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Campaign Document, No. 11.

MISCEGENATIONINDORSED BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Hexrt Clay, in September, 1848, -whenhe asked his biographer, Eev. Walter Colton,to write a pamphlet exposing the objects ofa'bohtion fanaticism, charged him to showthatThe ultras go for abolition and amalgrtmation,

and tbeir object is to unite in marriage the lalior-ing white man and the black woman, and to reducethe white laboring man to the despised and de-gcaded condition of the black man.We propose t show that this object has

been declared by the xVbolitiou party now inpower, and shall prove it, not by mere argu-ment, but by the record of that party inspeeches and documents, and through itsnewspapers. In the course of our extracts,we shall have occasion to give the testimonyof Abraham Lincoln, Gov. Andi-ew, of jNIas-sachusetts, Chaiies Sumner, Hetiry Wilson,Henry Ward Beecher, Gen. N. P. Banks,Montgomery Blair (Lincoln's PostmasterGeneral), John W. Forney, Hon. Mr. Kelley,of Pennsylvania, Horace Greeley, of theTribune, Harriet Beecher Stowe (author ofUncle Tom's Cabin), Wendell Phillips,Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Tilton, Lu-eretia Mott, Parker Pillsbury, Sarah M.Grimke, Angelina G. Weld, the IMassachu-setts Legislature, William Lloyd Garrison,Albert Brisbane, Dr. J. McCun Smith,William WeUs Brown, C. C. Burleigh, SethB. Cole, Lieut. Col. Hoyt, of Kansas, theN. Y. Tribune, N. Y. Times, N. Y. Evd:agPost, N. Y. Independent, N. Y. Prijioi^/ia,

Anti-Slavery Standard, Anglo-African, Ban-gor AVhig, Oswego Times, Leavenworth Con-servative, the New York Loyal League, theNew York Central Lincoln Club, and otherRepublican authorities.

Lincoln and the Republican party procl-akn,to-day, that the war shall not cud until slaveryis abolished. So far the country thoroughlyunderstands them. But the question furtherarises : ^Vhat is to be the condition of the ne-gro when he has attained his freedom ? Wefear that the people do not fully realize theanswer that Lincoln and the leaders of hisparty have already made to this question.The occasion of the discussion which elicitedraaay of the expressions ef opinion to bequoted, was the publication, in the early partof 1864, of a very curious pamphlet, entitled" jMiscogenation." Some conservative Re-publicans have denied that the ideas whichinspired this pamphlet have any wide-spreadadvocacy in the Republican party. We shallsee.

The New York Tribune, several monthsbefore this pamphlet was published, containedan editorial article of a column, arguing infavor of the equality of the negro with thewhite, and asserting that diversity is the cod-dition pi'ecedent of races on this c^jntinent,and their assvmilation the problem. Afterthe appearance of the pamphlet, it publishedan editorial concerning it wholly favorable,from which the foUowin"; is au extract :


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From the Tribune, March 16th, 1864,There is, no doubt, a gi-eat prejudice against

the black race in the United States ; but it is im-possible to say that this is not the result of a crueland systematic degradation, and it will continue tobo impossible to say this with the least logical ac-curacy until all traces of the bondage in which theblacks have for nearly two centuries been heldhave disappeared. Such prejudice is by no meansa novelty, nor has it been at all confined to blacks.All Christians in the middle age supposed thatJews exhaled a bad odor from their bodies, andtim marriage of a Jew and Cliristian at that periodwould have been far more likely to provoke a 7>iob inany civilized citij than t/ie marriage of a white manand a black woman luould he now. There is thesimple fact. It is impossible to get around it, orunder it, or over it, . with the whole copperhead])Ower of wriggle. Now, the white hatred of theblack in this country is precisely of this character.Delicate people say that it is natural. We answerthat it is impossible to prove that it is natural.Of course it is easy to classify its different sources.A man of great refinement may dislike to associatewith an ignorant negro as he would with any igno-rant man of whatever tribe. A man proud of hispurse may scorn a poor negro as he M'ould a poorwhite man. A man systematical! j'' acquiescent inthe wrongs and cruelties of society, may shun anegro as he would any unpopular white. A manwho has himself been under-estimated may be jeal-ous of any attempt to do justice to others. Butwe must insist that all this settles nothing exceptour human inhumanity, except that in spite ofour religious professions, we do not dwell togetiier ashrttJiren except that we do not, in spite of Qur Bi-bles, believe tliat God has made all men of one blood.

