The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863: Devoted to Literature and National PolicyVarious
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863: Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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I might, I say, leave my argument here; but to do so would be great
injustice to the subject. There are abundant and unquestionable facts,
which show to a demonstration, that the case of the negro in his
relations to the European population of this country is embraced in the
law just stated.
In the first place, the two races are not amalgamated. Intermarriages
between them are so rare, that few of the readers of this article can
remember ever to have known one. Such marriages are regarded as
monstrous and disgraceful, though the law should, as in some of the
States, recognize them. One sentiment in respect to them pervades the
whole community, and that a sentiment of aversion. Those half-breeds
which spring from licentiousness, or even from the very few lawful
marriages which have occurred, are not accepted as standing in any
nearer relations to the white man than the pure-blooded African. In
those States where slavery has been longest extinct, and the colored man
has been relieved from all legal disabilities, the line between the two
races is as sharply drawn to-day as it was two hundred years ago. On
such a question two hundred years and more is long enough for an
experiment. The experiment already tried does prove that the
Anglo-American and African populations of this country cannot be
amalgamated, either by freedom or slavery; and those who pretend to fear
it, are either trying to deceive others for selfish and criminal
purposes, or else they are wofully deceived themselves.
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