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The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], My uncle's cashier. (search)
Lydia Maria Child on amalgamation.
--Lydia Maria Child, who begged the favor of Gov. Wise to go to Charlestown, Va., and attend upon old John Brown, favors the Hon. Massa Greeley, of the New York Tribune, with a letter, from which we extract the following endorsement of, and encouragement for, amalgamation. Such a beastly proposition deserves no comment.
Whether amalgamation would take place legally, as it now does illegally, if the slaves were freed, is not a question susceptible ofLydia Maria Child, who begged the favor of Gov. Wise to go to Charlestown, Va., and attend upon old John Brown, favors the Hon. Massa Greeley, of the New York Tribune, with a letter, from which we extract the following endorsement of, and encouragement for, amalgamation. Such a beastly proposition deserves no comment.
Whether amalgamation would take place legally, as it now does illegally, if the slaves were freed, is not a question susceptible of proof. It must, of course, remain a matter of opinion till experience furnishes evidence.
But it seems to me quite superfluous to trouble ourselves about it. If there is an instinctive antipathy between the races it will take care of itself, as natural antipathies and attractions are always sure to do. If there is not any natural antipathy, then the horror of amalgamation has no rational foundation.
My own opinion is, that there is not a natural antipathy between white and colored people. M