f the negro in his
relations to the European population of this country is embraced in the
law just stated.

In the first place, the two races are not amalgamated. Intermarriages
between them are so rare, that few of the readers of this article can
remember ever to have known one. Such marriages are regarded as
monstrous and disgraceful, though the law should, as in some of the
States, recognize them. One sentiment in respect to them pervades the
whole community, and that a sentiment of aversion. Those half-breeds
which spring from licentiousness, or even from the very few lawful
marriages which have occurred, are not accepted as standing in any
nearer relations to the white man than the pure-blooded African. In
those States where slavery has been longest extinct, and the colored man
has been relieved from all legal disabilities, the line between the two
races is as sharply drawn to-day as it was two hundred years ago. On
such a question two hundred years and more is long enough for an
experiment. The experiment already tried does prove that the
Anglo-American and African populations of this country cannot be
amalgamated, either by freedom or slavery; and those who pretend to fear
it, are either trying to deceive others for selfish and criminal
purposes, or else they are wofully deceived themselves.

Nor are the apprehensions of those who dread the rapid increase of the
negro, at all sustained by facts. That fear of a coming internecine war
of races, in case the colored man is emancipated, which haunts some
minds, has no foundation except in ignorance of the real facts. In no
portion of our history has our colored population ever increased with a
rapidity nearly so great as the white population. From 1790 to 1860 the
colored population increased in the ratio of 1 to 5.86; and the white
population in the ratio of 1 to 8.50. If we compare them for any shorter
period, we shall always find that the white population increased the
more rapidly of the two. From 1790 to 1808, we might perhaps expect to
find it otherwise; for during that period the slave trade was in full
activity, and tens of thousands of Africans were imported as articles of
merchandise. But from 1790 to 1810, while the colored population
increased in the ratio of 1 to 1.81, the white population increased in
the ratio of 1 to 1.84, although during that period the white population
of the country was very little increased by immigration. How it has
happened th