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ALEXANDER WHISTELO.

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it on the books; the blaek man,
‘Whistelo, took the child, but said
pf the same time that i was not

Dr. De Witt. Have no doubt
it is the child of a white man.

‘Adam Ray (a black). Knew
of Whistelo having taken the
thild to board, and of the mother
having it carried away; asked
er reasons for taking it back;
and her answer was, that since
he would not own the child at

he should not have it now,
for it was not his,

Nancy Cook. Lived with the
witness six weeka; can not say
aa to her character, but saw a
very light man in bed with her;
there were two beds in the room;
Lucy Williams had one, and I
the other; I fell asleep; # man
Jay with Lucy all night.

August 20.

Dr. Mitehilt (sworn.)t

Mr. Vanhook. From your
observations upon those persons,
Dr. Mitehill, and from what you
know of this case, be so good to
state your belief, whether that
child is or is not the child of that
Bleck manf It ia then ex-
pected that I should give an
opinion touching the parentage
of the child? Yes, sir; whether
trom all the cireumstances, you
‘believe that black man to be its
father? It may be expected,
perhaps, that I should give my
reasons for my opinion, that it
may be judged upon ‘its own
merits? If you please, doctor;
the more 80, a8 the counsel on
the other side will probably in-
quire into them.

Dr, Mitchii.' There are three
general rules, a8 far as I under-

stand, touching the propagation
of men between the white and
Dlack race. First, when the eon-
nection has bean between white
and black, the offspring is
a mulatto; second, when the
child is produced from an
intercourse between a white
man and a molatto, it is then
called a quadroon; thirdly, when
it is between a black and 9 mu-
latto, it is called a gambo. In
the French and Spanish islands
there are more minute distine-
tiont; but for more certain in-
formation, I refer the court to
Bryan Edwards’ History of the
Britiah Colonies in the West In-
dies, by which any errors of my
memory may be corrected. The
prineiple, however, is, that the
Shade is between the two in equal
degree; snd it is told in a way
that meets my assent, that when
a rapid suceession of inter-
course haa taken place between
@ woman and two men of differ-
ent colors, twins have been pro-
duced of the opposite colors.
Mr. Morton. What are we
to understand, doctor, by rapid
succession? When a white man
succeeds to a black, or &
black to a white almost instan-
taneously. Do not accidental
eauses sometimes operate a
ehange on the foetus at or after
the fime of eoneeption? Yes,
sir, Will you be good enough
to deseribe themf The changes
which take place in the human
form during the time of eoncep-
tion are reducible to three heads,
according to the observations of
D'Azara in his history of the
quadrupedes of Paragua. First
when there ia an alteration o!
complexion so as to render the

7See3 Am. St. Tr. 613, and see preface to same volume, page 14,

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