CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVII. Abolition vs. Christianity and the Union.... Answers for a Company at Conversation Cards. (From Goethe)... PAGE. .132 In Memoriam. By Tennyson... Internal Transportation. By the Editor.... .204 New-York. Noonlight-Moonlight-Past-Present, and to Come, in a Natural History of Man. The Unity of the Human Races Proved to be Notices of New Books.. 41 ..92, 189, 280, 377, 473, 569 Notes on the Nature of Insanity. By Thomas Lee Wright... Natural History of Man; Comprising Inquiries into the Modifying Influ- ences of Physical and Moral Agencies on the Different Tribes of the Human Family. By James Cowles Prichard, M. D., F. R. S., M. R. I. A., &c... .447 ..133 Political Portraits with Pen and Pencil. Philip Francis Thomas, Governor of Maryland... ..535 .... 64 Political Miscellany. Senate Votes-Senator Elmore-Dickinson Fes- Pacific Rail-Road.... Recollections of the Vatican. By Countess Ossoli..... Speech of Hon. D. S. Dickinson, at the great Public Dinner in honor of Stock Markets. ..252 of Free Soilism-Coming Election-Choice of United States Senator..375 Sketch from Life. By Dudley Perkins, LL.D... Secret Histories and Mysterious Men..... ..467 ...497 The Doom of Napoleon. By Hon. Jacob M. Howard, of Michigan...17, 113 The Study of the Law. By E. B. Hendree, Esq., of Mississippi.. The Variety in the Human Species. The Unity of the Human Races Proved to be the Doctrine of Scripture, Reason and Science; With a Review of the Present Position and Theory of Professor Agassiz. The Hair and Wool of the Different Species of Man... The Feudal System in the Middle Ages... ERRATA Page 173, line 10 from bottom, dele the words Schenck, of Ohio, and instead THOSE who look upon the slavery question now at issue between the north and the south as a mere temporary struggle for political equality or political ascendancy, and abolition as a hobby horse, on which to ride into power, and afterwards thrown aside as a piece of lumber, no longer serviceable or useful, take but a superficial view of a subject that involves the most momentous consequences to present and future generations. Not only is the Union staked on its issue, but other results, if possible still more vital, to the peace and happiness of the United States and the world at large. It involves a war of extermination between two great races of mankind; it involves dissensions in the Christian church, highly injurious to its salutary influence, if not fatal to its existence; and finally, it involves a complete subversion of the social state, as it subsists at present, and has subsisted since the advent of the Saviour, and the establishment of His doctrines. These are startling conclusions, which ought not to be adopted without proof; and we shall proceed to adduce the facts and arguments by which they are sustained. It is only necessary to revert to the proceedings of the abolitionists for the last twenty years, and to the consequences they have already produced, in order to perceive at once that they tend directly to a deadly and exterminating war between the whites and the blacks in the southaye, and the north too, whenever the latter shall become sufficiently numerous to make it with any prospect of success. It would display a profound ignorance of the great moving springs of human action, to suppose that the descendants of the African race will remain quiet under the perpetual stimulants of the abolitionists, until they have been emancipated, and placed on terms of political and social equality, or that even this will satisfy them. We perceive indications of this peeping forth every day, and from every quarter. The blacks already begin to aspire to a superiority over the whites, and Mr. Giddings, the representative of Africa in the House, distinctly avows his preference for thick skulls and woolly heads. VOL. XXVII.-NO. I. 1 There is not the least reason to doubt that here in the north at least, this idea of African superiority is fast gaining ground among the negroes. It is not to be wondered at. People who make the most noise in the world naturally consider themselves of the greatest importance: and when these ignorant and conceited beings see themselves occupying the entire attention of the Congress of the United States for more than a year past, to the exclusion of all great questions of external or internal policy, it is not to be wondered at if they are inflated with an idea that themselves and their interests are paramount to all other considerations. In fact, they are daily taught this by the abolitionists, But equality in political rights would not satisfy the African race in the United States, for nature herself has stamped them with the brand of inferiority. They might even mingle their blood with the whites to a certain extent, and still they would constitute a distinct race, subject to all the mortifications of the Indians of Mexico and Peru, who, though blended with the Europeans and their descendants, and nominally exercising the same rights, never have, and never will, thoroughly amalgamate with them, so long as they retain a single trace of their original race, and so long as that origin is preserved by tradition or memory. The pure-blooded white man, nay-even the swarthy European Spaniard-looks down with contempt on all those mixtures, Mestizos, Quadroons, and even Quinteroons; and though he may mingle with them, or admit them to social and political rights, he never considers them as equals. The others, on the contrary, secretly hate the white men, and this feeling becomes more ag. gravated the nearer they