It is hard to decide how long this prejudice maycontinue to influence society ; and it will probablycontinue to be felt long after all traces of it havedisappeared from the statute books of all the States.But this thing is certainly clear, that under theConstitution in its most liberal interpretation, andadmitting our cherished American doctrine ofequal natural rights, if a white man pleases to marrya black woman, t/ie merefact tluit she is black gives noone a right to interfere to prevent or set aside such amarriage.If a man can so far conquer his repugnance to aHack woman as to make her the mother of his children,

we ask, in the name of tlie divine law and of decency,why he should not marry her ?Horace Greeley, in whose paper this ap-

peai'ed, is to-day the principal elector on theRepublican ticket for Abraham Lincoln forthe State of New York. For most Republi-cans, the authority of the Tribune is sufficientto decide any question, but we will not stophere.

Next, perhaps, in influence and circulationin the Piepublican party, is the professedlyreligious Independent, edited by Henry Wai'dBeecher. The leading editorial article oftwo columns in the issue of February 25,1864, was upon the subject of miscegenation,and contained the following language :

Leaving out of view our native born Americansof English descent, there are enough of otherstocks on this soil to make three other nations, namely, the Irish, the Germans, and the negroes.Even the negroes number one million more thanthe whole population of the United States at theadoption of the Constitution. But these threestocks have not come hither to establish themselvesas distinct peoples : but each to join itself to each tillall together shall be built up into the monumentalnation of the earth !

Read this again, Irishmen and Germans !The article continues :We believe the whole human race are one family born, every individual, with a common prerog-

ative to do the best he can for his own welfare ;that in political societies all men, of whatevervarious race or color, should stand on an absoluteequality before the law ; tliat whiles and blacksshould intermarry if they wish, and should not unlessthey wish ; that the negro is not to be allowed toremain in this country, but is to remain withoutbeing allowed, asking nobody's permission huthis own ; that we shall have no permanent settle-ment of the negro question till our huuglitier whiUblood, looking at theface of the negro, shall forget thathe is black, and remember only tJuxt he is a citizen.

The article concludes : Whether or not the universal complexion of thehuman family at the millennium "willnotbewliil*

or black, but brown or colored," we certainly bclievothat the African-tinted members of our communitywill in the future gradually bleach out their black-ness. The facts of to-day prove this beyond denial.Already three-fourths of the colored people of thaUnited States have white blood in their veins.The two bloods have been gradually interminglingever since there were whites and blacks among ourpopulation. This intermingling will continue. Un-der slavery it has been forced and frequent; underfreedom it will be voluntary and unfrequent. Butbj"^ and by counting the years not by Presidentialcampaigns but by centuries, the negro of the South,growing paler with every generation, will, at last,completely hide his face under the snow.

And the Washington correspondent of theAnti-Slavery Standard says that " this articlein the Independent expresses the views ofMOST OF THE INTELLIGENT RE-PUBLICANS IN CONGRESS upon thesubject. Nobody here advocates amalgamartion, though doubtless there are very manywho believe that, in time, the two races willamalgamate. ^^

The Independent of Feb. 4, 18G4, containsan extended article on the hero of negroistji Toussaint L'Ouverture lavish in com-mendation, warm in eulogiura, full of thspirit that pei-vades the pamphlet, " Miscegernation." At the alose occurs this significant


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hint of vhat radicalism has in store for " white-skitmed but black-hearted citizens " :They must cease to call unclean those whoHiGod has cleansed ; they mixst acknowledge genius,

whatever be the color of tlio akin that enwraps it

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and theij must pr/'pare tltemselirs to tcelcome to theleadership of our armks mid our Senate, as Southernsubstitutes for Jeff. Davis and his drunken Comus-crew, that have so long l)ewitched and despoiledus, black Toussaiiits, icko, by their superior talentsand principles, shall receive the grateful homage of anappreciative and admiring rtution.

