), is the direct cause of that extreme sloth and indolence universal with the race. The small brain and limited reasoning power of the negro render him incapable of comprehending the wants of the future, while the sloth dependent on the dominating sensualism, together with strong animal appetites impelling him always to gross self-indulgence, render a master guide or protector essential to his own welfare. Indeed it may be matter of doubt which is the paramount cause of the negro's inability to provide for future necessities — his limited reasoning power or his indo- lence — his small brain or his dominating sensualism. It is a statistical fact that " free" negroes do not produce sufficient for their support, and consequently that they tend perpetually to extinction, and when it is remembered that the small brain and feeble intellectual power render them incapable of reason- 120 THE SENSES. ing on the future rewards of self-denial, and that the large distribution of nervous matter in the organs of sense, and the consequent sensualism impels them to gross indulgence of the present, and moreover that they are in juxtaposition, and must contend with white people, then it is plain enough to see that it could not be otherwise, and that the total ex- tinction of these unfortunate beings is necessarily a question of time alone. But it is not the mere predominance of the senses, or the strength and acuteness of the sense which so broadly and rad- ically separates whites and negroes. They are entirely differ- ent in the manifestations of these qualities. As has been observed, there are few if any near-sighted negroes, or negroes with other defects of vision, and the sense of smell in negroes permits them to discriminate and to indicate the presence of the rattle snake, or other venomous serpents. And in respect to the sense of touch or feeling, the peculiarity of the negro nature is perhaps most remarkable of all. This sense in the white person, though universal of course, is mainly located in the hand and fingers. Sir Charles Bell, an eminent English surgeon, has written an interesting work — one of the Bridge- water treatises — on the flexibility and adaptation of the human hand, and other volumes might be given to the world without exhausting the subject. The universal law of adaptation, indeed, demands that the sense of touch, the flexibility of the hand, the delicacy of the fingers, should be in accord with the large brain and commanding intellect, otherwise the world itself would long since have come to a stand-still, and human invention ended with the antediluvians. It is true the struc- ture — the arrangement of the bones, muscles, tendons, etc., in short, the mere mechanism of the hand, is essential, but with- out the sense of feeling, or that delicacy of touch found only THE SENSES . 121 in the fingers of the Caucasian, the mechanical perfections of the hand would be comparatively useless. All the nice manipulations in surgery, in the arts, in paint- ing, statuary, and the thousands of delicate fabrics seen every day and all about us, demand both intellect and delicacy of hand, and these, too, in that complete perfection found alone in the Caucasian. The sense of touch, on the contrary, in the negro is not in the hand or fingers, or only partially so, but spreads all over the surface and envelops the entire person. The hand itself, in its mere mechanism, is incompatible with delicate manipulation. The coarse, blunt, webbed fingers of the negress, for example, even if we could imagine delicacy of touch and intellect to direct, could not in any length of time or millions of years be brought to produce those delicate fab- rics or work those exquisite embroideries which constitute the pursuits or make up the amusements of the Caucasian female. The mechanism of the negro hand, the absence or rather the obtuseness of the sense of touch in the fingers, and the limited negro intellect, therefore, utterly forbid that negroes shall be mechanics, except it be in those grosser trades, such as coop- ers, blacksmiths, etc., which need little more than muscular strength and industry to practice them. But the sense of touch, though feeble in the hand or fingers, is none the less largely developed as are the other senses of the negro, and spreads over the whole surface of the body. This is witnessed every day at the South, where whipping, as with Northern children, is the ordinary punishment of negroes. As in all other foolish notions that spring from the one great misconcep- tion — that negroes have the same nature as white people, the " anti-slavery" people of the North and of Europe labor under a ludicrous mistake in respect to this matter. They take their notions of flogging from the practice of the British army and the Russian knout, where strong men are cut to pieces by the 6 122 THE SENSES. " cat" or beaten to death by clubs, and they suppose that pre- cisely similar barbarity is practiced on the " poor slave." And the runaway negro has doubtless added to these notions, perhaps, without meaning it. At Abolition conventicles he is expected, of course, to horrify the crowd with awful tales of his sufferings, but having always had plenty to eat and never overworked, he has really nothing to fall back on but the " cruel whippings," which the imaginations of the former read- ily transform into their own notions, but which, in fact, corres- pond to that which they deal out to their own children with- out a moment's compunction. The sensibility of the negro skin closely resembles that of childhood, and while there are doubtless cases of great barbarity in these respects, as we all know there are in cases of children, the ordinary flogging of negroes is much the same as that which parents, guardians, teachers, etc., deal out to white children, and the " terrible lash" so dolefully gloated over by the ignorant and deluded usually dwindles down into a petty switch in reality. But it is painful to the negro, perhaps more so than hanging would be, for while the local susceptibility of the skin makes him feel the slightest punishment in this respect, the obtuse sensibility of the brain and nervous system generally would enable him, as is often manifest,, to bear hanging very well. Those who can remember being flogged in childhood will also remember the great pain that it gave them, though now in their adult age they would laugh at such a thing. The negro is a child forever, a child in many respects in his physical as well as his mental nature, and the flogging of the negro of fifty does not differ much, if any, from the flogging of a child of ten, and while the British soldier or Russian would receive his three hundred lashes without wincing, the big burly negro will yell more furiously than a school-boy when he receives a dozen Cuts with an ordinary switch. CHAPTER XI. THE BRAIN. The brain is the seat or the centre of the intellect, in short, the mental organism. The " school men" believed that mind, intellect, the reasoning faculty, whatever we may term it, had no locality or organism, but, on the contrary, was some impal- pable, shadowy, unfixed principle that existed as much in the feet or hands as in any other portion of the body. And even Locke and Bacon, while they promulgated the great truths of inductive philosophy, were not sufficiently grounded in its ele- mentary principles to understand clearly the foundation of their own doctrines. Xor did Dugald Stuart, Dr. Brown, or even the great Kant, of more modern times, understand any better the fixed truths on which rest the vast and imperfect systems of philosophy which they labored so assiduously to build up in their day. It remained for Gall, Spurzheim, and their followers to do this — to demonstrate certain great ele- mentary truths which form a foundation, eternal as time itself — for the mental phenomena to rest upon, and whatever ad- vance may be made hereafter in the study of these phenomena, its basis is immovable. Metaphysicians were wont to shut themselves up in their libraries and to analyze their own emo- tions, etc., which when noted down, became afterwards the material for ponderous lectures or the still more ponderous volumes inflicted on society. Rarely, perhaps, were these spec- ulations connected with the brain — indeed it is a rare thing to find a physiologist indulging in metaphysical speculation, while 124 THE BRAIN. the most famous among the " philosophers" were pro foundly ignorant of that organ, though they fancied they knew all about its functions ! The man that should undertake to write a treatise on respiration, and at the same time was utterly ignorant of the structure of the lungs, or to give a lecture on the circulation, while he knew nothing of the blood vessels, would certainly be laughed at, and yet innumerable volumes have been written, and continue to be written,on the functions of the brain or on " moral and mental philosophy," by men who never saw a human brain in all their lives ! Gall and Spurzheim did, therefore^ a great good to the world when they began their investigations of the laws of the mind, by the study of the brain itself as the first and absolutely essential step to be taken in these investigations. It is true, they, and especially their followers, sought to set up a fancy science under the name of Phrenology, and the former thus, to a great extent, neutralized a reputation which otherwise would have secured the respect of the scientific world. And it is also true that others before them had recognized the same truths with more or less distinctness, but it is certain that Gall and Spurz- heim demonstrated and j^laced beyond doubt the great, vital, and essential truth that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that the mental capacity, other things being equal, is in exact proportion to the size of the brain relatively with the body. This truth holds good throughout the animal world, and the intelligence of any given animal or species' of animal, is always in keeping with the size of the brain when compared with the size of the body. The brain is composed of anterior and posterior portions — of the cerebrum and the cerebellum — the first the centre of in- telligence, the latter of sensation, or the first the seat of the intellect, and the latter of the animal instincts, and the propor- tions they bear to each other determines the character. As the THE BRAIN". 125 anterior portion is enlarged and the posterior diminished the creature ascends, or as the anterior portion is diminished and the posterior portion enlarged it descends, in the scale of being. These are the general laws governing men and animals. There is intelligence in proportion to the size of the brain compared with that of the body, and in the former there is intellectual capacity — latent or real — in proportion to the enlarged cere- brum and diminished cerebellum. It is true we see every day seeming contradictions to the laws in question, but they are not so, not even exceptions, for they are not general but uni- versal. Every day we meet people with small heads and great intelligence, with large heads and large stupidities, but a closer examination may disclose the truth that the seemingly small head is all brain, all cerebrum, all in front of the ears, while the large one is all behind, and only reveals a largely developed animalism. And even when this is not sufficient to explain the seeming anomaly, there is a vast and inexhaustible field for conjecture — of accident — where misapplied or undeveloped powers have been the sport of circumstances. A man may have a large brain, great natural powers, in truth, genius of the most glorious kind, and the world remain in total ignor- ance of the fact, and among the countless millions of Europe doomed generation after generation to a profound animalism, there doubtless have been many " mute inglorious Miltons," who have lived and died and made no sign of the Divinity within. On the contrary, there have been men of much dis- tinction — of great usefulness to their fellows and to the gen- erations after them, who, naturally considered, were *on the dead level of the race, but by their industry, perseverance, and energy have left undying names to posterity. Then, again, circumstances have made men great. An epoch in the annals of a nation — great and stirring events in the life of a people — stimulate and call into exercise qualities and capacities that 126 THE BRAIN . make men famous, who otherwise would not be heard of. Our own great revolutionary period furnished examples of this, and still later, we have Jackson, Webster, Clay, Calhoun, and their senatorial cotemporaries, who many doubtless think will never be equalled, though their equals in fret are in the senate now, and only need similar circumstances to manifest that equality. The organism of the race — the species — whether human or animal, never changes or varies from that eternal type fixed from the beginning by the hand of God; and men, therefore, are now, in their natural capacities what they always have been and always will be, whatever the external circumstances that may control or modify the development of these capaci- ties. And the brain being the organ or organism of the mind, as the eye is of the sight or the ear of the sense of hearing, it may be measured and tested, and its capabilities determined, with as entire accuracy as any other function or faculty. Not, it is true, as the phrenologists or craniologists contend, that the brain reveals the character of individuals of the same species, but the character of the species itself, and its relative capabil- ities when contrasted with other races or species of men. This is beyond doubt or question, or will be beyond doubt or question with all those who understand it, and taking the Caucasian as the standard or test, the capabilities of the Mon- gol, the Malay, the Aboriginal American, or negro, may be determined with as absolute certainty as the color of their skins or any other mere physical quality. The brain of the Caucasian averages ninety-two cubic inches, that of the negro seventy-five to eighty-five inches, while the bodily proportions can scarcely be said to vary. There are great variations among whites as to size — there are giants as well as dwarfs, and quite as great variety in the form, — from the " lean and hungry Cassius," to the rounded proportions of a Falstaff or THE BRAIN. 127 Daniel Lambert. But on a Southern plantation of a thousand negroes, sex and age are the only difference or the principal dif- ference that one sees, and a stranger would find some trouble to recognize any other, or at all events to distinguish faces. The brain of the negro corresponds in this respect with the body, and though there are doubtless cases where there is some slight difference, there seems to be none of those wide departures witnessed in these respects among whites. The material, the fibre or texture of the brain itself is li±tl« understood, and though it is quite likely that what we oaB genius is attended by a corresponding delicacy or fineness of texture in the nervous mass, and future exploration in this abstruse matter may reveal to us important truths, at this time little is known in regard to the brain except the great funda- mental and universal law that, in proportion to its size rela- tively with that of the body is there intellectual power, actual or latent. Many, doubtless, fancy that there are immense dif- ferences in men in this respect — that a Webster, or Clay, or Bonaparte are vastly superior to common men — but they have only to remember that the brain is the organ of the intellect, to see its fallacy. The notion has sprung from the habitudes of European society, where a man clothed in the pomp and parade of high rank is supposed to be vastly and immeasurably supe- rior to his fellows, while, in truth, most of these, or, at all events many of these are absolutely (naturally) inferior to the base multitudes that prostrate themselves in the dust at their feet. Nevertheless, there are striking differences in these respects; not more so, however, than in strength of body, beauty of features, difference of hair, complexion, etc. But in the case of the negro there is an eternal sameness, a perpetual one- ness, the same color, the same hair, the same features, same size of the body, and the same volume of brain. All the phys- ical and moral facts that make up the negro being irresistibly 128 THE BEAIN. lead to the conclusion that the Almighty Creator designed him for juxtaposition with the superior white man, and there- fore such a thing as a negro ^genius — a poet, inventor, or one having any originality of any kind whatever — is totally un- necessary, as they are totally unknown in the experience of mankind. Some, with more or less white blood, have exhib- ited more or less talent, possibly even have shown eccentric indications of genius, but among a million of adult typical negroes, there probably would not be a single brain that would vary from the others sufficiently to be detected by the eye, and therefore not an individual negro whose natural capacities were so much greater than those of his fellows as to be recog- nized by the reason. Such are briefly the leading and fundamental facts that con- stitute the mental organism and distinguish the intellectual character of races, that separate white men and negroes by an interval broader and deeper than in any other forms of human- ity, and render an attempted social equality not merely a great folly but a gross impiety. As has been stated, in exact pro- portion to the volume of brain, relatively with the size of body in men and animals, there is intelligence, and as the cerebrum or anterior portion predominates over the cerebellum or poste- rior portion, there is a corresponding predominance of intel- lectualism over animalism in the human races. The negro brain in its totality is ten to fifteen per cent, less than that of the Caucasian, while in its relations — the relatively large cere- bellum and small cerebrum — the inferiority of the mental organism is still more decided ; thus, while in mere volume, and therefore in the sum total of mental power, the negro is vastly inferior to the white man, the relative proportion of the brain and of the animal and intellectual natures adds still more to the Caucasian superiority, while it opens up before us abun- dant explanations of the diversified forms in which that supe- THE BRAIN. 129 riority is continually manifested. There are no terms or mere words that enable us to express the absolute scientific superi- ority of the white man. We can only measure it, or indeed comprehend it, by comparison, but this will be sufficiently intelligible when it is said that the past history and present condition of both races correspond exactly with the size and form of the brain in each. The science, the literature, the progress, enlightenment and intellectual grandeur of the Cau- casian from the beginning of authentic history to this moment, and which have accompanied him from the banks of the Nile to those of the Mississippi, are all fitting revelations of the Caucasian brain, while the utter absence of all these things — the long night of darkness that enshrouds the negro being, and which is only broken in upon when in juxtaposition and permitted to imitate his master, is the result or necessity of his mental organism. There being nothing superior to the Caucasian, it may be said that he is endowed with unlimited powers ; that is, while the mental organism remains the same, his powers of acquisi- tion and the increase of his knowledge have no limit. A gen- eration in the exercise of its faculties acquires a certain amount of knowledge ; this is transmitted to the next ; it, in turn, adds its proportion, and so on, each generation in its turn accepting the knowledge of its progenitors and transmitting with its own acquisitions the sum total to its successors. This is called civilization, and we can suppose no limit to it, except it be in the destruction of the existing order and a new creation. On the contrary, the negro brain is incapable of grasping ideas, or what we call abstract truths, as absolutely so as the white child, indeed as necessarily incapable of such a thing as for a per- son to see without eyes, or hear without ears. In contact with, and permitted to imitate the white man, the negro learns to read, to write, to make speeches, to preach, to edit newspapers, etc., 6* 130 THE BRAIN, but all this is like that of the boy of ten or twelve who debates a la Webster or declaims from Demosthenes. People ignor- ant of the negro mistake this borrowed for real knowledge, as one ignorant of metals may have a brass watch imposed on him for a golden one. The negro is therefore incapable of progress, a single generation being capable of all that millions of generations are, and those populations in Africa isolated from white men are exactly now as they were when the He- brews escaped from Egypt, and where they must be millions of years hence, if left to themselves. Of course this is no mere opinion or conjecture of the author. It is a necessity of the negro being — a consequence of the negro structure — a fixed and eternally inseparable result of the mental organism, which without a re-creation — another brain — could no more be other- wise than water could run up hill, or a reversal of the law of gravitation in any respect could be possible. But people, ignorant of the elementary principles of science as well as of the nature of the negro, fancy that this is quite possible ; that, however inferior the organism of the negro in these respects, it is the result of many centuries of savagery and " slavery," and therefore if he were made " free," given the same rights with the same chances for mental cultivation, that the brain might gradually alter and become like that of the white man ! This involves gross impiety, if it were not the offspring of ignorance and folly, for it supposes that chance and human forces are more potent than the Almighty Creator, whose work is thus the sport of circumstances. They would seek by stimulating the mind to add ten per cent, to the negro brain — then to add to the cerebrum while they diminished the cere- bellum — certainly a work of much greater magnitude than changing the color of the negro skin ; but even the most igno- rant or the most impious among these people would scarcely undertake the latter operation. If reason could at all enter THE BRAIN. 131 into the matter, it would surely be more reasonable to suppose that mind might be changed by acting on matter, rather than the reverse, and therefore it would be better to change the color of the skin, as the first, as it would also be the most prac- ticable,step to be taken in this grand undertaking of setting aside the Creator and re-creating the negro. But, after all, their labors would fail— after they had changed the color, after they had increased the volume of the brain and duly modified its relations as well as altered its texture— in short, when they had turned him into a white man, then all would be in vain, for such a brain could no more be born of a negress than an elephant could be! CHAPTER XII. GENERAL SUM. MARY. In the several preceding chapters, those outward character- istics that specifically distinguish the negro have been briefly considered. It has been shown that color, the hair, the figure, the brain, etc., are simply facts out of many millions of facts that separate the races ; that each and all of them are original, invariable, and everlasting, and the exception, or the absence of any of them, or of any of the associated facts not enumera- ted^ any time,in the case of a single individual or any gener- ation, or under any possible circumstances of time, climate, or external agencies whatever, is, or would be, necessarily impos- sible. Nature is always true to herself, and even in those abnormal specimens sometimes presented to our observation — those so-called monstrosities — there is, properly speaking, no departure from her original designs, or from those fixed and eternal laws that govern organic life. We sometimes see Albinos, but except a certain tinge to the color, itself totally unlike any color in other races, the absolute negro, that i the millions of facts that constitute the negro being, are un- touched. We witness all kinds of abnormal development in our own race, in animals, in the vegetable world, in all the innumerable beings and things that surround us. For example — let any one spend an autumn day in the forest, and turn his attention to the strange and often ludicrous sights that sur- round him. It often seems as if nature delighted herself in u eating odd and uncouth shapes, as if intended for relaxation GENERAL SUMMARY. 133 and relief from her graver and grander labors. But even here there is no violation of the higher law — the order of nature though very often interrupted by accident, is never contra- dicted — the abnormal development, the most uncouth and mon- strous consequences are still pervaded by the eternal decree stamped upon the whole universe, that forbids forever any change in the minutest atom of this mighty mass of life. The Albino, the deformed or monstrous Negro, the seemingly wide departure from the normal standard, still obeys the higher law. All the peculiarities that distinguish him from his race are sui generis, without any approximation or resemblance to the white man. So, too, with the latter, and so, too, with all monstrosities in the'lower animals. The things that constitute the monstrosity, that separate the creature, Or seem to do so, from his own kind, separate him also from other species, whether of men or animals. The eternal gulf, the impassable barrier, the decreed limits fixed by the Creator himself, are never passed. A negro, with the color, or the hair, or the language, or the brain, or the sense of touch, or taste, or sight of the Caucasian, would not be a monstrosity but an impossi- bility. He might differ very widely from his own race in any one. of these things, as we actually witness in the case of Albinos, in fact might retain scarcely any outward resemblance to his kind, and yet exist ; but none has ever had, or ever will have, an existence that has any thing in common with the white man, for that would contradict the universal order of God himself. Such being the fact, all that is external or tangible to the sense being thus widely, immeasurably, and indestructibly different from the Caucasian or white man, it is obvious that, in all beyond the outer surface, the same relative differences must exist. It was originally intended to demonstrate this in detail — to show the actual anatomical facts and structural dif- 134 GENERAL SUMMARY. ferences in the organs, the tissues, the systems, down to the minutest atom of the bodily structure. It was designed to present the reader with numerous plates, showing all this — the minutest particle, the single globule of blood, even, painted after the employment of the microscope, being suffi- ciently palpable to the sense, to show that the primordial atoms of the negro structure are as specifically, and relatively as widely, different from the white man's as the color, the hair, or any of those outward qualities that confront us daily in the streets. But this would have added so much to the expense of the work, as to often place it out of the reach of the day laborer and working man, those who alone, or mainly, need to understand the great " anti-slavery" imposture of our times, and the world-wide conspiracy against their freedom, man- hood and happiness, which has so long held them in abject submission to its clamorous pretences of philanthropy and hu- manity. Nor is it at all essential. A moment's reflection or consideration is quite sufficient to convince any rational mind that the outward differences must have their counterpart in the entire structure. Of course any thing exceptional — a blem- ish, a congenital deformity on the surface — has no correspond- ing relation with the interior, but that which is specific, uni- form, and invariable, as the color, the hair, the features, etc., must of necessity pervade the tout ensemble of being, whether human, animal, or vegetable. The apple, pear, peach, etc., have their own specific features externally, and their corre- sponding qualities internally. The shad differs from the salmon in its absolute structure equally with its outward appearance. The whole anatomical arrangement of the horse differs as widely from that of the ass as the outward features vary, And the entire bodily structure of the negro, down to the mi- nutest atom of elementary matter, differs just as widely, of course, as the color of the skin or other external qualities, from GENERAL SUMMARY. 135 those of the white man. It is equally palpable to the reason that the nature of the negro, his instincts, all the faculties of his mind, and all the functions of his body, are pervaded by the same or by relative differences from those of the Caucasian. To suppose otherwise is not to suppose a monstrosity, for, as has been remarked, monstrosities, however wide the departure from the normal standard, are sui generis, without any approx- imation to different beings — but such things are simply impos- sible. As it is plainly impossible that any being could exist half like or half unlike any other creature, so, too, it is obvious that beings with different structures could not possess the same qualities or manifest the same nature. Can any one imagine an apple with the qualities of the pear or peach, or even of another apple that differed from it in its material struc- ture? Can it be supposed that a lion could ever have the nature of the tiger, or panther, or cat, or of any of the felina ? Can it be. believed that a bull-dog ever manifested the nature of a hound, or that the mastiff or spaniel could be made to exhibit the specific qualities of either ? No, indeed. Nature makes no mistakes, nor does the Almighty Master of life per- mit His creatures to violate or transcend His eternal decrees. It being, therefore, an invariable, indestructible, and eternal law, that the outward qualities are exactly harmonized with the interior structure down to the minutest atom of elemen- tary particles and equally invariable and everlasting that the organism is in harmonious correspondence with the functions, the instincts, in a word, the nature, we are able to understand, with absolute certainty, the specific qualities, and to approach with tolerable certainty the relative differences and actual in- terval that separate the white and black races. The figures of the plate in the opening of this work indicate these vital and all-important truths. The first figure exhibits the typical Caucasian, not the culti- 136 GENERAL SUMMARY. vated man of our time, but the " barbarian," the Oriental— the cotemporary with David, Solomon, Cyrus, and others of re- mote antiquity. The second figure is the Negro of the same period, as found on the monuments, and, at the present time, in all those portions of Africa where the negro is isolated, and there are no debris of other races existing among them. By himself he never changes in his outward manifestations. One generation is as a million of generations, and therefore the thousands now annually imported into Cuba are seen to be just as this figure represents him four thousand years ago. Nor is the figure of the Caucasian changed, for though the American of to-day is at an immeasurable distance in knowl- edge, the actual physical and intellectual man remains the same as this figure represents him four thousand years ago. Both figures have the same color, and yet the specific differ- ences are none the less palpable — the Caucasian and Negro type being equally distinct and widely different. The third figure is an American — a white man of to-day — whose intellectual development, refinement of mind and man- ners, costume and habitudes are widely different; nevertheless, the physical qualities and specific capabilities are the same as those of his Oriental ancestors of by-gone generations. The fourth figure is an American Negro, but a typical Negro without taint or admixture with other races. His fea- tures, moulded and softened by juxtaposition with the Cauca- sian, present a great improvement, certainly, over the isolated or African type, but the organism, the actual physical and mental nature remains the same. The white man is least and the negro most affected by exter- nal agents, such as climate, time, systems of government, etc. The fourth figure in contrast with the isolated negro of Africa, exhibits a certain degree of improvement, progress, or advance that illustrates the actual capabilities of the race when placed GENERAL SUMMARY. 137 under circumstances favorable fo its development. The size of the brain, the actual organism and absolute nature, of course, remains unaltered, just as all these things remain unchanged and unchangeable in the uneducated white laborer of our own times ; but the negro, in juxtaposition with the superior race, becomes educated, and all his latent capabilities fully devel- oped. Thus, while the color, the hair, the entire organism is just what it was thousands of years ago, and what it must be forever, or as long as the present order of creation continues, there is a certain modification in the features and still greater changes in the expression. The uncouth and uneducated Eu- ropean laborer contrasted with the educated classes, or with the generality of Americans, exhibits a wide difference, not so much in the features as in the expression ; and though the negro in Africa is in a far more natural position, relatively consid- ered, than the European laborer, the negro in our midst ex- hibits, perhaps, even a greater difference over his isolated brother. And if we suppose, for a moment, that the masses of English laborers Avere educated, fed on the same fare, and subject to the same circumstances as the English nobles, then we may form a reasonable estimate of the relative advance of the American over the African negro. The former would dif- fer in no respect whatever from the privileged and educated class, and if all the negroes of Africa were brought here or were placed in juxtaposition and natural relation with the superior race, they would exhibit the same characteristics com- mon to our so-called slaves, and the fourth figure in this plate would doubtless present a typical illustration of them. A good many people, ignorant of the laws of organism, suppose that our negro population have made a great advance over the wild and barbarous tribes of Africa, and, as shown by the second and fourth figures in the plate, this is so, but it is only in the outward expression, while the essential nature is ever 138 GENERAL SUMMARY. the same. The negro infant, for example, brought from Africa and placed under existing circumstances in Mississippi, would be represented by the fourth figure, while the infant born here and carried to Africa to grow up with the wild tribes of the interior, would, on the contrary, be illustrated by the second figure of the plate. There are a multitude of moral considerations involved, of course, and that cannot be measured or tested by material illustrations, but we may form a reasonable estimate of the superiority of condition and of the greater happiness of the negro over his African brethren, by a simple comparison of these figures. As has been observed, it corresponds with the difference between the educated and non-educated white man, but it is greater, for the negro is more affected by external circumstances, and therefore while the actual size and relations of the negro brain and the specific nature of the negro are unalterable, the outward form of his head as well as the expression of his face is strikingly improved over that of the typical African. In general terms, it may be said, that the " American slave" is educated and the isolated African negro is not ; that the former is civilized and the latter a barbarian ; that, though in a sense in a natural position (for he multiplies in Africa), he is in his normal condition only when in juxtaposition and natural relation to the superior white man. It is sometimes supposed that the negro is incapable of progress, and so, of course, he is when isolated from the superior race, but when placed in his normal condition, and his imitative capacities called into action, he is capable of progress to a certain extent. God, while endowing him with widely different and vastly inferior faculties, has gifted him with imitative capacities so admirable, that those who are ignorant of his real nature mistake them for those of the white man. Like children, like the inferioi GENERAL SUMMARY. 139 animals, and like all other inferior races, he naturally imitates the superior being ; but beyond this general tendency common to all subordinate creatures, there is a peculiar capacity in the negro in this respect, which, more than anything else, war- rants us in terming it the specific feature of the race. Placed in his normal condition, he becomes intelligent, civilized, pious, industrious, and if his master is a man of refined mind and dainty habits, the negro becomes so, even more than children who imitate the habitudes of their parents. Thus, it will be seen on Southern plantations generally, that they correspond with their masters, and if the habits and practices of the for- mer are moral and Christian-like, the negroes approximate to the same standard. On the contrary, if they are under the guidance of coarse and brutal masters, or are left with nothing to imitate but the habits of a gross and tyrannical overseer, then they become idle, vicious, and thieving ; and take every chance that offers to run away from their homes. In speaking of negro education, of course no such meaning as that applied to white people is intended. Reading, writing, arithmetic, etc., have no relation or connection with the devel- opment of the negro powers. He simply needs to be in a position where the imitative capacity with which God has so beneficently endowed him is most completely called into action, and, as has been observed, he then becomes an industrious, moral, and well-behaved creature, or he is idle, sensual, vicious and worthless, just as the master or overseer pleases to make him. There are doubtless exceptional instances, but with* all the wide-spread and boundless effort of the ignorant and de- luded people in England and America to seduce them from their homes, there are probably but few negroes — real negroes — who ever abandoned their masters, unless their education had been neglected. The instinct of the negro is obedience to his master, and the strongest affection of his nature — far above 140 GENERAL SUMMARY. that for \iis wife or offspring— is for the master who feeds, guides, and cares for him, indeed is his Providence ; and his utter horror of migration, unless it be with his master, these qualities, so dominant m the negro, would be or might be made a barrier of protection against outside seductions, were they properly understood and appreciated by those having them in charge. This negro education, civilization, progress in fact, which the negro is capable of when in his normal con- dition, and his imitative capacities are permitted a healthy de- velopment, of course is rapidly lost when isolated from the white man. If the four millions now in our midst were sud- denly left to themselves, but a few years— probably within fifty— everything that now distinguishes them— that is, all that they have imitated from the superior race — would become extinct. Leaving out of the consideration mulattoes and mongrels, and taking into view simply the negro — the four millions of negroes of untainted blood which now exist in our midst — it is reasonable to say that, fifty years hence, there would not be one that would speak his present language, that would be a Christian, that would retain his name, or any other thing what- ever which he now possesses and has imitated from his mas- ters. This may seem a startling declaration to many who live in daily contact with these people, while by those ignorant and deplorably deluded parties who fancy that they are engaged in a work of humanity when seeking to undo the work of the Almighty Creator, by turning black into white and the negro into a Caucasian, it will scarcely be understood ; but it in- volves a truth that may be easily and plainly illustrated. A very large portion of our negroes are the children and grandchildren of those brought from Africa, and not a few, perhaps, were themselves brought in by the " slave trade," which it will be remembered was continued down to 1808. GENERAL SUMMARY. 