The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Dr. Tyng.

Dr. Tyng, a reverend crusader, of New York, who informed Wilson's Zouaves, at the beginning of the war, that their invasion of the South might be the means of saving their souls, has lately announced that, as the emotional is higher than the intellectual, the negro is a higher style of man than the Caucasian. Dr. Tyng is a Caucasian, but he is emotional, and is therefore an exception to the general rule. He is consequently entitled to rank with the African.

We do not mean to argue the learned doctor's proposition. The "emotional" is no doubt a very good thing. The sensational, which seems to be his reverence's idea of the emotional, is also popular in certain pulpits and presses. Even granting his mysterious proposition of the superiority of the emotional to the intellectual, it does not follow that the most demonstrative are the most emotional. The deepest waters are the stillest. Dr. Tyng and other African temperaments may be more boisterous in their exhibitions of feeling than the Caucasian race, but the only difference is that while the latter have emotion they have also reason and the faculty of self-control, a combination which distinguishes man in general from animals, lunatics, and Tyngs.