The New York Evening Post, whitb advo-cates Lincoln's reelection, and the publisherof which, Mr. Henderson, was removed fromoffice for corruption and fraud, speaks of it asa wrong and pusillanimous policy to excludethe negro from our country, and says :We ai"e a more heterogeneous and mixed peo-

ple than any that ever before appeared upon theearth ; more than our ancestors even of GreatBritain, and to this mixture we owe much of ourpeculiar energy, and nearly all our peculiar liberal-ity and genial kindness of heart. Nowhere in theworld ai"e there so few inveterate prejudices ofrace, r^where so few pernicious distinctions ofdass, Howhere so many large, just, comprehensiveand beneficent social arrangoients, as in theUnited States, liecausc nowhere else has therebeen such a collision, and final commingling ofraces. * * Can we doubt that if we are true tothe grand opportunities of our position in refer-ence to these poor debased Africans, as well asin respect to the hordes of uncouth foreignerspoured upon our shores, we shall not only elevatethem to a hi;;her condition, but produce in our-selves a mp.nliness and sincerity of character, tliatwill lift the whole nation as far above other nationsin moral dignity ks it already is in physicalpower ?

The Twentieth U. S. Colored Regiment, ontheir passage through New York city, werepresented with a flag and an address byto quote from the address "the mothers,wives, and sisters of the members of the NewYork Union League Club," which closed as*bllows :Wlien yoti look at this flag, and rush to battleor stand at guard beneath its sublim.e motto, " Godan-d Lit)erty," remember that it is also an emblem oflove and honor from the daughters of this great me-tropolis to their brave champions in the field, andthat they will anxiously watch your career, glory-ing in your heroism, ministering to you whenwounded and ill, and honoring your martyrdomwith benedictions and with tears.

It required only the little word " obey,"added to " love and honor," to make this al-most a marriage contract. But the LoyalLeague never presented such an address towhite soldiers. A Republican orator in Jack-

sonville, 111., said, a few moiiths ago, thatwhen the war was over the ' ' brave Othellosof the South would come North and claimtheir ^air Desdcmonas.

Chai'les Sumner, after all the brave deedsand noble sacrifices of our white soldiers, canonly see the negro in this war. These are hiswords :

"Wherever I turn in this war I fiml tlic African.Tf you ask for strategy, / knoio nothing I' iter thanthat of the slave Iioitert Small, who brought thorebel steamer Planter, with its armament, out ofCharleston, and surrendered it to our Commodoreas a prize of war. If you ask for successful cour-age, / knoiv nothing better than that of the AfricanTillman, who rose upon a rebel prize crew, andovercoming them, earned the ship into New York.

Sumner, in one day, in the last Senate, of-fered a series of seven resolutions on the sla-very and negro questions ; presented memorialapraying that the right of suffrage may beextended to persons of African descen!: ; intro-duced a bill to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act,and another to enable negroes to testify iaFederal courts. A negro was put in nomina-tion for the office of ehaplain at the organ! 2a-tion of the last Massachusetts Legislature, andwas barely defeated, and Mr. Sumner ^^Totto some of his friends, expressing his " i.ior-tification that the friends of human progressin the Lcgi.slature of the Old Bay State hadnot been more united, and elected a coloredchaplain."

If this is " human progress," the worldmay well pray to remain stationary.

Henry Wilson, in the last Senate, saidthat ''the black soldier was equal to thewhite soldier in everything, and superior tohim in endurance.^'

Miscegenation was a part of tho originalpurpose of the Abolitionists.