141 Now of all these there probably is not one that can speak the language of his progenitors, not one that retains his Afri- can religion or the slightest relic of African history or tradition, not one with even an African name, and if they have thus rap- idly lost all that they possessed of their own, that was original and specific, of course, if isolated from their masters, they would still more rapidly lose that which they have imitated from a superior race. . Such, then, is the negro— the lowest in the scale as the Cau- casian is the most elevated in the human creation— a creature not degraded— for none of God's creatures are degraded— but that is widely different and vastly subordinate to the elabor- ately organized and highly endowed white man. The specific qualities are not matters of opinion but of fact, that appeal to our senses at every step, but the specific differences and actual intervals that separate races, though often susceptible of suc- cessful illustrations, must to a great extent be determined by experience. The author has attempted to define these differ- ences in some essential respects, and believes he has succeeded with sufficient exactitude to warrant correct conclusions in respect to the almost innumerable things that could not be discussed nor even alluded to in a work of this kind. We have this race among us— they or their descendants must re- main an element of our population forever. It is doubtless the design of the Almighty that the Caucasian and negro, under certain circumstances which will be considered elsewhere, should exist in juxtaposition, and therefore a specific knowl- edge of this race, and its true relations to our own, is the most vital and indeed transcendent question or consideration that was ever presented to a civilized and Christian people. Nor can this be delayed or pushed aside, for even now the nation is rapidly drifting into serious difficulties and possibly terrible calamities, in consequence of that wide-spread ignorance and 142 GENERAL SUMMARY. misconception prevalent in regard to the negro's nature and his true relations to the white man. The blind and stupid warfare wao-ed so long upon the domestic institutions of the South, has doubtless thus far injured the negro most, and it may be de- monstrated with ease that the worst and most brutal master ever known could not inflict so much misery on the negro as the so-called friend of freedom, who, in utter ignorance of the negro nature, would force him to live out the life of a widely different being. But the time has come when this ignorance and delusion threatens to involve the whole framework of American society, and nothing but the simple truth — the re- cognition of the actual and unchangeable facts fixed eternally by the hand of God, can save the nation from dire calamities. JE> A. R T II. CHAPTER XIII. MULATTOISM AND MONGRELISM. All the generic and specific forms of life are governed by their own peculiar laws of interunion, and hybridism or hybridity is therefore a phenomenon of varying character, having, it is true, certain resemblances in those instances which approach each other, but absolutely different in all cases. Naturalists have sometimes made great blunders in this re- spect, for they have assumed that hybridism was governed by the same laws in all cases, and therefore sought its application or inferred its presence in instances the most remote and con- tradictory. The most extraordinary, and, indeed, inexcusable instance of the kind has been seen in the efforts made to con- found the distinctions of race, and to pervert truth into the most shameful and what would seem to be the most palpable falsehoods. It has been assumed by naturalists of high char- acter that different genera never produce offspring, that the offspring of different species are incapable of reproduction, and that varieties are unlimited in their powers of virility. If, therefore, there were doubt in respect to the character of certain (supposed) genera, and it was found that offspring fol- lowed a conjunction of sexes, in this particular instance, it "was inferred that they were merely different species. And if the product or progeny of these species were found to be 144 MULATTOISM AND MONGRELISM. equally virile, then it was inferred that they were all originally of the same species, and nothing but varieties. This test, so simple that it can hardly be mistaken, serves with sufficient accuracy to determine the real character, and when the natur- alist properly applies the laws of hybridity, that is, admits a modification of these laws in all cases or in all the different genera subjected to his examination, then he is armed with suf- ficient data to render his labors accurate and effective. But however pains-taking or correct in other particulars, when he assumes that hybridity is a unit, and rigidly applies this in all cases, or to families widely remote in other respects, his labors, from this defect, must be comparatively valueless. The instance already referred to, where hybridity was thus presented, was as follows : — The mule, as is well-known, is the offspring of the horse and ass. It does not, in its turn, repro- duce itself, therefore the horse and ass were different species. Prichard and others applied this test, or marked this test, in the case of human beings, of whites and negroes, and proved by it that they were of the same species. It was seen that white men cohabited with negro women, and the offspring in turn, reproduced itself, and consequently that the parents were of the same species. Or, as this has passed as current coin hitherto, and seemed perfectly satisfactory, indeed wholly un- answerable to naturalists and men of science as well as others, it is best, perhaps, to place it in distinct and categorical terms before the reader. 1st. It is universally admitted by natural- ists that incapacity in the offspring to reproduce itself demon- strates the different species of the progenitors, while, on the contrary, a capacity in the offspring to beget offspring in its turn demonstrates similarity of species in the progenitors. 2d. The mule, or the offspring of the horse and ass, does not reproduce itself, therefore the horse and ass are different species. 3d. The mulatto offspring of the white man and negro woman MTJLATTOISM AND MONGEELISM. 145 does beget offspring, therefore the white man and negro woman are of the same species. This was the assumption and the reasoning of Prichard and other European ethnologists, and if hybridity were a unit, or principle of rigid and uniform character in all cases, in human beings as in animals and vegetables, in the case of the white man and negress, exactly as in that of the horse and ass — then, indeed, would the inference seem unavoidable that whites and negroes constituted in fact a single species. But they were guilty of two fundamental errors in this matter — an error of fact, and an error of reasoning, or perhaps it would be more correct to say that both were errors of fact. At all events, facts that demonstrate difference of species in whites and negroes beyond possibility of doubt were distorted into proofs which seemed to demonstrate sameness or similarity of species with equal certainty. Hybridity, as has been said, is not a unit, is not a fixed, uniform law or principle. A moment's consideration is suffi- cient to convince any intelligent mind of this truth. Each form of life has necessarily its own character, its own specific qualities, and the laws governing its reproductive powers must be in correspondence, and just as differently manifested as any of its specific qualities. To suppose that the laws of the phe- nomena governing the reproductive functions of the horse and ass are exactly similar to those manifested in the case of human beings, is as absurd as to suppose that the term of ges- tation, the length of life, the mode of their locomotion, or any other qualities — should be exactly the same in both cases. But nothing more need be said. It is perfectly obvious that the laws of reproduction must be radically different in the human creatures, and therefore the inference of Pritchard and others, that whites and negroes were of the same species, because the mulatto, unlike the mule, did reproduce itself, is simply absurd. 7 146 MULATTOISM AND MONGEELISM. But they were still farther and still more vitally mistaken in respect to their assumptions of fact. The mulatto, literally speaking, or in the ordinary sense, does beget offspring, but mulattoism is as positively sterile as muleism. The phenom- enon of hybridity is manifested, as has been stated, in confor- mity with the nature of the beings concerned, and as the human creatures are separated by an almost measureless as well as impassable distance from the horse and ass, the laws of hybrid- ity are, of course, correspondingly different. Instead of a single generation, as in the animals referred to, sterility in the human creatures is embraced within four generations, where a boundary is arrived at as absolutely fixed and impassable as the single generation in the case of the former. But in order to understand the matter clearly, it is proposed to present the reader with the preliminary principles or facts, and inductive facts, that lead to this vital and all-important conclusion. It is all-important, not as demonstrating beyond doubt the vital and fundamental truth of distinct species, for that is a self-evident and indeed unavoidable truth that meets us at every step, and confronts our senses almost every hour or day of our lives. But mulattoism is a subject of stupend- ous importance in itself, and as the public are generally, and the " anti-slavery" writers especially, profoundly ignorant of it, and of all the laws that govern it, it is proposed to present the elementary principles or basis on which the whole subject rests.* 1st. In the case of the white man cohabiting with the n egress, or " married" to a negro female, there will be a more limited progeny than if she were married to one of her own race. * The author has devoted much time and labor to this interesting subject,, and, together with his own and the observations of friends and correspond- ents, covering several thousand cases of the mixed blood, is able to deduce the general laws as stated in the text, and with entire confidence In their essential accuracy. MULATTOISM AND MONGKELISM. 147 2d. The mulatto offspring of this connection intermarrying with other hybrids, will exhibit still less virility. 3d. The offspring of the former again intermarrying with hybrids equally removed from the original parentage, shows a yet greater diminution of virile power. 4th. By still intermarrying with hybrids, and of a corre- sponding remove, virility is correspondingly decreased. 5th. Finally, the fourth generation of mulattoism is as abso- lutely sterile as muleism, and though there may be, at rare inter- vals, a possible exception, yet, in every practical sense, and for all the purposes of philosophic inquiry, it maybe assumed as the natural and impassable barrier of this abnormal and exceptional form of being. Of the essential correctness of these laws, or their data, almost every one living in the South, or perhaps in the larger cities of the Middle States, will be able to satisfy himself, if he will take the trouble to investigate the matter. He need not pursue the subject to its ultimate end, or to an extent necessary to arrive at all the results here presented, but he may, with comparatively trifling attention to it, satisfy himself of the tendencies involved, and that there is somewhere at least approximating to these laics a fixed and absolute bar- rier beyond which mulattoism can not exist. All the dealers in " slaves" and many " slave owners" know this from obser- vation and individual ' experience, and while entirely ignorant of any thing like the scientific formulae here presented, not a few among the former have actually stated it to the author in total unconsciousness that either he or any one else had ever thus formalized the essential character of mulattoism. But there is a very important feature of this matter, which, not understood or overlooked, may lead astray those who under- take its investigation. As has been said, hybridity is a pheno- menon to be tested and determined by the nature of the beings involved, and as it must be wholly different in the human 148 MULATTOISM AND MONGRELISM. creatures from that manifested in animals, and life is limited to four generations in the case of mulattoes, while the mule is confined to a single generation, so, too, must the mere quality or capacity of offspring be taken into consideration. The mule is remarkable for its powers of endurance — the mulatto for its fragility and incapacity to endure hardships. A northern climate is fatal to the negro, but the same climate is still more fatal to the hybrid, for his approximation to the Caucasian, and therefore capacity for a northern clime, is more than balanced by his constitutional tendencies to fragility and decay. Thus, of the ten thousand free negroes in Massachusetts, whom, " freedom" and climate together, were there no more external additions, must finally exterminate, the last man among" them would be a typical negro, or, at all events, approximating nearest to the typical standard. But it is in the female hybrid that this tendency to decay, or this vice of constitutional formation, is most apparent. Many of them are incapable of nourishing or taking care of their offspring, and, together with miscarriages and the numer- ous forms of disease connected with maternity, they are often found to have had a large number of children, not one of whom reached maturity. In taking into view, therefore, the sterility of mulattoism, we must have regard to its vices of formation as well as its limited virility, and that nature completes her processes, whether of growth or decay, through many dif- ferent forms ; and while mulattoism is as absolutely confined to four generations as mules are to a single generation, the former result is worked out through constitutional fragility and limited longevity as much, perhaps, as by an imperfect reproductive capacity. It is seen, therefore, that Prichard and the European ethno- logists made a radical mistake in this matter, and the very proofs which they relied on to establish their single-race theory, MTJLATTOISM AND MONGEELISM, 149 or that whites and negroes were of the same species, actually prove the precisely opposite fact, that they are of different species. Not only is the phenomenon of hybridity different in human beings, from that peculiar to animals, but it differs in the different races of the former. The author's inquiries on this subject have been limited to the white and negro races or species, but the evidence presented to his observation, during the war with Mexico, was sufficiently authentic to warrant the conclusion that hybrids have greater tenacity of life, when the offspring of whites and aborigines, than in the case of whites and negroes. The former approximate closer to our own race, and it is only reasonable to siqmose that, in precise proportion to this fact, or to this starting point, is the hybrid offspring endowed with vitality ; and the same rule may be applied with equal certainty to all the other species of men. The sexual instinct, or the instinct of reproduction, is uni- versal in animal existence. It is that which multiplies its kind, that peoples the earth and fills the world with innumerable tribes of beings and endless processions of generations, each after its kind exhibiting the same qualities and subject to the same laws as the original types, without the slightest atom of change, though countless generations intervene between them. In respect to human beings endowed with reason and moral feeling, it is evidently designed by the Almighty Creator of all that the instinct of reproduction should be held in subjec- tion to those higher qualities. Nevertheless, instinct in re- spect to the sexual functions is strikingly manifest in the lower races of mankind. When white men — travelers and explorers — suddenly make their appearance in African villages, where they were never before seen, the females run and hide themselves from their sight ; and among the multitude of white prisoners captured by the aborigines of this continent, there has probably never 150 MT7LATT0ISM AND MONGEELISM. been an instance of the violation of their persons by their savage captors. In respect to the so-called insurrection of negroes in Hayti or San Domingo, where, though all of the white blood, men, women, and children in their nurses' a-ms were remorselessly butchered by the terror-stricken blacks, there are no authenticated instances of the violation of white females. A negro insurrection — that is, a revolt of the negro from the rule of the white man, to obtain the liberty of the latter — is simply nonsensical : as entirely so as to suppose an insur- rection to obtain the complexion or any other physical attri- bute of the superior race ; but should some white miscreant, as attempted lately at Harper's Ferry, delude " slaves" to slaughter the families of their masters, there need he little or no apprehension in respect to that hideous and monstrous idea so prominent in abolition writings — the violation of the per- sons of white females. It is true, hybrids and mongrels might perpetrate such monstrous crimes, but the negro — the typical, pure-blooded negro — driven on by his fears and dread of the master race, would only seek its extermination, never the indulgence to him of such unnatural propensities. The instinct of reproduction in animals is governed by fixed laws ; but, as has been said, designed by the common Creator to be ruled by the reason and subjected to the moral affections in the higher human nature ; nevertheless, the ignorance and corruption of our social life have perverted these designs, and covered society with blotches and ulcers horrible to contem- plate. In this city alone there are said to be ten thousand pros- titutes — lost creatures, so lost that nature denies them offspring, to reproduce themselves, to form a link or have a place in the mighty processions of their kind, that stand out distinct and accursed, dead though alive. And yet each of these blasted ones was created with capacities of love, of affection, of receiv- MULATTOISM AND MONGRELISM. 151 ing and conferring happiness boundless and measureless. God made them pure and beautiful, and man has transformed them into beings so vile, that their very existence must not be recog- nized by the pure and virtuous! God created them but a little lower than the angels — man has perverted them into something scarcely better than devils ! What an awful perversion of the instincts of reproduction — of that great vital and fundamental law which animals obey without any violation of it, but which we, in our lofty nature and God-given powers, have thus transformed into such hideous shapes and worked into such sickening and diseased results ! The sexes are equal in numbers, and therefore nature designs that all men should marry — that one man should be united to )ne woman — that they should always be attracted to each other by the affections, and, in their love and companionship, their care for their offspring, for their home and its sweet enjoyments, it offers them rewards the purest, the most ex- alted, as well as the most rational, that our being is capable of feeling. And yet the sad spectacle is presented every day and all about us, that that which God designed should be the source of our greatest happiness is perverted into the most loathsome and most hideous of social miseries ! What maybe the causes or the principal causes (for there are doubtless many) of this hideous ulcer at the very heart of modern society, it is need- less to inquire — the actual or proximate cause is the perversion of the sexual laws — the violation of the instincts of reproduc- tion wholly unknown among animals and comparatively un- known among the subordinate races of mankind. It is the proud Caucasian — the large-brained and gloriously endowed Caucasian — who mostly exhibits this terrible crime against the higher law, and who thus awfully sins against God and his own nature. Such a thing as prostitution is unknown among negroes — among the aborigines of this continent, and scarcely 152 MULATTOISM AND MONGRELISM. perceptible u^iong Mongols or Chinese. There are, it is true, great vices, shocking indecencies and beastly practices among the Mongols and other subordinate races, but prostitution — the indiscriminate sale of the bodies as well as the desecration of the souls of women for money, as practiced openly in all the great centres of Christendom, is peculiar to the Caucasian alone — to that exalted and highly endowed race which God has so gifted and placed at the head of all other races of man- kind. Mulattoism is to the South what prostitution is to the North — that is, those depraved persons who give themselves up to a wicked perversion of the sexual instincts, resort to the mongrel or " colored women" instead of houses of ill-fame, as in the former case. Such a thing as love, or natural affection, never has nor can attract persons of different races, and therefore all the cohabitations of white men and negro women are abnor- mal — a perversion of the instincts of reproduction. This a original sin," as it may well be termed, carries with it, by in- evitable necesssity, certain consequences, and the declaration of Holy Writ, that the children are punished to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their fathers, is literally true in a physiological sense. The precise laws governing the genera- tion of mulattoism have been already stated, and need not be repeated in this place, but it may be well to remember that the offspring constantly diminishes when hybrids intermarry with hybrids of the same remove, until, reaching the fourth genera- tion, it loses all generative capacity as absolutely as the mule. With this radical and fundamental vice of organization, it will be readily seen that mongrelism can never become an important or dangerous element of population. Mr. Clay once advanced the opinion that the mixed blood of the South was rapidly in- creasing, and therefore a time would probably come when the negro blood would be absorbed by the whites, and the negro MULATTOISM AND MONGKELISM. 153 life be utterly extinct. The ; gno ant abolition writers have made much of this opinion of Mr. Clay, but whatever the general intellectual superiority of that distinguished gentleman, any common sense person must know that his ignorance of the laws of organization renders his opinion on this subject of no value whatever. Two hundred or one hundred years ago, the proportion of the sexes among the white people was doubtless less equal than now, and therefore those abnormal cohabita- tions of white men with negro women were more frequent than at present. But after a certain amount or number of the mixed blood these cohabitations would take that direction, and, as at present, would be mainly confined to the hybrid and " colored" women. And in view of the fragility, sterility, and almost universal tendency to disease and disorganization in this mixed and mongrel element, it is seen at a glance how impossible it is that it should ever be of sufficient amount to threaten the safety or even to disturb the peace of Southern society. In proportion to the normal population or to the pure blood, it is doubtless less than it was fifty years ago, and it may even become less in the future, but it is wholly and abso- lutely impossible that it can ever exist in larger proportion than at present. This vicious intercourse with the mongrel women at the South, of course, has no resemblance or relation to amalgama- tion ; but it is ignorantly or wilfully thus confounded by the abolition writers of the day. Amalgamation is reciprocal union of the sexes, such as that between the Normans and the Anglo-Saxons in England — that occurs constantly between the natives of this country and those who have migrated here from Europe, and indeed as occurred in Mexico and other Spanish provinces, where the Spanish conquerors, who brought few Spanish females with them, sought wives among the natives or Indian races. The white blood of the South, like 154 MTJLATTOISM AND MONGRELISM. that of the North, is pure and untainted, and a white woman so lost and degraded as to mate with a negro, would not be permitted to even live among negroes in a Southern commu- nity. Occasionally a monstrous indecency of this kind does occur at the North, but they are usually English or other foreign-born persons, and unless there was some moral or physical cause — some disease of body or mind which rendered her incapable of self-guidance,, it can hardly be supposed that an American-born woman ever committed such an indecent outrage upon her own womanhood, and sin against God, as to mate with a negro. At the South, as has been said, such a thing is altogether impossible, for the woman would not alone be driven from the society of her own race, as at the North, but she would not be permitted (if known) to live even among ne- groes ! Amalgamation can never occur at the South, and scarcely needs an exposition in this place ; but as it is now ac- tually taking place in Jamaica and other islands, and, to a cer- tain extent in Cuba, and, moreover, such a monstrous social cataclysm is necessarily involved in the theory or idea of the abolition of " slavery," it is well enough, perhaps, to give it an explanation. There are about four millions of negroes in this country, and if, for the purposes of illustration, we may suppose the theory of anti-slavery ism to be finally reduced to practice, the follow- ing results must or would occur: — Four millions of whites would form marital unions with these negroes — the men tak- ing negresses to wife, and the females negroes for husbands, ending with the next generation, of course, in mulattoes and the extinction of negroes. The third generation would absorb the mulattoes and end in quadroons ; the fourth generation would manifest a corresponding diminution, and a time come when every atom of negro blood would disappear as utterly as if there had never been a negro on this continent. The popu> MTTLATTOISM AND MONGEELISM. 155 lar notion would be, perhaps, like that of Mr. Clay, that amalgamation of the races would absorb the negro blood, it being the smaller element, and this would remain forever float- ing in the veins of posterity. But this could not be: it would die out, and in time become totally extinct. If, for example, one hundred of the leading and influential Abolitionists of the day should practically live out their own doctrines — should be placed on some island in the Pacific Ocean, each with a negress as wife, and utterly excluded from intercourse of any kind with the rest of mankind, they and their posterity would, after a certain time, utterly perish from existence. In the second generation whites and negroes alike would be extinct — that which the hand of the Eternal had fashioned, fixed, and designed for His glory and the happiness of His creatures would be blotched, deformed, and transformed by their own wickedness into mulattoes, and could no more exist beyond a given period than any other physical degenera- tion, no more than tumors, cancers, or other abnormal growths or physical disease can become permanent conditions. The fourth generation, as stated elsewhere, with diminished and diminishing vitality, would impart such feeble glimmerings of life, that their immediate progeny would be as absolutely limited in their powers of virility as mules, and the whole mass of disease and corruption would disappear from the earth, which God has forbidden it to desecrate any longer by its foul and disgusting presence.* But contemplating the subject ° Royalism, or a Hereditary Aristocracy, or class that attempts to create a permanent superiority over the great body of the people by incestuous inter- marriage with its own members, is punished with similar results as those tint attend the violation of the sexual relations of different Races. And the idiotic, impotent, and diseased offspring of hereditary kings has always a certain physiological resemblance to the effete and sterile mulatto. Both are violations of the normal order, and both are limited to a determinate ex- istence, just as any other diseased conditions which naturo forbids to live. 156 MTJLATTOISH AND MONGEELISM. in mass, or practical abolitionism, as it would work itself out among the millions, if we are permitted, for the purposes of illustration, to suppose such a monstrous and stupendous crime against God and our own being as the actual and prac- tical development of the theory, widely different results would naturally follow. As has been said, four millions of our own white race would be involved in this monstrous maelstrom of amalgamation with the subject race, while the remaining twenty millions would be left untouched and unpol- luted by the physical degradation that must needs follow such a stupendous sin as practical abolitionism. But they would not escape the moral deterioration, and the nation, weighed down by mulattoism, by such an ulcer on the body politic, by such a frightful mass of disease and death, would doubtless fall a conquest to some other nation or variety of the master race, and again become English provinces or dependencies of some other European power ! Nations are punished in this life, however it may be with in- dividuals, and a sin so enormous, a crime and impiety against God so awful, an outrage on their own nature so boundless and bottomless as practical abolitionism, or the actual living out of the abolition theory, would drag after it, as an inex- orable necessity, a corresponding punishment. History is pregnant with examples of this inevitable law. Nations after nations have risen, flourished, decayed, and died on the African continent ; millions upon millions of white Chris- tian men have existed in the valley of the Nile alone ; three hundred Christian bishops have met in convention on the site of ancient Carthage, when London was unknown and Rome itself the seat of the heathen Caesars ; and now, of the five hundred millions of Caucasians known to have existed on that continent since the Christian era began, there are probably not one million of typical white men left to tell the tale of their MULATTOISM AND MONGRELISM. 157 destruction, or to mourn over the desolation brought upon them by the crimes and sins of their progenitors. The vastly preponderating white element would doubtless save us from similar consequences, should we ever commit such a hideous crime as that involved in the practical application of the aboli- tion theory ; but, as has been said, we would most likely fall a conquest to some European power. But should this fate not overtake us, should we be left to struggle with the load of sin and disease thus brought upon ourselves by our crimes against reason and the ordinances of the Eternal, the nation would in time slongh off mulattoism, and finally recover from the foul and horrible contamination of admixture with the blood of the negro. The twenty millions of pure and untainted blood would increase so rapidly over the diseased portion, that finally every trace, atom, and drop or globule of the latter would be utterly extinct, and though the time for this process to work itself out, or for the white race to recover its healthy and natural condition, cannot be estimated with any certainty, such would needs be the final result. This same process, though the parties are directly reversed, is now in active oper- ation in Mexico, and all the Spanish-American States. The Spanish conquerors brought few countrywomen with them, and therefore sought wives among the natives or aboriginal race, and amalgamation became universal in all the Spanish provinces, the result of which has been the generation of a vast and wide-spread mongrelism. The Spanish dominion usually embodied in the pure blood, not from any prejudice against the mixed element, but from jealousy of the native born, preserved order and general prosperity. But the over- throw of this dominion brought the mongrel element into power, for though Iturbide, Santa Anna, Bravo, Bustamente, Parades, all or nearly all the chiefs of Independence were of pure Castilian blood, it was the mongrel element that oveiv 158 MULATTOISM AND MONGRELISM. threw the Spanish power and established the republic. Span- iards were constantly migrating to the American possessions of the Spanish crown, but, with the overthrow of the Spanish dominion, this supply of white blood was cut off, and instead of the generation of mongrelism, from that instant the repara- tory process began, which can only end in sloughing off the mixed blood, and the restoration of the aboriginal race to its natural and healthy condition, ?is it was before the Spanish conquest and the admixture of the white element. This mixed or mongrel element is found in the cities, but it is rap- idly declining. Mexico had, at the era of Independence, two hundred thousand inhabitants. It has now little over one hundred thousand people. Pueb.la, Perote, Jalapa, all the cities of Mexico decline in similar proportion, while the rural population — the pure, untainted, aboriginal element — though placed under great and striking disadvantages, holds its own, and were it guided and cared for, as it was one hundred years ago, would doubtless rapidly increase in number. Nor is it alone the fragility, feebleness, the vicious organization and im- perfect vitality of mulattoism, or of the mongrel element, that is thus rapidly diminishing the population in Mexican cities. The morale of mongrelism partakes of the physical deformity, and the vices of the mind are as striking and constant as the defects of the body. A creature with half the nature and wants of the white man united in the same existence with those of the Indian, is confronted with another, perhaps three- fourths white, while on the other side of him is one who has three-fourths Indian blood, and a population made up of such materials is necessarily and perpetually at war with itself. Hence in all the revolutions of Mexico there is no design, no common object that unite men in common purposes, no sense, reason, or common impulse whatever, except to destroy, to overturn, to seize power to-day without any purpose for to- MTJLATTOISM AND MONGEELISM, 159 morrow. And this goes on, and must go on until nature re- pairs the outrages inflicted on her, until mongrelism dies out and the aboriginal or Indian element is restored to its pristine condition, until every atom of the white blood is extinct and the Indian race is again what it was at the time of the Spanish conquest. The subject opens up questions of mighty import to us, and possibly, as Mr. Calhoun believed, great dangers to our people and the future of civilization ; but if understood— if American legislators and statesmen comprehend the real char- acter of these vast populations south of us, known as the Spanish-American republics, and apply to them the true prin- ciples of social and political economy, when the time comes to deal with them, there need be little or no apprehension in re- gard to the results. Meanwhile, the solution of these problems is every day becoming simpler and more easily understood. The mixed blood is rapidly dying out ; a time must come when it will be wholly extinct, and then the white American will stand face to face with the native, a race which, whatever may be our experience of it in the North, is easily governed, and as has been said, if understood, there need be little or no appre- hension of danger or difficulty in regard to it. The same process is going on in Jamaica and other islands, though here it is the negro instead of the Indian that is in issue. An idea or assumption was set up in England that the negroes of these islands were black white men— men like them- selves, except in color — and therefore naturally entitled to the same rights ; and a party sprung up that at last induced the British Parliament to " abolish" the existing relations of the whites and negroes, and to place them on the same political and legal level. The white people protested against this wrong and outrage on reason and common sense, but it was of no avail. Their cry for mercy was unheard — at all events, 160 MULATTOISM AND MONGRELI8M. disregarded— and the helpless and outraged whites are nc w in process of utter extinction by amalgamation. The same political and legal status leads, of course, to the same social level, and it, in turn, to the general admixture of blood. A white woman is not likely, even under these un- natural circumstances, to desecrate her womanhood by mating with a negro, though public sentiment forces her to associate with them. But this woman marries a man with one-eighth or one-fourth of negro blood, without hesitation, and the woman of this shade readily mates with a mulatto, and the latter with the 'typical negro. Thus, while natural instinct shrinks from such a crime against nature and such an impiety toward God as the marriage or mating of the pure types, the outward force of legal and political systems impels all shades of mongrelism in the direction of the preponderating element ; and a time must come when the white blood, becom- ing extinct, the negro will relapse, of course, into his native Africanism. The outward presence of a foreign government impels the unhappy white people of these fertile and beautiful islands into this monstrous violation of the laws of organization, and cer- tain ultimate social destruction ; but the power of the govern- ment also restrains the negro element from a rapid collapse into its native Africanism. In Hayti, where all external or governmental influence is withdrawn, the negro nature already strongly manifests its normal savagery, when no longer re- strained by the master race, and the worship of Obi or Fetieism, and even the native African dialect, is becoming common to many districts in that island. In general terms, it may be said that the exact moment when the white blood becomes extinct is also the instant when Africanism is perfectly restored, but the outward presence of the British government on the islands, and of the Colonization Society in Liberia, will prevent the com- MULATTOISM AND MONGRELISM. 