| Show THE NEGROS PLACE 1311 1 Ht HISTORY STORY by pro prof willis boughton of ohio state university Uni IV in this ibis matter of fusion therell no compulsion in a country like our own it is optional to every white man or woman to associate with the th e negro or not if any one finds gratification in such an alliance why should those who differ from him in taste become horrified at his seeming depravity even carrion is not repulsive to the buzzard bunard still the cry of the id alarmist armist sounds in our oar ears and he would have us believe that fusion will be I 1 complete within a generation or two nothing of the kinds kind it is a slow process it has been in operation in this country less than two and a aalf half centuries I 1 it has been in operation in southern europe for twenty five centuries and still it is incomplete eternity is long enough to produce this result five centuries hence no doubt the census enumerator will find thousands whom he be shall be obliged to designate as black though it is hoped that the stigma attached thereto shall have been removed there is evolving in our land an american race a race arace that shall be the product of more peoples mingled than have ever before met in pay any region of the earth perhaps this alloy of negro wood blood is an essential element in our race formation and has been placed here by the creator to be used in in producing a people that shall in m day be as peculiarly gifted as were the greeks and romans in in their time in their ignorance and foolishness those who most moist deplore the social degradation of the times are am removing the fhe natural barriers against fusion in some of the southern stages sta there then still exists an immoral and absurd law making penal the marriage of a white man with a colored woman immoral bemuse because it encourages eneyar ages concubinage absurd because because it utterly fails to hinder that mixture of ram races which it is ia designed to t prevent spec wor may 25 mg 1889 the very social ostracism into which it is intended to cast these unfortunate people will operate against those hose t who profess to despise the negro so 86 long as aa the negro race is made to feel that it is despised and rejected of all men so long will die colored adored woman moman feel that she is socially elevating herself and her eb children ildren by mso association an with a white man inan no matter it if oe he connection be irregular according to the dictates of our christian ad institutions so long to as a cultured christian woman J chagrined at the ow ledge that binm blood flows floma in her veins reins can exclaim 4 1 I anabe and be fiala clayed without a murmon if I 1 might only rise me up anteio 1 0 no long ire are I 1 the whites ac strongest longest T bored a vow 41 P her er an wit eweg A for 1 f rj r ys t 4 juan r i t x bysa I 1 baar Ba fr t ikui t sis w a te 1 Y kei at ys S ff ess N 4 education Eau R cation U 0 jetted ri isu r tia awa luar p IR awaa fe ai ma i A sa s1 gg positions of rank and distinction let lat a colored man reach a position of influence and the road is open at once if he so chooses for his lanng e with a very respectable white woman recall if you yon will a few years yeara tince cince in our national capital the marriage of the greatest of afro americans such examples mm are rare but bat others of scarcely less note are known were the alarmist to seek for a sign more foreboding than any other he might find it inthe in the rapidity with which this despised race IS is accumulating property gold will remove even the curse of blood let the negro become wealthy and the doors of social equality will soon be thrown open for his entrance had the colored maiden a dower of a few thousand dollars there is many a white man who would fall at her feet and offer her legal marriage individual negroes a are re rapidly accumulating fortunes and the above conditions are extremely probable the time may come when the american white girt giri proud of her pure teutonic lineage will find the wealthy brunette of doubtful lineage a winning competitor in the purchase for a husband of a broken down foreign nobleman so long as money is the chief consideration such mes mea dalliance sal liance in either case would be revolting to the true american foreign immigration will have a tendency to break down the barriers between the races the foreigner don does not feel naturally an avenson aversion towards such an alliance as does the american who remembers the days of slavery even the englich immigrant who returns to t 0 his native laud land with a colored bride does not seem to be socially ostracized the afro american modified b by y the peculiar ar environ environment ment of our civilization bleached by a emi already completed educated enlightened above all possessed of oe some property will become a fit subject for the cupidity of the great bulk of foreigners who become immigrants to our shores the one forms an alliance with a more highly respected race the other obtains at once the gold for w which aich he is so greedy Is ia there anything alarming or horrifying in this view of the question it is simply a matter of choice on the part of every individual who forms a misalliance our own generation or the next will see no great change tiet let the work of education and enlightenment go forward let the negro be fully prepared for places of distinction let all laws forbidding the arrup marriage of whites and blacks be bd adept from the statute books so that whatever unions unions are am may be legal and whatever children aceb are bom may be legitimate then should fusion fasion take place PIAM the colored element ased not mot be totally de degenero generA degenerating 1 I this great question WW arill be aelred only when all men can say with dr hall mohonk COnfer conference eim report 1690 1890 1 do da not care ethera wh man is blacker white waite or oar adlow or chocolate colored i he hat in himself the idea or christ 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