Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-01-21
No S-a7 FAYETTEVILLE, TENN THURSDAY JANUARY sL 1858.

dlvidual genius and greatness unSur-
passed in ancient OF modern times.
A handful Of this people leave the
sea-g irt Isle Of their nativity and
plant their standard on the burning
shores Of India. Here in a climate
altogether different from that in which
they and their ancestors have been
reared, they are met by the deadly
malaria of the tropics and opposed by
a human foe, cruel, superstitious and
bigoted, and swarming in incredible
numbers. At once asserting the su-
premacy of their nature, they gradu-
ally bring Older out of chaotic confu-
sion, and for century have govern
ed people several hundred times
more numerous than themselves, with
a sway shich though sometimes rigid
has resulted in the good of the gov-
erned. And if the native races of
India ever subyert the English rule, it
will be the result of Vast odds in
their favor; the victory of numbers
and not Of intelligence and innate Ca
paeity.
This greatrace of men appears on
another theatre Of action as far re-
moved from India, in climate, locality.
soil and productions as the limits of
earth will allow. True to the instinct
OF their nature, they burst through all
opposing obstacles-inferior races
disappear before their onward march
like mist before the rising sun, and
our own happy and prosperous coun-
try is the wonderful result. lfchance
or circumstances determined the
late of a people, where could history
point to a spectacle more utterly hope
less than the landing of the handful
OF cavaliers more than 200 years ago
on the unhealthy shores Of Virginia,
or the small band of Puritans who
sought refuge from oppression in
1920, on the inhOspitable coast of
New England? Unaccustomed alike
to the unhealthy miasmas of the
South and the chilling SHOWS of the
Northern winters. in the midst Of pn-
meval forest filled with savage and
relentless faces, they would have dis
from the earth without a
record to tell their fate OF a monu-
ment to mark their graves. But they
drew strength from what seemed their
sustenance and support
from opposition and impediments,
just and liberal governments cluster
ed around their onward progress; and
the proudest nations Of the world
may now envy their greatness
These achievements of the Anglo-Sax-
on cannot be the effect of happy ac-
ciGents but are evolved from innate
qualities Of the race which produce
such results as naturally and certain
ly as the spring time brings forth the
green drapery of the meadows and
the forest.
Frem the contemplation of this,
one of the highest varieties of the
Caucasian Type, We turn to the ne
gro races and proceed to measure
them by the same standard of re-
suits. The term negro as employed
by Ethnologists, embraces several dis
tinct races, including the Ethiopian
proper, Hottentots, Oceanic negro and
Australian. Some Of these people
have straight hair aNd features ap-
preaching in form very near to the
Caucasian model. The term negro
does not apply in the present lecture,
to them, bat it is used rather 10 ac-
cordance with its popular signifcation
and refers to those races with black
skins, woody heads, receding chin and
forehead, projecting mouths and thick
lips and other characteristics which
mark the well known negro of the
United States.
The negro races as thus defined
occupy almost the whole of the vast
continent of Afica, from the south
ern borders of the Great Desert to
the Cape of Good Hope. Stretch
ing from about the 10th degree Of
North to the 34th degree Of South
latitude, they are scattered over this
vast extent Of country in small tribes
and nations differing in many slight
respects, the one from the other, but
alike in prominent characteristics
Many Of the native races of Austria
lin, particularly those of Van Die
mans Land, New Guinea and parts
Of Australia, possess in a striking de.
gree the marks Of the African negro
and are therefore included in the tern
as used in this lecture.