The proportion of free mulattoes to free blacks--the only colored classes
in the free States is much greater in the slave than in the free States.
It is worthy of note, too, that among the free States those which make
the colored man the nearest equal to the white have proportionably the
fewest mulattoes, the least of amalgamation. In New Hampshire, the State
which goes farthest toward equality between the races, there are just 184
mulattoes, while there are in Virginia--how many do you think?--79,775,
being 23,126 more than in all the free States together.
These statistics show that slavery is the greatest source of
amalgamation, and next to it, not the elevation, but the degradation of
the free blacks. Yet Judge Douglas dreads the slightest restraints on the
spread of slavery, and the slightest human recognition of the negro, as
tending horribly to amalgamation!
The very Dred Scott case affords a strong test as to which party most
favors amalgamation, the Republicans or the dear Union-saving Democracy.
Dred Scott, his wife, and two daughters were all involved in the suit. We
desired the court to have held that they were citizens so far at least as
to entitle them to a hearing as to whether they were free or not; and
then, also, that they were in fact and in law really free.
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