MISCEGENATION.

[From the " Saturday Review."]

Words being tbe signs of ideas, for a new notion a new term is necessary. The barbarous word " miscegenation" has been invented by the fanatics of Abolitionism to express a doctrine which it was for a time found convenient to wrap up in the term of " amalgamation," but wbich, after a brief tribute to modesty, it is now found not an insult to American morality to disclose in all its indecency and immodesty. That doctrine is, that the white race m general, and the white of the Northern States in particular, is dying out, and that, to preserve it from utter destruction, it must be mixed with the richer, purer, and nobler blood of tbe negro. Physiologically, this very practical use of the slave is based on the fact that mixture of blood is necessary for the perfection of race-^-which is indisputable ; but here a slight difficulty occurs. H»w does it happen that if, as the writer owns, hitherto the white has almost universally mixed with the white, ' and only degenerates more and more, the very opposite result occurs with the black, who just as universally has hitherto only mixed with the black, and only improves by it ? The white breeds in and in, and nothing but a degenerate and fpuny posterity is the result ; tbe black breeds in and in, and he only becomes "richer," "warmer," "nobler," and more <■' emotional," "vigorous," and •* fresher." We may, however, best state the facts of the case in the very graphic language of the author — or authoress, as it is surmised : — "The white people of America are dying for want of flesh and blood. They are dry and shrivelled for lack of the healthful juice of life. In the white American are seen unmistakeably the indications of physical decay. The cheeks are shrunken, the lins are thin and bloodless, the under jaw ia narrow and retreating,

the teeth decayed, the nose sharp and cold, the eyes small and watery, the complexion of a blue and yellow hue, the head and shoulders bent forward, the hair dry and straggling upon the men, the waists of the women thin and pinched, telling of sterility and consumption, the general appearance gaunt and cadaverous from head to foot. You will see bald heads upon young men. You will see eye-glasses and spectacles, false teeth, artificial colour on the face, artificial plumpness to the form. The intercourse will be formal, ascetic, unemotional Turn now to an assemblage of negroes. Every cheek is plump, the teeth are whiter than ivory, there are no bald heads, the eyes are large and bright .Our professional men show more than ary of the lack of healthful association with their opposites' of the other |sex. They need contact with healthy, loving, warm-blooded natures to fill up the leaninterstices of their anatomy. Nor is this a matter of theory only. The Southerners have shown a wonderful success in the civil war ; and it i 3 all owing to their connection, licit and illicit, with the negro. . " The emotional power, fervid, oratory, and intensity which distinguishes ail slaveholders is due to their intimate

association with the most charming and intelligent of their slave girls." It 3eems that " the mere presence of the African in large numbers infused into the air a sort of barbaric malaria" — which, indeed, has been often noticed, and is commonly called by a coarser name, but which we are now told is " a miasm of fierceness which bas come to infect the white men and even the women too, and which accounts for the wild chivalrous spirit of the South, and its success in the field." Nor are these the only benefits which the rebels derive from their privileged propinquity to the ideal man, the vigorous able-bodied negro. The sweet magnetism of association attracts the daughters of the South to the sable Apolloa of the tropics :— "The mothers and daughters of the aristocratic slaveholders are thrilled with a strange delight by daily contact with their dusky male servitors. These relations, though intimate and full of a rare charm to the passionate and impressible daughters of the South, seldom if ever pass beyond the bounds of propriety. A platonic love, a union of sympathies, emotions, &c, &c. The white Southern girl, who matures early, ia at her home surrounded by the brightest and mosti intelligent of the young colored men on tbe estate. Passionate, full of sensibility, without the cold, prudence of her Northern sister, who can wonder at the wild dreams of loye which fix tbe hearts and fill the imagination of the impressible Southern maiden? . . It is safe to say that the first heart experience of nearly every Southern maiden, the flowering sweetness and grace of her young life, is associated witn a sad dream of some bondman lover. He may have been the waiter or coachman, or bright yellow lad who assisted the overseer ; but to her he is a hero, blazing with all the splendors of imperial manhood. She treasures the looks from those dark eyes which made her pulses bound." We are inclined to suspect that the

