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

own time, and in our own generation too. l vii
not alude to Hayti where the negro is so wise tina
he will not admit the white man into the govern
ment of that country, or even allow him to hol'
lreal estate there I will not allude to Jamaica
where the negroes have managed their local gov
eminent so badly that the British authorities a
home have taken the power of selfgovernmen
from them, and re-depositeditint the crown througl
British Governor and council But [ will 60
little further, and show from the great history o
the world that the negro has not the capacity o
government or of any species Of popular govern
ment, and that, or whenever the superior race ha
shared government. with him, destruction has beer
the lot Of both.
THE MULATTo WITH WHITE BLOOD IN HIS VEINS
speak not now of the mulatto, because the mu
atto with white blood in his veins often has the in
; telligence and capacity of white man. But 70
violating law Of God that all are to be punished
who indulge in criminal admixture of races, 81
that beyond the third or fourth generation, ther
can be no further mulatto progeny, would admi
the mulatto to the right of suHrage-ifI could d.
it without violating that law, or without establish
ing principle which would be fatal to my owl
race I recognize the mulattos intelligence ant
capacity, with our white blood flowing in his veins
and I know that he is often the equal, and some
times the superior of some white men.
| THE CONGO NEGRO, ETC.
| But the Congo negro, the Dahomey negro, thu
negro of the Southern States is no brother of ours
and God never made him for our brother d.
not say that he is only higher species of the an
thropoM apes-as some say; but do say that the
ourang outangisa as intelligent as many Of the Bush
men of Southern Africa, and that the chimpanzet
and the gorilla in their forms Of creation, wonder
fully represent the ignorant and brutalized negro
and will add, that if we are to degrade this great
government of ours into Southern negro Congo
government, it is as well to take into the partner
ship the ourang, the chimpanzee and the gorilla
as to go into this partnership with the sons Of Con
go, Soudan, and Dahomey-the native lands o.
them ALL apes and men.
| do not mean, in what have said, to refer tt
the mulatto, or quadroon, or octoroon whose intel
ligence respect by virtue of the white blood thai
runs in their veins, but to the pure Congo negro
I admit him to bea man, but he is not "broth
er" if he is ''man and will never consent to di
vide selfgovernment with him, or to degrade oul
own noble, historical race to his low level.
THE NEGRO UNCHANGED AND UNCHANEGABLE
TIE negro is the same, and has been the same
for four thousand years. While all other races
our own emerging from barbarism, have beer
constantly improving, the negro in Africa, is to be
seen now just as he was in the earliest periods o
Egyptian record. In the frescoes or amid the
tombs of Egypt, four thousand years old, in al
probability, the negro there exhibits the same pic
tured life he lives in now. His tough skull and
strong muscles of the neck are carrying the same
burthen that he carries to this day. He was ther
the servant of the Egyptian man-thc yellow mar
of Egypt-just as he is the servant Of the Caucasl
an now. As Virgil described the race some two
thousand years ago. when he wrote Of an Aunt
Chloe of his day, even so is the negro now.
Afra genus, tota patram testan,e figure,
| Torta CONAN labroquc tumens, ct fnsca colorem,
| Pectora la;a, jacens mammis, compression alive,
CruIibus eHils sPa!iosa pIiGdlga iS psham pama;
Iquote Cowper's translation, and [ trust you
sir, will the more enjoy it, as coming from an ole
abolition friend, who would not have slave to til
his grounds:
! "From Afric she, the swain's sole serving maid,
Whose face and form alike her birth betrayed:
| Wide bosom bosom, udders aacid, belly thin
| Legs slender, broad and most mshappen feet
Chopped into chinks and parched with solar heat"
This is the description given by Virgil two thous
and years ago and that is the appearance of the
negro to this day. In his own native land he ha:
not improved, and he never will improve, save al
he comes in close contact with civilization, and ii
forced to exercise his naturally initiative powers.
CIVILIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY HAVE NOT CHAN
GED HIM.
Four thousand years ago, then, he was exactl!
what he is now (Anno Domini, 1867, and what III
ever will be-, save as he comes in contact with th'
civilization of superior race. The Egyptians
whose genius created the pyramids, the Sphynx
the obelisk; the Carthagenian, whose soldiers, un
der Hannibal, surmounted the then horrid Alps
rolled over the Campagna of Rome and the plain
of Capua the Roman, whose arms and whose art
embraced the whole world-all have brought thei
civilization and their arts before the negro race
but all in vain. The Church had holy foundation!
in Carthage, in Cyrene, in Alexandria, throughout
all Egypt, and far, far up the Nile, and ascetic:
from Upper Egypt, clothed in the wild raiment O
the Baptist wandered forthin sheep-skins and goat
skins, and dwelt in deserts and on mountains IL
dens and caves, to bring the negro to Christ, but
all, all in vain. Pagan, savage, cannbal even, the
negro in his own native home, for thousands o.
years, has defed all civilization, all Christianity
and, only when in close individual contact with the
superior race, is the negro then improved Or i'm
provable. lie clings to his grisgris, jujus, feti
chism, with as much pertinacity as he did hun
dreds of years ago. But wonderful initiative ge
MUS is that of the negro 1t display itself surpris
ingly in music andn variety Of our culinary arts
When associated with the white man the negro
through faculties of imitation, becomes in many
occupations, almost the equal Of the white man
But when left to his own guidance, as in Hayti
in Jamaica, or in the Upper Egypt, he returns tt
his barbaric tastes his grisgris, his ujus, the fe
tisch, etc., etc.
NO NEGRO POETS, NO ARCHITECTS, NO GREAT ME
| CHANICs, ETC.
! Where, Oh tell me where, sir, has the pure
blooded negro, unassisted by the white man, ex
hibited any of the triumphs of genius? Where
have we found that race producing q Homer, ;
Phidias, Praxiteles, Socrates, Dcmosthencs
Virgil or q Milton, or Shakespeare? Where
has it produced any great architect like Michae
Angelo2 Where any great poet? Where any
heroic soldier like Alexander, Caesar or Napoleon
Where any wonderful mechanic ? What negro, O.
pure blood, ever started steam engine, or spin
ming jenny, screw, a lever, the wheel or the pull
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