101 plete development of this otherwise natural and necessary law. That the white blood of Jamaica must be absorbed, or rather must die out, is a necessity, an effect, a fate that is unavoid- able — the final end being alone a question of time. A foreign government, as has been said, regardless of the protests and the cry for mercy of its unfortunate people, forcibly changed their relations to the subordinate race. It declared the negroes the legal and political equals of the whites ; this necessarily led to social equality — that, in its turn, to the marriage of whites and quadroons — quadroons with mulattoes, and mulattoes with negroes ; thus the process, beginning with the act of the British Parliament abolishing " slavery," ends naturally and necessarily in the social immolation and final extinction of the white people of that island. All the links in the chain are continuous — all the series of events dependent on each other — all the steps of the process naturally united ; the emancipation, the legal equality, the social level, the admixture of blood, and the ultimate extinc- tion, are part and parcel of the same awful crime against nature and against God, against the laws of organization and against the decrees of the Eternal. The end, therefore, of these things must be the restoration of the pure Indian type on the main land and that of the negro in the islands ; and, as has been said, though the time needed for the completion of this repara- tory process — for such it is, physiologically considered — may not be determined with certainty, it can not be very distant, and were white men to stand aloof and permit the process to work itself out, without interference, it is quite probable that a hun- dred, or, at most, a hundred and fifty years hence, there would not be a drop of white blood found south of our own limits. Mulattoism is an abnormalism — a disease — a result that brings suffering unspeakable as well as extinction— that is un- avoidable ; and, in view of this fate brought upon them by a 162 MULATTOISM AND MONGRELISM. foreign government, who can doubt but that the total slaugh- ter of the white people of Jamaica would have been merciful, in comparison to that forced upon them by the abolition of " slavery," and equality with negroes ? Or will any one suf- ficiently informed on this subject, who understands the physical and moral suffering involved or inseparably linked with the mixed blood, doubt for a moment that, as a question of humanity, it would be vastly more humane to slaughter all the negroes in our midst, rather than apply to them the abolition theory, or rather than doom them to legal equality, to amalga- mation, to mulattoism, mongrelism, and that final unavoidable extinction that necessarily attends the minor element under these circumstances ? But in addition to the physical suffer- ing attending the process of extinction in Jamaica, it was, or is, or must be, the annihilation of Caucasian intelligence, of civilization, of ail that God has bestowed upon His creatures that is exalted and glorious, and therefore the crime perpetrated, however blindly or well-intentioned, must stand out in future ages the most awful and impious ever known in human annals. Such is a brief outline of the physiological laws governing mulattoism and mongrelism — that abnormal or diseased condi- tion which results from admixture of the blood of separate races or species of men. Its mental and moral features are equally distinct and discordant, though less susceptible of ex- planation or of being classified, as in the case of the merely physical qualities. As a general principle the mongrel has intellectual ability in proportion as he approximates to the su- perior race. This is a necessary truth ; there is mental capacity or intelligence, latent or actual, in exact proportion to the size of the brain, in animals, indeed, as well as human beings, as cer- tainly and invariably as there is muscular power in proportion to the size and form of the muscles ; but this principle is hardly a guide or test in respect to the moral qualities of the mixed MULATTOISM AND MONGRELISM. 163 blood. There is scarcely anything or any phase of the general subject that has so blinded and led astray u anti-slavery" writers as this subject of mulattoism ; for they were not only ignorant of it, but never dreamed for a moment that there was any such thing in existence, and constantly assumed in their reasonings (?) that the mulatto was a negro, and therefore presented him, and even the quadroon, as an evidence of the mental capacity of that race. One of these people would find his way to Eng- land or the North, was educated, became an editor, physician, priest, sometimes even an author, on a small scale perhaps, at all events a public lecturer, to whom white men and women listened with the utmost gravity, and perfectly satisfied them- selves of the mental equality of the races, for here was a negro who talked the same language, had the same ideas, and was quite as eloquent as the general average among white men. Even the Abbe Gregoire labored under this very absurd and very general misconception, and wrote a book giving the biog- raphy of fifteen negroes to prove the mental equality of the races, not one of whom was a negro at all ! Some mules are doubtless superior to some horses, but no mule was ever equal to the average horse ; and doubtless some mulattoes have been superior to some white men, but no mulatto ever did nor ever can reach the intellectual standard of the Caucasian. What nonsense it would be to point out a favorite mule to show that asses were the equals of horses ; yet this nonsense, or similar nonsense, is practised every day by those who rely upon mongrels and hybrids to prove the mental capacity of the negro ! Indeed, quadroons, and even mongrels, with only one-eighth of negro blood, like Roberts, the President of Libe- ria, have been quoted as illustrations of negro character and accepted as perfectly satisfactory by the blind followers of the equally blind teachers of Abolitionism. The fact that such a thing as an " educated" mulatto exists at all among us, 164 MULATTOISM AND MONGEELISM. as long as we have uneducated white men, is a disgrace to the nation, to our institutions, to our social development ; and in England it serves as a test of social wrong and wickedness frightful to contemplate. As has been said, no mule was ever equal to the average horse, so no mulatto was ever created equal to the standard white man ; yet in England there are eight millions unable to read or write, and through human in- stitutions rendered inferior to the " educated" mulatto ! The moral qualities of the mixed element are less definite, but every one's observations, as well as history and statistics, tend to the same general conclusion — the greater viciousness of the mu- latto when compared with either of the original types or typi- cal races. This essential truth, common to all exceptional and abnormal conditions, is universally manifested amou^ " slaves" at the South, " free" negroes at the North, mestizoes in Mexico, or the whilom hybrids of Hayti. The mongrels of Mexico — the so-called Leperos — are thieves, ladrones, robbers, and assas- sins, not like the Italian bravos of a former age, who, to a cer- tain extent, redeemed their horrible crimes by a kind of chival- rous daring which gave their victims some chance for life, but secret, crouching, and cowardly assassins, who never attack where there is the slightest danger to themselves. They crouch, concealed in the shadow of a wall or door-way, en- veloped in huge cloaks, with the exception of the arm that wields the keen, narrow-bladed, and double-edged knife, which is plunged in the back of the hapless victim, and then they invariably run away, unless supported by their vile compan- ions. In the field they never face white men except when their numbers are overwhelming, and they give no quarter; but if themselves defeated, their cry for mercy is so intolerable in its groveling clamor, that the victor is disposed to dispatch them at once to get rid of it. With diminished vitality, and less hold on existence than the pure blood, the mongrel, while MTJLATTOISM AND MONGKELISM. 165 utterly reckless of life in respect to others, clings to it himself and shrinks from death with an abject terror rarely or never witnessed in the original races. The typical negro, for exam- ple, though brave enough when led by his master, shrinks iu terror from the face of the lordly Caucasian when not thus supported, and a score or two of the latter in the open field would doubtless drive a thousand negroes before them like sheep to the slaughter. But a negro condemned to die, to be hanged, to be burned even, rarely manifests dread or apprehen- sion of any kind. His imperfect innervation, his sluggish brain, and low grade of sensibility, render him incapable of anticipating that terrible physical suffering from which the elaborate and exquisitely organized Caucasian suffers under these circumstances. So, too, the Indian — " the stoic of the woods — the man without a tear," as the poet Campbell, and others ignorant of his nature, have represented him — a crea- ture, according to their absurd fancies, fashioned on the Ro- man model, with the self-poised and philosophical indifference to outward things of a Seneca, and the calm contempt of phys- ical suffering of a Cato, but who, all this time, in his grosser organization, has none of the white man's perceptions of phys- ical pain, and therefore sings his death-song in total unconscious- ness of that which to us is the extreme, or supposed extreme, of physical suffering. This organic insensibility of the lower races to physical pain, Avhich renders them indifferent to the approach of death, is sometimes equalled, and perhaps surpassed, as regards the out- ward expression, by the dominating n oral forces in the case of the higher organized Caucasian. Lamartine has said that the mistress of Louis XV., the notorious Duchess Du Barry, was the only person sent to the guillotine during the reign of terror that asked for mercy, or- shrank with terror from the approach of death. Not men alone, but women, even del- 166 MTJLATTOISM AND MON6EELISM. icately nurtured young girls, who, under ordinary circumstan- ces, would faint on witnessing the death of a sparrow, ascended the steps of the guillotine without a tear or the quiver of a muscle. They died for an idea, and a false one at that, but they believed it true and immutable as heaven itself, and the exaltation of the mind over the body, the dominating moral forces over the laws of the physical being, enabled them to meet .death without a murmur, and, as regards the outward expres- sion, to seem as indifferent to the physical pain involved, as the Indian or the negro, whose lower organization is incapable of such suffering. But the mulatto or mongrel has neither the physical insen- sibility of the inferior nor the moral force of the superior race, and the instinctive consciousness of his feeble vitality renders him the most cowardly of human beings. The generals and leaders of the mixed blood in Spanish-America, as well as those of Hayti, have been as much distinguished for their monstrous vices, their treachery, cowardice, sensuality, and ferocity, as for any special ability they may have displayed. The cruel and despotic government of Spain, when desirous to crush the revolutionists, invariably trusted the bloody work to mongrel chiefs, who just as invariably exceeded their orders, and when directed to decimate a town or village, often massacred the entire population. The mongrel generals of Hayti were even more ferocious and bloody, if not surpassing in treachery and cowardice the Indian mongrels of the Continent. Rigaud, the most dis- tinguished of the Haytien chiefs, was also the most repulsive in his enormous and beastly vices. Christophe and Dessa- lines were negroes, and they simply acted out the negro in- stinct under those unnatural circumstances. They remorse- lessly slaughtered all the white men, women, and children of the island that they could find, for when the negro rises MTJLATTOISM AND MONGEELISM. 167 against his master, it is not to conquer but to exterminate the dreaded race ; and the helpless infant or its frightened and des- pairing mother touches no chord of mercy in the souls of these frantic and terror-stricken wretches when forced or betrayed into resistance to their masters. But the mongrel leaders, and especially Rigaud, were mere moral monsters, whose deeds of slaughter were alternated with scenes of beastly debauchery and unnatural and devilish revelry, such as could neither orig- inate in the simple animalism of the negro nor with the most sensual, jJerverse, and fiendish among white men. But we have this viciousness of the mongrel displayed con- tinually before us at the North as well as at the South. Nine- tenths of the crime committed by so-called negroes is the work of the mongrel — the females almost all being as lewd and lascivious as the males are idle, sensual, and dishonest. The strange and disgusting delusion that has fastened itself on so many minds at the North seeks to cast an air of romance over these mongrel women — these "girls almost white" — and in negro novels and on the stage represent them as " victims of caste," and often doomed to a fate worse than death to gratify the " vices of the whites." And a diseased sentimentality, as in- decent as it is nonsensical, is indulged by certain "pious ladies" in respect to these "interesting" quadroons, etc., who are almost always essentially vicious, while their own white sisters falling every hour from the ranks of pure womanhood, are un- heeded, and their terrible miseries totally disregarded. Finally, it scarcely need be repeated that mongrelism is a diseased condition — a penalty that nature imposes for the vio- lation of her laws — a punishment that, by an inexorable neces- sity, is inflicted on the offspring of those who, in total disregard of her ordinances, of instinct, of natural affection, and of reason, form sexual interunions with j:>ersons of different races, but which, like all other abnormal conditions, is confined within fixed limits and mercifully doomed to final extinction. CHAPTER XIV. THE "SLAVE TRADE/' OR THE IMPORTATION OF NEGROES. In the preceding chapters of this work it has been shown that the human family, like all other forms of being, is com- posed of a certain number of species, all having a general resemblance, but each specifically different from the other- - that the Caucasian and Negro are placed by the will of the Al- mighty Creator at the two extremes of humanity — the former being the most superior and the latter the most inferior of all the known human races ; that the physical structure or organi- zation is always and necessarily connected with corresponding faculties or functions, and therefore the more prominent physi- cal qualities of the negro have been presented, in order to illus- trate his mental and moral nature. It has also been shown that the all-powerful instinct (prejudice) which revolts at the commingling of the blood of different races (stronger even with the negro than our own race) springs from a fundamental organic necessity, impelling us to preserve our structural in- tegrity, and if disregarded and violated, it carries with it a corresponding penalty, and the miserable progeny, like all other abnormal conditions, is limited to a determinate exist- ence ; that that which the Eternal hand has moulded and fash- ioned is also eternal, and beyond the power, caprice, ignorance, or wickedness of His creatures, to change or modify ; and therefore all the departures from the typical standard — all forms and degrees of the mongrel or mixed blood — are doomed to final extinction. Here we have, then, four millions of a "the slave trade." 169 widely different race in our midst, and though we of the pres- ent generation may not be responsible for their presence among us, and are only called upon to deal with the fact itself, with- out regard to its origin, the subject is of profound interest, and however current or unanimous the opinion may now be against the original " slave trade," it is believed that a larger knowl- edge and a more extended acquaintance with the facts em- braced in that subject will finally result in a total change of popular (American) opinion. And what American will not rejoice at such a result, if, when all the facts are known and tested by reason and conscience and the dictates of a true humanity, it is found that, however censurable the means em- ployed may sometimes have been, the " slave trade," the origi- nal importation of African negroes by our ancestors, was right? The negro, as has been shown, from the necessities of his organism — the size and form of his brain — is, perforce, when isolated and by himself, a savage — an idle, non-advanc- ing, and non-producing savage, and history, ancient and mod- ern, in a word, all human experience, confirms this physiological and material fact. African travelers, finding occasionally the debris of Caucasian populations and the remains of Mahometan civilization, have told fanciful tales about negro industry, thrift, and morality, while dreamers at home have indulged in even more absurd fancies still in regard to the future of Africa. But why go to Africa to theorize about the negro, when we have him here, and subject to our senses as well as our reason? Why speculate on impossible assumptions, when the negro brain may be seen any day at a medical college, and its incapacity — its organic and inherent incapacity — to be any thing else, or to ever manifest any thing else, but just that which all human experience confirms and assures us must be, as it always has been, the destiny of this race, when left to itself? To talk of the civilization of the negro of Africa is like 8 170 "the slave trade. talking of the change of color of the negro, for it involves the same absurdities, the same impossibilities ; and were not those who indulge in it utterly ignorant of the subject, one might say the same impieties, for the assumption that they can change the intellectual nature which God has given the negro, is as grossly impious as if they were to undertake his physical re- creation. The negro, therefore, isolated in Africa, as has been said, must be in the future what he has been in the past, and with- out a supernatural interposition, must remain forever a simple, non-producing, and non-advancing savage. Can this have been the design of the Almighty? There are some things we are not permitted to know, that it is impious as well as foolish to seek to know, that the Almighty, in His infinite beneficence as well as wisdom forbids us to inquire into, or rather to attempt to inquire into ; but in all that is necessary to our happiness and for the well-being of the innumerable creatures that surround us, we may know, indirectly, it is true, but none the less cer- tainly, the design of the Almighty Creator. All things are obviously designed for use — all the innumer- able hosts of living creatures for specific purposes ; the natures of many are known to us now ; every day is adding to our knowledge, and a time will assuredly come when the nature and purposes of the most ferocious of wild animals and the most venomous of serpents will be clearly understood and ap- plied to their proper uses. It is, therefore, the obvious design of the Creator that the negro should be useful, should labor, should be a producer, and as his organism forbids this, if left to himself, it is evidently intended that he should be in juxta- position with the superior Caucasian. It is equally obvious that the tropical latitudes endowed with such exuberant fer- tility were designed for cultivation, for use, for the growth and production of those indigenous products foimd nowhere else ex- 171 cept within the tropics and tropicoid regions of the earth. The organization of the Caucasian utterly forbids physical labor under a tropical sun. He may live there, enjoy life, longevity, the full and healthy spring of all his faculties, without lassitude or any of that weight upon his energies which ill-informed per- sons have supposed followed a residence in these climes, but he can not cultivate the earth or grow the products of the soil by his own labor. The negro organism, on the contrary, is adapted to this production, and the rays of a vertical sun stimulate and quicken his energies, instead of prostrating them, as in the case of the former. In another place this sub- ject will be fully discussed, and therefore it will be sufficient in this place to simply state the fact, that the labor of the negro can alone grow the indigenous products of the tropics, and without this labor the great tropical centre of the American continent must consequently remain a barren waste. The introduction of negroes into the Spanish islands of the "West Indies can, therefore, hardly be called an accident. Xegro servants were introduced into Spain by the Arabian and Moorish conquerors. From time immemorial negro k * slaves" were the favorite household servants of the oriental Caucasians — not alone because they were the most docile and submi->ive of human beings, but because they were the most faithful and absolutely incapable of betraying their masters, and scarcely a Moorish family of consideration entered Spain without being accompanied by some of these trusty and favorite servants. The recent Portuguese discoveries and conquests on the African coasts had also brought many negroes into the Peninsula, and when Columbus and the Spaniards began their settlements in the Xew World, there were negroes to be found in almost every town in Spain. The conquest of the miserable natives of His- paniola and Cuba, and their partition among the Spanish adven- turers, failed to gratify their fierce desire for wealth, and from 172 "THE SLAV the brutality of their masters, the still lurking desire of these poor creatures for their former condition, or, it may have been, as declared by the Spanish writers, their original feebleness of constitution, they rapidly faded away in the mines and on the plantations, and more vigorous laborers became an abso- lute necessity, if cultivation, progress, and civilization were to be carried on in these islands. It was thus a material and in- dustrial necessity, rather than any fancied humanity on tfie part of Las Casas and his friends in behalf of the Indians, that carried negroes into the Spanish islands. Some accompanied the earliest adventurers ; they were seen to be safe, and to re- main perfectly healthy when Spaniards themselves were con- stantly smitten down by the fierce suns and deadly malaria of the tropics, while instead of the drooping and listless air that distinguished the natives, these negroes were the most joyous and contented of human beings. The interests of civilization and of a true humanity were, therefore, united with the humane desires of Las Casas and his friends in respect to the natives, and negroes soon became the sole reliance of the planters and others to whom lands had been assigned by the Spanish princes. Modern writers — Helps, Prescott, and others — laboring under the world-wide miscon- ceptions of our times in regard to negroes, have expressed aston- ishment at the (to them) strange inconsistency of Las Casas, who, laboring so earnestly in behalf of the Indians, quite unconsciously aided in substituting the negro, and thus, as they suppose, laid the foundation or led the way to the enslavement of one race, while working for the freedom of another. But neither Las Casas, nor any one else, had any notion of freedom or slavery in connection with these negroes. Such a thing as a free negro was doubtless unknown in Spain or anywhere else, or, if known, it was simply because he had lost or strayed from his master. History does not, it is true, cast much light on the subject, but THE SLATE TBADE." 178 it ,s cerfaun that neither Las Casas nor any of his cotempora- nes had any conception of negro freedom, or associated with that race any other condition or social statns than that which modern writers have universally designated as negro slavery Nor was he laboring for the freedom of the Indians, as that term is now understood. Many, perhaps most of those who defended the natives from the oppressions of the Spaniards were prompted solely by religious zeal. These poor « heath ens," they held, were entitled, not to freedom, to political or socml nghte of any kind, but to the rights of religion, to par- t.cpate m the Holy Sacraments, to enjoy the privileges which the Church promised to all who would accept them, and as the ferocity of the Spaniards constantly interfered with this hunted them down and slaughtered them without mercy, or rapidly .destroyed them by hard labor and the excessive burthens heaped upon them when they no longer resisted their invaders, the priests generally, and many others, sought to defend them. Las Casas, who seems to have been a generous and noble- hearted man, devoted himself for many years, indeed a whole life-fame, to the cause of the natives, but at no time or in any way was he laboring for their freedom or to secure to them social or political rights of any kind. Other priests labored to secure their spiritual welfare, or what they believed to be this whde Las Casas, though a profoundly religious man, sought their material preservation, and to save them from that direful late of total extinction which even then was threatened, and which finally has been so complete, that at this moment there is not one single descendant of these people left to tell the tale of their destruction. The popular notion, therefore, that Las Casas was the author or originator of the "slave trade " and of American (negro) "slavery," in order to "free" the native race, is altogether groundless. 174 It originated, as has been stated, in an industrial necessity— and while he assented to it, with the humane belief, doubtless, that it would tend to benefit the native race in relieving it from the excessive and fatal burthens imposed by the Span- iards, his assent or dissent could have no influence whatever on the subject. And as he was not laboring for the freedom of the natives — for nothing whatever but their mere material preservation — of course he could have no doubts or anxieties ^n regard to negroes in that respect, and when he saw them re- sisting alike the deadly malaria of the climate and the brutality of their masters, and contented and happy, he doubtless felt that it was a wise and beneficent arrangement of Providence that had thus adapted them to their condition and to the fulfil- ment of the great purposes of civilization and human progress. The supply of negro labor in San Domingo, Cuba, and other islands, was followed, however, by extensive importations for the main land, and finally the trade, falling into the hands of the Dutch and English, became a world-wide commerce, and negroes were taken into every nook and corner of the New World where there were found buyers, or where the traders could dispose of their human cargoes. And here begins the wrong side of the matter — the cruelties, injustice, outrages, and inhumanities which, together with the false theories, morbid philanthropy, and a certain amount of falsehood, have made the term " slave trade" synonymous with everything that is di- abolical and devilish that the imagination can conceive of. The Spanish government of the day limited the introduction of negroes, and provided for an equal number of females, and encouraged the importation of children ; indeed, while there is no reason to suppose that they ever contemplated the negro as abstractly entitled to the rights claimed for them in our times, it is certain that both the governments of Charles V. and Philip II. did regard them as human, and made every provi- "the slave trade." 175 sion that was proper for their kind and humane treatment, both in regard to their passage from Africa and their treatment on the plantations. But when the physical adaptation of the negro had become so clearly demonstrated in the Spanish islands, the British and Dutch merchants began to import them in such multitudes, and the prices fell so low, that it would not pay to import women and children, and then began that nameless and unspeakable outrage, not merely on human but on animal nature, which has distinguished this trade ever since, and, to the disgrace of all Christendom, which at this moment distinguishes it io the neighboring island of Cuba — the sepa- ration of the sexes and the violation of the rights of reproduc- tion. Instead of a simple supply of negro labor essential to tropical production, and which violated no instinct, want, or necessity of the negro nature, ships were now fitted out on speculation; cargoes of men, as mere work-animals, were obtained in Africa and carried to any port where there was a chance of a market, not in the tropics alone, but all over North America ; and the British Provinces of New England, as well as Cuba and Porto Rico, became the marts for traffic in human beings. This accounts for the great mortality of these people in the islands. In general terms, it may be said the negro will work no more than he ought to work ; that is, nature has so adapted him that he can not be forced in this respect ; but when they could be purchased so cheaply, the master had lit- tle interest in their health, and together with the very small native increase going on, the mortality vastly preponderated. The New England as well as the Middle States were fully sup- plied with these cheap negroes, but they never were profitable, and the laws of industrial adaptation has steadily carried their descendants southward. The " slave trade," after the first fifty years of its com- mencement, up to the American Revolution, may be said to 176 "THE SLAVE TRADE." have been in the hands of the British mainly, of the merchants of Bristol and Liverpool. These traders, as has been said, made it a mere matter of commerce, dealing in it just as they did in any other article of commerce, and many of the largest fortunes in England are believed to have had their foundations laid in this traffic. So far as the colonists participated in it, they approached somewhat to the earliest Spaniards, and though there were more males imported than there were fe- males, the horrible practice of the islands, which forbade these people to fulfill the command of the Almighty, and multiply their kind, did not prevail to any considerable extent. Nature always recovers from the outrages committed on her laws, and though no legislation or human means has sought to remedy the disproportions of the sexes, they are now probably equal, though of the imported progenitors of our negroes probably two-thirds at least were males, and though even a larger pro- portion than this were imported into Northern ports, there are now scarcely a quarter of a million in the Northern States, while the descendants of those imported into the North have expanded into four millions at the South ! What a lesson these facts present to the blind and infatuated " friends of free- dom" in Kansas, and the equally blind believers in the ordi- nance of 1787. The negro, by a higher law than human enact- ments, goes where he is needed, and permanently no Avhere else. A broad and liberal survey of the whole ground — the nature of the negro, his utter uselessness w T hen isolated or sep- arated from the white man — his organic adaptation to tropical production — the wonderful fertility of tropical soils — the vast importance of their peculiar products to civilization and human well-being — demonstrates, beyond doupt the right and justice of the original " slave trade," or the original importation of African negroes into America. The abuses that finally attended it have been made to overshadow the thing itself, in the popular "the slave trade." 177 estimation, but despite all these, and all other drawbacks, it is certain that the introduction of these negroes has resulted in a vastly preponderating good to our race, while the four mil- lions of Christianized and enlightened negroes in our midst, when compared with any similar number of their race in Africa, are in a condition so immeasurably happy and desirable, that we can find no terms that will sufficiently express it. The frightful tales invented of their cruel treatment on the passage from Africa may. be dismissed with the single remark that it was the highest interest of the traders to take the utmost care of them, and if that ^be not sufficient, with the simple but pregnant fact that the average mortality, when the trade was legal, was only eleven per cent., while the illegal trade, the efforts to put it down, the false philanthropy, and mistaken interference, have raised the mortality to something like forty per cent. ! There were but two mistakes, wrongs, inhumanities, outrages on nature, whatever we may term them, involved in the " slave trade," so far as we were concerned: 1st, the importa- tion mainly of males, and the consequent violation of the laws of reproduction — of that fundamental and universal command of the Almighty to multiply their kind and to replenish the earth ; and, 2d, their importation into northern latitudes, un- suited to the physical and industrial nature of the negro. But, as has been said, nature, sooner or later, recovers from every outrage upon her laws, and while we, in our ignorance and folly, have been disputing over our petty theories in respect to this subject, her reparatory processes have silently and steadily gone on and corrected our mistakes, and, therefore, both of the real wrongs connected with the " slave trade" are now sub- stantially righted. It is, however, discreditable to our intelligence that the statute book of the nation is disfigured by our laws and legis- 8* 178 lation on this subject. England has waged a war upon the distinctions of nature and the natural relations of races, ever since we threw off her dominion, and set up a new system of government founded on the fixed and unchangeable laws of nature. The preservation of her own system — the rule of classes and of artificial distinctions among men of the same race — impels her by a blind instinct quite as much, perhaps, as reason, to pursue this policy, and therefore, under the pretense of putting down the " slave trade,' 1 she has constantly labored to obliterate the distinctions of race, and force or corrupt the white men of America into affiliation and equality with negroes. The war upon the "slave trade" was simply the means for accomplishing her ends — the equalization of races in the New World, and in Canada, the West Indies, in all her American possessions, she has succeeded. Negroes, whites, Indians, and mongrels are all alike her subjects, and the distinctions of so- ciety, as in Europe, are wholly artificial, while those of race, of nature, that are fixed by the hand of the Eternal, are impi- ously disregarded. And we have been her tools, her miserable dupes, and ourselves labored for our own degradation, to ac- complish her objects and obliterate the distinctions of races. The question of importing more negroes — to keep open or to prohibit the " slave trade" — was and is a question of expedi- ency, that our government should decide for itself, without regard to the opinions or policy of any other people. But to blindly follow England in her nefarious and impious efforts to break down the distinctions of race, to pronounce the conduct of our own ancestors infamous and worthy of death because English opinion and monarchical influences and exigencies de- mand it, is a disgrace to the manhood of our people and the intelligence of our statesmen that should not be permitted to disgrace our government any longer ; and it is to be hoped that the time is not distant when this disgraceful legislation will be swept from our statute book. v CH APT ER, XV. NATURAL RELATIONS AND NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. ' There are now between four and five millions of negroes in the United States. They or their descendants must remain forever — for good or evil — an element of our population. What are their natural relations to the whites ? — what their normal condition ? The Almighty has obviously designed all His creatures — animal as well as human — for wise, beneficent, and useful pur- poses. In our ignorance of the animal world, we have only domesticated or applied to useful purposes a very small num- ber, the horse, the ox, ass, dog, etc. ; but these we practically understand, so that even the most ignorant will not abuse them or violate their instincts. The most ignorant farmer or laborer would never attempt to force the dog to perform the domestic role of the cat, or the ox that of the horse, or the sheep that of the ass, etc. He knows the natures of these ani- mals — their relations to himself and to each other, and governs them accordingly. The natural relations of parent and offspring, of brothers and sisters, of husbands and wives, are also measurably under- stood by the most ignorant, for natural instinct quite as much. as reason guides us in these things. The father knows that the child should obey him, and the latter feels instinctively that this obedience is a sacred duty. The same instinct prompts the brother to love his sister, and it may be said that all the relations of consanguinity, and the duties that spring from 180 NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. them, are regulated more by instinct than by reason. There are innumerable books written on this subject, to teach the duties of parents and offspring, husbands and wives, etc., but with a proper cultivation of the intellect and of the affections, just perceptions of the duties involved follow intuitively. Passing beyond these domestic and family relations — the relations of individuals — of one man to another, and to the State or general citizenship, areless understood, for here nature must be led by reason, and though there are certain great and fixed facts that serve as landmarks for our guidance, we must mainly rely upon our reason. It is true, Christianity indicated these relations two thousand years ago ; nevertheless, they are almost totally disregarded in the Old World ; but though too often misunderstood and misapplied among ourselves, they are sufficiently comprehended to constitute the foundation of our social order. Another advance, and we arrive at the relations of races — of white men and negroes — and of other races that may chance to be in juxtaposition, and of which the whole world may be said to be profoundly ignorant in theory, while one-half of our people have justly and truly solved them in practice. The social order of the South — the social and Wal Mat us of the negro — reposes on the natural relations of the white and black races, and, as has been observed, while the world is ignorant of these relations, the people of the South, indeed it may be said the American people, have practically solved them, and to the mutual benefit of all concerned. But before we can enter on a discussion of the natural relations and social adaptations of races, Ave must first clearly understand the relations that we bear to each other as individuals, and to the State or aggre- gate of individuals. All the individuals of a species, whether animal or human, of course have the same faculties, the same wants, in a word, NORMAL CONDITION OP THE NEGRO. 181 the same specialties. Occasionally chance — some accident, re- mote or immediate — deforms or blights individuals ; they may be idiotic, insane, or otherwise incapable, but these are excep- tional cases that do not disturb the great, fixed, and, unchange- able equality, sameness, or uniformity of the race. The white or Caucasian race, as has been observed, varies much more than any other race. There are tall men and short men, giants and pigmies, blondes and brunettes, red-haired and black- haired, but the nature remains the same ; and if they were all placed under the same circumstances of climate, government, religion, etc., all would exhibit the same moral characteris- tics, and, to a certain extent, the same physical appearances. This is sufficiently illustrated among ourselves every day. Almost universally our people have sprung from the " lower classes" of European society. The coarse skin, big hands and feet, the broad teeth, pug nose, etc., of the Irish and German laborer pass away in a generation or two, and their American offspring have more delicate and classical features than even the most favored and privileged European aristocracy. Hav- ing the same faculties, the same wants, etc., it is a self-evident truth that they are entitled to the same rights, the same oppor- tunities, to live out the nature with which God has endowed them. The Divine Author of Christianity promulgated this vital truth with great impressiveness. He selected his dis- ciples from the lowest and most oppressed classes of the people, and thundered his most terrible denunciations in the ears of the sacerdotal aristocracy. The great body of the Jewish people were mere beasts of burden to their brethren — the priestly oligarchy — which governed the State and lived in idle luxury on the toil, ignorance, superstition, and misery of the people. On all occasions these oppressors were denounced, and the great and everlasting truth that God w T as no respecter of persons, and all men equally precious in His sight — even 182 NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. the beggar Lazarus and the repent ent Magdalen* — were the daily teachings of Christ. And there ran be no doubt thai the persecution and final crucifixion of* the Author of the Christian religion was intended, by the rulers of the Jews, to crush out the great doctrine of equality, and thus to preserve their ascendency over the minds and fortunes of the people. The Divine ordinance — to " do unto others as we would have them do unto as" — is a complete exposition of our natural re- lations to each other, and an indestructible rule of nature as well as a religious obligation. All men — that is, all who be- long to the race or species — having the same nature and designed by the Creator for the same purposes, the same rights and the same duties, it is an obvious inference thai all human governments should rest on this great fundamental truth. No man should be permitted, indeed no man should be base enough to claim privileges denied to his fellow, or to any class of his fellows, ami the same great principle which Christ ordained should guide Hi- followers in their personal relations, should be the only legitimate rule in their political relations. To do unto others as we would have them do to us — to recog- nize in all other men the rights we claim for ourselves — to admit those reciprocal obligations which, in truth, spring from the necessities of our being — in short, to demand equal rights for ourselves, and to admit the same lights on the part of our fellows, seems so obvious, so instinctive, so just, and indeed self-evident, that an intelligent and just mind wonders how it ever could be otherwise, or that systems of government can exist in our own enlightened times in utter contradiction to such simple and self-evident truths. Government, the State, the aggregate citizenship, based on the great fundamental truth of equality, becomes a simple, beneficent, and easily un- derstood institution. It leaves all men where God and nature places them, in natural relation to each other. Its functions, NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. 