North American man and woman may be something of the sort described by this indecent writer ; and we can well understand how it is that Mr Hawthorne, after his experience of his sapless, dry, and bony brethren, and hia angelic but angular countrywomen, is positively enraged at the sight of the wholesome flesh and blood of an Englishman and Englishwoman. We may be rather proud of being described as "bulbous," and think it no affront that the "female Bull" may be described in Terence's phra3e as corpus validwn et sued plenum. Our juiciness and physical fulness and strength, and redundancy of muscle and blood, are certainly in strong contrast to what the writer of the pamphlet on Miscegenation describes as dryness aud meagreness, the pallor and scranniness and leanness, of the American animal ; and if the citizen and citizenessj of the Northern States is this or anything like it, we can quite account for Northern failures in the field or any where else. The only absurdity is, that this wretched, sapless, shrivelled caricature of a man, this specimen of humanity in]its most contemptible form, should have the place which it has in the world's estimate of nations. If this is the ideal

American, we quite agree with the author of Miscegenation that the race cannot live to the third generation. If this is what "the Anglo-Saxon "—though plentifully mixed, by the by, with Germans and Irish immigrants and with most of the scum of Europe — has come to, it is a comfort to think that we are near the end of it.

The sum and substance of the whole matter ia, that this nasty doctrine of the physical necessity of absorbing the white race into the negro population or rather; of creating for the necessities of the American States a mixed and Creole race, is proclaimed not only by the author of this tract, but by the Rev. Beecher Stowe'u partner in the editorship of the " Independent," Mr Theodore Tilton, by Mr Horace Greeley, by Mr Wendell Phillips, and bj " the inspired maid of Philadelphia," the lecturing woman, Miss Anna Dickenson. It is perhaps inconvenient to remember that some such experiment has been tried in Haiti — with what success we all know. It is now to be repeated further North. How far these people carry out their views into actual life they do not inform us. If the gentlemen practice what they preach, the demand for coloured Abishaga "to engraft upon our stoce the rich treasure of negro blood," and to fill up the lean interstices of the anatomy of editors, must be something more than nominal ; and as Miss Dickenson has lectured before the President and in many of the cities ot the Union, and has not been tarred and feathered by the ladies of America, we are forced to the unpleasant conclusion that they are quite ready to play Tamorato any and every lusty negro who fulfils the "passional" and "emotional instinct" which is among the best cravings of the soul. "Itis a mean pride," we are told, " unworthy of a Christian, which would lead any. one to deny that there are wants in the white nature which only the negro could fill, defects in physical organization that oqly the negro could supply, cravings

towards fraternity that only the negro could comfort and satisfy." Potiphar's wife anticipated this argument, and in her plain-spoken language to the goodly Hebrew slave only put the doctrine of Miscegenation into practice ; and if the ladies of New England want another precedent for their "abandonment of an unwholesome prejudice," the history of the Byzantine Court and the life of the -Empress Theodosia may satisfy them that a negrolover, though a solecism, is by no means an absolute novelty in female taste, A strong-bodied and strong-flavoured partner is perhaps the complement to that strong mind of which the Yankee female has furnished so many and such very unfeminine instances.

The wonderful and horrible thing is that this filthy nonsense is not] only not hooted down, but that it represents the more advanced, and indeed the more logical, adherents of that political party which, if the smallest, is undoubtedly the most vigorous in America. All Abolitionists are perhaps not, or perhaps not as yet, avowed adherents of the doctrine of Miscegenation, but all Abolitionists with the very least regard to consistency must render the ;tw connubii to those who are in

