the New York World, McClellan’s most powerful newspaper, coined a new word with their anonymous pamphlet Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races. Pretending to be Republicans, the authors recommended “miscegenation” as a solution of the race problem. This fusion, the pamphlet declared, would particularly “be of infinite service to the Irish.” If the Republicans were re-elected they would prosecute the war to “its final fruit, to the blending of the white and the black.”