183 however complicated the details, are simply protective, leaving individuals to ascend or descend in the social scale, just as their industry, cultivation, and moral worth may be apprecia- ted by their fellow-citizens. It protects one man from the violence or injustice of another, and the aggregate citizenship or nation from foreign aggression. It is a misnomer to speak of government conferring rights; it may (or the thing called government in other lands may) take away, suppress, or withhold rights; but rights, as declared by Mr. Jefferson, are inherent and in fact inseparable from in- dividual existence. God has endowed every man with the capacity of self-government, and imposed this self-government as a duty as well as a right. He has given him certain wants instincts, desires, etc., and endowed him with reason to gov- ern and guide these things. As a citizen, he of course does not, or can not surrender any of his natural rights or control over himself. The State protects him from wrong or injus- tice, but himself a portion of the citizenship, he still governs himself. It is a contradiction to suppose that one man can govern another better than he can govern himself — that is, under the same circumstances, and therefore it is palpably absurd to limit suffrage or to exclude a portion of the people from participation in the government. All being naturally equal — for though some men may have more mental capacity than others, as we sometimes see some have greater physical powers — they have all the same nature ; and therefore govern themselves and fulfill the purposes of their creation when they all vote at elections and participate in the making of laws. For purposes of convenience, a limited number of the people are delegated to conduct the government, but the popular will, the desire of the people, the rule of the entire citizenship, is complete; every vote tells, every man's voice is heard, every one governs himself. And the government, limited or rather 184 NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. confined to its legitimate function of protection, leaves every- one a complete and boundless liberty to do every thing or any thing that his instincts, wishes, caprices even, may prompt him to do, so long as he does not infringe upon the rights, in- terests, etc., of others. Such, then, are the natural relations we bear to eacli other, and the social and governmental adaptations that spring from them. The mere conventional formula may be varied at times — the circle of individual action contracted or expanded as the public exigencies may demand, but the right and the duty of every man to an equal participation in the government, or in the creation of laws which govern all, is vital, and every man denied this is necessarily a slave, for he is then governed by the will of others and not by his own, as God and nature have ordained he should be. There are no contradictions or discords in nature. All crea- tures, and the purposes God has assigned to them, are per- fectly harmonious ; and all their relations to each other, and the duties that spring from them, are in perfect accord. It is our ignorance, and sometimes our caprices and vices, that in- terrupt this harmony ; but it is consoling to know, that hap- piness is inseparable from the due fulfilment of our duties, and therefore the wiser the world becomes, the better it will be. The man who loves his wife the most will also have the ten- derest affection for his children ; those who are most careful to respect the rights of others will be the most secure in their own rights, and the government, or state, or nation based on the natural relations that men bear to each other, will be the most prosperous and powerful. We are, it is true, at a great distance from the practical or complete development of our system, but in theory it is right, and most Americans recognize the truth and justice of its ele- mentary principles. On the contrary, Europeans, and espe- NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. 185 cially Englishmen, have scarcely a perception or glimpse of men's natural relations to each other, and their whole social and political system, if thus it may be called, is in direct con- flict with these relations, with the vital principle of democracy, with reason and common sense. A woman is the chief of the nation, whose husband is her subject — thus violating the re- lations of the sexes — of husband and wife — and thrustino- _ o her from the normal position of woman as well as contradict- ing the relations and duties of citizenship. God created her, adapted her, and designed her, for a wife and mother, a help-mate to her husband and the teacher and guide of her children ; He endowed her with corresponding instincts to love, venerate, and obey her husband and devote her life to the happiness and welfare of her offspring, and to trample on His laws — to smother these instincts and force this woman to be a queen, a chief of state, the ruler over millions of men, is as sinful as it is irrational, as great an outrage on herself — her womanhood — as it is on the people who suffer from it. The annual expenditure for royalty amounts to several millions, and requires probably that some thirty thousand people should be employed or compelled to devote their labor to this pur- pose. Thirty thousand men, women, and children, ignorant, abject, and miserable, with no chance whatever for education, for the cultivation of their faculties or the healthy develop- ment of their natures, are bound to lives of toil and a mere ani- mal existence in order to furnish means for this one family, not of happiness, but of boundless folly, which is supposed to constitute royal dignity. God created this woman with the same faculties, endowed her with the same instincts, and designed her for the same purposes as all other women in England, but the human law, disregarding the evident designs of the Al- mighty, has impiously sought to make her a different and superior being, to reverse the natural relations of the sexes, 186 NORMAL CONDITIO^ OF THE NEGRO. to render her husband subject to her will, to place her above many millions of men, the head of the state, to even force this fragile, weak, and helpless female to be the com- mander-in-chief of their armies, and they crush and pervert thirty thousand other people out of the natural order, and doom them to a mere animal existence, in order to sustain this one family in "royal splendor." The two things are insepa- rable— the violation of the natural relation drags after it these frightful consequences. All these people thus doomed to ig- norance and toil, to support the luxury and grandeur of roy- alty, would, under the same circumstances, be just as grand, majestic, and royal as the present royal family, and the wrong in the present instance may be measured or tested by the con- sideration that of these thirty thousand poor, ignorant, abject, and toiling creatures, whose labor, or the proceeds of whose labor is appropriated to the support of royalty, the majority would doubtless exhibit more capacity and refinement than those who rule over them, if, standing where nature placed them all in common, they were permitted to compete for superiority. The same unnatural order prevails on the Continent : the natural equality that God has stamped upon the race — for they are all white men— is disregarded, and though the people are ignorant, debased by poverty, excessive toil, and misery, the status quo is preserved alone by force. Nearly four mil- lions of armed men are kept in constant readiness to repress and keep down the instinct of equality, while a " civil" force of perhaps a million more is constantly acting in conjunction with the former, in preserving that artificial and unnatural rule which the few — a mere fraction of the population — exer- cise over the many. And so instinctive and irrepressible is this sentiment — this innate and eternal law written by the finger of the Almighty on the soul and organism of the race — that if these armed forces were withdrawn, every government NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. 187 in Europe would be demolished within a week. Nor can the existing condition be preserved much longer. Those writers ignorant of the essential nature of the race, often indulge in absurd fancies in regard to the future of European society. They are good enough to say that democratic institutions may do for America, but that they will not suit the people of Eu- rope, and therefore monarchy is to be a permanent institution. Democracy or equality is a fact rather than a principle. Be- ings who have the same nature, the same wants, and the same instincts will struggle, as they must struggle, for ever, to enjoy the same rights and to live out the same life. And though they are chained down by ignorance and misery as well as by the armed hordes of their tyrants, there can be no peace, no ces- sation of the conflict, no stopping-place short of the universal recognition of their natural relations to each other, and that fixed and eternal equality which the Almighty Creator has stamped upon the race and fixed for ever in its physical and mental structure. If the natural relations that men bear to each other are thus misunderstood and disregarded in Europe, it may well be sup- posed that they are wholly ignorant of the natural relations of races, and without even the remotest conception of the rela- tions that naturally exist between white men and negroes. It is therefore a subject never introduced or treated of — a terra iiicog/ilfa to the European mind, — and dependent as we are on European authority, the natural relation of races, and the nor- mal condition of the negro, have only quite recently become a subject of American investigation. But while our writers and men of science have been, and quite generally are even now, wholly ignorant of these rela- tions, indeed, worse still, in slavish subs-erviency to European dictation, have accepted the absurd theories of the former in explanation of the phenomena constantly presented to their 188 NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. view, our people have practically solved their natural relations to the inferior race, and placed or rather retained the negro in his normal condition. There are eight millions of white people and four millions of negroes in juxtaposition. The latter are, in domestic subor- dination and social adaptation, corresponding with their wants, their instincts, their faculties, the nature with which God has endowed them. They are different and subordinate creatures, and they are in a different and subordinate social position, har- monizing with their natural relations to the superior race, and therefore they are in their normal condition. This, if not exactly a self-evident, is certainly an unavoidable truth — a truth that no amount or extent of sophistry, self-deception, authoritative dictum, or perverted reasoning can gainsay a moment, for it rests upon/Wc/*, fixed forever by the hand of the Creator. The negro is different from, and inferior to the white man. He is in a different and inferior position, and there- fore, of necessity, is in a normal condition. That, as a general proposition, is true beyond doubt, for there is no place or mate- rial for doubt. God has made him different — widely different, as has been shown ; that difference is as unchangeable as are any of the works of the Almighty. He has therefore designed him, of course, for different purposes— for a different and sub- ordinate social position whenever and wherever the races are in juxtaposition. It needs no argument to prove this truth, great and startling as it must be to those who have never before contemplated it. The facts— the simple, palpable, un- changeable facts — only need to be stated, and the inference, the inductive fact, the absolute truth, is unavoidable. God has made the negro different from, and inferior to the white man. They are in juxtaposition— the human law corresponds with the higher law of the Almighty ; the negro is in a different and subordinate position, and therefore in a normal condition. NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. 189 But it may be said by some that while this is so, or while the negro, in juxtaposition, must be subordinate, it does not follow that the actual condition of things at the South is essentially right, natural, and just. They would be mistaken, however, for the facts involved do not permit or admit of any such assertion. The white man is superior, the negro is inferior, and therefore the inference is unavoidable that the latter is in his normal condition whenever the social law or legal adapta- tion is in harmony with these natural relations of white men and negroes. It is true that a wide field for inquiry, for com- parison, for arriving at relative truth, is here opened to our view, but the simple, precise, and unavoidable truth remains unaltered and unalterable — the different and inferior negro is in a different and inferior social position at the South, and therefore in harmony with the natural relations of the races, he is in a normal condition. If it were said that the existing condition were defective — that in some respects injustice were done the negro — that there was a wide field for improvement in the social habits of the South — in short, for the progress and improvement of Southern society, then there would be reason, perhaps, in such suggestions. But to say or to assert that the condition of the negro at the South was wrong or unjust in its essential character, would be altogether absurd, and an abuse of language that none but those wholly ignorant of the facts involved would ever, or could ever, indulge in. The simple statement of the facts lying at the base of Southern so- ciety, however false our perceptions of them, or whatever our ignorance of them, or whatever maybe the perversity of those who will not seek to comprehend them, is sufficient, when clearly presented, to convince every rational mind that the negro is in his normal condition only when in social subordi- nation to the white man. Bu' however obvious or irresistible this momentous truth, 190 NORMAL CONDITION OP THE NEGRO. when it is thus forced upon the mind as an inductive fact, it is also demonstrable through processes of comparison, which, if not quite so direct or palpable, are equally certain and reliable. And the normal condition of the negro, or the social adapta- tion at the South, necessarily involves the protection as well as the subordination of the inferior race. The two things are in fact inseparable, as in the case of parents and children, or the relations of husband and wife, or indeed any condition of things resting on a basis of natural law. Any one capable of reasoning at all must see that four mil- lions of subordinate negroes in juxtaposition with eight mik lions of superior white men, must be in a subordinate social position — that the instinct of self-preservation, the primal law, obviously demands that the superior shall place the in- ferior in just such position as its own interests and safety may need — that it may and should even destroy it, utterly obliter- ate it from the earth, if its own safety requires it — though such instance never could happen unless some outside force or intermeddling brought it about — that the mode or manner, or special means are of secondary consideration, and to be deter- mined or worked out according to circumstances, the habits, progress, and condition of the master race. Contemplating, therefore, the great existing fact — the juxtaposition of vast masses of widely different social elements at the South — the inference is unavoidable, that it is the right and the duty of the dominant race to provide for the wants of such a population, and that, for the common welfare and safety, they may and must place the negro element just where their own reason and ex- perience assure them is proper and desirable. This has been done, and is done, but instead of the State or government pro- viding directly for these things, individuals are left, to a great extent at least, to provide for the wants of the subordinate race. The motive of personal interest, therefore, is brought NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. 191 into action— a motive often, doubtless, stronger than affection, and though, like the latter, it will not always save the weak and dependent from wrong and cruelty, it usually serves as a sufficient protection. The father loves his child, the being so inferior, so weak and dependent on his affection. He has abso- lute control over the actions, the labor, the time, habits, etc., of his son, may compel him to labor for him, or hire out or sell his services to another, and it is only on rare occasions that this natural affection of the father is not sufficient protection for the offspring, and the State is compelled to interpose its power to save the latter from the parent's cruelty. It is the utmost interest of the father to treat his offspring with kind- ness, and though affection is the dominant feeling, his real in- terests are always advanced by this treatment, so that it might be said that the man who loves his children most will have the most useful and the best children. And in the relation of hus- band and wife a similar result necessarily follows : the husband who loves his wife most tenderly will — other things being equal— always have the best wife, and the wife who loves her husband and children most devotedly will be rewarded by the greatest love and' the greatest happiness in return. In the case of the master and so-called slave, interest instead of affection is the dominant feeling ; but even here they are inseparable as well as in the relations just referred to. It is the utmost interest of the master to treat his negro subject with the greatest kindness, and in exact proportion as he does so, he calls into action the affections of the latter. Every one who practically understands the negro, knows that the strong- est affection his nature is capable of feeling is love for his mas- ter—that affection for wife, parents, or offspring, all sink into insignificance in comparison with the strong and devoted love he gives to the superior being who guides, cares, and provides for all his wants. 192 NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. There is, then, this radical difference between parent and child, and master and " slave" — the first, prompted by affec- tion, is rewarded by interest, while the latter, impelled by interest, is followed by affection ; and the grand result in both cases is happiness, well-being, the mutual benefit and common welfare of all concerned — that universal reward which God bestows on all His creatures, when, recognizing their natural relations to each, they adapt their domestic habits and social regulations to those relations. The popular mind of the North, so deplorably ignorant of all the facts of Southern society, has a general conception, per- haps, of negro subordination at the South, but none whatever of the reciprocities of the social condition. The negro — a dif- ferent and inferior creature — must be in a social position har- monizing with ibis great, fundamental, and unchangeable fact ; but while he owes obedience, natural, organic, and spontane- ous, he also has the natural right of protection. Or, in other words, while he owes obedience to his master, the latter owes him protection, care, guidance, and provision for all his wants, and he can not relieve himself of this duty or these duties without damaging himself. For example : the master who overworked his people, or underfed them, or treated them cruelly in any way, would necessarily compromise his interests to the precise extent that he practiced, or sought to practice, these cruelties. They would become feeble from over-exer- tion, or weak and prostrated from the want of healthy food; while indifference to the master's interests, sullenness, per- haps sometimes fierce hate, would impel them to damage his property, and in any and every case their labor would be less valuable. Furthermore, God has so adapted the negro that he can not be overworked ; and though the master or overseer may kill him in the effort, he can not, nor can any human power, force him beyond a given point, or compel him NORMAL CONDITION OP THE NEGRO. 193 to that extreme exertion which the poor white laborer of Eu- rope is often forced into. Subordination and protection, the obedience of the inferior and the care of the superior, the sub- jection of the negro and the guidance of the white man, are therefore inseparable, aud when we outgrow and abandon the mental habits borrowed from Europe and designate the social condition where these elements exist, by a proper term or word, it should be a compound one that embodies both of these things. Such, then, are the domestic habits and social adaptations at the South, or where widely different races are in juxtaposi- tion, and which, in truth, spring from the necessities of social existence whenever they are found together. But, as already remarked, the truth, essential justice, beneficence, and neces- sity of this condition — this subordination on the one hand and protection on the other — while an obvious, and, indeed, unavoidable conclusion or inference from the great and un- changeable facts involved — are equally demonstrable by com- parison with other conditions. Or, in other words, while the mere statement of existing facts, in their natural order and their true relations, irresistibly and unavoidably forces the mind to the conclusion that Southern society reposes on a basis of natural law and everlasting truth, its essential justice, naturalness, and beneficence may be made equally clear to the mind by comparing it with other conditions where these elements are found to exist. We absolutely know nothing of the negro of antiquity except that recently revealed on the Egyptian monuments, through the labors of Champolion and others, and possibly a glimpse occasionally of negro populations through Roman history. The ignorant Abolitionists, and the scarcely less ignorant European ethnolo- gists, on this subject, fancy negro empires and grand civil- 9 194 NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. izations long since extinct; and Livingstone and others, Avith the false and nonsenioal notion that there should be found remains of these imaginary empires, of course succeeded in finding them occasionally, or the interests of the " friends of humanity" would languid, and perhaps subside altogether. But the author desires to say to the reader that while, as an anatomist, he knows that an isolated civilized negro is just as im- possible as a straight-haired or white-skinned negro, he has also consulted history, ancient and modem, European and Orien- tal, Pagan and Christian, and in the tout ensemble of the ex- perience of mankind there is nothing written — book, pamphlet, or manuscript — in the world that casts any light whatever on this matter, or that authorizes the notion that population*, where the negro element dominated, had a history. Since the great "anti-slavery" imposture of modern times began, there are many writers and Lecturers who assume such things, as that negro empires had often existed and exercised vast influ- ences on the progress of mankind — that the rich and powerful republic of Carthage was negro — that even Hannibal, the man who so long contested the empire of the world with the grand old Romans, was a negro — indeed, some of these ignorant and impious people have assumed that Christ was a negro ; but it is repeated, there is no negro history, nothing whatever, except what we now see on the Egyptian monuments, that indicate the position of the negro or the condition of society when hi juxtaposition with white men. As depicted on the monuments, the negro was then as he is now at the South, in a position of subordination ; while iso- lated, he was as he is now, a simple, unproductive, non-advanc- ing savage. In this condition of isolation he multiplies him- self, and therefore is in a natural condition. His acute and powerful senses make amends for his limited intelligence, and enable him to contend with the fiercer and more powerful crea- NORMAL CONDITION OP THE NEGRO. 195 tures of the animal creation, while the fervid suns and luxuriant soils of the tropics, where the earth may be said to produce spontaneously, enable him to live with little more exertion than simply to gather their rich and nutritious products. It is a natural condition, so far as it goes, for, as has been said, he increases and multiplies his kind ; but it can not have been designed as the permanent condition of the race, for that in- volves the anomaly of waste, uselessness, a broad blank in the economy of the universe. But as that aspect of the subject will be discussed in another place, it need not be entered on here. The condition of savagism, or whatever we may term it, where the negro is isolated and without any thing to call his wonderful powers of imitation into action, where he is simply a useless, non-advancing heathen, surely no one, however per- verted his mind may be on this subject, will venture to say is a preferable condition to that which he enjoys at the South. It might suffice to say that he increases with more than double rapidity, to demonstrate the fact of his superiority of condi- tion in the latter ; but there are moral considerations that show this with still greater distinctness. It is true that we must not take our own standard to test this matter, or we must not assume that that which would constitute our own happiness would also secure the greatest happiness of the negro. Of course the white man never did and never could live such a life as the isolated negro ; but, contemplating the negro in the South as he now exists, in comparison with the condition of the isolated negro in Africa, will any one or can any one doubt for an instant the immense superiority of the former condi- tion ? He is cared for in his childhood by his master as well as his mother, taken care of when ill, always supplied with an abundance of food and clothing, given every chance for the development of his imitative faculties, permitted to marry 196 NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. generally as he pleases, to feel always that he has a guide and protector, and a constant, peaceful home ; and in his old age will be cared for and decently buried with all the sanctions and comforts of the Christian religion. In Africa, a negro, isolated from the white man, rarely has a home, rarely knows his father, is left unprotected in his childhood to all the chances and uncertainties of savagism, sometimes nearly starved, at other times gorged with unwholesome food, without any pos- sible chance for education or the development of his facul- ties, liable at any moment of his life, in some wild eruption of hostile tribes, to be carried off a slave, perhaps to be eaten by the victors, and after running the gauntlet of savagism, if lie lives to old age, to be left to perish of hunger, if no longer able to seek food for himself. But it is quite unnecessary to multiply words on this point ; the condition of the negro in America, under the broad glare of American civilization and the beneficent influences of Christianity, is so vastly and in- deed immeasurably superior to that of the African or isolated negro, that we have no terms in our language that can truly or fully express it, We ourselves, under our beneficent demo- cratic institutions, doubtless enjoy an extent of happiness or well-being, over that of the masses of our race in the Old World, somewhat difficult to measure or express in words, and it is reasonable to say that the negro population of the South, relatively or comparatively, enjoy even greater happiness, when contrasted with African savagism. There is, in fact, no other condition to compare with, for freedom, the imaginary state that the Abolitionists have labored for so long, is not a condi- tion, and has an existence in their imaginations alone, and not in the actual breathing and living world about us. They have a theory, or rather an abstract idea, that the negro is a black-white ' man, a black Caucasian, a creature like ourselves except in color, and therefore that, placed under the same circumstances — NORMAL CONDITION OP THE NEGRO. 197 that is, given the same rights and held to the same responsi- bilities — he will manifest the same qualities, etc. On this foolish assumption legislatures and individuals have acted, and both in the South and in the North considerable num- bers of these people have been thrust from their normal condi- tion into what ? Why, into the condition of widely different beings. If any one were to propose to give the negro straight hair, or a flowing beard, or transparent color, or to force on him any other physical feature of the white man, everybody would denounce the wrong as well as the folly of thus torturing the poor creature with that which nature forbids to be done. It has been shown that, in the mental qualities and instincts of the negro, the differences between him and the white man are exactly measured by the differences in the physical qualities, and therefore the efforts of the Abolitionists to endow the negro with freedom involve exactly the same impieties and the same follies as if they sought to change the color of the skin. Or if it was sought to force the child to live out the life of the adult — or the woman that of the man, or to compel our domestic animals to change their manifestations and to contradict the nature God has given them, it would be promptly denounced as cruel, impious, and foolish. All that could be done would be to destroy them — to shorten the life of the unhappy creatures ; and this is exactly what has been done, and is now done, in regard to negroes ; but, owing to a universal ignorance and wide-spread misconception, that which should be denounced" as the grossest wrong has been regarded as the highest morality and philanthropy ! The negro is thrust from the care and protection of a mas- ter at the South, but he has none of the responsibilities of society laid on him, and furthermore, there is no very pressing competition for the means of subsistence. He has nothing of 198 NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. what are called rights — that is, is not forced to live the life of another being — and though he has no master to teach and guide him, his powers of imitation are, to a certain extent, called into action, for he is still in juxtaposition and subordina- tion. Buteven under these favorable circumstances, he rapidly— as contrasted with those under the care of masters — declines and dies. There is, at this time, a large number of these people in Maryland, Virginia and other transition States. Their con- dition is truly deplorable, and is every day getting worse, for the increase of whites is every day adding to the pressure on them, and rendering the means of subsistence more difficult to obtain. It seems to many, doubtless, a great wrong to place them again in a normal condition, and true relation to the whites — which would be a wrong like that of the inebriate forced back into temperance — a process, in truth, of great suf- fering, but desirable in the end. If the abnormal habit of drunkenness continues, the man will die within a given time ; but if he reforms and recovers his normal state, he may live many years. There will be few, if any, more negroes "emancipated," as forcing them out of a normal condition has been termed, in the South, and therefore it is only a question of time when these people, left as they are now, will become extinct. As a ques- tion of kindness and humanity, therefore, it is like that of the drunkard : left as they are, they must perish ; but if restored to a normal state, whatever their temporary suffering, they or their descendants may live forever. Most unfortunately, how- ever, there is another difficulty involved in the fortunes of these poor people. They have a large infusion of white blood ■ — a very large portion, perhaps, are mulattoes, and therefore while in the case of the typical negro there could be no doubt where true humanity pointed us, in the case of these mongrels there is room for doubt and difficulty. But in the more NORMAL CONDITION OP THE NEGEO. 199 Northern States, where it is sought to force the habitudes of white men on them, they perish rapidly. The mortality is greater in New England than in the Middle States, and great- est of all in Massachusetts where they are citizens, and the ignorant and misguided, however well-meaning, " friends of freedom" have their own way, and give full scope to their ter- rible kindness. The whole subject may be summed up thus : — The negro, in a normal condition, increases more rapidly than the whites — for the negress, if not more prolific, escapes by her lower sensibility the numerous chances of miscarriage, prema- ture births, weakly children, etc., which ordinarily attend on the higher and more susceptible organization of the white fe- male. The " free" or abnormal negro of the Southern States tends to extinction — of the Middle States still more rapidly — and finally, most rapidly of all in New England. Or the actual laws gov- erning this matter may may be summed up thus : — In precise proportion as the negro is thrust from his normal condition into that of the white man, he tends to extinction, or one might say, that precisely as the rights of the white man are forced on the negro, he is destroyed. All the negroes brought to this continent were in a normal condition. The monstrous assumption set up by British writers when the colonists began to throw off the British dominion, that negroes were blacfo- white men, and, naturally considered, entitled to the same status, after nearly a hundred years, and an amount of wrong, falsehood, and suffering to these people that is beyond com- putation, has at last culminated. From this time forth, few, if any, will be " emancipated." Indeed, it is far more likely that the numbers restored to a normal condition will outnumber those thrust from their natural relations to white men. If all the legislation on the subject were suddenly blotted out, of course there would be no such thing as a " free negro" on this 200 NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGEO. continent, and this is the point towards which the course of American society is now rapidly tending. It may be somewhat difficult to determine that period — for we know not what may be the action of many of the States that have a con- siderable population of this kind — but one can not err when saying that it can not be remote, and it is absolutely certain to arrive within the next hundred years. Indeed, it is most probable that from the culmination of the great " anti-slavery" imposture, or from the starting-point of the reaction, to the final period when such a social monstrosity as a " free" negro Avill be entirely extinct in the New World, the interval will be less than that of the strange and wide-spread delusion which has so long run riot .over the understanding, the com- mon sense, the interests, and self-respect of our people. Of course, no comparison proper can be made with so shad- owy and intangible a thing as this. It is not a condition — it is only an attempt after that which neither has nor can have an existence. If it had been assumed simply that the status of the negro was wrong at the South, and that some other status was proper for him, then possibly an experiment would have been legitimate. But, as it was assumed that the negro was a Caucasian, whose color merely was different, and naturally entitled to the position of the white man, all these efforts were made to reduce the assumption to practice, and compel him to live out the life of the former. There could be and can be only a single end to such effort. God created him a negro, a different and inferior being, and of course no human power could alter or modify, to the millionth part of an atom, the work of the Eternal. That which destroys a creature, or under which he dies, can never be right, or even approach to that which is right. When nature is so outraged that she refuses to indorse the human action, or when she in mercy interposes her power to limit such action, then we can not possibly mis- NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. 201 take the wrong we are doing, or attempting to do. It is an historical fact that slaves never propagated while in that con- dition, and the supply was constantly kept up by fresh wars and increased captives. It Avas such a stupendous outrage on the natural relations, that men of the same species bear to each other, or on that natural and unchangeable equality common to the race, that nature refused to propagate it, or to consent to its permanent existence. Nature also refuses offspring to prostitution — that terrible cancer so corrupting to Northern society, and who does not see her wisdom and beneficence in thus refusing a permanent existence to so foul a blot on the sexual relations ? So, too, in the case of mulattoism, where a monstrous violation of the physical integrity of the races is involved, nature interposes and forbids it to live. And in incest — the violation of the laws of consanguinity, where relatives intermarry — nature appropriately punishes them, through the idiocy and impotency of their offspring, which is always forbidden to exist beyond a determinate period. Free negroism, therefore — the attempt to force a different and in- ferior being to live out the life of a different and superior being — is not a condition, and can not be compared with that which is, or that which the higher law of nature grants, a fixed order of life. There are, then, only two possible condi- tions for the negro — isolation or juxtaposition with the white man — African heathenism or subordination to a master — a blank in the economy of the universe, or the social order of the South, where he is an important element in the civilization, progress, and general welfare of both races. It is not in the scope of this work to treat of the natural relations or social adaptations of other races. They must be determined by experi- ence, though the starting point— the fundamental truth — that when in juxtaposition they must occupy a subordinate social position, corresponding with the degree of inferiority to the 9* 202 NOBMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. white man, may be said to be self-evident, or, at all events, an unavoidable truth. In conclusion, it may be well to repeat the great leading truths that underlie the subject discussed in this chapter. All of God's creatures, animal as well as human, have a right to live out the life — the specific nature — that He has en- dowed them with, and we have comprehended this great, vital, and fundamental law in respect to our domestic animals, and generally conform to it. The natural relations of the sexes — of parents and offspring — are also understood, and generally lived up to in our daily life. The natural relations of men to each other are less understood, but the natural order, the equality of rights, and equality of duties, based on an equality of wants, is a vital principle of Christianity, and however far we may be from living it out in practice, our political system, and the whole superstructure of our civil and legal institutions, repose upon this fundamental law of nature. This natural order is generally disregarded in the Old World, though even there, with all their numerous false tra- ditions, relics of barbarism, and ancient wrongs, as well as modern corruptions, they are forced, to a certain extent, in their legal and civil institutions, to recognize it. Nature abso- lutely forbids any change or any violation of her laws, or, in other words, the work of the Almighty can not be altered by human force or accident. The millions of Europe are, there- fore, unchanged in their essential natures, and the few who rule and wrong them are only able to prevent the development of their specific and latent capabilities by their systems of re- pression. But the natural order — the natural relations they bear to each other — the inherent and eternal equality that God has stamped forever on the organism of the race, is perpetually struggling to manifest itself ; and though buried in a profound animalism, though deluded by false theories and corrupted by NORMAL CONDITION OF THE NEGEO. 