NOT EUGENESIC. :;:J 



In his essay of 1842, Dr. Nott maintained the following pro- 

 positions, which we extract from a subsequent publication. 1 



1. That Mulattoes are the shortest lived of any class of tihe 

 human race. 



2. That Mulattoes are intermediate in intelligence between 

 the blacks and the whites. 



3. That they are less capable of undergoing fatiguo and 

 hardships than either the blacks or whites. 



4. That the Mulatto-women are peculiarly delicate, and sub- 

 ject to a variety of chronic diseases. That they are bad breeders, 

 bad nurses, liable to abortions, and that their children gene- 

 rally die young. 



5. That when Mulattoes intermarry, they are less prolific 

 than when crossed on the parent stock. 



6. That when a Negro man married a white woman, the off- 

 spring partook more largely of the Negro type than when the 

 reverse connection had effect. 



7. That Mulattoes, like Negroes, although unacclimated, 

 enjoy extraordinary exemption from yellow-fever when brought 

 to Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, or New Orleans. 



The propositions, 1, 3, 4, and 5, are the only ones connected 

 with our subject. They confirm, and even enhance, in certain 

 respects, M. Jacquinot's assertions, yet are they contested, 

 and Dr. Nott himself has found it necessary to restrict their 

 application. He had made his observations in South Carolina 

 where he found the Mulattoes little prolific and short-lived. 

 Having changed his residence, he obtained different results. 

 At Mobile, New Orleans, Pensacola, towns on the Gulf of 

 Mexico, he found among the Mulattoes many instances of 

 manifest longevity and prolificacy, not merely in their crossed 

 but in their direct alliances. What was the cause of this differ- 

 ence ? Dr. Nott inquired whether the difference in the results 

 might not depend upon the difference in the ethnological 

 elements in the crossing. All the Europeans who have co- 

 lonised America did not belong to the same race. The Cauca- 

 sians, as is well known, are naturally divided in two groups : 



1 J. C. Nott, Hybridity of Animals viewed in connexion uith the natural his- 

 tory of mankind .- Types of Mankind. Nott an<l Gliddon. Philadelphia, 1854. 



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