of the white race would be handed to posterity, through the dark medium of negro blood, stained, obscured and confused. Their complexion would be but half white, the covering of their heads neither wool nor hair, their noses flattened and made wider, their mouths vastly extended, the temples narrowed and sunken, the forehead lowered and slanted backward, the contour of the head elongated, monkey like, the eyes eclipsed of intelligence and made glossy like the eyes of animals, the under jaw protruded, the teeth set laterally, the waist narrowed, the chest widened, the posteriors pointed and lifted up, the foot enlarged and made spongy on the outer sides, the heel set backward, the calf of the leg taken away, the shin bone made convex, the skull thickened, the lips pouted forward, the cheek bones lifted up, and the whole external of the progeny become changed, and merged in Egyptian darkness. But the above changes are not all the horrors which amalgamation produces; as the passions and mental faculties become remodeled and changed to other characters, as presented in the mulatto race of negroes.
There is an increased disposition to untameable and unrestrained lewdness, to treachery, to insensibility of feeling, to a want of high and manly sentiment. There is seen in this character, as in the real black, a proneness to loud and senseless laughter, an extraordinary desire to whistle and sing, especially when in circumstances of labor and servitude. The fancies of the mind undergo a change also, in relation to colors, as the negro's eye is powerfully attracted by the red and yellow, in the decorations of their
