The Returning Africans; Editorials-Some Practical Views of Disunion-The North and South, Mr. Lincoln’s Conservatism (10/17/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 10/17/1860

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A letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer, dated at Grand Cape Mount Roads, Liberia, gives some interesting particulars of the voyage of the ship Castilian, which carried back to Africa 400 of the negroes who had been taken to key West from captured slavers. The writer says: "From the differences in words given to express the same thing, we have learned that there are portions of three tribes in our lot. These variations are not so marked as to prevent intercommunication. These Africans are smaller in frame, loss muscular, and have more delicate hands and feel than the black race in the United States -- circumstances which are doubtless attributable to the fact that they are unaccustomed to much labor in their own country. The conformation of the cranium is peculiar in some, the face being developed at the expense of the upper part, which recedes suddenly from the brows, and projects at the occiput. To a greater or less extent their teeth are prominent, and much stronger than those of the white man. Some have the upper front incisors filed down to a sharp point -- outwards from the mesian line -- leaving an aperture in the row like an inverted U, and others have both rows sharpened like saws -- which gives the mouth the appearance of an old-fashioned rat-trap. All bear marks of the tattoo, some upon the shoulders and breast, others upon the back, and many -- the women especially -- over the entire abdomen.

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The Returning African: Letter from the Ship Castilian, of the Colonization Society’s Expedition – 2
Capture of Fugitive Slaves – 2
A Cheerful, Truthful and Good-Natured Picture of the Prince in New-York – 2
Lynch Law in Nebraska – 2
Base Ball: Atlantic vs. Eckford – 2
Cricket: The American Cricket Club – 2
Editorial: Some Practical Views of Disunion-The North and South – 3
Editorial: A Visitation of Vanities – 3-4
Editorial: Mr. Lincoln’s Conservatism – 4-5
How the Prince Got into the Ball – 5
Fast Transatlantic Steamers – 5
General City News – 5
Fire in Louisville – 5
Police Reports – 5