When People Saw The Red Man Driven From The Prairies And Backwoods Of
America, And Whole States As Large As Germany Without A Single Indian
Left, Much Was Written On The Extermination Of The Aborigines By The
Stronger Saxon.
As the generations lengthen, the facts appear to wear
another aspect.
From the intermarriage of the lower orders with the
Indian squaws the Indian blood has got into the Saxon veins, and now the
cry is that the red man is exterminating the Saxon, so greatly has he
leavened the population. The typical Yankee face, as drawn in - Punch - , is
indeed the red Indian profile with a white skin and a chimney-pot hat.
Upon a small scale the same thing has happened in this village by the
forest; the gipsy half-breed has stained the native blood. Perhaps races
like the Jew and gipsy, so often quoted as instances of the permanency of
type, really owe that apparent fixidity to their power of mingling with
other nations. They are kept alive as races by mixing; otherwise one of
two things would happen - the Jew and the gipsy must have died out, or
else have supplanted all the races of the globe. Had the Jews been so
fixed a type, by this time their offspring would have been more numerous
than the Chinese. The reverse, however, is the case; and therefore we may
suppose they must have become extinct, had it not been for fresh supplies
of Saxon, Teuton, Spanish, and Italian blood.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 197 of 394
Words from 52987 to 53238
of 105669
