And now I appeal to all—­to Democrats as well as others—­are you really willing that the Declaration shall thus be frittered away?—­thus left no more, at most, than an interesting memorial of the dead past?—­thus shorn of its vitality and practical value, and left without the germ or even the suggestion of the individual rights of man in it?

But Judge Douglas is especially horrified at the thought of the mixing of blood by the white and black races.  Agreed for once—­a thousand times agreed.  There are white men enough to marry all the white women and black men enough to many all the black women; and so let them be married.  On this point we fully agree with the Judge, and when he shall show that his policy is better adapted to prevent amalgamation than ours, we shall drop ours and adopt his.  Let us see.  In 1850 there were in the United States 405,751 mulattoes.  Very few of these are the offspring of whites and free blacks; nearly all have sprung from black slaves and white masters.  A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation; but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together.  If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas.  That is at least one self-evident truth.  A few free colored persons may get into the free States, in any event; but their number is too insignificant to amount to much in the way of mixing blood.  In 1850 there were in the free States 56,649 mulattoes; but for the most part they were not born there—­they came from the slave States, ready made up.  In the same year the slave States had 348,874 mulattoes, all of home production.  The proportion of free mulattoes to free blacks—­the only colored classes in the free States is much greater in the slave than in the free States.  It is worthy of note, too, that among the free States those which make the colored man the nearest equal to the white have proportionably the fewest mulattoes, the least of amalgamation.  In New Hampshire, the State which goes farthest toward equality between the races, there are just 184 mulattoes, while there are in Virginia—­how many do you think?—­79,775, being 23,126 more than in all the free States together.

These statistics show that slavery is the greatest source of amalgamation, and next to it, not the elevation, but the degradation of the free blacks.  Yet Judge Douglas dreads the slightest restraints on the spread of slavery, and the slightest human recognition of the negro, as tending horribly to amalgamation!