{"id":48055,"date":"2016-07-03T17:04:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T17:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48055"},"modified":"2016-11-24T19:39:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T19:39:57","slug":"the-natural-separation-of-the-races-is-therefore-an-undeniable-fact-and-all-social-organizations-which-lead-to-their-amalgamation-are-repugnant-to-the-law-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48055","title":{"rendered":"The natural separation of the races is therefore an undeniable fact, and all social organizations which lead to their amalgamation are repugnant to the law of nature."},"content":{"rendered":"

In this connection the language of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the case of Philadelphia & West Chester Railway Company vs. Miles<\/em>, 93 American Dec., 747, is well worth considering. It is as applicable to the Chinese and the Japanese as it is to the negro:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe danger to the peace engendered by the feeling of aversion\u00a0between individuals of the different races cannot be denied. If a\u00a0negro takes his seat beside a white man or his wife or daughter, the\u00a0law cannot repress the anger or conquer the feeling of aversion which\u00a0some will feel. However unwise it may be to indulge the feeling, human infirmity is not always proof against it. It is much wiser to avert\u00a0the consequences of this repulsion of race by separation than to punish\u00a0afterwards the breach of the peace it may have caused. * * *<\/p>\n

The question is one of difference, not of superiority, or inferiority.\u00a0Why the Creator made one black and the other white, we know not;\u00a0but the fact is apparent, and the races distinct, each producing its\u00a0own kind, and following the peculiar law of its constitution. Conceding\u00a0equality, with natures as perfect and rights as sacred, yet God has\u00a0made them dissimilar, with those natural instincts and feelings which\u00a0He always imparts to His creatures when He intends that they shall\u00a0not overstep the natural boundaries He has assigned to them. The\u00a0natural law which forbids their intermarriage, and that social amalgamation which leads to a corruption of the races, is as clearly divine\u00a0as that which imparted to them different natures. The tendency of\u00a0intimate social intermixture is to amalgamation<\/a>, contrary to the law\u00a0of races. The separation of the white and black races upon the surface\u00a0of the globe is a fact equally apparent. Why this is so, it is not necessary to speculate; but the fact of a distribution of men by race and\u00a0color is as visible in the providential arrangement of the earth as that\u00a0of heat and cold. The natural separation of the races is therefore an\u00a0undeniable fact, and all social organizations which lead to their amalgamation are repugnant to the law of nature. From social amalgamation it is but a step to illicit intercourse, and but another to intermarriage. But to assert separateness is not to declare inferiority in\u00a0either; it is not to declare one a slave and the other a freeman,\u2014that\u00a0would be to draw the illogical sequence of inferiority from difference\u00a0only. It is simply to say that following the order of Divine Providence, human authority ought not to compel these widely separate\u00a0races to intermix. The right of such to be free from social contact is\u00a0as clear as to be free from intermarriage. The former may be less\u00a0repulsive as a condition, but not less entitled to protection as a right.\u00a0When, therefore, we declare a right to maintain separate relations, so\u00a0far as is reasonably practicable, but in a spirit of kindness and charity,\u00a0and with due regard to equality of rights, it is not prejudice, nor caste,\u00a0nor injustice of any kind, but simply to suffer men to follow the law\u00a0of races established by the Creator himself, and not to compel them to\u00a0intermix contrary to their instincts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The American Law Register<\/em><\/a>, Volume 54, (From January\u00a0to December 1906), (Philadelphia: 1906), 702. https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RzLBgPFFjGMC&pg=PA702<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this connection the language of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the case of Philadelphia & West Chester Railway Company vs. Miles, 93 American Dec., 747, is well worth considering. It is as applicable to the Chinese and the Japanese as it is to the negro: \u201cThe danger to the peace engendered by the feeling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4889,24352,24351,24350,24353],"class_list":["post-48055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia-west-chester-railway-company-vs-miles","tag-supreme-court-of-pennsylvania","tag-the-american-law-register","tag-west-chester-and-philadelphia-rr-co-v-miles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48057,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48055\/revisions\/48057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}