The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-09-23
Crpae,,ie. of the African Hacc

In a.letter to tile London Daily News,
Captain William nalfGur Baikle, ALI Afrl-
can explorer, WIZ "titys from Nupe IN
Central Africa, exposes some of the cur
rent fal.acies about the negro race. lie
says:
" iiavin- teen cut off from all c,n.mu-
nieation With the outer world ipr ucafiy
two years, only lately received the Daily
News and other periodicals. for the latter
months OF 1859 and for 1860, and this
must account for the late appearance OF
the present letter. In ar account Of an
Au,,4ls.n meeting, whore the subject Of
SLAYER, w.s introduced, one Of the speak
ers asserted, n an argument in It's favor.
thai lAe In1lliect II Is tl-ais- IL laleriQr 10
that Of white races. Tie name African
is of wide application, and includes many
races, but as regards one among them 10
which this term is frequently confined
viz. tile negro-hasing now lived among
them Tor nearly five years. and had CON
slani daily opportunities OF observation,
] have no hesitation In contradlcting the
statement The intellect Of the negro
race is uncutiyated and untried to any
extent, but ieel certal n that when duly
developed it will be found in no respec,
inferior II certainly has its peeuliarities,
as that of every race has, as may be seen
on Comparing Russian with Dane, q
German with Spaniard, or in our ow
islands, ON contemplating the rejecting,
progressive Anglo Saxon, with the inpul
sivc, unthinking Celt.
"Could the American speaker see the
king u the country from which am now
writing, / believe he would change hi
opinion. Could he sec the amount o
business he daily gets through, the man
ner in which he rules iais Kingdom, how
he manages the various races OF his sub
jects, his ideas of justice, his acquainl
ance with every detail, be would be com
PEELED to acknowledge that at least on,
African was man of intellect. ] hay
mentioned him, as, being near me, Ii
first occurred to my recollection but
could were 1t necessary, adduce man
other instances. Among my followers
have representatives ofseven or eight dis
tinct tribes, and | have found no difficult
in teaching them any trade or art, and
have now among them many whom ca
implicitly trust. About nine months ag
rescued little girl, some eight or min
years old, from some slave dealers; sh
belonged to very rude tribe, and whe
/ FIRST received her she was rather wile
looking and savage. Since that time sh
has, by merely little care being paid
her, quite altered her habits and appeal
ance, and is quite reconciled TO our sem
civilized life. She has acquired OF
rather difficult language, the Lupe, and
now fast progressing with another Il
Hausa-and this, remember, is the pr
gress Of anaere child, of unpromising a
tecedents, in nine months.
. Inc education and improvement
negro races is worthy of all attention.
The only place where it has been tried /
large scale 10 at Sierra Leone, and thel
though the SCHOLARS make great progre
in any prescribed line Of study, yet, tro
some fundamental error in their mol
training, the younger generation is n
turning out as 1t should do. From i
own experience in any business mig
have to carry on inCentral Africa wou
infinitely prefer taking my own assistal