Gen. Banks, when in the House of Repre-sentatives, said, " In regard to whether thewhite or black race was superior, he proposedto wait until time should develop whether thewhite race should absorb the black, or tlieblack the white." General Banks is nowcreating rotten burroughs i"B Louisiana toelect jNIr. Lincoln, and he recently issued anorder compelling white and black children tomingle together at public schools. '


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Governor Anrlrcw, of JlassacliuSGtts, said,in a speech in Boston, in 1860, "Slaverywill die out,- because the day shall surely bewhen there will be one whole family of manupon a sanctifiod earth as there will be inheaven. Ijiit I do not intend la luait forthe providence of God to toork it out."Hon. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, in hisreply to j\Ir. Cox's speech on niiscegenation,quoted a passage from a work on Centi-alAmerica, in which it was stated that " thegreat work of practical amalgamation hadbeen going on quietly for generations ; thatcolor was considered a more matter of taste.and that some of the most respectable inliab-itants had black wives and mongrel children,"and Mr. Kelley added that the incident jo?v'-fied our minister of some prpjudicer,, nndcontinued : " Our fellow-citizens of Africandescent, freed by tlie rebellion, will not belong in Americanizing this, to them, conge-nial region, in rvliich complexional differen-ces do not (ffcct the social or political posi-tion of a man, if we have the sense andhumaiiify to give them a fair chance for cul-ture and enterprise.Forney, commenting on this in the Phila-delphia Press, says: "These are practical,and therefore valuable, truths. IV/ejj openthe way for statesmen to new tlionsjJits andto new preparations for the eternal adju^f-me.nt of the tremendous issues growing outof the icar."Thus all tlie administration leaders andorgans who have spoken of this subject at all,have favored the "sublime mingling of theraces." The "new thoughts" and "eter-nal adjustment," spoken of by Forney, are,of course, miscegenation.

" If anybody wants to marry a negro hon-estly," says the Bangor Whig (Picpublican,of course),- " let him do it.'"" The only po-ssible basis of national peaceand prosperity," says the Oswego Times, anadininistration orfran,

'"'is the recogni'fion ofthe equal manhood and citizenship of every

race ott American soil, without regard tocolor, nutionahty, or previous social condi-tion."

" The slave of yesterday," says the Leav-enworth Conservative, "the soldier of to-day, mu^i be, will be, the citizen of to-mor-row."

The front rank of the Abolitionists, whohave always brought the others of the })artyup to their stiindard, are over hea/d and earsin miscegen-ation.K& early as 18G3 Wen


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Albert Brisbane writes to tlie author,My opinion is that the different races now

existinfi' on the oarth are but the roots, the rudeelements of a future and perfect race.

Dr. J. McCuae Smith writes to the au-thor,I am willing to put my signature to your doc-

trines.

Willi-.im Wells Brown, another negro, andparticu'.aily liked by the Bepublican party,eays,This rc'icllion will extinguish slavery in our

land, an:l the negro is heiiceforrh and forever to bea part of the nation. Ilia blood is to mingle withthat of liii former o]>[)rossor, and the two rarcsblcndt'd in one will make a more peaceful, hardy,powcifni, and intellectual race than America hasevei" seen before.

The call for the Anti-Slaveiy Convention,last year, of which Garrison, who now sup-ports I/iricoln earnestly, and the motto 'ofwhose lifft has been, " Tlie Constitution is aleagKo with death and covenant with hell," Qndri as fellows :Lot the approaching anniversary, therefore, be

well attended by the tried men and women, whosepur|ose it is nt'ill to continue the great mwalstruggle until before the Constitution and lawsall are made fVcc, and complesional distinctions arcunknoicn.In behalf of the Executive Committee,

^Vm. Lloyd Gaueisox, President.Wkkdkll Phillips, / r. ^ CxiAKLEa C BuilLEIGII, )The jinli-Slcfveri/ Standard published a

long and complimentary notice of "Misceg-enation."' saying,The future must decide how far black and white

arc dis]5osed to seek each other in marriage. Theprobability is that there will be a progressive inter-mingling, and that the nation will be benefited byit We nrc snjre that m.any will agree with us inttnding the pam-jihiet interesting and instructive,and in thanking the unknown author for it. ^

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The New York Prinnipia (Rep.) says ofthe argument in the pamphlet,

It needed not one tithe of it to prove that Godhas made of one Idood, ail nations of men, en-dowed them with equal rights, and that they aree-iititled to all the civil and political prerogativesfind privileges of other citizens.