203 innumerable lies, and steeped in poverty and misery fathomless and measureless, they are only temporarily kept from asserting the natural order and specific nature of the race by four mil- lions of bayonets. The natural relations of races, and especially of the white man and negro, have been wholly misunderstood, for, ignorant of the nature and specific wants of the negro, it necessarily fol- lowed that it should be so. But while in theory we have been ignorant of these relations, the people of the South have solved them in practice. Their actual experience of the negro nature, of its wants, its capacities, its industrial adaptations, perhaps we may say, the instinctive necessities of a society where widely different social elements are in juxtaposition, have de- veloped a social order in practical harmony with the best inter- ests and highest happiness of both races. That society rests on the same basis as that of the North, with the superadded negro element, which, in social subordination corresponding with its natural inferiority and natural relations to the white man, is immovable and everlasting, so long as the foundations of the world remain unaltered and unalterable. Ignorance and impiety may beat against it ; folly, delusion, and madness may waste their wild energies in blind warfare on it ; European kings and nobles, all those who live and flourish for a time on the perversion of the natural order and the degradation of so many millions of their kind — their natural equals — may com- bine to overthrow it ; dupes, instruments, open foes and secret traitors may aid them, and the great ignorant and deluded masses for a time may be blindly impelled in this direction, but all in vain ; the social order — the supremacy of the master and the obedience of the " slave" — will remain forever, for it is based on the higher law of the Almighty, the natural rela- tions of the races, the organic and eternal superiority of the white man and the organic and everlasting inferiority of the negro. CHAPTER XVI. CHATTELISM. The common European notion (and the American, borrowed from it), regards the American "slave" as a chattel — a thing sold like a horse or dog, and equally the absolute property of his master. Lord Brougham and others have denounced this barbarism, as they have called it, with great bitterness, and the former has declared that it is immoral, abhorrent, and even illegal "for man to hold property in man" — a declaration that might be true enough, perhaps, if negroes were black-white men, as supposed, but which, in view of the actual facts in- volved, is simply absurd. Tiny suppose that negroes in America are held by the same tenure that the Romans and other nations of antiquity held their slaves. But there is no resemblance whatever, and, in truth, it would be difficult to find anywhere in history conditions so absolutely and so widely different. All the so-called heathen nations had slaves, or rather they had captives taken in war, whose lives were for- feited, and who thus became the property of their conquerors. The rule or custom seems to have been universal, and it was only after the introduction of Christianity that it became obso- lete. A Roman army invaded Gaul or Germany — a great battle or series of battles occurred — those captured on the field became the property of the victors, while the nation or country became a Roman province, and ever after paid tribute to the Roman civil officers. Gaul, Britain, most of Germany, indeed, nearly all the then known world, were thus overrun CHATTELISM. 205 by the Roman armies, and the vast multitudes that were de- feated in battle were carried off to Italy to cultivate the lands of the Roman nobility, There was no question of freedom or slavery, or of rights of any kind involved — the man risked his life, and if defeated, this life was forfeited to the victor. The latter might or might not slay him the next morning, or the next week, or the next year, or twenty years after, just as he pleased. He might send him to work on his lands in Italy, keep him as a domestic in his household, compel him to enter the arena and combat as a gladiator for the popular amuse- ment, or direct him to be crucified or given to feed his fishes, or he might sell him to others, who, of course, had the same control over him ; or, finally, by one supreme act of generosity, he might give him back his forfeited life, when, as a freedman — not freeman — he entered the ranks of ordinary citizenship and was lost in the mighty mass of Romans that made up the popula- tion of the great city. Freedom or slavery, or what, in mod- ern times, is called such, had nothing to do with the matter. It was a question of life and death rather than of freedom and slavery. The life, the actual physical existence was forfeited — the man had no right to live, and only did live by the suffer- ance of the captor or master, and therefore all subordinate considerations were lost in this one great, all-dominating fact. Many wise, learned, and accomplished men were slaves or were of this unfortunate class, and remained thus through life, subject often, doubtless, to the caprices and cruelty of illiter- ate and brutal owners, who at any moment could put them to the torture or to a cruel death. The rule was universal among all the ancient nations, except the Hebrews, who, in some re- spects, or as regarded their own people, made some humane modifications. It was entirely personal — the state or govern- ment having nothing to do with the matter either as regarded the original forfeit or the cancelling of the bonds and the 200 CHATTELISM. restoration to liberty, or rather to life, of the unfortunate cap- tive. There was a certain social prejudice in respect to freedmen, or the children of those who had been slaves, but there does not appear to have been any legal or political disability. They had forfeited their lives — they became absolutely dead in law, mere things, chattels, or property of their owners, of which the government or state took no more account than of horses or oxen, or any other property ; but the moment that their lives were restored to them, then they at once entered the ranks of citizenship with all the rights and privileges common in those days, and in those relatively barbarous times. There were some incidental features or phases of this terri- ble condition that are too marked to pass over without notice, as they tend to show, in a very striking manner, the wide and indeed unapproachable distance between it and that which, in our own times, has been so generally confounded with it. Servile wars were almost constantly occurring events. Opin ion, even in the rudest times, has always, to a certain extent, governed the world, and the universal custom of enslaving those defeated in battle was submitted to in the first instance without a murmur. It was the fortune of war, and no one dis- puted the inexorable rule which doomed them to become the absolute chattels or property of the victor ; but when their numbers increased to any considerable extent in any locality, the natural instinct which told them they were the equals, and very often the superiors of those who owned them, could not be restrained, and the long and terrible servile wars almost always raging within the bosom of the Roman Empire prob- ably weakened and more than any other tiling prepared it for that awful overthrow which finally overtook the Roman colossus. Another equally striking feature distinguished this condition. The slave population never increased itself in the CHATTELISM. 207 regular and natural order. Most of them were adult males, originally, and the small number of females ma)- sufficiently account for the constant tendency to extinction ; but beyond this, the abnormal condition, the terrible and transcendent wrong of forcing beings like themselves, with the same wants and the same instincts as their masters, to lives in absolute and abject subjection to the wills of others, was necessarily incompatible with a permanent existence. This universal custom prevailed — all men, even the wisest and best, in their profound ignorance of their own nature, be- lieved slavery to be right, just as many good men in our own times believe that the European condition, which dooms the millions to subjection to the few, is right ; but it was so utterly in conflict with natural instinct that the servile population tended constantly to extinction, and therefore, as observed, it soon died out when the spirit of Christianity modified the cus- toms of war, and the conquered became prisoners to be ex- changed, instead of slaves subject to the caprices and cruelties of creatures like themselves. Some superficial writers, igno- rant of the underlying facts, have supposed that Greece and Rome were great and prosperous because they had slaves, a process of reasoning quite equal to saying that a man enjoyed good health because he had a fever-sore on one of his legs ! These nations and all other nations have been prosperous and powerful in precise proportion to the number of free men, and weak and contemptible in exact proportion to the multiplicity of slaves — a truth as evident at this day as in any other, and rendered more palpable in our own history and condition than ever before. Greece and Rome were great and powerful, in con- trast with the great Oriental empires — Persian, Babylonian, Egyptian, etc. — because there was a large free population in the former, while in the latter they were all slaves, or the slaves of slaves. Of course no such condition could exist in CH ATTELI S M. our times, and the most ignorant and abject portion of the European population could not be placed or kept in such posi- tion a single hour. The Oriental populations still practice it, to a certain extent, perhaps. The Turks, when they invaded the lower empire and captured Constantinople, made slaves of their prisoners, and long trains of unhappy beings, wealthy matrons and delicately nurtured young girls, chained by the wrists to their own servants, or to rude soldiers and uncouth peasants, were marched off to become the abject and miserable slaves of still more gross and brutal masters. The sale of Cir- cassian girls for Turkish harems is altogether a different affair, and however revolting to our notions and habits, has nothing in common with the condition historically known to us as slavery. The essential fact in this condition, as will be seen, was the forfeited life; all other facts hinged on that, and the idea of property or chattelism was incidental — a mere result. When the man's life was forfeited, when he was deemed to be dead in law, when his captor could do as he pleased with him, crucify, torture, or destroy him altogether, then it necessarily followed that he was a chattel, or a thing that he would be apt to make as profitable as possible, and this self-interest was the sole protection of the miserable creature. It therefore was, doubtless, a great interest — some of the Roman nobles owning many thousands of them, though, except in respect to the servile wars, almost constantly raging within some portion of the empire, the government seems to have had nothing to do with slaves or slavery. It was wont, however, to resort to terrible punishments to keep them in subjection, and it was not uncommon to line the highways leading into the city for forty miles with crosses, on which these wretched beings were suspended, and left in sight and hearing of each other, until death relieved them from their sufferings. Such was Roman slavery, as it has been described by his- OHATTELISM. 209 torians of the time — a condition not at all involving what we call freedom or rights of any kind, but simply that of a for- feited existence, and which, if given back by the owner, the man was restored to life, to a legal existence, to his normal condition, and, without the slightest interference of the govern- ment, was at once absorbed in the general citizenship. Of course there is no resemblance or even approximation to the social order of the South ; indeed, as observed, it is difficult to conceive of conditions more utterly opposed or unlike each other. As has been shown elsewhere, the labor, the service, the industrial forces of the negro were essential to the cultiva- tion of the soil and the growth of the indigenous products that belong to the great intertropical regions of the American con- tinent. Ships, therefore, were fitted out for this purpose to bring negroes to the New World, not to make slaves of them, or to transform them into things, but to make their labor available for the common good of mankind. Much wrong, cruelty, and inhumanity, it is quite likely, have been practiced, but the motive and the object were right, of course, for these had their origin in human necessities and human welfare. The abuses we have nothing more to do with ; the object and the essential fact — the service — remains, and will remain forever, if the great tropical centre of the continent remains civilized, instead of being transformed into a barren waste. The service of the negro, his industrial capacity, his labor, is a thing that may be estimated as easily and accurately as any other species of property, and therefore is property, and to the precise ex- tent necessary to enforce this labor or this service the owner of it has absolute control over the person of the negro. There is not, nor should there be, any difference between this pro- perty and other property, and to this extent it may be called chattelism, for, as observed, it may be as easily and precisely fixed or defined as any other property. The master takes care 210 CHATTELISil. of him in childhood and in sickness, clothes, feeds, and provides for his old age, or for the loss of health, etc., and estimating or comparing these things with his services, he is able to fix a positive value to the labor of the negro, and this, like any other property, he may disj)ose of to any one else, if he chooses to do so. This property he must have absolute control over, and therefore, to the precise extent needed to make it available, he has absolute control over the person of the negro. The ignorant abolition writer says, "the slave is put upon the auction-block, examined and handled precisely as the horse, or other animal, and knocked off to the highest bidder ; he fol- lows his master home, to be dealt with just as any other animal." It is true, there is a seeming resemblance, but if we follow them home and observe what follow.-, then it will be seen that there is no resemblance at all. The master takes care of his horse, for such is his interest ; lie may even have a liking, a kind of affection for him ; but it* sick or worn out, or if he falls and breaks a leg, hi- blows his brains out, and after taking off hi- -kin, leaves the carcass t<> be devoured by the dogs or vul- tures. In the case of the negro he also takes care of him and treats him well, for it is his highest interest to do so, and often feels an affection, and a very strong one, for him. If ill, he Bends for a surgeon and treats him as men usually treat their children. He is a part of the household, belongs to the family, and is usually strongly attached to the master and the master's children. His own wants are all attended to. He has his cabin, his patch of garden, his poultry, etc., very often his bale of cotton. He is permitted to choose his own wife, to enjoy all the domestic happiness that his nature is capable of, and if he fulfils his duty industriously, promptly, and honestly, then the master may be said to have no more control over him ; but should he reach old age, break his leg, or in any way become CHATTELISil. 211 disabled and useless, if the master should blow his brains out he would be hanged as a murderer. There is surely no resem- blance in these things, none whatever ; indeed it may be said that the one essential tact accomplished, the " service" duly rendered, the master's absolute control ceases. He must still care for and protect the negro and provide for him in sickness and old age, but his absolute rule is always within well-defined limits, and beyond them the master may not go. He may enforce service, and if the negro disobeys, punish him, or if he resists the reasonable will of the master, compel obedience — absolute, unquestioning obedience. But the laws of every Southern State protect the " slave'' from the caprices and cruel- ties of the master just as in the iSTorthern States they protect the child from a sometimes passionate and brutal lather. In the previous chapter it- has been shown that the negro is in his normal condition only when in social subordination to the white man — for that is the natural relation of the races whenever or wherever they are in juxtaposition; but the precise form of this subordination may be modified, perhaps, by time and circumstances. Subordination and protection exist to- gether — indeed, are inseparable. The strong should protect the weak : the superior white man, who demands the obedi- ence of the inferior negro, should also protect this feebler being; and such is the social condition at the South. Owning the the service of the negro, it is the highest interest of the mas- ter to take the utmost care of him, while the latter has an equal interest — relatively considered — in being honest, indus- trious, and faithful to the master. Indeed, it is impossible to perceive any antagonism of interests in this condition, and corn- pared with any other, it may be said, without chance of suc- cessful contradiction, that it is the most harmonious in its essential principles known to our times. It originated in an absolute want — the service of the negro — that industrial capac- 212 CHATTELISM. ity which he alone can furnish, and this service is the essential feature of the domestic institutions of the South. It was and is made a property that may be sold or exchanged as promptly as any other property, and the person of the negro is subject to the absolute control of the master to an extent necessary to enforce this power, but no further. There is still a large mar- gin for self-control, for all the self-government that nature de- mands, for the gratification of all his wants and the full de- velopment of all his faculties. This is demonstrated beyond doubt, for he rapidly multiplies, while if he were denied the rights that nature accords him, his instincts repressed, his wants forbidden gratification, like the Roman slave, or like the so-called free negro of the North, he would become languid and diseased, and tend rapidly to extinction. But while the existing condition is thus healthy, natural, and just, as before remarked, it is quite likely that, in the future time, it may be widely changed in its details. This relation — the subordina- tion with the inseparable protection — can never be changed without destruction to both, or without social suicide; but the social condition may some day be modified sufficiently, perhaps, to do away with any defects, if such exist at present. In another place the subject of climate and industrial adap- tation is fully considered, and it will suffice to remark in this place that the tropics are the natural centre of existence of the negro, and some day not very remote our negro population, with a few exceptions, perhaps, will be found within the inter- tropical region. And when that day comes, it is quite likely that some modification will be worked out which, while the essential principles of the existing condition are preserved, chattelism, or that seeming personal property in the negro now so extensively associated in the popular mind at the North as wrong, may disappear altogether. We are only just emerging, CHATTELISM. 213 as it were, into a boundless field for progress, for inquiry, for experiment, for social development, for working out the great problem of humanity. All Europe is in utter ignorance and blindness ; and if the whole political and social order is not in conflict with the natural order, the latter, is, at all events, repressed, and forbidden a development. We, ourselves, have reached a comparatively far advanced position — the grand position and declaration of the men of 1776, that all men (of course of our own race) are created equal, and designed by the Almighty for the same liberty, etc. ; and we have based our polit- ical order on this fundamental and everlasting truth ; but while in theory we have thus recognized the relations that nature has decreed between individuals, in practice we have made but little advance over the peoj^le of Europe. Our cities and towns are filled to overflowing with poverty, ignorance, vice, and misery, and though much of this is the direct result~of the wrongs and oppressions of the Old World, and all of it legitimate consequences of the European practice which yet prevails among us, especially in the States most con- nected by commerce, literature, and opinion with the Old World, our social progress is small, indeed, compared with our political enlightenment. But the masses are, however slow the progress, becoming more and more intelligent, and consequently more virtuous and happy, for, however frequent the exceptions among individuals, morality among the masses always keeps pace with their intelligence. And though the social condition at the South is less, infinitely less defective than at the North, and social progress in the future has a comparatively circum- scribed field of action, there are many things, doubtless, which, in the future time, will be widely altered from the present. God has organized and fixed the nature and relations of His creatures, so that there is no conflict of duties, and that which beat secures the happiness of ourselves, also accomplishes the 214 CHATTELISM. happiness of others, whether they be our equals or our in- feriors, men of our own race or negroes. Thus, when the dominant race — the citizenship of the South — comprehend most clearly and truly what their own welfare demands, then, too. and of necessity, will the best interests of the negro be secured. The perverse fanatics at the North, who, unmindful of, and indeed dead to the woes of their suffering brethren, imagine the most terrible miseries among negroes at the South, can not continue much longer in their unnatural delusions, and wdien the pressure of their attempted interference is withdrawn, earnest and conscientious citizens will doubtless inquire into those possible social defects that may exist among them, and strive to apply the appropriate corrections. What these de- fects may consist in, the writer does not assume to decide or to understand, but after a long-continued and patient investi- gation of the social condition of the South, he thinks he can not be mistaken when he declares that they are wholly or mainly confined to the citizenship, and he is wholly and abso- lutely incapable of comprehending any wrong whatever in the Fundamental social relations of the races or so-called slavery of the South. CHAPTER XVII. EDUCATION OF NEGROES. The fact that the negro is a negro, carries with it the infer- ence or the necessity that his education — the cultivation of his flic ul ties, or the development of his intelligence — must be in harmony with itself, and therefore must be an entirely differ- ent thing from"\he education of the Caucasian. The term education, in regard to our own race, has widely different sig- nifications. It may be the mere development of the mind, or it may mean, with the cultivation of the intellect, the forma- tion of the character, as Pope says : " 'Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent, the tree 's inclined." But without restricting the term to the former limit — the development of the intelligence — it will be found that the edu- cation of the negro at the South is in entire harmony with his wants, the character of his mind, the necessities of his mentai organism ; and that they are the best educated negro popula- tion ever known in human experience. Common sense and experience teach us to educate all crea- tures committed to our charge in accordance with their wants. No one would presume to teach a horse as he would a dog, or any other animal. We have our schools for girls as well as for boys, and the education varies continually as the child changes into youth, adolescence, and finally into manhood. The nature and condition of the pupil are the great central facts — whether 216 EDUCATION OF NEGEOES. a horse or a dog, a boy or a girl, a youth or a man, a negro or a Caucasian ; the education must, if natural and proper, always hinge on this central feet. The negro brain and mental charac- ter, as has been shown, differs from our own both in degree and in quality, in the extent of its powers, and the form or modes of mental action. As still more strikingly manifest among animals, the negro child has more intelligence than the white of the same age. This is in harmony with the great fundamental law which renders the most perfectly organized beings most dependent on reason — in the parents, if not that of the offspring. The calf or pig of a month has more intelligence than the child of that age ; the negro child has more than that of the Caucasian, but the character of this intelligence, of course, varies in each and every case. In the lower animals it is instinct ; in the case of the negro child it is more than in- stinct, but it is also radically different from that nascent ration- ality peculiar to the white child. Nevertheless, it is intelli- gence, and, as observed, more active in the negro child than in that of the white of the same age — an intelligence which en- ables it to preserve life where the former would, perhaps, perish, and thus to preserve the race amid the exigencies of savagism and the absence of care and forethought in the parents. It is this smartness of the negro child that has often deceived and deluded those perverse and deluded people of our own race, who get up negro schools. They see, or rather think they see, in this smartness the proof of their theories in regard to negroes, and parade their pets to admiring visitors with the utmost confidence in the justice and humanity of their exertions in behalf of an " oppressed and down-trodden race." But a few years more of these negro pupils would be sufficient (if any thing could be) to open the eyes of these perverted people, who, shutting their eyes and closing their ears to the ignorance and miseries of their own race, waste their money EDUCATION OF NEGROES. 217 and time on a different one ; indeed worse than waste, for they inflict much evil on the mistaken objects of their labors, evils though perhaps not traceable, that must necessarily attend every one of these negro pupils thus forced into a development opposed to the laws of their organism, and in contradiction to the negro nature. The cultivation and development of the mental faculties, the mode or modes of education, are instinctive with our race, though constantly improved and perfected by reason resting on experience. The Greeks, Egyptians, and other ancient nations practiced substantially the system now common to modern times — that is, they taught their children by abstract lessons as well as oral instruction. They studied arithmetic, or the science of numbers, grammar, history, etc., under the direction of parents or guardians, as well as listened to lectures on rhetoric and philosophy in the " groves of the academy." His- tory and biography were the legends and traditions of gods and goddesses, it is true, but modern history is mainly that of kings and queens, and as the former were once human, the only substantial difference consists in the greater accuracy of the latter. The Mongol mind has its specific tendencies in this respect ; that is, children are taught, not by abstract lessons, but by material emblems which represent their ideas. They have no history, in our sense of the term. It is utterly impossible that the Mongol mind can trace back events beyond a certain num- ber of generations, and the crude and contradictory mass of nonsense which passes for Chinese history or the " Annals of China," is the work of Caucasian Tartars or those of predom- inating Caucasian innervation. The negro has never taken one step towards mental devel- opment, as we understand it. He has never invented an alpha- bet — that primal starting-point in mental cultivation — he has 10 218 EDUCATION OF NEGROES. never comprehended even the simplest numerals — in short, has had no instruction and can give no instruction except that which is verbal and imitated, which the child copies from the parents, which is limited to the existing generation, and there- fore the present generation are in the same condition that their progenitors occupied thousands of years ago. But the Al- mighty has adapted him to a very different condition from this fixed and non-progressive savagism. All the subordinate races have a certain capacity for imitating the higher habitudes of the Caucasian, unless it be the Mongol, which, perhaps, does not possess this faculty. The English have been mas- ters in Hindostan for more than a century — their power" rests on the same tenure of force on which it was founded-— they have made no impression whatever on the habitudes of the Hindostanee — their language, their schools, their religion, their mental habits, are untouched, and it may be doubted if God ever designed that they should be in juxtaposition or made subject to a superior race. In regard to the negro, there can be no doubt, not merely because, by himself, he is a non-producing and non-advancing savage, but because his entire structure, mental and physical, is adapted to juxtaposition. All the other races have a certain specific character to overcome first, or to be understood and properly harmonized, but the negro is a blank, a wilderness, a barren waste, waiting for the husbandman or the Caucasian teacher to develop his real worth, and gifted with his wonder ful imitative powers, he not only never resists, but reaching forth his hands for guidance and protection, at once accepts his teacher, and submits himself to his control. Of the four millions now in our midst, a considerable proportion are the children of native Africans, indeed, there are not a few natives still among us, and yet everything connected with Africa — their traditions, language, religion, even their names have EDUCATION OF NEGROES. 219 wholly disappeared. The Normans conquered the Saxons eight centuries ago, but the Saxon names, and even their lan- guage, are now as entirely Saxon as if a Norman had never landed on the shores of England. This blank, this feeble men- tal capacity and readiness of the negro nature to imitate the habits, bodily or mental, of the superior race, adapts the negro to his subordinate social position, and the purposes to which Providence has assigned him. The child-like intellect does not resist the strong and enduring mental energies of the Cauca- sian — its first impressions pass away in a few years, while its imitative capacities sit so gracefully on the negro nature that multitudes of ignorant people confound the real with the bor- rowed, and actually suppose that the " smart" negroes to be met with occasionally at the North are examples of native capacity. Of course, the borrowed intelligence is equally short-lived, and were our negroes carried back to Africa, they would lose what they had acquired here with the same rapid- ity that they have parted with their original Africanism, and names among them now celebrated would be as utterly lost a hundred years hence as their African names have disappeared here. These things being so, it obviously follows that negro " education" must be oral and verbal, or, in other words, that the negro should be placed in the best position possible for the development of his imitative powers — to call into action that peculiar capacity for copying the habits, mental and moral, of the superior Caucasian. It may be said that all mental instruc- tion is through the imitative capacity, or that our own chil- dren are thus educated, but the negro mind, in essential re- spects, is always that of a child. The intelligence's observed, is more rapidly developed in the negro child — those faculties more immediately connected with sensation, perception, and perhaps memory, are more energetic, but when they reach twelve and fifteen they diverge, the reflective faculties in the white are 220 EDUCATION OF NEGROES. now called into action, the real Caucasian character now opens, the mental forces are fairly evolved, while the negro remains stationary — a perpetual child. The negro of forty or fifty has more experience or knowledge, perhaps, aS the white man of that age has a more extended knowledge than the man of twenty-five, but the intellectual calibre — the actual mental capacity in the former case is no greater than it was at fifteen, when its utmost limits were reached — its entire power in full development. The universal experience which, in this as many other in- stances, usually rests upon truth, leads the people of the South to designate the negro of any age as a " boy" — an expression perfectly correct, in an intellectual sense, as the negro reaches his mental maturity at twelve or fifteen, and viewed from our stand-point, is, therefore, always a boy. Indeed, this psycho- logical fact, together with his imitative instinct, constitutes the specific character of the race, and present the landmarks neces- sary for our guidance when dealing with the mental and moral wants of the negro. Intellectually considered, he is always a boy — a perpetual child — needing the care and guidance of his master, and his instinctive tendencies to imitate him, therefore, demand that, as in the case of children, the master should present him a proper example. His mental wants, it is be- lieved, are provided for, and his capabilities in these respects fully developed at the South. They are in pretty extensive intercourse with the white people ; even on the large planta- tions they have the master's family or that of the overseer to copy after and to guide them, and though it may be that something more is needed, that a better mental training is pos- sible in the future, it is, at all events, certain that this verbal instruction is better adapted to their wants than the schools and colleges of a different and vastly superior race. If any one should propose to teach children of five the branches EDUCATION OF NE6BOES. 221 proper to those of ten and twelve years of age, or the latter those that occupy young men in the universities, it would be seen at a glance that this teaching was unnatural and improper. And our every-day experience will show that it is injurious, not alone to the mental, but to the bodily health of the pupil. The same or similar results must attend the school education of negroes. It is, perhaps, difficult to trace the consequences of negro education at the North. There are but few negroes, and the mulattoes and mongrels who pass for such must pay a penalty for this education according, doubtless, to their pro- portion of negro blood. The mongrels, and possibly some negroes at the North, often seem as well educated as white men, but it must be at the ex- pense of the body, shortening the existence, just as we some- times witness in the case of children when the pride, vanity, or ignorance of parents have stimulated their minds, and dwarfed or destroyed their bodies. An " educated" negro, like a " free negro," is a social monstrosity, even more unnatural and repulsive than the latter. It is creditable to the people of the South that no such out- rage on nature and common sense is found in all her borders. God has made the negro an inferior being, not in most cases, but all cases, for there are no accidents or exceptions in His works. There never could be such a thing as a negro equal- ing the standard Caucasian in natural ability. The same Almighty Creator has also made all white men equal — for idiots, insane people, etc., are not exceptions, they are results of human vices, crimes, or ignorance, immediate or remote. What a false and vicious state of society, therefore, when human institutions violate this eternal order, and by withhold- ing education from their own brethren, educate the inferior negro, and in a sense make him superior to white men, by set- ting aside the law of God ! 