approach to equality. There is no cordiality between them; one looks upward with envy and hatred; the other down. ward with contempt, mingled with fear. They still constitute different races, though originally approaching much nearer each other in physical analogy than the negro and the white man. In body and mind they are inferior; and in spite of abolition this inferiority will necessarily place them in a state of subserviency to the more vigorous, energetic, and intellectual white man. This is the law of God—the law of nature, reason and necessity; and if to-morrow, or next year, or a thousand years hence, they were placed on the top of the pyramid of society, they would slide to the bottom, and there remain until they underwent a physical and intellectual transformation. If they could not assimilate to the society into which they had been elevated, they would bring it down to their own level by an irresistible process. The mixture of alloy in gold depreciates the whole mass of purer metal; and so it would be with amalgamation, as is clearly proved by all past experience. It may be urged in reply to this, that the same principle will apply to the struggles now going on among the masses of Europe for equality; and that a mixture of the higher and lower orders would produce a deterioration of the former, without producing a corresponding elevation of the latter. It may be also argued that a perfect amalgamation of the two classes would still carry with it the same feeling of superiority on one hand, and inferiority on the other; and that, consequently, the same antipathics or repulsions would exist between them as between the white man and the emancipated negro. But this would not be the case. The higher and lower classes of men in the different countries of Europe are of the same race in almost every state; they are of the same color, and all their outward physical characteristics correspond with each other; there is nothing There is not the least reason to doubt that here in the north at least, this idea of African superiority is fast gaining ground among the negroes. It is not to be wondered at. People who make the most noise in the world naturally consider themselves of the greatest importance: and when these ignorant and conceited beings see themselves occupying the entire attention of the Congress of the United States for more than a year past, to the exclusion of all great questions of external or internal policy, it is not to be wondered at if they are inflated with an idea that themselves and their interests are paramount to all other considerations. In fact, they are daily taught this by the abolitionists. But equality in political rights would not satisfy the African race in the United States, for nature herself has stamped them with the brand of inferiority. They might even mingle their blood with the whites to a certain extent, and still they would constitute a distinct race, subject to all the mortifications of the Indians of Mexico and Peru, who, though blended with the Europeans and their descendants, and nominally exercising the same rights, never have, and never will, thoroughly amalgamate with them, so long as they retain a single trace of their original race, and so long as that origin is preserved by tradition or memory. The pure-blooded white man, nay—even the swarthy European Spaniard-looks down with contempt on all those mixtures, Mestizos, Quadroons, and even Quinte roons; and though he may mingle with them, or admit them to social and political rights, he never considers them as equals. The others, on the contrary, secretly hate the white men, and this feeling becomes more aggravated the nearer they approach to equality. There is no cordiality between them; one looks upward with envy and hatred; the other downward with contempt, mingled with fear. They still constitute different races, though originally approaching much nearer each other in physical analogy than the negro and the white man. In body and mind they are infefior; and in spite of abolition this inferiority will necessarily place them in a state of subserviency to the more vigorous, energetic, and intellectual Jwhite man. This is the law of God—the law of nature, reason and necessity; Ind if tomorrow, or next year, or a thousand years hence, they were placed bn the top of the pyramid of society, they would slide to the bottom, and here remain until they underwent a physical and intellectual transformaion. If they could not assimilate to the society into which they had peen elevated, they would bring it down to their own level by an irresistble process. The mixture of alloy in gold depreciates the whole mass f purer metal; and so it would be with amalgamation, as is clearly roved by all past experience. It may be urged in reply to this, that the same principle will apply to pe struggles now going on among the masses of Europe for equality; hd that a mixture of the higher and lower orders would produce a derioration of the former, without producing a corresponding elevation of he latter. It may be also argued that a perfect amalgamation of the o classes would still carry with it the same feeling of superiority on one pind, and inferiority on the other; and that, consequently, the same antipaLies or repulsions would exist between them as between the white man and e emancipated negro. But this would not be the case. The higher and wer classes of men in the different countries of Europe are of the same ce in almost every state; they are of the same color, and all their outprd physical characteristics correspond with each other; there is nothing |