The pamphlet, " Mi,?cegcnation," is elo-quence, poetry, and romance, compared tosonfe of the'e expressions of men who haveletd and still lead the Republican party.The pamphlet lays down the precise platform

upon which the Republicans must stand ifthey carry out their theories. It is to the par-ty to-day what Helper's book was a few yearsago. The Republicans, when we quotedfrom that book, stoutly denied that it repre-sented their views. To-day it is behind theage, and " mi.-cegenation " takes its place,flaunting its banners of " progress " pro"^ress towaid anarchy and towards a war ofraces, as well as a war of states. Thu sub-ject is disagreeable to talk of; but abolitionand civil war were disagreeable to talk offive years ago ; yet, if the nation had beenbetter warned of the dangers that lay in itspath, a different spirit might have actuatedthe people, and compromise might have pre-served to us peace and prosperity.

Some idea of this pamphlet mny bo ob-tained from its table of contents, which is asfollows :

1. Physiological Equality of the White andColored Races ; 2. Suijcriority of Mi.xcd Haces;3. The Blending of Divers Bloods essential toAmerican Progress; 4. The March of tlie DarkRaces Northward; 5. The' Mystery of tlie Pyra-mids The Spliynx Question Answered; G. AllReligions dwivcd from the Dark Races; 7. TheType INIan a Misccgen ; 8. Love of the Blondefor the Black ; 9. Present and Future Relationsof tlie Irish and the Negro; 10. The Mistake ofall Religions and .Systems of Education; 11.How the Anglo-American may become Stron.gand Comely ; 12. The Miscegenetic Idea! ofBeauty in Women ; 1,'?. Secret of SoutIi?rn Sue-cess; 14. Heart Histories of the White Daii^ditersof the South; 13. All our Victorious Battle-fields baptized by tlie Blood of the Negro ; 16.Progress of Public Opinion and National Policytovvards Miscegenation; 17. The Bloods of allNations find their Level: 18. The Euture NoWhite, no Black ; 19. Miscegenation in the Pres-idential Contest; 10. An Omen.To those who desire to obtain the pamphlefe

for reference or ar'gument, as showing the log-ical conclusions of Republican teachings, itmay not be out of place to mention that itwill be sent to any part of the country by ad-dressing E. P. Patten, 35 Park Row,"^N'ewYork city, and enclosing the price : one copy,thirty cents ; five copies, one dollar. Vv'e in-vite especial attention to chapters 9, IG, 18,and 19.

Harriet Bcecher Stowe, the author of" Uncle Tom's Cabin," introduces into a la- ,ter novel, written by her, as the principsU

characiers, a mulatto man and woman, toshow the benefit of a mixture of bloods.Ralph Waldo Emerson, who detracts fromhis fame by writing abolition articles, thinksthe negro is better than the white man. Hewrites of the negro,


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6He has avenues to God,Hid from men of Nnrihern brain,Far beholi.lins:, without cloud,What these with slowest steps attain.

That is to say the negro has the avenuesstraight to the throne of God, while the whiteman labors to attain it with slow and wearysteps.

Henry Ward Beecher said, in referenceto colonization, in one of his sermons :What! Drive out the colored people fromamong us ? I would sooner that these two hands

undertake to uproot and cast out every shrub,bush, and tree that grows between this and theRocky Mountains.

The answer to the question " What willyou do with the negroes when they are freed ? "has always been, " They must be placed onan equality with the white, side by side withthe white laboring population, with no preju-dice of race working against them, and noright denied them."

