Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-01-23

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maturity, point beyond which he cannot well ad-
vance, in anything save in the arts Of mere imita
ton.
Mr. Garfield. Will the gentleman tell US who
Euclid was?
Mr.. Brooks. Does the gentleman mean to init
mate that Euclid was negro? Why, sir, he had
not particle of wool on his head.
Mr. Garfield He was only an Abyssinian.
THE LESSONS OF LIFE-THE ARABS FIRST.
Mr. Brooks Now, Mr.. Speaker, I am about to
show further, that wherever there has been an ad-
mixture of superior race with the negro, the ut
ter deterioration and degeneracy, if not the des-
truction, of the dominant race has been the result
Look at the history of the middle ages, whet the
men of our race were involved in mental darkness,
when even the priests could not read or write, and
when books were not printed. At that time the
Arabs had almost all the knowledge and learning
in the world. Under the banner Of their prophet
they started from the holy city Of Mecca, and
swept along the whole Northern coast of the Med
iterranean, by Alexandria, Carthage, and beyond
the Pillars of Hercules; aye, carrying over the
Sierra Nevada of Spain into the beautiful valley
of the Grenadian La Vega, their wonderful arts,
as well as their victorious arms. They constructed
the magnificent Alhambra they created the Al;a-
Ears of Seville and Cordova- Our countryman,
Irving, in glowing prose, with thoughts that
breathe and words that burn, has pictured their
marches and conquests, and their arts as well as
their arms. The whole Christian world shrank
and trembled before the mighty genius of this A
rab race, while it was overrunning Spain and
threatening Europe with downfall. But in an evil
hour they who had planted the noblest banners OF
poetry and of prose, of philosophy and of history,
in the front rank of the learning of the world they
who had invented the science Of notation and
taught us dccimals they who had created algebra
and given it the Arabic name; they who had meas
ured the heavens in their astronomy, and given
the very names we now use to the stars and con-
stelations that sparkle in the skies they who be-
queathed to us the Arabic named almanac (the
diary, the little work now indispensable in every
mans house-alas, they mingled the blood OF their
heroic race with the Nubian-the negro-with the
negro-with the inferior and degraded races of Af-
rica all about them, and they rapidly fell from
their exalted position into the degraded pool of
races with whom they had commingled. These
once heroic Arabs were driven from Grenada, and
lingering awhile upon the coasts Of the Mediter-
ranean, they relied into Africa, dishonored, degra-
ded, destroyed, by forgetting their Arab nobility,
and becoming Nubians, negroes, and other inferior
races Of Africa.
THE OTTOMAN TURKS NEXT.
W Ill., e. A,,o
that great storehouse of nations, the Ottoman
Turks, under the banner of the Prophet and their
crescent swept over almost the same breadth of
territory that the Arabs had gone over before
them. IF they paused at the Pillars of Hercules
in the West, their scimetars flashed in the East,
under the walls of Vienna, and swept off every liy-
ing man that showed himself on the open plains of
Austria or Bohemia. But alas they entered upon
the same degraded crime of amalgamation and
miscegenation. and they soon cmasculatcd these
once heroic Turks, the approach of whose crescent
had made the Christian trembe in every courG OF
Europe, and upon every navigable internal sea. In
their harems, the thick Tipped woolly-headed negro
woman was mixed up with the beautiful Circassian
and Georgian, and children of all hues and colors
and races were the product Of this hateful misceg
enation and God-even the God Of Mohammed-
has punished the Moslem by his own degradation
and his overthrow for violating the first law of ma
ture-the preservation of the purity of race. The
crescent no more waves in terror under the walls
of Malta as pirate, or corsair no more attrlghts
on the Adriatic, or the Danube; but trembles in
doubtful existence on the Sea of Marmora. l, MY
self, have seen, in Constantinople, around mosque
where the Sultan was at prayers, some thirty or
forty beautiful Circassians and Georgians Of his
harem, kissing the hand of a eunuch an Ethiopi-
an, negro selected from the interior of Africa,
the custodian of these women, and who thus had
become their master. The moment the Turk thus
associated himself with the negro, or negress, and
recognized him or her either as brother sister,
from that hour the Turkish Empire began to crum-
bic, until now it exists only by the federation Of
the Christian powers of Europe. &.
THE MooRs AND THE NEGROES NEXT.
Let gentlemen, then, but study the history Of
the Arabs in their mixture of races; let them
but study the history of the Turks; let them but
study the history of Morocco they will ever take
the trouble to study at all, and they will see what
fatal step they are taking now in equalizing un-
natural races or rather, in subecting the superior
white race of the South to negroes from Africa
Muley Ishmael was Emperor of Morocco, about
1860, and he had negro as well as Georgian
wife, between whom and others were born from
him-the historian records-eight hundred chill
dren the last born when he was near eighty years
of age. This Muley Ishmael, in order to do what
you in this Congress are doing-hat is, to enforce
a military despotism upon his people; neglected
the Moors, and enlisted an army of one hundred
thousand negroes, obtained. from the coast of
Guinea Through civil war and bloodshed, and
for over one hundred years, as you will find in the
history of Morocco, written by Chenier, the Moors
were in the most miserable condition people
could be in, almost all the time under the power
of these negroes, these Janissaries, these Pretoran
guards of the Emperor, and they never ceased in
their insolent demands and pretensions. 1t was
not till l7S0 that these one hundred thousand ne
groes could be got rid of by any device; and then
through Sid Mahomet, by cunning and fraud,
they were reduced to fifteen thousand before they
noted their weakness. 1t took hundred years
for the Moorish race to recover itself from the fa
tai crime of Muley Ishmael and it will cost Eun-
drcd years to recover from your legislation, if the
people continue you in power another election.
THE I.ATIN-spANIsII AND THE ANGLo-sAXoN RACE
AS SETTLERS ON THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.