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New York Morning Herald, October 29, 1839, p.2
PROGRESS OF AMALGAMATION.--MORALS OF PHILADELPHIA.--since the learned savans and
beautiful women of Connecticut have taken such an interest in Cinguez and his woolly
headed brethren, as to bring their children to be kissed by them and to take lessons
themselves in Mandingo and Moonshee from them, the progress of amalgamation has advanced
with immensely rapid strides, aided by the efforts of the nigger organ in this city,
the "Sun." A short time since a beautiful white girl was discovered here
living with a black rascal who had enticed her from her parents in Philadelphia;
the papers bring us an account of a very handsome white girl, the daughter of a cooper,
in Franklin, La., giving birth to a black baby. A negro rascal has just been imprisoned
for beating a young white girl with whom he had lived as his wife; a young white
lady at Harlem has become so completely smitten with the "sable fever,"
that she has opened a school exclusively for black children. And lastly we have the
following instance of the improvement in morals and amalgamation in Philadelphia,
detailing the result of a white lady's amours with her black servant.
A carriage containing two ladies, who represented themselves as mother and daughter,
stopped at the outer gate of the Alms House, over the Schuylkill on Thursday last,
when the youngest informed the keeper that her mother was anxious to obtain a white
child, an infant, if possible, to adopt as her own, she having lately lost one. She
was shown several and at last made a selection that pleased her, and requested permission
to show it to her mother who was in her carriage, and if it suited her, they would
obtain an order from the guardians of the poor, and call in a day or two for it.
The child was wrapped up in its cradle clothes, and taken by herself to the carriage,
and after a few minutes delay, she returned and placed the babe where she had found
it, stating that they would call next day and take it away. The carriage was then
driven off, and nothing further was thought of the transaction, until it became necessary
to remove the child for some cause, when it was discovered that the white child had
been taken by the persons in the carriage, and a black one left in its place!
Truly the cause of amalgamation is prospering exceedingly!