In bhe N. Y. World of Sept. 23, will beseen the description of a scene at the Roomsof the Central Lincoln Club, in New Yorkcity, of which Charles S. Spencer is Presi-dent. After a Lincoln mass meeting, ad-dressed by the United States District Attor-ney, and other Lincoln orators, who dweltlargely on the wrongs of the black race, theirsuperiority, and their natural and physicalCiipacity for the highest enjoyment, the floorwas cleared for a negro ball :In came the colored belles into the Twenty-third

Sti'eet Republican headquarters, an-ayed in all thatgorgeous and highly colored, not to say highlyscented, splendor for which the dark daughters ofthe ^Ethiop race are ajstherically distinguished.One might pick out all colors among the hundredand (ifty belles who 'soon trijiped in on the lightfantastic toe over the floor of the Republicangrand council chamber. Some of them sat on theplatform, or picked their bou(iucts to bits on therostrum, sacred but half an hour before to Lincolneloquence and the theory of miscegenation ; whileothers, seized by eager partners, whirled round intiic dizzy waltz, displaying all that extravagantvoluptuousness and wriggling of figure for wJiichthe dancing African female is so remarkable.

'. Some of the bells were octoroons, to suit we sup-pose, the love-sick glances of Republicans as yetonly in the vestibule of the great miscegenationchurch. Others were of the quadroon type;others yet mulattoes, of great vivacity and varietyof tint ; while not a few were of the pure Congoor Bozoo character, black as the ace of spades, andready for any work from shaking a carpet to talk-ing philosophy and humanitarianism with the mostperfect possessor of the Lincoln creed.On the floor during the progress of the ball weremany of the accredited leaders of the Black Repub-lican party, thus testifying their faith by theirworks, in the hall and headquarters of their politi-cal gathering. There were Republican ofSce-

holders, and prominent men of various degrees,and at least ONE PRESIDENTIAL ELEC-TOR ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.The Tribune, of two or three months pre-

vious, gave a description of a meeting atNew Orleans, of negroes, largely inter-spersed with white men and women from theNorth, and addressed by wliite Abolitionists,in which the writer devoted much of hisspace to the portrayal of the beauty of themulatto ladies present. In a speech beforea Loyal League Club in Brooklyn, reportedin the Brooldyn Eagle, June 30, Hon. SethB. Cole accounted- for the good fighting qual-ities of the Southern people by the fact oftheir association with the negroes.The New York TVzJwne of Feb. 24, 1864,in referring to a remark in Congress, of Mr.Clark, of New Hampshire, that it was the in-terest of the country that black men shouldbe employed in the war to save the blood ofwhite men, responded, that " it is equally forthe interest of the country that white menshould be employed, because it tvill save theblood of black men,'' and on another occasionthe Tribune said that Mr. Hendricks, of In-diana, need have no personal fears of the so-cial and political equality of the blacks, forno statute could ever raise him to their level.

After all the teachings we have quoted, itis no wonder the negro began to considerhimself a better man than the white man.The Anglo-African, the negro organ inNew York, has a sbai-p attack upon ElizurWright, because he presumes to say that thenegro has not as much virility as the whites.It says,

No, friend Wright, you need not disturb your-self about the black man of these United States;he has a good standing color, and an abundanceof endurance ; just brush some of those knotty cob-webs from your brain and look at him : tall,brawny, and well-limbed, sound-brahud as God madehim, a man and a brother. You s/iarp-nosul, haichct-faced, lanh-haired people, aided by science and the" hub," have vainly tried to crush the manhood outof him, and failed ; do give him up ; you cannot liehim out of his manhood. He is a better man anda better citizen than you or your race "ever dare be,"under any circumstances, in all climates ; if not, whydo you cut down his equal chances ? Why shutyour eyes to facts 1 Blufi' Ben. Butler, the otherother day, started on a forced march of some twoor three days. He had two white and two blackregiments of infantry. He was in a climate, more-over, "favorable to the whites." How was itwhen they arrived there? One-half the white sol-diers had straggled, exhausted, on the roadevery black soldier answered to his name at roll-ca,ll.Pshaw ! Don't " fool " any longer. If vou wantthis rebellion wiped out take three hundred thousandof our blacks ; give us Ben. Butler or ht us go alone,and in sixty days the South will be wiped oxtt.


