The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-04-04
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TIP,TON,, IOWA PRIL A, 1867

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The Four Races ofshe New World
White men, black men, red men, vel
| low msn-all these chief types and col
ors OF the human racs--Aave been drawn
into company On chs western soil, this
middle continent. lying between Ching
and the Archipelago on the one side,
tAfrica and Europs On the other, where
they crowd and CONTEST the ground un.
der common DAG. e4g u ....., ,..., - - ~
The White Man, caring for neither
frost nor flEs, 30 long - he can win good
food for hiss mouth. ftatothing for his
, limbs, appears 70 b tn master IN every
zone; able 70 endure all climates, to un-
dertake III lAboEs, 70 overcome all trials;
casting nets into the bay of rundy
crsdling gold In the Sacramento valleys,
raising dates 4 md lernaAs in Florida,
trapping beavers In oregon, iraislng
herds Of kins In Texas, anning thread
In Massachusetts,, clearing woods In
Kansas, smelling iron in Pennsylvania,
talking buncombe in Columbia, writing
leaders In New York He Is the man
of plastic genius, of enduring character;
equally at home among tle palm trees
and the pines; in every latitude the
guide, the employer, and tip king of all.
The Black Man, true lhild of the
tropics, to whom warmth is like the
breath Of life, fees from hose bleak
fields of the north, in which the white
man repairs his fibre and fnews his
blood; preferring the swamps md savan-
nshs of the South, where, smng palms,
cotton-plants, and sugar-canes, he finds
the rich colors in which his eye delights,
the sunny heats in which his Mood ex-
pands. Freedom would not tempt him
to 20 northward into frost and fog Even
now, when Massachusetts, and Coanecti-
cut tempt him by the offer of good wag-
es, easy work, and sympathizing people,
he will not go to them. He only just en-
dures New York; the most hardy of his
race will hardly stay in Saratoga and
Niagara beyond the summer months.
Since the South has been made free for
Sam to live in, he has turned his baci.
on the cold and friendly North, in search
OF > brighter home. Sitting In the rice
field, by the cane-brake, under the null
berry trees of his darling Alabama, with
his kerchief round his head, his banjo
on his knee, he is joyous as bird, sing
ing his endless and foolish roundelay
and feeling the sunshine burn upon his
face. The negro Is but q local fact in
the country; having his proper home in
a corner-the most sunny corncr--of the
United States.
The Red Man, once hunter OF the
Alleghanies. not less than of the prairies
"n' ROCKY Mountains, has been driver,
oy Inc Peia-faa~. -, lila so,e.., Ais
elk, his buffalo, and his antelope, into
the far western country; into the waste
and desolate lands lying westward OF the
Mississippi and Missouri. The excep-
tions hardly break the rule. A band OF
picturesque pedlers may be found at Nj
agara; Red Jackets, Cherokee chiefs.
and Mohawks; selling bows and canes,
and generally spongine on those youths
and damsels who roam about the Falls
in search Of opportunities to flirt. A
colony, hardly Of better sort, may be
found at Oneida Creek, in Madison
county; the few sowing maize, growing
fruit and singing psalms; the many
starving on the soil, cutting down the
oak and maple, alternating the best
acres, pining after their brethren who
have thrown the white mans gift in his
face, and gone away with their weapons
and their war-paint. Red Jacket at the
Falls, Bill Bcechtree at Oneida Creek
the first selling beaded work to girls,
the second twisting hickory canes fol
hoys,-are the last representatives OF
mighty nations, hunters and warriors
who at one time owned the broad lands
from the Susquehannah to Lake Erie
Red Jacket will not settle; Bill Beech.
tree is incapable of work. The redskin
will not dig, and to bog he is not asham
ed. Hence, he has been pushed ava,
from his place, driven out by the spade
and kept at bay by the smoke of chin
ney fires. A wild man of the plain ane
forest, he makes his home with the wolf
tho rattlesnake, the buffalo, and the elk
When the wild beast flies, the wild mar
follows. The Allegheny slopes, on
which, only seventy years ago, he chas
ed the elk and scalped the white wo
man, will hear his war-whoop, SEQ hi
war-dance, feel his scalping-khife, n,
more. In the western country he il
still figure in the landscape. From
the Missouri to the Colorado he is mas
ter Of all the open plains; the forts which
the white men have built to protec
their roads to San Francisco, like th,
Turkish block-houses built along tn,
Syrian tracks, being mainly Of use as
hint of their great reserve Of power
The red men find it hard to lay down
towahawk, to take up hoe; some thou
sands only of them have yet done 50
some hundreds only have learned from
the whites to drink gin and bitters, t,
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