Amalgamation.
We have often wondered it, it were possible for Yankee depravity to sink to any lower depth than it had already exhibited in the present war. But if we were ever in credulous of such a possibility, we did great injustice to the boundless capacities of fanaticism for self- degradation.
Recent developments have disclosed a new and profounder, a darker and fouler abyss than we had supposed human nature could ever reach.
The New York correspondent of the London
Times reveals to the civilized would the tale of horror. "It has been discovered," he says, "by the advanced spirits of the Abolition party that the negro is in many important respects the superior of the whites, and that if the latter do not forget their pride of race and blood and color, and with the purer and richer blood of the blacks, they will die out of
America, and wither away in unproline skinniness, meriting by their obstinacy and tally the late of the red man, whom they have either exterminated or driven into the wilderness.--These are not mere assertions of the intelligent correspondent of the
Times. Be mentions
the Rev. Theodore Tilton, the condition of
H. W. Beecher in the editorship of the
Independent, who a few years ago declared, in an assemblage principally composed of women, that it was good for while wanted to marry black men, and that the "passional" and "emotional" nature of the blacks was needed to improve the white raced —
Wendell Phillips has often hinted the same thing, and the doctrine once broached has found believers and . A trant has recently been published and extensively calculated, from which the correspondent of the
Tones gives copious extracts, maintaining the same hideous ideas.
The writer declares that all that is necessary to make the
American (Yankee) race the "finest race on earth is to engraft upon our stock the negro element which
Providence has placed by our side upon this continent.
Of all the rich treasures of blood vouchsafed to us that of the negro is the most precious, because it is the most unlike any other that enters into the composition of our natural life." Then follows a succession of obscenities too indecent for publication, winding up with a conclusion black enough for his own lost soul. "It will be a sad misfortune," he says, "if this war should end without a black General in command of a white or mixed body of troops.
We want an American Toussain L'Overture (the
St. Domingo chief) to give the black his proper position on this continent,
and the day is coming.
The South will fight to the last; but it is the
eternal fitness of things that they should finally be subdued by the black soldier.
After that, the lands of the South must be divided among the negroes, who are its only loyal population."
Such are the sentiments, continues the correspondent of the
Times, which elicit the approval of crowded audiences of educated
Americans, (Yankees,) of whom a large preponderance were white women!
Have not these people nearly filled up the measure of their crimes?
Was there over anything in the
French Revolution as loathsome as these abominations?
They seem to have been given up to the devils of uncleanness and cruelty to work their complete will upon.--If the prolongation of the war has no other benefit, it will at least reveal to mankind and to our own people what kind of creatures we were so long in league with, and demonstrate that perpetual war is a small evil in comparison with submission to such demons in human form.