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Here is wbat Lieut. Col. Hoyt, a Westernradical, wants the negroes to do :

I hate the South to-day, not only as my enemy,not only as the enemy of my Government, but asthe enemy of all mankind. I hate her piratical insti-tutions, which rob men of their manhood andwomen of their virtue. I hate her history, and Ihate her traditions, for upon all I behold the un-washed stains of that unavenged blood extortedby the lash of the slave-whip. / have believed, Istill fondlt) believe, that the sun of another Saint Do-mingo may rise upon her, and a million of ToussaintLouvertures, clad in the habiliments of war, and withvengeance written on their faces, with one desperateand triumphant stroke, dash in pieces the accursedSouth. Are Kansans proud to own John Brown,of Ossawatomic ? I, for one, say, in the wholehistory of this State there is nothing reflectingsuch lustre as the citizenship of the gray-hairedmartyr of Hai'per's Ferry.Hon. Montgomery Blair, Mr. Lincoln's

Postmaster General, in his speecli at Exjck-ville, Md., during the cabinet imbroglio, thusunequivocally charged his associates in thecabinet and in the party, with the attempt tobsing about practical miscegenation :The Abolition party, while pronouncing philip-pics against slavery, seek to make a caste of an-

other color by amalgamating the black elementwith the free-white labor of our land, and so toexpand, far beyond the present confines of slavery,the evil which makes it obnoxiftjus to Republicanstatesmen ; and now, when the strength of theti'aitors who attempted to embody a power out ofthe interests of slavery, to overthrow the govern-ment is seen to fail, they would make the manu-mission of the slaves the means of infusing theirblood into our whole system, by blending with it'amalgamation, eqaalitjj, and fraternity.' Thecultivators of the soil must then become a hybridrace, and our government a hybrid government,endii^, as all such unnatural combinations haveever done, in degraded, if not abortive, generations,and making serfdom for the inferior caste, theunmixed blood of the conquered race inevitablyasserting a despotism over it. To facilitate thispurpose, a concerted appeal is now made to thepeople of the free States tl\rough the press, to openthe wa}' to this daring innovation, beginning inthe Southern States, unhappily now brought un-der the ban of the Calhounite conspirators. Withthis view, it is proposed to declare the State gov-ernments vacated in that section when they arerestored to the Union, and all the loyal men of theSouth, whom the treason of Presidents Pierceand Buchanan, in complicity with Southern trai-tors, has subjugated, are to come under absolutesubmission to the representatives of the NorthernStates in Congress without the vestige of a Stateright, a State law, or constitution to protect them ;nay, not even the franchise of a vote to send asolitary rcjiresentative to the legislative body towhich their destiny is to be committed.

The New York Times (Rep.), of March26, says of this miscegenation :

It may readily be imagined that it is withgreat reluctance that we speak out our minds in

this matter. But we have no hesitation in sayingthat if we had at the outset conceived it possiblethat hostility to slavery would ever have led towholesale intermarriage with negroes, or of aHmarriageable Republicans and their sisters, thatparty should never have received any countenanceor support from this journal. We owe it to our-selves and posterity to say that the odious matri-monial arrangements, into which so many of thosewhose opinions on certain great questions of pub-lic policy we have hitherto shared, have taken uswholly by surprise.

Mr. Lincoln is as much an aider and abefe-tor of the Abolitionists in this new policy ofmiscegenation as he has been in their policy,of emancipation. He will go wherever theypush him. Hear Frederick Douglas's accountof his visit to the White House :

I have been down there, said he, to see the Pres-ident, and, as you were not thei-e, perhaps youmay like to know how the President of the UnitedStates received a black man at the White House.I will tell you how he received me,just as youhave seen one gentleman receive another (greatapplause), with a hand and a voice well balancedbetween a kind cordiality and a respectful reserve.I tell you I felt big there. (Laughter.) Let metell you how I got to him ; because everybodj'can't get to him. He has to be a little guarded inadmitting spectators. The manner of getting tohim gave me an idea that the cause was rolling on.The stairway was crowded with applicants. Someof them looked eager ; and I have no doubt someof them had a purpose in being there, and wantedto see the President for the good of tlie country !They were white, and as I was the only dark spotamong them, I expected to have to wait at leasthalf a day; I had heard of men Availing a week ;but in two minutes after I sent in my card themessenger came out, and respectfully invited '' Mr.Douglas" in. I could hear in the multitude out-side, as they saw me pressing and elbowing myway through, the remark, " Yes, damn it, I knewthey would let the nigger through," in a kind ofdespairing voice, a peace Democrat, I suppose.