222 EDUCATION OF NEGROES. Some of the States have passed laws against teaching negroes to read ; a more extended and enlightened knowledge of the negro will, doubtless, some day govern this matter through public opinion, and without governmental interference. The negro learns from his master all he needs to know, all that he can know, in a proper sense, all that is essential to the perform- ance of his duties, or necessary to his happiness and the fulfil- ment of the purposes to which nature lias adapted him; and though there might, perhaps, be no good reason given why he should be prohibited from learning to read, it is sufficient to say that it is absurd, as well as a waste of time that should be carefully employed. His mental powers are unable to grapple with science or philosophy, or abstractions of any kind, and it would be folly to suppose that he would be or could be inter- ested in history or biography, in which his race, his instincts, his wants have no share, record, or connection whatever. All this applies, of course, to the South — to negroes in their normal condition and natural relation to the superior race. It may be well enough at the North, as long as they have mongrels and free negroes, to provide schools for them, as they have no other guide or protector but the State itself, but though they thus acquire a certain kind of mental activity, as observed, it is at the expense of the vital forces, and another of those incidental causes that tend to the final extinction of this abnormal element. It is, however, a disgrace, and, to a certain extent, a crime in any State to educate negroes or mongrels, so long as they have one single uneducated white man within their limits. The proof of this is seen every day in the fact, that however educated, or whatever the seeming mental superiority of the " colored" man, the uneducated white man tolerates no equality. Thus nature vindicates her rights, and whatever the ignorance, delusion, or crimes of society, the eternal order fixed by the hand of God is inevi- table and everlasting. CHAPTER XVIII. THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS. The instinct of paternity — the love and care of offspring— is common to all creatures, animal and human, and is indeed necessary to the preservation of their existence. The animal frequently exhibits it more decidedly than the human creature, and however unseemly it may be, we, even our own supremely endowed race, may take a lesson from it. The animal instinct, however, is limited to the mere preservation of the life of its offspring, and the latter, when a certain development is reached, no longer needs it, for its own instinct then guides it to preserve itself. The love, and care, and guidance of the Caucasian mother for her child is both a profound instinct and a lofty sentiment, and indeed calls into action the highest capabilities of her nature, her profoundest intelligence as well as the most exalted and self-sacrificing affection. It begins with the .birth and ends only with the death, for though it is constantly modified by time and changes in the development of her offspring, it accompanies the latter through life, and disappears only at the portals of the grave. God has endowed the parents with the highest intelligence, and laid on them the command or the duty of caring for their offspring— not the mere bodily preservation, as in the case of the animal, but the education, the guidance and develop- ment of the faculties, the moral capabilities as well as the intel- lectual powers of their children. He, therefore, has endowed 224 THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS. them with affections of corresponding breadth and strength, and adapted them to these duties, and, moreover, rewards them with corresponding enjoyment or happiness in the affections and love of their offspring. These duties are too often imper- fectly performed, indeed often misunderstood. They are some- times delegated to others, sometimes carelessly fulfilled, and often disregarded altogether. They should never be delegated to others unless the loss of health or some imperative cause exists. The mother should always nurse her own child — if able to do so — and the parents should always educate their own children. In the main, this is done in our American soci- ety, for though children go to the public schools, the impress of the character is generally made at home. The child arriv- ing at adult age, and no longer needing the care and guidance of the parents, marries and leaves home, but the affection of the parents, especially that of the mother, accompanies it through life, and not unfrequently, after a separation of forty years, it is found to be as strong and fresh as in the days of childhood. The large brain of the Caucasian mother, or her large intellectual nature, as has been said, is associated with corresponding capabilities of affection. The interests of life, the social welfare, the progress of civilization — in short, abso- lute social necessities, demand this, for were it otherwise, were the affections limited to the infancy of the offspring, society, as it now exists, or indeed anything at all resembling it, would obviously be impossible. The interest of parents in their children, years after they have left home— their grandchildren, etc., though separated thousands of miles — their letters to them, their visits to the old homestead, and the ten thousand other nameless things that bind together those of the same blood, constitute a large portion of our social existence, and is indeed an essential part of our civilization. And all of this is dependent on the affec- THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS, 225 tions and in harmony with the elevated intellectualism of the race, the breadth and strength of the former corresponding, of course, with the mental endowments and specific capabil- ities of the Caucasian. The negro, of course, is endowed with affections, approxima- ting in some respects, indeed in many respects, to those of our own race, but there are some things, some qualities in his emotional nature utterly different, and then again some things specific with us totally absent in the negro. The mother has a similar love for her offspring at an early period in its exist- ence, possibly stronger, or rather more inrperatively instinc- tive, than that of the white woman. Instances are not unfre- quent among the lower classes in England, and other European countries, where mothers destroy their offspring, and pain- ful as it is to acknowledge it, the same thing sometimes happens at the North ; but though an instance of the kind is possible, there have been so few among negroes at the South as to warrant us in saying that not one person in a thousand has ever heard of such a thing. It is true, the negro is in a normal condition, and the European peasant is, to a certain extent, in an abnormal one, and vice and crime, and consequent misery, are always in exact proportion to the extent of the latter in all races. Nevertheless, it is quite certain that, both living under equally favorable circumstances, the negress is less likely to destroy the life of her offspring than is the white woman. Her maternal instincts are more imperative, more closely approximate to the animal, while that sense of degra- dation which the higher nature and more elevated sensibilities of the white woman prompts to the hiding of her shame by the destruction of her offspring, is entirely absent in the negress. She may possibly destroy her child in a paroxysm of rage, but here nature has guarded her too strongly by the imperative ma- ternal instinct, while those ten thousand chances in our higher 10* 226 THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS. habitudes and social complications which may involve the most exquisite suffering of the unhappy mother, and impel her, by one terrible and supreme crime, to destroy her own offspring, can never happen or influence the negro mother. A few years since a " slave" woman escaping from Kentucky to Ohio was recognized and taken back to her home, but on the way down the river cut the throat of her child, whom she had carried off in her flight. The Abolitionists, of course, admired and praised this bloody deed, and declared that, rather than her child should live a slave, she, with Roman sternness and French exaltation, herself destroyed its life. If they had said that the mother had killed her child because it was not permitted to have a white skin, or straight hair, or to have any other specialty of white people, it would have been quite as rational and as near the truth as to say that she killed it be- cause it was not to grow up with the freedom of the white man. The woman was doubtless a mulatto or mongrel, who in revenge possibly for the supposed wrong, inflicted this pun- ishment on those whom she had been taught to believe had wronged her. But while this unnatural crime was quite pos- sible, as indeed any unnatural vice or crime is always possible to the mixed element, it is scarcely possible to the negress, whose imperative maternal instinct, as has been observed, shields her from such atrocity. The negro mother has always control and direction of her offspring at the South so long as that is needed by the latter. The master, of course, is the supreme ruler — the guide, director, the common father, the very providence of these simple and subordinate people, but while his is the directing power that sees to all their wants, and protects them in all their rights, the relations of mother and child are rarely interfered with, for both the interests of the master and the happiness of the mother demand that she should have the care and enjoy the affection of her own off- THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS. 227 spring. This, however, is confined to a limited sphere when contrasted with the instinctive habitudes and enlarged intellec- tualism of our own race. The negro child, in some respects, at the same age, is more intelligent than the white child. This same fact is manifested by our domestic animals. The dog or calf of six months is vastly less dependent on the mother than the human creature. The negro child, with its vastly greater approximation to the animal, is also less dependent at a cer- tain age than the white child. As frequently stated in this work, the negro has absolutely nothing in common with ani- mals that our own race has not. There is an impassable chasm, wide as it is deep and ever- lasting, between the human and animal creation. But while the negro has nothing whatever in common with animals that we ourselves have not, in all those things or qualities in a sense common to both men and animals, the negro has a vastly larger approximation to the latter. As the intelligence or the capac- ity of providing for itself, therefore, is more rapidly developed in the animal, so, too, in the case of the negro child, at a cer- tain age it is less dependent on the care and affection of the mother than is that of white people. Those ignorant and per- verse persons who stifle the impulses and sympathies with which God has endowed them for their kind, and engage in teach- ing, as they suppose, negro children, have been so impressed by this fact, that in their utter ignorance of the negro nature, they have inferred that the latter was really the superior race ; they have often found a negro boy or girl of ten years, for example, whose perceptions, memory, etc., seemed to them, and, doubtless, sometimes were, more clear, prompt, and de- cided, than those of white children of the same age, and there- fore they were quite convinced of the superiority of the negro and of the sublimity and immensity of their own labors in thus 228 THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS. helping on the intellectual development of a wronged and down-trodden but really superior race. But if they could have followed out the future of these children for a few years, and were persons of sufficient under- derstanding to analyze facts at all, they would have made a still more startling discovery than that of the fancied superi- ority of the negro. The negro mind reaches its maturity, its com- plete development, at from twelve to fifteen years, and though there may be vastly more knowledge or experience, the negro of fifty has no more actual mental capacity than he had at fif- teen. The faculties directly dependent on the senses are act- ively and rapidly developed in the negro child, but the reflect- ive faculties, the faculties in regard to which the senses are mere avenues through which external influences are conveyed to the brain, are absent, of course, in the negro, for there is an absence of brain itself, and therefore it is just as absurd to im- agine him possessing them as to suppose the sense of sight in any creature without eyes or without an organism for that fac- ulty. The white boy, on the contrary, only begins at this age to manifest the reflective faculties, which, constantly expand- ing, doubtless reach their maturity from twenty to twenty-five. Of course the mind may continue to expand in a sense for many years, for a life-time, but the actual mental capabilities, like those of the body, doubtless reach their normal standard from twenty to twenty-five. Thus, a white boy and negro of ten, with the faculties directly dependent on the senses possi- bly most active in the latter, begin a year or two later to di- verge from each other. The negro at fifteen, with scarcely perceptible reflective faculties, remains stationary, while the Caucasian, with constantly increasing powers, with imagina- tion, comparison, and reflection, superadded to the mere per- ceptive faculties, requires several years more for the develop- ment of his complete intellectual nature. It is not merely that THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS. 229 the negro mind becomes stationary at twelve to fifteen, for to them it is complete development, but if we can suppose a white boy of twelve to fourteen remaining thus — mentally considered — through life, then we can form a pretty accurate conception of the mental differences between white men and negroes, for the latter are intellectually boys for ever. This is a common and familiar expression at the South, which originates in the nature and necessities of things, and the term boy ex- presses the intellectual existence of the negro as truthfully as the term man expresses the physical condition of the white man. The affections harmonize, of course, with the mental nature, and the love of the negro mother corresponds with the wants of the offspring. She has a boundless affection for her infant ; it grows feebler as the capacities of the child are developed ; at twelve to fifteen she is relatively indifferent to it ; at forty she scarcely recognizes it ; and all of these phases in the maternal instinct or domestic affections of the race are in accord with its specific nature and the purposes assigned it by the Almighty Creator. Without the enlarged brain and reasoning power of the white mother, nature has made amends to the negress, and provided for the wants of her offspring by giving her a more imperative maternal instinct, that shall insure its safety and welfare. When the negro reaches maturity, at twelve to fif- teen, nature has accomplished her purposes. The offspring no longer needs her care, and the mother becomes indifferent to it, and it cares little for the mother. A few years later, and she forgets it altogether, for her affections corresponding with her intellectual nature, there is no basis, or material, or space for such things. Of course, living in juxtaposition with the superior race, and the imitative faculty of the negro constantly brought into action, there is a seeming resemblance to white people in these respects. But one only needs to remember the 230 THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS. mental qualities of the negro — the small and widely different brain, and consequently feeble, and, as compared with us, lim- ited sphere of intellectualism, to see the absurdity of endow- ing the negro with domestic affections corresponding with ours. At twelve to fifteen, as has been said, the purposes of nature are accomplished. The offspring no longer needs the care of the mother — the affections with which nature endowed her are no longer needed. Why should they exist, then ? Isolated in Africa, they perhaps rarely feel any interest in their offspring after the latter reach maturity, and, separated a few years, would not know them, would have no recollection of them, for there is no civilization, no social development, nothing whatever of that which we call society, and in which with us the domestic affections— the family relationship — the love of mother, wife, sisters, brothers, and offspring constitute so large and essential a part. The limited intelligence of the negro, the small brain and feeble (scarcely perceptible) reasoning facul- ties, it will be evident to the reader, must be accompanied by corresponding domestic affections and an emotional nature that accords with this limited intellectualism. And this is mani- fested in the habits, wants, and condition of the negro at the South, in his feeble and capricious love for his wife and indif- ference to his offspring, redeemed only in the potent and in- stinctive affection of the mother in its earlier years for her child. The strongest affection the negro nature is capable of feeling is love of his master, his guide, protector, friend, and indeed Providence, who takes care of him in sickness and shelters and provides for him in old age and helplessness. God has adapted all His creatures for the wisest and most benefi- cent purposes, has endowed the negro with affections harmon- izing with his wants, has given the negro mother imperative maternal instincts that shall secure the safety and welfare of her offspring, but little more, for little more is needed; for THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS. 231 society or civilization neither does nor can belong to negro existence, while affection for his master, love and devotion to him who protects and provides for him through life, is both a necessity and an enjoyment, and therefore God has made it the strongest and most enduring feeling of the negro nature. Of the four or five millions in our midst, great numbers are the children or grand-children of African parents, a few even are of African birth, but probably not one has any distinct memory, recollection, or tradition of their forefathers* — not one that cherishes any past family sentiment or affection of any kind whatever, indeed not one that even preserves an African name ! We trace back not alone the general but the family histories, the loves and affections, the hopes and fears, and sacrifices and sufferings of our pilgrim forefathers of two or three centuries ago, because all this accords with the large brain and ex- panded intellectualism, and the corresponding strength and breadth of the affections, which may be said to be the motive forces which impel the whole social phenomena in question. But the negro neither has nor can have any thing in common with this. He has no capacities of the kind, no civilization or social development, and therefore no wants of the kind, no affections even resembling our own, though at the same time God has endowed him with all that is necessary to his happi- piness and to the mutual welfare of both races when in juxtaposition. The affection of the mother for her child, and the husband for the wife, though widely different from that which we wit- ness in our own race, is abundantly sufficient for the purposes that nature has in view, and with the accomplishment of these * These facts, and some others mentioned in this chapter, were referred to in a previous one, but they need to be repeated in this connection to fix them fully on the mind of the reader, as well as to explain the subject here under discussion. 232 THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS. purposes they subside. The affection for the master, which is necessary to their welfare through life, remains — the sole en- during affection of the negro nature, as it is obviously the sole permanent want of the negro existence. The laws and legisla- tion of the Southern States generally accord with these facts of the negro nature, for though those who have made these laws were unable to explain them even to themselves, their every-day exjDerience and practical knowledge of the negro enable them to legislate for the wants and welfare of these people as well and justly as for themselves. Probably all, or nearly all of the States forbid the separation of the mother and child, so long as the maternal instinct remains, or her care of her offspring is needed by the latter ; and even if there be no law of this kind on the statute-book of some States, it is in the hearts and instincts of the dominant race, and is equally potent in the form of public sentiment to prevent such an outrage on nature as the forced separation of mother and child. There are, doubtless, instances where wrong is done at the South, as well as elsewhere, to the subordinate negro as well as to our own kind, but with the same political and social sys- tem as that of the North, and with vastly more political intelli- gence and faithfulness to the principles of that system, it is only reasonable to conclude that, in regard to the negro element, the same enlightened spirit of justice and fair dealing generally pervades Southern society. And when it is remembered that the social adaptation is in harmony with the natural relations of the races, and not only that there is no social conflict, but, on the contrary, that it is the utmost interest of the master to treat his negroes kindly, then whatever the temporary excep- tions, the general result must be in favor of the happiness and welfare of these people. CHAPTER XIX. MARRIAGE. Nothing, perhaps, is so repugnant to the northern mind as the notion that marriage does not exist among the " slaves" of the South, and the Abolition lecturers have given this subject the most prominent place in their terrible bill of indictment against their southern brethren. The spectacle, or the seeming spectacle, of four millions of human beings living without mar- riage, without family, without children, with nothing but off- spring, shut out, like the brutes that perish, from all the house- hold charities, and doomed to live in universal concubinage, as it has been termed, was, to the northern and European mind, such a stupendous outrage on " humanity," that we need not wonder at their fierce indignation, or at the wild and unsparing denunciation heaped upon the authors of such boundless and unparalleled iniquity. Especially were northern women shocked and indignant, and above all others, the women of New Eng- land were excited at times to a " Divine fury" when contem- plating this mighty "wickedness." Our fair countrywomen are believed to be equally virtuous and lovely, but the domes- tic education of those of New England, in some respects, is more admirable than that of others or any other country. They are taught to labor, to be their own housekeepers, to regard life, and the duties of life, as a solemn mission to be faithfully and conscientiously fulfilled, and though it imparts a certain materialism bordering on hardness, perhaps, to the New England woman, it is associated with such simple and trans- 234 MAREIA6E. parent love of truth, and such an earnest and abiding sense of duty, that the harsher features of the character are lost in these gentler and more exalted qualities. Hence they are taught to regard a violation of the family relation as the one most heinous and unpardonable sin. To women thus educated, with the utmost abhorrence of any violation of marital obli- gations, the seeming universal disregard of this relation, and the duties embraced in it, among the " slaves" of the South, was probably the most transcendent wrong that the mind could conceive of, and the "anti-slavery" delusion of the North has doubtless been increased to a considerable extent by this strictness or severity of female education. And if the facts were what they suppose, then indeed would their indig- nation and abhorrence be just enough, but strange that they should never have doubted or mistrusted these facts. Many of the most intelligent have known their sisters of the South, known them to be as virtuous, refined and womanly as them- selves, and yet living every day of their lives in the shadow of this mighty wrong, and in the midst of this supposititious ini- quity. Could that be possible? Could woman retain her purity, her womanly delicacy, or expand into the full stature of a true womanhood with such surroundings, in an atmos- phere thus corrupt and corrupting, in a social condition where four millions of people were living without marriage, in open and utter disregard of the fundamental principle of morality as well as of social order ? No, indeed, it could not be possi- ble, and, as remarked, it is strange that the women of the North have not had misgivings of this kind, or have not mis- trusted the assumed facts of " negro slavery" in this respect. But before the actual facts involved are presented to the read- er, it is necessary to clearly understand what marriage itself is. It may be defined as the pledge of two persons of differ- ent sex to live together for life — pledged to each other and to MARRIAGE. 235 society, for the presence of witnesses to a marriage contract or a marriage ceremony has simply this meaning, and none other. With us marriage is a mere civil or legal contract. It is the same in France, and, to a certain extent, in England, but in other countries it is combined with religious considerations, and the Catholic church makes it a sacrament. This is mar- riage, as ordinarily understood, as the necessities of the social order compel us to accept and regard it. Nevertheless, every one's instincts will assure him that marriage consists in reality of vastly more than this description of it. A man and woman may pledge themselves to each other and to society — all the legal and customary forms may be complete, and yet we know, or may know that there is no true marriage, for these parties may be entirely indifferent, or even objects of actual dislike to each other. The obligations or duty to society may be ful- filled, the interests of families provided for, the legal rights of the parties themselves properly protected, even the welfare of offspring appropriately guarded, nevertheless, if the parties are not united by affection, by those mysterious affinities with which God Himself has endowed them, and for this precise purpose, then there is no true marriage, and, abstractly con- sidered, they are as entirely separate as if they stood on differ- ent sides of the Atlantic instead of at the altar where the cere- mony is being performed. It is clear, therefore, that marriage, truly considered, involves vastly more than the mere external ceremony or legal formularies, which the universal interest demands, however, as an essential accompaniment. " Increase and multiply" is an ordinance of nature as well as the com- mand of holy writ. All the innumerable tribes of inferior beings obey this command with a regularity, order and com- pleteness that admit of no exception or interruption. They are all governed by instinct, by a wise necessity which impels them to fulfill this Divine decree and in modes adapted to their 236 MARRIAGE. specific nature. Birds choose their mates, are faithful to them, share together, in some instances, the care and nurture of the common offspring, and all other animals of the higher order exhibit a tendency to form these temporary uni ?ns. But in addition to the natural instinct impelling us, in common with all other creatures, to fulfill the universal command to " multi- ply and replenish the earth," the Almighty Creator has given us reason and endowed us with capacities of affection which are designed to guide us in these respects. A youth and maiden are thrown into each other's society, an acquaintance, an intimacy, a mutual affection and reciprocal love follow. They feel themselves united, not merely harmonized, but morally consolidated, as it were, into a single being, and they mutually pledge each other to be thus as long as they both shall live. They are united, not by their pledges to each other, their mutual declarations of affection, but by those beautiful and mysterious affinities that God has planted in the soul itself, and the pledges and promises are the mere outward expression of their actual existence. It is thus sometimes said that marriages are made in Heaven, for there is an eternal fitness, a complete unity or oneness in these impalpable agencies which, whatever may be the seem- ing incongruities of character in some instances, thus link to- gether for ever these human souls as well as persons. Alas ! that it should so often be mistaken — that pride and vanity, or a groveling and sinful lust, should be imposed on the simple and loving heart of Avoman as the counterpart of her own glowing and beautiful affection; and the man guilty of this frightful sin, this " gallantry," as the corrupt and rotten society of Europe designates the desecration of a woman's soul, com- mits a crime infinitely more atrocious than murder or the mere destruction of the body of his victim. Unfortunately, too, accident, imperfect education, circumstances, a thousand things MARRIAGE. 237 may and do lead both parties to mistake each other or them- selves, and to rush into marriage only to discover a few months later, that they were deluded and deceived, and instead of that perfect unity of feeling, of affection, of soul, which they had believed in, there were contradictions and repugnances that no gentleness of temper or strength of reason or length of time could ever change, and therefore in sullen despair they settle down into hopeless apathy, or still worse, shock and scandalize society by a reckless violation of its laws as well as of the personal vows so sacredly pledged at the altar. But when the instincts of natural affection have been guided by reason and a true perception of the wants and nature of each other, and that perfect unity of feeling and of purpose exists which flows from this reciprocal adaptation of the parties, then there is marriage in its true sense, for then two relatively imperfect beings are united into one complete whole. And if we could suppose this husband and wife living for themselves alone, and isolated from all association with others, then noth- ing more would be needed. They were united by affection, by adaptation, by true perceptions of each other's wants, by those mysterious affinities which we call love, in short, by an organic and eternal fitness, and their mutual pledges would be abundantly sufficient for themselves. But we are not per- mitted to suppose such a thing as isolation or separation from others, or from society. Our existence is necessarily complex, and our duties relative as well as personal, and therefore, mar- riage must be witnessed, and pledges given to society as well as made to each other, for the clue fulfilment of the duties in- volved. A modern doctrine, if it may be called thus, has been set up that people who have mistaken their " affinities," and only discovered their true ones after marriage, have a right to correct their mistakes and form a new marital union which they may suppose essential to their happiness. But they would 23S MARRIAGE. disregard utterly their relations to others, their duties to soci- ety, their reciprocal obligations to their fellows, and trample on the fundamental principle of social order, indeed, society would itself be rendered utterly impossible could such indi- vidual caprice and selfishness prevail to any considerable ex- tent. All their so-called arguments against the " institution" of marriage are, therefore, simply absurd, for while their con- ception of an essential portion of it may be correct enough as far as it goes, the assumption that the parties are alone respon- sible to each other, and are not called on to give pledges to society hi the form of a civil contract or legal and indissoluble marriage, is founded on a total misconception or total disre- gard of their relations to others and of the duties necessarily involved. But enough on this point. Marriage is a natural relation that springs spontaneously from the necessities of human existence, and though a civil contract, it has a deeper and holier significance than the mere external ceremony or pledge which is thus given to the world as weir as to each other. Marriage, is of course, a natural relation among negroes as well as ourselves, and were it true that these four millions of people were living without it, then the denunciations heaped upon the people of the South would doubtless be merited. But a moment's reflection should be sufficient to convince any one, at all events any American, that with a different nature, with different faculties, different wants, and different duties of these people, there must follow a different form or modification of this relation. The negro is substantially a child or unde- veloped and undevelopable man, with affections, moral wants and faculties approximating, of course, to our own, but yet so different that his happiness as well as that of the white man demands a corresponding development. The affection of the sexes strongly resembles that of our school-children. It is* MARRIAGE. 239 sudden, capricious, superficial, and temporary, and sometimes violent, but rarely permanent, or would be rarely permanent were it not for the example of the whites, whose habitudes in these respects the imitative instincts of the negro impel him to copy after. In their native Africa, and without the influ- ence and example of the superior race, polygamy is universal, the affection of the husband being a mere caprice in most cases, they sell their wives and children without compunction, but the mother, with that universal maternal instinct common to all human creatures, and to animals of the higher classes, clings tenaciously to her offspring, while perfectly willing to change husbands or owners, as they really are in fact. Many of the " rich men" of Africa are only so in the number of their wives and children, and they trade and traffic in this property as coolly and regularly as if they were legitimate subjects of commerce. Nevertheless, the natural law and the natural ten- dency of this people is to a single union, and probably a large majority of the native Africans have only one wife. There is no natural tendency to polygamy in any race, for the numbers of the sexes being equal, the natural impulse is to a single union. But their feeble and cnpricious affections lead to poly- gamy, and their incapacity to purchase or support wives is the only limit to the negro practice in these respects. Under the teachings and restraints of the superior race at the South, the negroes, male and female, are vastly elevated in this regard, as well as others above their African habitudes. They form sex- ual unions or marry essentially like the whites. The parties become intimate, an affection springs up, they ask and receive the consent of their masters, and they are married by a white clergyman or by a minister of their own people. Thus far, marriage among " slaves" is, on the surface at least, an exact copy of the marriage of whites. They ask the consent of their masters, as white persons ask the consent of their parents or 240 MARRIAGE. guardians, and they are married with the same ceremonies either by a minister of their own, or, as very often occurs, by a white clergyman. But here they diverge. The negro does not and can not constitute a part or portion of that mighty fabric we term society. He has no social interests, no property to guard or to devise, for though he receives and enjoys a larger portion of the proceeds of his labor than any mere laborer in Europe, every thing legally belongs to the master. There are no family interests for which to provide, no reputation or character to protect, no social duties to perform, or rights to defend in his case; in short, he has no connection whatever with that vast and com- plicated machinery which we call society. Marriage, there- fore, from our stand-point — that legal formula and social pledge so vital to the very existence of social order — is obvi- ously absurd and impossible in the case of negroes. The natural affinity, the union of affection, the perfect adaptation so essential to a true marriage in our race, is substantially imi- tated and substantially similar in the case of negroes at the South, but to seek to force the negro beyond this — to force upon him the social responsibilities that attach to white peo- ple ; or, in other words, to make marriage a legal contract in the case of negroes, would be as absurd as to force him to vote at an election, or to perform any other high social duties, and which are evidently impossible. In regard to his own wants, the well-being of his offspring, every thing connected with the best welfare and highest happiness that his' race is capable of, he now enjoys, and any attempt to force him to marry as white people marry — that is, to make marriage a civil or legal contract — is not merely impossible, but it would be a crime and a monstrous outrage upon the nature God has given him. The Almighty has endowed the negro with won- derful imitative powers : of course, it is impossible for him to MAEKIAGE. 241 imitate all our higher qualities — he can only approximate to them — but when the master has presented him with a proper example, in this respect as well as in other respects, as parents and guardians are expected to do in the case of children, they have fulfilled their duties to these " slaves," and generally the negro is restrained and governed by these examples. But the feeble and capricious affections of the negro give their masters much annoyance, and perhaps the greatest trouble they expe- rience with these people is their faithlessness to their marital obligations. The ignorant " anti-slavery" lecturer at the North has distressing tales to tell of cruel masters who separate wives and husbands, and break up families ; but while such things have doubtless happened, it is quite certain that masters have interfered a hundred times to keep them together to one instance to the contrary, or to sell them apart. Such things happen occasionally, when estates are to be settled and prop- erty divided ; but the instincts of the whites and the happi- ness of the whites are more disturbed by them than the negroes themselves. The limited intellectual power — the feeble moral nature, and superficial and capricious affections of the negro lead him to regard these separations of wives and husbands — of parents and children, with indifference, or rather we should say he has none of our perceptions or our instincts in respect to these family relations, and therefore when they do happen he is relatively or comparatively unconscious of suffering. In his native Africa he sells his wife and children without hesita- tion, and all the suffering he now feels is borrowed or imita- ted from the whites — a feeling scarcely perceptible in his native state, but in his better and higher life at the South, it is doubt- less exalted into something like a sentiment of family. Never- theless, he readily adapts himself to whatever changes the chances of life may bring him, and where the white husband, and certainly the white wife, might despair and die, the negro 11 242 MARRIAGE. and the negress, with new partners and another marriage, are quite as happy as if they had never been separated from their former ones. But these things are exceptional, and husbands and wives are doubtless far less frequently forced apart by these accidents of society than are the wives and husbands of the " lower orders" in England by the pressure of want and that necessity of self-preservation which so often rends them asunder. The real trouble, however, as has been said, is in the negro himself —his feeble and capricious affections — substantially similar to those of white childhood, and which it requires the constant su- pervision and influence of the master to restrain so as to keep them faithful to each other. The limited mental endowment and the feeble moral perceptions of the negro render him in- capable, in these respects, of little beyond the fulfilment of the universal command to " increase and multiply." White hus- bands and wives, when one dies in early life, often remain unmarried, faithful to a memory forever ; and still more fre- quently, perhaps, the affections that bound them together in their youth remain bright and untarnished in age and to the borders of the grave. Such a thing never happened with a negro. Not one of the countless millions that have lived upon the earth was ever kept from marrying a second time by a sentiment or a memory. With their limited moral endowment such a thing is an absolute moral impossibility. They live with each other to extreme old age, because they imitate the superior race, and because it has become a habit, perhaps, but the grand purposes of nature accomplished, there is little or nothing more, or of those blessed memories of joy and suffer- ing — of early hope and chastened sorrows, which so bind and blend together the white husband and wife, and often render them quite as necessary to each other's happiness as in the flush and vigor of youth. Affection for his master is, in fact. MAEEIAGE. 