every respect their eguala, The Miscegenation writers of course go further, and exalt the relative superiority of the nigger, and expatiate on his necessity in the great economy of tkings for renovating with his fiery energies th,e cold and languid circulation of the North. Yet even this might do comparatively little harm, for the women who will listen to and applaud Miss Anna Dickenson lecturing on these nauseous subjects are far beyond any other corrupting influences. The shamelesanes* which sees " all the splendours ol imperial manhood" in a woolly-headed coachman, may be left to that natural indignation which is due to the sight of Messalina vindicating her life on phil«sophical principles. But the evil does not end here. We may well despair of the future ol America if, in its gloomiest hour of civil strife, not one single streak of light breaks the thick darkness. Is there no patriot^ no man of letters, no man of common honesty and integrity, who can venture even to lift a voice against the advancing tide of fanaticism and folly, of immorality and indecency? Of all those politicians whom American institutions have trained, and whose vision has been enlarged by the brightness - and fulness of freedom, is there not one to stand in the place which is occupied, and certainly not without popular assent, by Mr Wendell Phillips and Miss Dickenson? One begins to ask whether it can all Ec true— whether it is possible that, in the very land which wUI not endure that the negro should sit in the same railway carriage orkn%el in the' same church with the white, the doctrine of Miscegenation should be .preached, not only without rebuke, but with applause. Even the writer in the « Edinburgh Review," who has discovered a wonderful process of silent and unconscious education which, the nigger has been undergoing for several years in order to fit him for his place ill the regeneration, would stand aghast at

such an expression as this of theanti^wi slavery doctrines. To be a man*anir>atM brother, a man need not be <juit& ?(fteos model man, and the great patterns and' h ideal of humanity, reserved fulness of time to pour - theyhfflood > of life and the bleadngoyxif vH«ttjj i into worn-out Christendoms sit Jwould*^ surprise the Clarksons and WiUWr&efedai c to hear that uin the coursfcn ofptimer> theh* dark races must absorb thewbitei'i Bven/ioi Mr Lincoln, though thefrgubjest'ieywctfnvti genial one for his pedolja&'ikiiMhoffixrify'oi will be startled to bw«toufee&* that tdtherlt present war is "a war'tfbtf thtf negro V<not)tt simply for his personal'! frights' OBbhi* physical freedom,- but a* war^oolungj atitty final point, to tne blending) of :&erbladk)i; and white ; •»^ al wai^t^igoioiruntilitlie I. great truth sha&tie feandnnscftm theM&Hti sages of our JVttMetfta, that it.is desirable . ; that the wMtefta^shotddimarryrthebltiifc .;>; woman, anst<ilfts white <womatn> thebblack.k k. man f andwthaifc -fl'Mwiafaurtj become . a !. yellow-ikiknedVynbhck-haiifed Ipeoplß|'-m"i , that is^taat'tfete popiil*«ott-;ofth©jUiiiied*>yi Stateir'lc dWxWnsist^f iCreole^ or lbeVpr«H-( pared'fti '^ostvjtari&uate fextinctfami byu-. an ffim*bfo'la^os H«tuwfc^fJW#cert«aiJ#; df J nW i^ieVe'^'jai'the'^lrowinffiiia^)

telligence which has of late years been developed, according to .the "Edinburgh Review," in the' America- negroes, nor .do we think that they possess means of c»mmunication so complete as have been lately described. Let us ask, however, what might be, or, we would rather say, what must be, the result on the African mind of this one fact ?— that it is publicly taught by the most fanatical friends of the black race that the end and object of the ■war is to " divide the lands of the South among the negroes?" Nor is this all. The war is' to be prosecuted in order to «rive the white woman of the South into the negro's bosom, and then we are assured that all this is in the interest, not only of social progress, but of religion, since in the millennial future is still to be produced the highest type of mankind, the most perfect ideal of womanhood, which will not be •white or black, but Creole or colored ; and the first and chiefest step in bringing all' the human -family to this its great ultimate destiny is fo invigorate and" sweeten " the cold, lean/ shrivelled, arid decaying Yankee life with the warm tropical blood and the fragrant "miasm of fierceness" and healthy animal' life which belongs to the negro. , "■,