, 1866-11-02
The Negro.

In special number of the popular Maya
Llne OF otAnthropology," by Commander Bedford
run, X. n, we have a paper read before The
AnthroPologieal Society Of London. For FIVE
tnousAnd years, as Egyptian sculptures prove
tne negro mas been more or less in constant con.
TACT win high forms Of civilization, and duriuR
that period he has never emerged from the low.
est social position never given 70 the world an
idea Of the remotest value in art science or lit
eraturs J neTer shown the slightest capacity,
even Tor self government. Is he then to be put
on an equality with the white roce2 Certainly
no.-unless by those who look back with reyer-
ence to progenitor in the ape. Moreover, the
negro will only labor when coerced. Len to
himself, he is not merely incOrrigbly lazy, but
vicious aud cruel. ln juxtaposition with mis
nority Of whites, his domihknt idea is that Of
exterminatins them and possessing their goods.
In passions be is brute, in capacity a child
Years ago, in total ignorance of the snbject, we
taneied as some do now, that twas a mere cues
tion of skin, and that, give the negro a fair
chance, he would run parallel with the white
man. We acknowledge our mistake. Long
aad unbiased study has convinced us that the
negro, left alone, relapses, certainly, into bis
original barbarism, aid is about as safe neigh
Dor as wild beast We here give a dsscrip-
tion Of some
UNCLE TONS IN TIE ROUGH.
There were two towns at Digby governed by
cousins, and this mercantile venture gave rise
to feud between them which ended in a war
in which Captain Canot himself, though not ST.
ding with either party, was taken prisoner. At
ter describing the battle, he says: " A palaver-
house Immediately in front of my quarters was
the general rendezvous, aud scarcely bushman
appeared without the body Of some manned and
bleeding victim. The mangled but living cap
tives were tumbled on heap in the center, and
soon every avenue to the square was crowded
with e1ulting savages. Rum vas brought forth
In abundance for the chiefs. Presently, sloElT
approaching from distance, l heard the drums,
horns and war bells, and in less than fifteen
minutes procession of women, whose naked
limbs we're smeared with chalk and ochre
poured Into the palaver>house to Join in the
beastly rites. Each of these devils was armed
with knife, and bore in her hang some canni;
bal trophy. The wife Of Jen-Kan 1.-THE leader Of
one party), corpoulent wretch of fOrty-fye,
dragged aloug the ground, by single limb, the
SHINY corpse Of an infant ripped alive from its
lnothers womb. As her eyes met those of her
husband, the twafnds yelled forth a shout of
mStual joy, while the lifeless babe was tossed
i'm the air, and caught, as it descended, upon
the point ofa spear. Then came the refresh
merits, in the shape of rum, powder and blood,
which was quaiIed by the brutes till they reeled
off, With lnked hands in wild dance around
sang, the men applauded sud encouraged Soon
the ring was broken, and with yell each fs-
male leaped on the body of a wounded prisoner,
and commenced the final sacrice with the
mockery of lascivious embraces. In my wan
derings in African forests have often seen the |
tiger pounce upon its prey and, with instructive
thirst, satiate its appetite for blood, and aban>
don the drained corpse but these African ne
grOes we're neither re decent nor as merciful as
the beast Of the wilderness. Their malignant
pleasure seemed to consist in the invention of
tortwes that would ngonize but not slay. There
was devish spell in the tragic scene that fas-
cinated my eyes to the spot. A slow, lingering, |
mutilation was practiced on the liy- |
ing as well as on the dead, and in every instance
the brutality of the women exceeded that of the |
men | cannot picture the hellish joy with |
which they passed from body to body, digging |
ont eyes, wrenching off lips, tearing the ears,
and slicing the flesh from the quivering bones |
while the queen of the harpies crept amid the |
butchery, gathering the brains from each skull
as a 6Onne 6ogehs for the approaching FEAST
S. +. Nelrs Letter.
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