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their affinities among these women, and when such affiliations will be legalized and made respectable. And why not? The illicit mixing must be stopped. Is rendering this respectable a greater crime than the present commingling in the dark? It must be a depraved soul indeed who winks at the present illicit mixing, and affirms it the only possible method to "keep the races separated." Will the South forever cling to the old, debasing traditions? If this be so, then it must finally be swept aside by a tidal wave of progress and a higher ethical standard, that will usher in a new order of things.

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ALL RACES MELTED HERE. There are other times, other peoples and other conditions, as the world moves on into other ages. Lord Rosebery said in a speech before the Philosophical Institution in Edinburgh, Scotland, some time ago: "The United States is a great crucible in which the metals of every race and nation under the sun are being melted together. Will this result in the production of the perfect man of the future or in an entirely new type hitherto unknown to anthropologists, which will be the subject of study by the older races of the globe? We are in a quasipaternal position to look forward to the development of the experiment with almost breathless expectancy."

Who can tell? The amalgamation of the races in America may finally produce, scientifically, a new race of men. It is up to the people of this country whether the Afro-American shall be included in the production of this new race of men by a legal intermarriage, or by illicit mixing.

Those who believe that this mixing process will cease when the Negro has attained higher educational advantages, do not know the signs of the times. We fully demonstrate elsewhere in this work that the law of dissemination will continue to scatter the races of the world, and finally assimilate all. This little globe will soon prove too small to keep any certain class or race separate and distinct from all others. And in these United States, where all classes and races have gathered, it is a gross folly to prohibit intermarriage in any shape or form. Nature always endeavors to produce her best. Let the state guard against the propagation of the criminal, imbecile, insane and idiot, which a wrong social condition has produced, and we shall soon evidence an all-round improvement. When the laws of man do not interfere with the operation of Nature's laws, man will prosper in the production of better and higher types of physical and mental perfection in the crossing of the As an example, we will say that if the

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white Negroes (those of very little Negro blood) were prohibited from mixing with the black Negro, as many believe they ought to be, Nature's method of dissemination would be defeated, and rapid degeneracy would result among them. In nine cases out of ten, those of slight Negro taint are not physically adapted to each other in marriage. If they follow the voice or inclination of their inner nature, they invariably find their affinity among the intensely black. Nature prompts them to do so, and it is right. Their offspring are, in most cases, superior to either the black or yellow who produce together.

The Anglo-Saxon is not the product of a few generations, neither will the colored Caucasian be. The complete assimilation of various races consumes centuries. The black skin will not disappear as rapidly as some may suppose. In the melting together of the races, variety is the greatest charm; and the country which possesses such a variety today is indeed rich in future, possible development. Any country which can boast of but one race of people is in danger of retrogression. It is the melting together of various races that insures future stamina and progress. Germany is dying with cancer, France is facing sterility in her women. Of the 20,000,000 people inhabiting Spain, only about thirty-five

per cent can read and write; another two and one-half per cent of the population can read without being able to write, but the remaining sixty-two and one-half per cent are absolute illiterates. The Afro-American is assured of a greater future than the Spaniard, the Frenchman or the German at home. His blood will course through millions of people when the old races of Europe have long been absorbed by other rising races of foreign blood.

We have made these foregoing remarks to show the reader that the future welfare of our country demands a general reformation of the sex-relations between the races. Nearly fifty years of unlawful cohabiting between the emancipated slave and dominant race has caused enough shame and misery to be forever relegated to the ignorance and licentiousness of the past.

EVIDENCES OF FORTY-FIVE YEARS ILLICIT MIXING.-There are many people in the South who deny that mixing takes place to any extent, but all evidences point to the con trary. We have made careful inquiry in many places. In a certain large city we found about one-fourth of the Negro population apparently full-blood, or at least dark; and one-half ranged from brown to a yellow, while one-fourth ranged from yellow to white. We found a large num

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