We publish, though with regret, a letter from our able
" Yankee " correspondent expressing in full measure the hatred felt by many persons in the North towards the negro. As a sketch of opinion it is valuable, but we can endorse neither his facts nor arguments. He says the " loathing" between the two races is so deep-seated that amalgamation is impossible ; we say that one-third of the slaves are, as appears from their colour, the result of that amalgamation. He says the presence of negroes in Congress is impossible ; we say that it is found easy in Jamaica. He says that the intense irritation created by the marriage of a white woman to a negro,—under which term he includes quadroons —proves a natural antipathy ; we say that the same irritation is felt in India, where both races are Caucasian, and where no one talks of instinctive antipathies. Indeed precisely the same differ- ence between the sexes is made in England. If a man marries his housemaid he is thought silly, but there is no forgiveness for a woman who marries her footman. Besides, the assumption that if the negroes enjoy the suffrage they will intermarry with whites is entirely baseless. In India Sudras and Brahmins have identical civil rights, but relations between them, licit or illicit, are simply impossible.
