The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European historyGrant, Madison
History
The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history
Grant, Madison
Ethnology -- Europe
The Civil War was fought almost entirely by unalloyed native Americans.
The Irish immigrants were, at the middle of the last century, confined
to a few States and, being chiefly domestic servants or day laborers,
were of no social importance. They gathered in the large cities and by
voting as a solid block for their own collective benefit quickly
demoralized the governments of the municipalities in which they secured
ascendancy. The German immigrants who came to America about the same
time were chiefly enthusiasts who had taken part in the German
Revolution of ’48. In spite of the handicap of a strange language they
formed a more docile and educated element than the Irish and were more
prone to scatter into the rural districts. Neither the Irish nor the
Germans played an important part in the development or policies of the
nation as a whole, although in the Civil War they each contributed a
relatively large number of soldiers to the Northern army. These Irish
and German elements were for the most part of the Nordic race and while
they did not in the least strengthen the nation either morally or
intellectually they did not impair its physique.
There has been little or no Indian blood taken into the veins of the
native American, except in States like Oklahoma and in some isolated
families scattered here and there in the Northwest. This particular
mixture will play no very important role in future combinations of race
on this continent, except in the north of Canada.
The native American has always found and finds now in the black men
willing followers who ask only to obey and to further the ideals and
wishes of the master race, without trying to inject into the body
politic their own views, whether racial, religious or social. Negroes
are never socialists or labor unionists and as long as the dominant
imposes its will on the servient race and as long as they remain in the
same relation to the whites as in the past, the Negroes will be a
valuable element in the community but once raised to social equality
their influence will be destructive to themselves and to the whites. If
the purity of the two races is to be maintained they cannot continue to
live side by side and this is a problem from which there can be no
escape.
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