In an address to a bogus association callingitself the Working Men's Democratic Repub-lican Association, from New York, Mr. Lin-coln took especial pains to place workingnegroes and white men on an equality. Saidhe, in his turgid and awkward way, None are so deeply interested to resist the pres-

ent rebellion as the working people. Let thembeware of prejudices, working disunion and hostil-ity among themselves. The most notable featureof the disturbance in your city, last summer, Avasthe hanging of some working people by otherworking people. It should never be so. Thestrongest liond of human sympathy outside of thefamily relation should be the one uniting all workingpeople, of all nations, tongues, and kindreds.

"Some working people by other workingpeople," means negroes by white men, andthe President .suggests that the wliite manshould love the negro better than auy oae


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9except a relative, and whore such a loveexisted, of course he might possibly, ia time,become a relative.We have room for no more extracts, butthese ai-e sufficient.The attempt to raise tho colored race to asocial oqualify with the white must result in

a conflict of races and the anniliilation of thenegro. It is one of those wild and impracti-cable theories of the " agitators," never to berealized in this or any other generation, butthat lead to strife and anarchy if permitted toobtain in governments or in communities.The negro is to be made a sacrifice to thebigo'ry and political hatreds and ambitions ofthe Abolition party. The work has alreadybegun. The African is dying by thousandsin tho track of oui" armies. The cry for helpfor homeless and starving men, women, andchildren has reached us, and true philanthropy,while deploring the aboilive and reckless

fanaticism, calling itself philanthropy, whichhas caused this suffering, has sent materialaid. Let it be remembered that it was proph-esied years ago that if the Abolitionists ob-tained influence and power, a civil war wouldresult ; let the prophecy be recorded here,that, if the American people iador^^e the un-natural theories now advanced by these saniomen, they invite a war of tho races, which,if begun, can only end by the extirpation ofthe negio ^'rom the continent. JMi.scegenationis but anoth^T pet object of the Lincoln party,of the same stamp with emancipation, confis-cation, and subjugation. If the nation iswilling to be led to slaughter in a vain anddisastrous attempt to accomplish these objects,let it continue Lincoln in pDwer ; if it is will-ing only to go to the battle-deld for the sakeof restoring Union and peace, let it removehim.

WATCHWORDS FOR PATRIOTS,Mottoes for the Campaign, selected from General McClellan's Writings.The true issue for which we are fighting is the preservation of the Union and uplioldlug thelaws of the general government. ImtructiGns to General Bumside, January 7, 1862.We are fighting solely for the Integrity of the Union, to uphold the power of our national gov-erament, and to restore to the nation the blessings of peace and good ordQV. Instruclions toGeneral Halleck, November 11, 1861.You will please constantly to bear in mind the precise issue for which we are fio-htin.r ; that is-sue IS the preservation of the Union and the restoration of the full authority of the general gov-ernment over all portions of our XGYvkorj. histrudions to General Buell, November 7, 1861.\\e shall most readily suppress this rebellion and restore the authority of ilie oovernment byreligiously respectmg the constitutional rights of all. /n67j-c/io7!S to General JJucU, Nov. 7, 1861.Be caretul so to treat the qiiarmed inhabitants as to contract, not widen, the breach existingbetween us and the rebels. Instructions to General Buell, November 12, 1861.I have always found that it is the tendency of subordinates to make vexatious arrests on iferesuspicion. Listruction.'! to General Buell, November 12, 1861.Say as little as possible about politics or the negro. Instructions to General Burnside, Jan-uary 7, 1862.The unity of this nation, the preservation of our institutions, are so dear to me that T havewillingly sacrificed my private happiness with the single object of doin;? my duty to my country- Letter to Secretary Cameron, October, \8

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(1864) Miscegentation Indorsed by the Republican Party