Show tire THE derivation OP OF the southern journals journals are discussing the origin a and n signification of the word creole As there is is a popular error that the word w ord is is applied to a person of european and african blood it it should be remembered that there is is no authority for it the word was originally used to designate the children of spanish parents born in in spanish c colonies in time lime it was applied to the children of other nations nations 1 and people talked of french creoles cheoles and dutch creoles cheoles the word properly signifies now no that th the e re person r to whom it ills is applied was born in in a country originally colonized by france or spain and descended from ancestors residing in in that part of the alie country at or before the time of its transfer to the united states |