243 the strongest, and it may be said to be the only enduring affec- tion of the negro nature, for it remains an ever-present feeling long after the feeble and capricious " family sentiment," or love of wife and offspring, is entirely obliterated from his memory. Marriage of " Southern slaves" thus briefly pre- sented, will be seen to be as real, decent, orderly, and natural, as the nature of the negro admits of, or relatively speaking, as the Almighty Creator himself has designed or decreed. He has endowed the negro with different and vastly subordinate moral wants and affections, but at the same time given him an imitative capacity that enables him to copy the higher nature and more exalted habitudes of the superior race. They there- fore marry as white people marry, with the same forms and the same ceremonies, and such a thing as polygamy, or what the "Abolitionist" calls concubinage, is utterly unknown among these people. They are no portion or part of society, have no place in the social compact, they are unable to fulfil its duties, and therefore have none of its rights, hence legal marriage is obviously absurd and impossible. To the ignorant Abolition writer it may seem quite plain that marriage should be a civil contract with negroes as well as white people, for his theory that the negro is a Mack Caucasian, neutralizes all difficulties in this as in other things. But even they must see that to force them on the same social level in this vital respect must neces- sarily involve social equality in all other respects — a result, un- less their theory be sound, obviously unnatural, monstrous, and wicked. The negro, isolated in his native Africa, is at this moment exactly what he was four thousand years ago, selling his wives and offspring with as utter disregard of marital re- lations, and unconsciousness of a family sentiment, as in the time of the Pharaohs ; and when we contrast these things — the universal polygamy, the trade in wives, the caprice and savagism of the lawless husband or master with the decent and 244 MARRIAGE. Christian marriage of " Southern slaves," imitated from the superior race, and generally restrained by its example, may we not say with entire reverence and truth, that marriage, as it now actually exists among these people at the South, being all that their natures are capable of, and all that their wants and their highest happiness demand, is also, and of necessity, all that God Himself has decreed or designed in respect to this race ? There is no other comparison to make, or contrast to pre- sent, but that of African savagism ; for that modern product of a w r orld-wide delusion, " freedom," or free negroism, as shown elsewhere, is a social abnormalism, a diseased condition, that necessarily ends in extinction ; and unless it can be proven that disease is preferable to health, and death itself a greater good than life, no argument or proof drawn from it is legiti- mate or allowable. CHAPTER XX. CLIMATIC AND INDUSTKIAL ADAPTATION. The surface of the earth is naturally divided into zones or centres of existence. These great centres of creation have each their Fauna and Flora, their animal and vegetable life peculiar to themselves alone. Geographical writers use these terms, and speak of the temperate, frigid, and torrid zones, etc., as mere designations of certain portions of the earth where the climate is widely varied ; but this is very subordi- nate to the real differences that separate the great centres of organic life. All creatures, indeed all organic and living things, have their centres of existence, their local habitations, their places in the mighty programme of creation. They are all adapted to these great centres of life — their organic structure, their faculties, and the purposes they were designed to fulfil, all harmonizing with their localities, the positions the Almighty has assigned to them. There are approximating forms of life, certain genera among animals and plants, that may be said to belong to the same family or group, but which are found in different zones or centres of existence, but there is no such thing as the same species being found in more than one centre of creation. All the animals and plants of Europe are, there- fore, different from those of America, as all the creatures that belong to the northern region of this continent are specifically different from those of the tropics. Each and every specific creation is different from every other specific existence, and differs just as widely in the circumstances 246 CLIMATIC AND INDUSTKIAL ADAPTATION. that surround it, and to which it is adapted, as it does in its own organic structure. If an animal, for example, it has a special structure with special instincts, qualities, etc., and the external circumstances, the climate, the vegetation, all things are in perfect harmony. This law may be said to be universal, for the few seeming exceptions scarcely deserve notice. There are a few plants and cereals suited to all climates. The potato, of American origin, is cultivated with equal success in Europe, while most of our ordinary vegetables are of European origin. Wheat grows with equal luxuriance in the Valley of the Nile, the table lands of Mexico, and the great Northwest. But while all of these things, and many more, are thus capable of successful cultivation in different localities from those in which they were originally created, the external conditions must be preserved — the same or similar soil, and, to a certain extent, the same climate or the same heat and moisture are essential in their cultivation. This is also generally true of animals. Our domestic animals are all suited to different climates. The horse, dog, ox, sheep, etc., are of European origin — some of them Asiatic — and they live and multiply with equal certainty under the fervid suns of the tropics, or amid the icy blasts of the extreme North. They are striking exceptions, however, to the general law which adapts » all creatures to their own centres of existence, and, it would seem, were designed by the Almighty and beneficent Creator for the especial purpose of benefiting man. They have accompanied him in all his wander- ings, especially the dog and horse, shared his fortunes, aided in fighting his battles, and however subordinate, played an im- portant role in the civilization of mankind. They are closely associated in this capacity for resisting external circumstances with man himself, that is, the Caucasian, or master man, who, as regards mere climate, is capable of living and of enjoying the healthy development of all his faculties in all climates alike, CLIMATIC A.ND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. 247 unless, perhaps, the polar regions, or extreme North. As a general law, all creatures, as they ascend in the scale of being, become less and less subject to external influences ; but some of our domestic animals are certainly exceptions, for the dog and horse, at all events, are capable of living where the negro, and possibly the Mongol, would surely become extinct. The same general laws of climate affect the human races, not exactly similarly, of course, but approximatively as they do animals, and with a certain modification, as they do plants — that is, they have all centres of existence to which they are specifically adapted, with the sole exception of the Caucasian, as some of our domestic animals, and indeed some vegetable existences are exceptions. The white man, as has been said, can exist everywhere, where life of any kind is possible, except the ex- treme North, and even here, as shown by Kane and other explorers in those bleak and barren regions, by proper precau- tions, or by complying with certain conditions, life is possible for certain periods. He is, doubtless, designed for the temper- ate latitudes, industrially considered, but, as regards climate, he is at home everywhere. Writers, ignorant of the laws of climate, and indeed ignorant of the specific character of races, have supposed that they become weak, effete, and imbecile in tropical latitudes, and this notion is, perhaps, very generally entertained by otherwise intelligent people. The population found in these regions are negro, Indian, or Malay, intermixed often with white blood, and these inferior people are supposed to be a result of climate, and to exhibit the natural conse- quences of a warm and enervating atmosphere ! The white man under the equator, living, or rather attempting to live, the life of the negro — to labor under the rays of a vertical sun — would rapidly decline and die, for his organic structure could not resist the external influences that tend to destroy him. The malaria springing from the decomposition of the rank 248 CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. vegetation, which ascends in the early portion and descends to the earth in the later portion of the day, would soon poison all the springs of life, and fever would close the scene. Any attempt at labor in midday would be still more rapidly fatal, for the caloric generated by the exertion, without an excretory system to relieve it, would end in fatal congestions of the vital organs, especially the brain. We constantly witness an approximation to this in our Western States and Territories, where nearly a generation voluntarily sacrifice themselves in the effort of preparing comfortable homes for their offspring. But after a certain progress is made, the causes of disease sub- side, and the temperate climate enables them to labor at all times. But while the white man is forever forbidden by the laws of his physical nature to labor, or by his own hands to grow the natural products of the tropics, he can live there, and en- joy all his faculties of mind and body with the same certainty and success that belong to the temperate latitudes. It may be that the temptations to indulgence, to voluptuousness, or to the gratification of the animal appetites, are greater in these warm and glowing climes, but surely no more so than in our own summers, compared with the winter or other less attractive seasons. On the contrary, the necessities of cleanliness and the less potent demand for stimulants, with the cooling and delicious fruits of the tropics, tend to delicacy of tastes and appetites. At all events, it is certain that the grossest, most brutal, and most immoral populations of Europe are found in the far north, while those of southern Europe are the most temperate and the most delicate in their habitudes of any peo- ple in the world. But climate has little, if any, influence in these respects. The white man under the same circumstances is the same being, and his grossness and immorality, or his del- icacy, temperance, and morality, are things of chance, accord- CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. 249 ing as lie has been educated, and circumstances, public and private, have formed his character. As a master, as the guide and protector of the subordinate negro, he may live wherever the latter can, otherwise the negro would have been created in vain — a blank in the economy of the universe, a contradiction in the designs of Providence, and a blotch on the fair form of creation. Generally speaking, climate or other external cir- cumstances have influence over the life, either human or ani- mal, according as they are low in the scale of being, and therefore while the Caucasian man can live and enjoy the full development of all his powers in the tropics, the negro and other inferior races are absolutely limited to their own centres of existence. The Mongols have been confined to those portions of Asia where they now exist, ever since known to history, for though in the mighty invasions of Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, and others, when millions of them spread like a flood over other regions, and even as far as Chalons, in France, they almost as rapidly receded, and are now just where history first found them. The modern slave-trade, carried on so extensively by the English of our day, where these people, under various pre- texts, are placed aboard ships and sent to Jamaica, and other West Indian Islands, to supply the place of the abandoned negro, must be a far greater wrong than the importation of negroes from Africa, for it is a violation of the laws of climate that must rapidly destroy them, while in the case of the negro he is still within that centre of existence, where God himself placed him. The Malay, too, is in his own centre of life, and like all the inferior races, never migrates from it. The Esqui- maux, buried in the bleak and desolate North, never ventures beyond it, and should he be carried into the tropics by the white man, would doubtless soon succumb under its burning suns. We know but little of the Indian or aboriginal in these respects. They now constitute the industrial forces of Mex- 11* 250 CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. ico, and,except Brazil,of all South America. There are some ten millions of them, and as we know that the negro never can labor on the table-lands, or live at all in an atmosphere several thousand feet above the level of the sea, it may become a ques- tion of immense importance to the civilization of this conti- nent to determine the natural position and our true relations to this race. The negro, more distinctly, perhaps, than any other race, is limited to his centres of life. If Dr. Kane had taken any with him in his Northwest explorations, it is hardly possible that they could have lived through it, if of pure ne- gro type. His organic structure, while as perfectly adapted to a tropical climate as the eye is to sight or any other organism to a given purpose or function, utterly forbids him to live be- yond a certain latitude. An individual may do so, of course, or a generation or more may linger out a miserable existence, but his structure forbids that he should multiply himself or be- come a permanent resident in the extreme north. There are great numbers in Canada, the result of that wide- spread igno- rance of his true nature that has worked out such tremendous evils to these poor people as well as to the deluded and mis- taken whites. Their situation in Canada is the most misera- ble, perhaps, that human beings can possibly endure. It would be miserable enough if they had masters, guides, protectors, and providers for their wants, but, without these, with none of the external circumstances with which God surrounded them when He first called them into being, and then left to compete with white men for the means of subsistence, it is repeated that their condition must be the most deplorable to which un- happy human creatures could be subjected. The constant ac- cession to their numbers through the Underground Railroad renders any thing like an estimate of the fatality among them quite out of the question, but when, in addition to their ab- normal social condition, there is the pressure of an unnatural CLIMATIC AND INDUSTEIAL ADAPTATION. 251 climate or of external influences utterly opposite to those that God originally provided for them, and directly in conflict with their organic structure, then it is obvious, of course, that they must perish rapidly. All those physicians in the North who have had any expe- rience of the diseases of these people, know the tendencies to consumption or disease of the respiratory organs so common, almost universal among them, but few if any have known that this was a necessary result of the peculiar structure of the negro. His entire surface is studded with innumerable se- baceous glands, which are the safety-valves that nature has provided for relieving his system from the action of vertical suns, but these rendered torpid, indeed incapable of perform- ing their functions in the icy atmosphere of the North, con- gestion and disease of the lungs necessarily follows. Almost every one has seen negroes in Northern cities, who have lost their legs by frost at sea— a thing rarely witnessed among whites, and yet where a single negro has been thus exposed, doubtless a thousand of the former have. Climate, therefore, has a fixed and absolute control over the existence of the negro. God has adapted him, both in his physical and men- tal structure, to the tropics, and though he can live in the tem- perate latitudes, his welfare, his happiness, and the develop- ment of his faculties are secured just as he conforms to the designs of the Almighty, as written in his organism, and lives within the centre of existence where he was created. And those ignorant and terribly mistaken people who have seduced and led him into the bleak and forbidden North, have uncon- sciously committed a crime that would appall them if they could truly comprehend it. Such are, briefly, the more prominent laws of climate, and their influence on men and animals ; but as climate itself, in the ordinary meaning of the word, has regard only to degrees 252 CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. of latitude, or to modifications of heat and cold, they are of secondary importance, or, at most, are only a portion of those general laws of adaptation which govern animal existence, and harmonize it with the locality in which it was originally created. Beyond the few exceptions referred to, all organic existence is adapted to its own centre of life, and incapable of living in any other. This is illustrated every day, and familiar to the least observing among us. Cereals and vegetables of every kind demand, if not always a special climate, certainly a spe- cial soil. Corn, wheat, etc., require a soil suited to them — there must be a special adaptation of external circumstances, for there is an eternal relation between the organism and the circumstances that surround it. The most ignorant among our agriculturists know from their own experience that cer- tain things can only grow on certain soils, and this fixed and indestructible law, thus manifested in the simpler forms of being, pervades the whole organic world. And, as remarked, it is in exceptional instances, or the instances where climate does not govern, that these adaptations to particular soils are essential. In general, it can not be transplanted or removed from its own centre of existence. The products of the tropics — the sugar cane, coffee, indigo, cotton, etc., the numerous fruits, etc., can not be changed, or, at all events, can not be grown successfully outside of their original centre of creation. As we ascend in the scale, the laws of adaptation, are, of course, multiplied, or become more elaborate, and in the case of human beings, they are widely diversified with numerous secondary relations ; but the great universal and all-dominating law that unites men to their centres of existence, is as indestructible and everlasting as it is in the simplest form of vegetable exis- tence. God has created both them and the external circum- stances, has given them a specific structure and corresponding faculties, and He has made the earth, the soils, the form of its CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. 253 products, its climate, etc., in perfect accord with the former, and as time and chance, or human forces, can never change or modify the works of the Almighty, this law of adaptation is everlasting. The white man — as a laborer — is adapted to the temperate latitudes, not because mere climate, or heat and cold, demand it, but because such is his natural adaptation. All the exter- nal circumstances accord with his nature — his physical struc- ture and his intellectual endowments. The soil, its natural products — the time and mode of their growth, their ripening or maturity, in short, their cultivation is in perfect harmony with his faculties. The farmer of Ohio or Illinois, for example, ploughs and prepares his fields through the early summer, for sowing them with wheat in the early autumn. The process is elaborate. The land must be manured, ploughed carefully at different times, harrowed over at intervals, and gradually made ready for the reception of the seed. Then he carefully selects that which his experience assures him is best. After it is sown he again harrows over his fields, watches them care- fully for several months, and then, the crop having ripened, an- other process begins. This is equally elaborate and demands the fullest exercise of his mental faculties as well as the labor of his body. He must watch and judge of the weather, when he shall gather in his crops, how dispose of them, etc. ; then comes the thresh- ing, the separation of the grain, etc., the disposal of the straw, the feeding of his stock, all again needing the fullest exercise of all his highest faculties. Then, again, begins another pro- cess — if not personal or where he himself is the leading party, where men like himself or with the same faculties as himself are associated with him and engaged in completing the pro- cess which he began. That which he planted and gathered is now still more elaborately manipulated. The wheat is changed 254 CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. into flour by a lengthened and elaborate process, and then pass- ing through another elaboration, it becomes bread— the sus- tenance of the race, the natural food of the millions, the legi- timate result of a healthy exercise of his specific faculties and of the industrial adaptation of the race. Beginning with the selection of the land, its preparation, the selection, etc., of the seed, the planting, the care and estimate of the weather, the ripening, the gathering, the separation of the grain, the trans- format-ion into flour, the still greater change into bread, in the entire process, from the occupation of the land to the moment when placed on the table of his household, the tout ensemble needs and calls into action the highest faculties of reasoning and comparison, and however uneducated or ignorant the in- dividual may seem, when compared with the man of books, the process, or rather processes, would be impossible, of course, to any race except our own, or to beings with capacities in- ferior to those of the white man. It is the same with all the other products common or indi- genous to temperate latitudes. They all demand the highest capacities for their cultivation. The nature of the soils, the fitness of particular products to particular soils, the periods of growth, of ripening, the influences of the atmosphere, the action of heat and cold, the change of seasons, etc., are all in harmony with the elevated faculties, while the result, then- cultivation and uses, are all essential to the welfare and happi- ness of the white man. The industrial adaptation is complete, the varying soils, often widely different on the same farm, the numerous regulations, the multiplied relations and connections involved, the changing seasons and complicated circumstances render the temperate latitudes as absolutely the centre of life to the white man, industrially considered, as the tropics are to the negro, or as any of the simpler forms of being are to the local- ities in which we find them. The industrial and specific adap- CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. 255 tation of the negro to his own centre of life is, however, more palpable and demonstrable, for his limited intelligence and more direct relations to external circumstances enable us to grasp the facts involved more readily. The soil of the tropics has little variation, and rarely needs any manure or prepara- tion like those of temperate latitudes. And the indigenous products, those that need care and labor for their cultivation, however luxuriant their growth, are few in number. There are almost innumerable species of fruits that grow spontane- ously, and indeed a great number of plants that are nutritious, which need no care or labor, and which the negro, in his iso- lated or barbarous state, lives on to a great extent. But the great natural products of the tropics, those that are essential to human welfare, which are at this instant the most impor- tant elements of modern commerce, and are vitally affecting the civilization of our times, are few in number, and need only the lowest grade of intelligence for their cultivation. Cotton, for example, needs but little beyond planting and picking, and sugar, so far as the labor is concerned, is even more simple. It is true, in the complete elaboration and final perfection of these products, the manufacture, etc., the highest order of in- telligence is called into action, but this has no necessary con- nection with the negro. Cotton is shipped to the North or Europe, and passes altogether into other hands, and though the negro labor was vital in the preliminary stages, it has no more connection with the ultimate disposition of this material than the labor of mules that were employed to prepare the earth for its original cultivation. Coffee, tobacco, indigo, etc., are all equally simple, all hi accord with the simple soils, the uni- form atmosphere, the primitive laws of development, as they may be termed, and in perfect harmony with the grade of in- telligence, the specific nature and industrial adaptation of the negro. 256 CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. His physical organism is adapted to the cultivation of these products as perfectly as is his grade of intelligence. His head is protected from the rays of a vertical sun by a dense mat of woolly hair, wholly impervious to its fiercest heats, while his entire surface, studded with innumerable sebaceous glands, forming a complete excretory system, relieves him from all those climatic influences so fatal, under the same circumstances, to the sensitive and highly organized white man. Instead of seeking to shelter himself from the burning sun of the tropics, he courts it, enjoys it, delights in its fiercest heats, and malaria — that deadly poison to the white man, which, in the form of yellow fever, has swept from existence vast multitudes of our race, is as harmless to the negro organism as the balmy breezes of May or June to the organization of the white man. Of course mulattoes and mongrels may have something that ap- proximates to the yellow fever of the white man, but to the negro it is simply an organic impossibility. His faculties, his simple grade of intelligence, his physical organism, his specific, climatic, and industrial adaptations are therefore in perfect har- mony with the primitive soils, the simple products, and uni- form atmosphere of the tropics, and in complete relation and perfect union with the circumstances that surround him in the centre of existence where the Almighty has placed him. The late Daniel Webster once declared that God had limited " slavery" to certain climates, and that he, at least, would not " reenact the will of God," and this declaration, though as a form of speech absurd enough, was certainly in close neighbor- hood to a great and vital truth. If he had said that the Almighty had adapted the negro to certain climates, he w^ould have expressed just what w T e are now -considering; but the relation of the negro to the white man, the thing he called slavery, is, of course, as proper and as natural in New York or Ohio as in Mississippi. The vulgar notion, therefore, that CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. 257 " slave labor," the industrial capacities of the negro, is unpro- fitable in temperate latitudes is only partially true. The " slave" relation, the normal condition, as contrasted with the so-called free negro, presents just the difference between a use- ful negro and a worthless negro, or a negro who adds to the productive forces of a State, and one who lives on the State — a healthy and a diseased social element, and therefore wherever found, if, indeed, in the extreme North, it is simply absurd to speak of the former as unprofitable when contrasted with the latter. But when the negro is contrasted with the white man in Ohio or New York, then the whole subject is changed. His industrial capacities are incompetent to grow the indige- nous products of the temperate latitudes. The reasoning, the reflection, the elevated faculties called into action, that are absolutely essential to the cultivation of their products, the varying and complicated soils, their elabo- rate preparation, the care and judgment needed in gathering them, etc., the still more elaborate processes before they are rendered fit for human sustenance, all this needs the high in- telligence, and therefore the large brain, of the white man, and to the isolated negro is impossible, of course. It is true, the master may guide them, and the owner of a hundred negroes hi Ohio may carry on these processes and cultivate the soils of the Western and Middle States some- times, perhaps, when all labor is scarce, with tolerable success. But their inferiority, their lower grade of intelligence, the time and trouble expended in this guidance, must be so palpable to every one who reflects a moment, that the case only needs to be stated to convince them of the relative worthlessness of this labor. And leaving out of view the force of climate, the changing seasons, the sudden frosts which sometimes disable and very generally affect the negro injuriously, and in the end destroy him — leaving all this out of consideration, and con- 258 CLIMATIC AND INDUSTKIAL ADAPTATION. templating his mere industrial adaptations, it is obvious that the negro can never be, as he never has been, able to cultivate the soils or grow the products of the temperate latitudes. But while the great dividing lines are distinct enough, while the white man and negro, in their industrial adaptations, can never be in conflict when each is within that centre of exist- ence to which the Almighty Creator has adapted and designed him, there is a large extent of territory where they may both labor to advantage, and where time and circumstances may often determine their presence and their fitness for such labor. The white man is forever forbidden by the laws of his organi- zation to labor under a tropical sun, or to grow by his own physical efforts the products indigenous to the trojrics. The negro, by the laws of both his physical structure and mental nature, is forever incapable of cultivating the soil or of grow- ing the products indigenous or common to the temperate latitudes. These great elementary and indestructible truths, which, fixed forever by the hand of God, admit of no exception, change, or modification whatever, which time, and circum- stances, and human power can not influence, any more than the laws of gravitation, or animal growth, or the term of ani- mal existence, or any other law of the Creator of the universe, will not be mistaken ; but when we come to consider the approximating latitudes, then there is a wide field opened up, to our view, to chance, to time, to a multitude of con- siderations. In general terms, it may be said, that wherever the white man can labor with effect, that is, can preserve his health and the full exercise of his faculties, there his labor must be more valuable than is that of the negro. People who are ignorant of the laws of climate and industrial adaptations, and still worse, ignorant of the nature of the negro and his relations to CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. 259 the white man, when traveling on the Ohio River, observe that the populations on the Ohio side are more energetic, industrious, and prosperous than they are on the Kentucky side of the river, and they infer that it is because Kentucky has " slavery." The author is not prepared to admit their assumption, for though there may be greater wealth and apparently greater prosperity in Ohio, the true and only test of well-being in a State is the equality of condition and of the happiness of its people, and we have no means of determining this truth by applying this test in the present instance. Eng- land is vastly more wealthy than any other State in Christen- dom — its annual production is vastly greater, but this wealth is monopolized by a fraction of the population. While the great body of the people are steeped in poverty to the lips, and while the few are every day growing wealthier, the many are, with equal rapidity and certainty, becoming more abject in their poverty, and, consequently more ignorant, vicious, and miserable. If, therefore, it were true that Ohio did increase in wealth more rapidly than Kentucky, it would by no means follow that the people of Ohio were in a better condition than those of Kentucky. But it is reasonable to suppose that the production is greater than that of Kentucky, for while the climate and industrial adaptation are suited to the white man, there are none but white men in Ohio, while nearly half of the laboring population of Kentucky are negroes. The same absurd assumption and inference have been made in respect to Virginia and other so-called Slave States, when contrasted with New York and other so-called Free States. It has been said, " Virginia falls behind New York in general prosperity." " It is because she has half a million of slaves, and if she will abolish this slavery, then she will soon equal, perhaps surpass, New York, for Virginia has certain natural advantages which New York has not." Or, in other words, it is said that Vir- 260 CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. ginia is less prosperous than New York, because her half a million of negroes are in a normal condition, and if she will thrust them from this condition and turn them loose, as New York has done, then Virginia will soon be equally prosperous as the latter ! Possibly one out of twenty of the negroes in New York, Ohio, or any other so-called Free State, is engaged in productive labor, while the nineteen others live — tempor- arily — on the labor of the producing classes of those States. The argument of these political economists, therefore, is sim- ply this : Virginia with half a million of industrious and pro- ductive negroes, is less prosperous than N"ew York, but if she will transform them into half a million of idle, non-productive, and good-for-nothing negroes, then she will rapidly recover from her present depressed condition. But enough — these people who set up an abstraction entirely nonsensical, must reach conclusions equally preposterous. They are not only ignorant of what they argue about so pompously, but they imagine conditions that not only do not but can not exist, either here or elsewhere, in our own times or any other, in the existing, or any other world. Virginia, Kentucky, all of the transition States, all the States with considerable negro populations that are in the temperate latitudes, are, of course, less productive than those bordering on them with entire white populations, for the negro is greatly inferior in his industrial capabilities, as in all other respects, where white men can labor. Thus far there can be no doubt, for there is no room for doubt, but it by no means follows that the people of Ohio or Pennsylvania are in a better condi- tion than those of Kentucky and Virginia. The people of Vir- ginia, if not homogenenous in race, are so in interest, and that one great fact underlying the social condition, is itself, or in the results that flow from it, of vast benefit. The interests of the State, of all its people, the " slaveholder," a non-slave- CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. 261 holder," and the negro or so-called slave, are homogeneous, uni- versal, and indivisible, and therefore without social conflict, or causes for social conflict, the tendencies of the social order are harmonious and beneficent. The only seeming conflict or the sole thing that superficial thinkers might mistake for such, is the fact that the negro is not adapted to the locality, and they might suppose that therefore the owner of his services, or of this so-called slave property, might, to a certain extent, mo- nopolize the soil that of right belonged to the white laborer. But a moment's reflection will be sufficient to convince any rational mind of the unsoundness of this supposition. A Virginia planter may, perhaps, inherit a thousand acres of land and a hundred negroes. His poor white neighbor is with- out land perhaps, and thinks it hard that these negroes, whom his instinct as well as reason assures him are not as well adapted to the locality as himself, should occupy it, while he has none. But the planter himself is worse off still. The land is worn out — the negro capacity can not resuscitate it — they barely earn sufficient for the common support — the planter finds it hard to five at all, and only does so, perhaps, by parting with some of his people, and therefore whatever the evil of this negro element in localities which the changes of time and circumstances have brought about, it is an evil that presses upon the owner of this species of property with vastly greater force than it does on the non-slaveholder. Of course the remedy is obvious — " Slavery Extension" — free and full expansion — the acquisition of new territories suited to the industrial capacities of the negro. For example, if we sup- pose the late General Walker had been successful, and opened Central America to American settlement, energy, civilization, and prosperity — the Virginia or Maryland planter, who now finds it difficult to " make both ends meet," would gather up his household and migrate to these inviting and fertile regions. 2C2 CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. His negroes producing double or treble, or even more, in their new homes, he could afford to send his children to the North or Europe to be educated, and himself spend his summers at the Springs or abroad, and live as luxuriously as he pleased, while his negroes or so-called slaves, in their centre of exist- ence, where God ordained that they should live, laving them- selves in the genial heats of the tropics, with all their best and highest capacities called into action, and the best qualities of their nature healthily and naturally developed, would be even more benefited, perhaps, than the master himself. The va- cancy would be filled by the increasing white population, by the constant inflowing of the mighty masses pouring in upon us from the Old World, by the poor German or other Euro- pean peasant, who only needs liberty and the means for devel- oping the high nature with which God endowed him, to ex- hibit himself as the equal of the kings and aristocrats who have crushed him into an artificial inferiority actually resem- bling the natural inferiority of the negro, and these impover- ished soils being resuscitated by his industry, his intelligence, in short, his industrial adaptations, the now wasted and wast- ing lands of the transition States would become, and doubtless will become some day, the very garden of the republic. Nor would this be the whole of the beneficial process in question. The world needs, and especially our own farmers and working classes need, the products of the tropics. Sugar, and coffee, and tropical fruits should be had at half their present prices, while the increased production, the extension of commerce and general progress would have a vast influence over the civiliza- tion of our times by this simple application of industrial forces in conformity with the fundamental laws of climatic and indus- trial adaptation. A large majority of our negro population are at this moment outside of their own centre of existence, and a time will come when the border or transition States will prob- CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. 263 ably have few of these people. As observed, it is absurd, a contradiction, an abuse of language, to speak of " slav- ery," or the social subordination of the negro, as an evil, or as being, under any possible circumstances, unprofitable, for that involves the anomaly of supposing the idle and good-for-nothing negro a benefit to the State ; but the negro is profitable to his master, beneficial to the State, and happy himself in such pro- portion as he approximates to the tropics, and is placed in juxta- position with the external circumstances to which God has adapted him. They or their progenitors were mainly landed at northern ports. They were, in the then scarcity of labor, possibly needed even in the Central States. As an advanced guard in the rising civilization of the New World, they were once, perhaps, essential to the Provinces of Virginia, Maryland, etc., for the rich soil, the rank vegetation, the extensive marshes and wild river bottoms generated an extent and degree of ma- laria that was often fatal to the white man, and rendered the labor and aid of these people of vital importance in the early settlement of the country. But as the country became cnlti- tivated and white laborers became plenty, it was seen that the labor of the negro was less valuable ; so that Mr. Jefferson, and many of his cotemporaries, actually fancied it an evil, and desired to be relieved from it. And indeed, what was worse still — they confounded the existence of the negro with the relation, the so-called slavery, of the negro ; and it was only when Louisiana Avas occupied, and new and appropriate regions were opened to the negro, and in harmony with his industrial capacities, that this erroneous notion of Mr. Jefferson and others disappeared from the southern mind. Virginia has still a large negro population, but while they are mainly employed in cultivating tobacco, suited to the simple capacity and subordinate nature of the negro, the demand for cotton, rice, sugar, etc., in the great tropical regions of the republic, is 264 CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. rapidly attracting them southward, and in conformity with their own happiness as well as the welfare of the white citi- zenship, this process is destined to go on until they are all within their own centre of existence. Whether or not Virginia, or any other transition State, would be better without them at this time, it is of course impossible to say, or to conjecture even. The simple fact, however, of their presence there would seem to indicate that it was desirable to have them among them yet, or at all events in considerable numbers, but the indus- trial attraction is constantly carrying them further south — to Texas, Florida, and other Gulf States, where their labor is more valuable. These general laws of climatic and industrial adaptation, which thus underlie the social fabric when made up of mixed populations, are also illustrated by the national history, and demonstrated in every step of the national progress. When negroes were first introduced into the British North American Colonies, there was, of course, and for many years after, a great demand for labor. Here was a mighty continent, a new world, open to the enterprise and energy of the most energetic and most enterprising branch of the great master race of man- kind. All that was wanted was labor — labor, too, that was of the lowest kind in some respects, and laborers whose im- perfect innervation and low grade of sensibility could resist the malarious influences always more or less potent in new countries and virgin soils, even in temperate latitudes, were often desirable. The Bristol and the Liverpool " slave mer- chants," therefore — the progenitors of the saints and philan- thropists of Exeter Hall — supplied these wants, ordinarily with negroes, but occasionally with some of their own poorer and more helpless brethren, whom they did not hesitate to kidnap and send out to labor on the American plantations. Negroes, therefore, were forced from the sea-board to the in- CLIMATIC AND INDUSTRIAL ADAPTATION. 