Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-01-16
NEW SERIES--V0L. 8, NO. 25.

Of the white man. But when left tC
his own guidance, as in Hayti, in
Jamaica, or in upper Egypt, he returns
to bis barbaric tastes, his girls girls, bis
jujus, the fetch, etc, etc.
No Negro Poets. Architects, no Great
Mechanics, etc.
Where, oh tell me where, sir, has
the pure blooded negro unassisted by
the white man, exhibit any of the tri-
umphs of geniusS Where have we
found that race producing a Homer,
a Phidias, a praxiteIes, Socrates, a
Demosthenes, n Virgil, or II Milton, or
a Shakespeare Where has it pro-
duced any great architect, like Michael
Angelo? Where cany great poet, where
any heroic soldier like Alexander,
Caesar, or Napoeon-where any won
derful mechanicy What negro Of pure
blood ever started a steam engine, or
spinningje jenny, a screw, a lever, the
wheel, or the pulleyY What negro
has invented a telegraph, or discovered
a star, satellite, or an asteroid z
What negro ever constructed a pala-
tial edfce like this in which we are
assembled-these corinthian columns,
these frescoed wallsg Negro history
makes no mark in the great worlds
progress. That history is all a blank,
blank, blank, sir. The negro can
never rise above a certain range Of
intelligence. The children of the
negro, up 10 ten or fifteen years Of
age, may be as bright and as intelli-
gent as white children. They acquire
knowledge as rapidly, but after that
early age the negro youth does not
advance as does the white youth.
While .he white man is increasing in
knowledge till the day Of his death,
the negro reaches before the age Of
maturity a point beyond which he
cannot well advance, in anything save
in the arts Of mere imitation.
Mr., GARFIELD. Will the gentleman
tell us who Euclid was
Mr.. BRooKs. Docs the gentleman
mean to intimate that Euclid was a
negro Why, sir, he had not par
tlcle Of wool on his head
Mr.. GARFIELD. lie was only an Abys-
sinian.
The Lessons Of Life--The Arabs First.
Mr. Brooks. Now Mr.. Speaker |
am about to show further that where
ever there has been an admixture of
a superior race with the negro, the
utter deterioration and degeneracy,
ifnot the destruction, of the domi-
nant race has been the result Look
at the history of the Middle Ages,
when the men of our race were in
volved in mental darkness, when even
the priest 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 Mediterranean,
by Alexandria, Carthage and beyond
the pillars of Hercules aye, carrying
over the Sierra Nevada of Spain, into
the beautiful valley of the Grenadan
La Vega, their wonderful arts, as well
as their victorious arms. They con
structed the magnificent Alhambra
they created the Alcazars of Seville
and Cordova. Our countrymen, Irv.
ing, 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 Arab race, while it was over
running Spain aud threatening Eu-
rope with downfall Bat in an evil
hour they who had planted the noblest
banners of poetry, and prose, Of phi
losophy. and of history, in the front
rank Of the learning of the world,
they who had invented the science of
notation, and taught us decimals.
they who had created algebra, and
given it the Arabic name; they who
had measured the heavesns in their
astronomy, and given the very names
we now use to the stars, and constclla-
tions.that sparklein the sky; they who
bequealhed to us the Arabic named Al
mdRdc (the Diary) the little work
now indispensable in every mans
house, alas, they mingled the blood
of their heroic race, with the Nuban,
the negro, with the inferior and de-
graded races of Africa, all about them,
and they rapidly fell from their
exalted position into the degraded
pool of races With whom they
had commngled. These once he
roic ARABS were driven from Grena-
da, and lingering awhile upon the
coast of the Mediterranean, they re-
fed into Africa, dishonorod, degraded,
destroyed, by forgetting their Arab
nobility, and becoming Nubians, ne.
groes and other inferior races of AZ.
rica.
The Ottoman Turks Next.
Years aiterward there sailed forth
from Asia, that great storohouse of
nations, the Ottoman Turks, under
the banner Of the prophet, and thoir
Crescent swept over almost tho same
breadth of territory that the Arabs
had gone over before them. If they
paused at tho Pillars of Hercules in
the West, thoir scimetars flashed in
the East undor the walls OF Vienna,
and swept of every living man that
showed himself on the open plains Of
Austria or Bohemia. But alas they
entered upon the same degraded crime
Of amalgamation and miseegenation,
and they soon emasculated these once
heroic Turks, the approach of whose
Crescent had made the Christian
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