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Sheep? We know, that sometimes hybrids are purposely produced on account of ;ui 

 individual peculiarity , which (notwithstanding their evanescent character) render them, in 

 some respects, more valuable than either of their progenitors. This is the case of the 

 Mule. But the same reason does not exist for producing the hybrid Sheep, which pos- 

 sesses no such peculiarity, and is esteemed only in proportion to its similarity to its 

 progenitors. 



In page 120, Col. Smith says, that " war and slavery are the elements of amalgamation, 

 where mixed races spring up, and are maintained, until the impure fall a prey to the pure 

 races; the former falling before the victors until they are exterminated, absorbed and 

 perish by a kind of decreasing vitality, and are entirely obliterated." 



From hastily reading the passage last cited, the reader might, perhaps, be led to 

 imagine that, in the end, no injury is done to the pure races, who are represented as 

 "swallowing up the impure ones:" but this author adds, "yet this apparent obliteration 

 must ever affect subsequent forms and mental conditions in the victors ; which the physiolo- 

 gist ought to bear in mind, when known, or indicate, when only suspected." 



Therefore, let no American Sheep breeder flatter himself with the hope or expectation 

 that by breeding towards a superior race, he will ever be able, entirely to obliterate the 

 defects of an inferior one ; if he does so, he will find, to his cost and discomfiture, (and 

 that, perhaps, when he least expects it,) that the obliteration is not real, but apparent ; and 

 that he has entailed a stigma upon his stock, which no art nor time can wholly eradicate. 



In page 214, Col. Smith explains some of the names of hybrids from the crossing of 

 white and black persons; he says "a black and white make a mulatto, a mulatto and white 

 make a quadroon, a quadroon and a white a mestise, amestise and a white a white-" But 

 what kind of white is thus manufactured out of black and while ? He tells us, " But this 

 last has black and curlij hair; nails, dark and ill-shaped ; feet, badly formed ; and much 

 of the negro propensities.''' 



Now Col. Smith may call this a "white''' if he chooses; but we would be very much 

 afraid of marrying such a white, for fear of finding ourselves, some day, blessed with a black 

 heir. And we think that, arguing from analogy, it would not be hazarding too much to 

 predict, that if the (so called) "/^//-blooded Saxon Sheep," we read, and hear tell of, 

 manufactured by breeding from an impure to a pure race, were critically examined, that 

 the vestiges of their impurity would be found still lurking in their veins.* It is not in 



* Our learned friend, William F. Van Amringe, to whom we loaned the MS. of this chapter, returned it with the follow- 

 ing valuable note : 



" BLACK HEIR. This unfortunate circumstance happened, recently, in . A gentleman of high respectability 



married a beautiful girl, whose first child was a negro! The fidelity of the wife was beyond suspicion ; but, on investigation, 

 it was discovered that her grandfather, or great grandfather, was a negro. 



" Dr. White, a wealthy, educated physician and farmer of Duchess County, in this State, [New York,] became possessed 

 of a full-blooded Ayreshire Cow, which, about twenty years ago, he put to a full-blooded Durham white Bull. Subsequently 

 he bred continually, " in and in," towards the Cow, and boasted that he was practically disproving the doctrine of constitu- 

 tional impairment by " in and in" breeding, notwithstanding my prediction that it would ultimately fail. It was remarkable 

 that, for many years, say 12 or 15, the progeny uniformly leaned towards the Cow, whose color and type were frequently 

 reproduced; during which the color and type of the Bull did not appear. Suddenly, a few years ago. the color and type of 