266 terior, even as far as Canada, while the Central Colonies had even very considerable numbers of these people. With the downfall of the British dominion, however, the Bristol mer- chants were forced to engage in other enterprises, and as the genius and daring of Clive and his companions had just then opened a new and boundless empire in India, English capital, enterprise, and polity took another direction, and though the African trade was continued for some years afterward by our own people, there were, comparatively, but few negroes im- ported after the overthrow of the British rule. After the re- moval of a foreign and artificial rule, and the establishment of a political system in harmony with the instincts and wants of feeDle ghnmier- mg^^He great truth promulgated in 1776. All who belong to the race or species are created equal ; and this great, fixed, and eternal fact, embedded in the physical and mental organ- ism of the race, has always been dimly perceived, but without juxtaposition with a different race, without the actual pres- ence of the negro, without the constant daily perception of those natural distinctions that separate races, in contrast with the artificial distinctions of classes of their own race, neither Jefferson nor any one else could have risen to the level of the grand truth embodied in the Declaration of Independence. They might have been distinguished actors in the great drama :>f independence, but that, as an historical event, would not have differed from a score of similar events where one people or portion of a people have separated and set up an indepen- dent government. The overthrow of the Moorish dominion in Spain — of the rule of the Spaniards in Holland — and the recent independence of Belgium, are parallel events, and many others might be named where foreign dominion has been overthrown and new governments set up without resulting in any change or progress of ideas, or without working out any fundamental revolution in human affairs. And if Jefferson, Madison, and their associates had had the same mental habits as Hamilton, Adams, and others of the North, it is obvious that independ- ence would not have been accompanied by a revolution in ideas. As has been said, a more liberal system than that of 292 NORTH AND SOUTH. the mother country would have been established, but a new system, a radical and fundamental change in the political order — a new starting-point in the progress of the race — a govern- ment founded on the universal equality of the citizenship as actually established^ obvious would have been impossible. And as the public m^(^AaMitry can never rise above the level of the average opinionWRhe ordinary mental habits of the people, it is equally obvious that Jefferson and^k^Mpci- ates would never have done so, and therefore, if ther^Bw not been a condition of things that gave origin to new ideas and new habits of thought in the people of Virginia and elsewhere where these widely different social elements were in juxtaposi- tion, then it is equally obvious that the world would never have heard of them in 1776, and whatever time and circum- stances might have brought about in the future, no revolution at that time would have been possible. In conclusion, therefore, that is repeated in direct terms which has been rather inferred than directly stated. The pres- ence of the negro on this continent, our juxtaposition with a widely different and inferior race, and the existence of natural distinctions or natural lines of demarcation in human society, originating of necessity new ideas and modes of thought, has been the happiest conjunction that has ever occurred in human affairs, and has led directly to the establishment of a new sys- tem and a new civilization based on foundations of everlast- ing truth — the legal and political equality of the race, or of all those whom the Almighty Creator has Himself made equal. CHAPTER XjXII. THE ALLIANCE OF NORTHERN" AND SOUTHERN PRODUCERS. Ix the foregoing chapter it has been shown how " slavery," or the presence of the negro element in our midst, has given origin to the American idea of democracy — to more expanded and truthful conceptions of our true relations to each other — to mental habits which led Mr. Jefferson to promulgate the grand idea of equality in 1776 — to make that great movement a revolution of ideas as well as a war of independence — to ren- der the latter a mere preliminary for ushering in a new political system based on the equal rights of citizenship and the start- ing-point of a new civilization widely and radically different in its fundamental idea from anything ever before known in the political experience of mankind. It has been shown that Ham- ilton and Jefferson, the respective leaders and exponents of the opposing ideas and tendencies of the time, merely reflected the mental habits that belonged to the different social conditions then existing, or of the different constituencies which they rep- resented, and after the great contest for independence which they passed through harmoniously was closed and a new system of government was to be created, that the ideas of Jefferson gen- erally prevailed and the present government embodying these ideas was established. It has been shown, moreover, that both of these great men and those who acted with them were equally honest and equally patriotic ; that neither, nor any of them could rise above the level of opinion in their respective sections, for then they would 294 THE ALLIANCE OP no longer have been representative men or able to influence the people; that the opinions of Hamilton reflected the mental habits of the North which clung to the forms and spirit of the British system founded on artificial distinctions, while Jeffer- son, reflecting with equal fidelity the mental habits that orig- inate in a different social condition — where a subordinate race is in juxtaposition — advocated a democratic system resting on the fixed and indestructible laws of nature. And in view of all these historical facts and inductive facts the conclusion was deemed irresistible that the presence of the negro element in our midst, the existence of a natural substratum in the social elements which thus secured the liberty of our own race — the legal and political equality of white men — was the happiest event or conjunction of circumstances that has ever happened in the history of mankind. But while the great northern lead- ers thus consented to the establishment of a democratic system they were driven on by their own tendencies as well as the mental habits of their people to neutralize its forces and to pervert its spirit. At that period suffrage was extremely lim- ited, while the agricultural "class in the Northern States — com- pared with the present — may be said to have been extremely ignorant. The northern or federal party were thus enabled to get possession of the new government and to give it such direc- tion as their opinions and interests doubtless seemed to de- mand. The President himself — the illustrious Washington — was without decided political convictions. His instincts and his family traditions, it is believed, inclined him in the direc- tion of the northern party, while the local tendencies of opin- ion — the general mental habits of the Virginians to regard the distinctions of race as the legitimate basis of political order — generally restrained him, and in the mighty conflict of opinion kept him in a neutral position. He formed his cabinet out of NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRODUCERS. 295 wholly incongrous materials, made Jefferson Secretary of State, and Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury, and selecting other exponents of the conflicting opinions, sought to neutralize the contending forces by an equal selection of subordinates from the hostile camps. The public credit, the restoration of commercial confidence was the first and most pressing want of the country as well as of the new government, and in this Hamilton found a pretext for adoptingvthe British system of finance which he foresaw would enable his party to recover to a great extent the ground lost in the creation of the government, and in practice, what- ever might be the theory entertained, restore it or closely approximate it to his darling model — that favorite British sys- tem which he and his associates believed to be an embodiment of political wisdom. The idea of the British aristocracy that government is an instrument designed for their benefit was deeply implanted in the northern mind, and is so still. In England it is a practice which the idea has simply orig- inated in. Official employments, pensions and special legisla- tion or monopolies in England, embrace all or nearly all the ruling class, and therefore, the idea that government is estab- lished for their benefit necessarily follows. This idea of government is generally embraced by the northern mind even in our own times, and the habit of looking to this vast and beneficent power as the source of pecuniary benefits to the people, if not to a class, is almost universal among the northern people. Hamilton, brought up under the British system, was deeply imbued with it, and, placed in power, it was natural enough that he and his associates should construe the Constitution in a way to give it effect. The state debts that were contracted for carrying on the war were assumed by the new government and formed a basis for a national bank which was soon established, 296 THE ALLIANCE OP and the rapid restoration of public credit that followed the restoration of public order and a settled society in a young and vigorous country was claimed by the federal writers as a proof of the wisdom of their policy and the extraordinary ability of their leader. Mr. Jefferson opposed tins policy from the beginning in all its aspects — the adoption of the British system of finance, the assumption of state debts, the creation of a national bank, in short, the entire programme of federal policy. He held with the state-rights democracy of our day, that the central government was a factitious and limited government, whose powers were derived, not from the collective people but from the people of the several or United /States, that the Constitution should be literally construed, and the practice under it strictly confined to the plainly enumerated objects, and, therefore, that the cre- ation of a national bank, assumption of state-debts, etc., were unconstitutional in principle and dangerous in practice. Hamilton and his party, on the contrary, held that the financial policy they adopted was not only the wisest that was possible under the circumstances, but that the consequen- ces likely to follow — the consolidation of power and prestige of the central government — would be of the greatest possible value to the people. Indeed, the old contest between Massa- chusetts and Virginia — the conflict of ideas — the warfare of widely different mental habits which preceded and ushered in the government were renewed and accompanied by a bitter- ness of spirit quite unknown in the former case. Hamilton, impelled by the opinions of the North, assumed in practice, if not in theory always, that the central government sprung from the collective or the American people instead of the people of the States, and was almost unlimited in its powers, and he doubtless believed that the more extended its powers, the safer and more stable would become the country and the NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRODUCERS. 29V more prosperous the people. He had failed to obtain such a government as he especially desired — a government after the English model— republican in form but aristocratic in fact, a government based on those artificial distinctions which the mental habits of the North were accustomed to regard as the only safe foundation, and now in power, with the prestige of the great name of Washington to support his policy, he doubt- less believed himself a patriot, and as performing vital service to his country and to posterity, when he thus construed the Constitution and consolidated the powers of the federal system. Indeed, the fear of the people — of a reckless and dis- orderly multitude — was the abiding sentiment of the great northern leaders, and the consolidation, power, and grandeur of a central government that should restrain them was the object of all their efforts. Thus, the very objects the federal- ists aimed at — doubtless from patriotic motives, for there being no laws of primogeniture there was no permanent class to be ben- efited by their policy — were the very things that Mr. Jefferson and his friends contemplated as the greatest danger to the country. Hamilton desired to construe the Constitution in a way to build up an enormous central power that should hold in check the tendencies to disruption and disorder, while Jef- ferson believed that the greater the assumption and the con- solidation of power in the federal system the greater the dan- ger to the freedom of the States and to the people. Or, in other words, the federalists believed that the more the central power was enlarged the greater the scope and strength of the federal government — the more certain were the States to be kept from disunion and the restless multitudes from anarchy, while Jefferson and his party believed that this assumption of power in the central government would result in the overthrow of the government itself if there was no other way of obtaining redress and of preserving on the part 13* 298 THE ALLIANCE OP of the States and the people of the States the liberties which they fought for in IV 76. Such was the great civil contest that sprung up under the administration of Washington, but which was constantly restrained by the presence of that great man, who, without any very decided leanings as regarded the parties to it, was, moreover, eminently practical and earnestly disposed to favor conciliation and peace rather than commit himself to the abstract opinions of either side. It was only, therefore, during the succeeding administration of Adams that this fun- damental conflict of ideas — this conflict which involved the very foundations of government itself, and which, back of the immediate actors that figured in the scene, originated in the different mental habits that spring of necessity from different social conditions, reached its culmination and prepared the way for that final solution which the great civil revolution of 1800 afterwards accomplished. The federalists, or, more properly, the centralists, had con- Btrued the Constitution in a way to make the government in practice substantially what they believed it should have been in theory. They had adopted the British system of finance, had created a national debt and a national bank, which, as in England, was to be the agency for the deposit and disburse- ment of the public revenue, and, from the necessities of the case, a vast and overshadowing monopoly which was to hold the credit of the States, and of every individual in the States, at its mercy. In fact, the States were rapidly sinking into mere de- pendencies and subject provinces of the vast and overshadowing power of the central government, which, not content with its usurpations over the States — tending, in practice, to almost obliterate the lines of State sovereignty — even sought to strike down the liberty of the individual citizen, and in its alien and sedition laws to exercise absolute powers. These laws authorized the president to imprison and punish citizens NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRODUCERS. 299 and others as his fears or caprices might dictate, with few, if any, greater safeguards for the citizen than in absolute govern- ments of the Old World.. The federal party embodied the British idea of government, and their notions of liberty differed little, if any, from those of the mother country. Liberty in England consists in the equal protection of person and property in an ordinary sense, but, as liberty, in fact, consists in an equal citizenship or an equal voice in the creation of laws that all are called on to obey, of course those who have no vote or voice in these laws are, to that extent, slaves. It was the policy of the federalists to limit this great natural right of suffrage, and in all the States where they were in the ascendency they sought to do so, as indeed was legitimate and consistent with their fundamental idea of government. Equally consistent and legitimate was their habit of expecting pecuniary benefits from government, for this, as has been said, was the practice in England, and the idea or theory that sprung from it was deeply engraved on the northern mind. While the federalists, therefore, sought to consolidate power in the hands of the federal government and to weaken the States, all the selfish and mercenary inter- ests of the day were naturally attracted to a party whose pub- lic policy thus favored and invited their cooperation. The conflict of labor and capital — the frightful antagonism between those whose labor produces all wealth and those who own the wealth produced by past generations of laborers — is at the bottom of all the revolutions and civil commotions of modern times, for it involves the whole subject of government, as well as all those mighty social evils which so disfigure and deform European society. In England this conflict has, in one sense, reached its utmost limit — while in another respect it may be said to be least active or less palpable than anywhere else. 300 THE ALLIANCE OP The few who own the wealth produced by past generations ^are the wealthiest in the world, while the many who produce all the wealth of the present are undoubtedly the poorest ! Those who psrodmdB every thing enjoy nothing, while those who produce nothing enjoy every thing ! A political econo- mist of great eminence has made an estimate of the present wealth of England, and declared that, if equally divided, every man, woman, and child in England would have ten thousand pounds, or fifty thousand dollars, and yet supposes that there are ten millions of people who never own a dollar beyond their daily support ! The land is owned by some thirty-five thou- sand proprietors, many of whom have large parks containing many thousand acres, filled with game and left untilled, while millions of men and women of their own race — their own kind — are without a single foot of that which God designed for the common sustenance and comfort of all ! Education, moral development, and happiness must go hand in hand with these things, of course ; indeed, it is a truth that should always be recognized when estimating the well-being of masses of men, that their moral and physical well-being are necessarily in- separable. No one, however ignorant or prejudiced in favor of British- ism, or " British liberty," can suppose for a moment that such stupendous results as these, or that such a social condition as that 6f England, could ever be brought about by natural causes. They are all of the same race, with the same natural capacities as well as wants, and if there be any difference, or any natural inferiority, it is within the governing class, whose intermarriage among the landed aristocracy has deteriorated their blood, and reduced them below the normal standard. It is the government, therefore — the contrivance or political machine which has worked out these tremendous results — that has dug this mighty chasm between beings whom the Almighty NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRODUCERS. 301 has created alike, and therefore forbidden any governmental distinction. The notion that government should benefit their condition, therefore — should make them richer and happier — originates in the fact itself in England, and those who, like the federalists, formed all their ideas of government after the British model, sought naturally enough to wield it for these supposed bene- ficent purposes. There was the same social conflict, in a de- gree, at the North as in England. It was the interest of the capitalist or employer to get all the labor possible with as little expense as might be, while the laborer would naturally seek to get as high wages as possible, and in return give as little labor as possible. The capitalists, the men of wealth, the professional classes, merchants, indeed all classes of Northern society, except the agricultural class, were attracted to the federal party, and, in addition, speculators and projectors of every kind were natu- rally drawn in the same direction. These classes, embracing all the wealth, and cultivation, and social influence of the day, rallied in support of the federal party, which, with the govern- ment in its hands, with the prestige of power, and nearly all of the intellectual men of the time on its side, was irresistible, so far as the North was concerned. The producing classes, the farmers and laborers — those only that were naturally opposed to its policy, or whose real interests were in conflict Avith its policy — were then comparatively helpless. The right of suf- frage was exceedingly limited, and though the agricultural class largely outnumbered the others, they were ignorant, without guides, and indeed quite helpless in the grasp of the federal leaders. The federal party, as has been stated, had, by so construing the constitution, usurped power that rendered the government substantially such as they originally desired to establish, and the masses, without intelligent leaders, were 302 THE ALLIANCE OF powerless to resist. And any one intelligently contemplating the condition of things in the Northern States during the administration of the elder Adams, must be irresistibly forced to the conclusion that the masses — the laboring and producing classes — were wholly unable to relieve themselves from the oppressions of this party, short of a physical revolution and an appeal to arms. They were largely in the majority, but the right of suffrage being mainly confined to property-holders, la- borers, mechanics, artisans, etc., were, as in England, disfran- chised ; while the agricultural classes, though greatly advanced, no doubt, beyond the same classes in the Old World, were yet extremely illiterate and ignorant, and therefore powerless. The policy of the federalists was absolutely the same as in Eng- land — that is, the government was a machine or instrument through which the few who produce nothing were to enjoy every thing, and the many, who produce every thing, were to enjoy nothing. In a new country, with cheap lands and virgin soils, it might be many centuries before the awful results now manifested in England could be worked out, but the process was the same — the same causes were in operation, and the same results would surely follow — differing only in degree. Nor, had the Union been confined to the Northern States, was there any reasonable prospect before the masses of over- throwing the oppression foisted on them, by a resort to revo- lution and physical force. They were the immense majority, it is true, but without leaders, without education or intelli- gence, or prestige of any kind, their doom was sealed, their subjection certain, their slavery inevitable. It would have been the old story over again — the revolt of the people against their oppressors in 1776 to be again subjected to other oppres- sions in 1796 — a change from one master to another; though, doubtless, as all the efforts of the race have been in the direc- tion of progress, a certain advance towards a better condi- NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRODUCERS. 303 tion. But, fortunately for mankind and the cause of free institutions, a widely different state of things existed in Vir- ginia and other States in the South. As fully considered in another place, the negro element was here stationary, and in numbers so considerable that rules and regulations were necessary in regard to it. It had to be pro- vided for ; its capacities, its wants, its necessities, in short, harmonized with the wants and well-being of the dominant race. The colonial legislatures, as the State legislatures of the present day, were constantly called on to enact laws and establish regulations for this subordinate social element, as well as for themselves, and therefore habits of thought grew up that gave them widely different notions of government from those of the people in the North. There was no social conflict ; all had the same interests, and if one man inherited wealth, and another had nothing but his labor to depend on, they never came in conflict, for the former never sought the aid of the government to benefit himself at the expense of his less fortunate neighbor. In the North, if a citizen inherited ten thousand dollars, he invested it hi some special corporation — a bank, a manufacturing company, or some- thing else — that had its origin in special legislation, and perhaps doubly increased his income, which, of course, was drawn from the laborer, the producer, the class that creates all wealth. In Virginia, on the contrary, if a citizen inherited ten thou- sand dollars, he invested it in lands, in the industrial capacities of negroes, in short, in labor ; and though he may never have labored an hour with his own hands himself, he became of necessity a producer, with the same common, universal, and indivisible interests of all other producers and laborers, and therefore never sought the aid of government. Indeed, the government could not nor can not at this time legislate for the 304 THE ALLIANCE OF benefit — special benefit — of the planter of the South, or the farmer or producer at the North ; and from the day it*was created to this moment, there has never been an act of Con- gress or of the federal government that specifically benefited the South. Congress might, it is true, " protect" cotton or wheat, or other of the great staples which the producers of both sections furnish, but it would be a " protection" quite as useless to the parties interested as it would be harmless in its results to other classes and interests among us. The clear mind of Jefferson grasped these bonds of indus- trial interest between the southern planter and northern far- mer — the slaveholder of the South and the laborer of the North — at a very early period, and declared them " natural allies" in the great conflict then pending. The planter or " slaveholder" of the South asked nothing from government but its protection. He had grown up under a condition of things where there was no social conflict of any kind. There were no opposing interests — no class distinctions — nothing to appeal to his selfishness or to blind his judgment. Society was natur- ally divided, not into the rich and poor as elsewhere, but into whites and negroes, and, as the latter was owned^by the for- mer there was no contradiction, no motive or possible induce- ment to employ the government as an instrument for the special benefit of any body. The old European notion of government, therefore, that clung and still clings to the north- ern mind, that government should regulate the religion, the commerce, the industry, etc., of the country, was exploded, and the modern and true American idea that it should simply protect all alike and give favor to none became the general idea of the populations of the South ; and, indeed, of the great agricultural populations of the Central States so far as it then could find expression. And, when this was the general notion of Virginia and other States at the South as regards their own NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRODUCERS. 305 legitimate government, of course they would not permit the federal and factitious government resting on delegated and strictly defined limitations of power, to be perverted in its spirit and transformed by its practice into a machine, as in England, to benefit others at their expense. The Southern States, therefore, especially Virginia and Kentucky, met in their legislatures, consulted with other States, and, in the cel- ebrated Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798, made a declaration of principles, and pledged themselves to a policy that will always serve as the true landmarks of our State and federative systems so long as the republic, or, indeed, Amer- ican freedom itself lasts to bless the world and illuminate man- kind. These resolutions offered a common platform for the agri- cultural States — for the producing classes of all sections — for the masses, the millions, in short, for all men who believed in the American idea of government and demanded equal rights for all and favors for none. Thus the Middle States, the great agricultural populations of the North, who, unaided and alone were powerless in the grasp of the federal party, led as that party was by the intel- lect, and sustained by the wealth and social prestige of the North, found themselves naturally allied with the agricultural populations of the South who were led by men quite the equals in general attainments, and vastly the superiors in polit- ical knowledge, of the great northern leaders. These men — Jef- ferson, Madison, George Clinton, and their associates — had already conquered in the great intellectual contest that had preceded the creation of the government, and though in the great battle now pending, the centralists occupied vantage ground, for their banks, state debts, and consolidated federal powers, attracted to their standards all the selfish interests and mercenary influences in the country, the former again carried 306 THE ALLIANCE OP the day, and in the great civil revolution of 1800 restored the government, as Mr. Jefferson expressed it, to " the republican tack." This restoration of the federal government to its orig- inal purposes was surely second only to the revolution of 1776 in importance, and without it it is obvious that the fruits of the former must measurably have been lost. As has been seen, the northern masses were at that time wholly unable to con- tend with the opposing minority which embraced within its ranks the wealth, talent, education, and social influence of the day. And though largely in the majority as regards numbers, it was powerless even as regards physical force, for it was without leaders to direct its energies or to cope successfully with that brilliant array of able and accomplished civilians and soldiers that gathered about the administration and directed the councils of the federal party. If the rule of the federal- ists in the course of time became personally oppressive — if that personal " freedom" which in England permits the subject to enjoy locomotion as he pleases and protects his person from violence were stricken down, then it may be supposed that the northern masses would have resisted, and, perhaps, in the progress of the future have overthrown such government. But the government actually established by the federalists — by the false construction of the Constitution, and the usurpa- tions in practice which would have kept the producing classes — the toiling millions — in the same or similar subjection to a ruling oligarchy, as is now witnessed in England, and which, in the course of time, would render them equally abject, pov erty-stricken, ignorant, and miserable, would seem to be, in view of all the circumstances then existing, beyond their power to change or reform by a civil revolution like that which did occur in 1800, or to overthrow by the strong hand of physical force. The great civil revolution, therefore, when able and accomplished statesmen of the South, the equals in talent, and NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRODUCERS. 307 vastly superior to any class in Christendom in political knowl- edge, led the northern producing classes through the great con- flict then pending, and overthrowing the centralists restored the government to its original purity and simplicity, must be deemed, as has been said, only second in importance to the great event of 1776. And the social condition in the South, the so-called slavery, which invariably renders the southern planter the natural ally of the northern farmer, must be considered, as it obvi- ously is in fact, the sole, or at all events the leading cause for the successful working of democratic institutions, as it was originally the sole and unquestionable cause that originated the great American idea of government embodied in the Dec- laration of Independence. Nor are the consequences of that condition of so-called slavery — the existence of a subordinate social element at the South which has thus, with more or less directness, worked out the equality, freedom, and happiness of the laboring classes of the North — limited to our own land or to our own people. As has been observed, the conflict of capital and labor is the great question of the day — the question that is at the bottom of all the European revolutions of mod- ern times, and its solution must, of necessity, involve the de- struction of every government now in existence except our own. Capital in the old world has the education and intelli- gence as well as the government on its side against the people, and the simple fact that, in half of the American States, capital and labor are* united, inseparable, and indissoluble, is of tran- scendent importance to the future liberation of the laboring millions of Europe. Here — for the first time in the experience of the race — wealth, cultivation, and intellectual power are arrayed on the side of production and in defence of the rights of labor, not by a warfare on northern capital, as it is sometimes charged, but by 308 THE ALLIANCE OF NOETHEEN, ETC. demanding that government shall not legislate for the latter at the expense of the former. Nor is the subordinate element — the inferior race in our midst, which, in the providence of God has thus been made the mediate or immediate cause of such vast and boundless benefit to the freedom, progress, and well- being of the superior race — without participation in these ben- efits. God has designed all His creatures for happiness, and this happiness is always secured when they are in their true posi- tion, and in natural relations to each other ; and when the con- dition of the negro is compared with his African state — the existing population with their African progenitors — then it is seen that the progress and happiness of the inferor has marched pari passu with those of the superior race. CHAPTER XXIII. THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO. There are something like twelve millions of negroes in America, on the mainland and the adjacent islands — as large a proportion, perhaps, in view of their industrial adaptation, as there are of the Caucasian or dominant race ; and, therefore, whatever may be the contingencies or the wants of the future, there would seem to be no necessity now for any further im- portation of these people. Of the twelve millions, there are between four and five millions in their normal condition at the South. There are, perhaps, half a million of so-called free negroes, about equally divided between North and South. There are about four millions in Brazil, Cuba, and Porto Rico of so-called slaves, but really in a widely different condition from that common to the South. Finally, tfcfl PfcFbetween three ■ ne< and four millions of so-called free Tiegroes in the tropics, in Jamaica, Hayti, and the other islands, with some thousands, however, scattered about the coast towns, and in the terra cali- ente of the mainland. The free negro, in the American Union, as has been stated, is destined to extinction. It is only a question of time, when this doom will be accomplished. The census returns, and the universal experience, recognize this deplorable truth ; but beyond them, and independent of any demonstration whatever, their extinction is a necessity — is as legitimate and unavoidable as any other effect or effects linked by inevitable necessity with their predetermining cause or causes. They are not merely turned loose — abandoned to their fate 310 THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO. without masters or protectors to look after them, but they are assumed to be Caucasians, black-white men, creatures like ourselves, with the same capacities, and the same wants, and though no one assumes to do so individually, society forces them to live up to the theory in question, and, as this is impos- sible, as no human force or forces can set aside the ordinances of the Eternal, it destroys them. If, for example, laws were passed to change the color, the hair, the form of the limbs, or any physical quality of the negro, and the whole power of the State was brought to bear upon him to compel him to be like the white man in these respects, it is obvious that nothing could be accomplished save the destruction of the unhappy creature. The capacities, the wants, the moral and intellectual nature of the negro, differ from our own to the precise extent that his physical nature or bodily structure differs from ours, and, therefore, Northern society, or rather that monstrous and malignant philanthropy which in its ignorance and blind impiety deems itself kind and beneficent, necessarily destroys the object of its solicitude when it strives to give him the rights of the white man, or to force him to change his moral and intellec- tual nature SJM^^ntfie white man. If all the children of ™ age of ten, in a given community, were turned from their homes into the street and left without their natural protectors to care and provide for their wants, they would perish in time, of course, if we could suppose them to remain at this age or condition. But if, in addition to this abandonment of these helpless ones, a theory were set up that they had all the capabilities of the adult, and should, therefore, enjoy the rights and perform the duties of men and women, they would, of necessity, perish still more rapidly. If a dog, or horse, or other domestic animal were turned loose or lost its owner, it would sooner or later perish, but if some deluded " nhilanthropist" should set up the assumption that his bull- THE FUTUEE OF THE NEGRO. 311 dog, for instance, was entitled to the rights and should enjoy the life of the hound, and therefore attempt to force it to ex- hibit the same qualities, the scent, sight, or swiftness that God has given the latter, he would, of course, destroy the poor thing with far greater rapidity than if he had simply turned it loose to shift for itself. Similar results do attend and must attend that malignant philanthropy and blind impiety which would impose the rights or force the duties of the white man on the differently organized and differently endowed negro. In Virginia and Maryland he is simply turned loose without any guide or protector or white man's rights whatever, not even the right of free locomotion common to British subjects, and, therefore, lives longer, for there is no especial violence attempted — no direct effort made to force him to live out the life or to manifest the nature of widely different beings. But in Canada and Massachusetts, where white manhood is held so cheaply that the negro is supposed to be entitled to the same rights, and direct efforts are made to compel him to ful- fill the same duties, where the little Prince of Wales in hjs recent visit declared that lie would iiQ^M^D^mz^kgff/tKF tinctions of race that originate inJJho u