The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-01-24
The Physical and Intellectual Cha
racter of the "NTan and
the Brother"
AN OVERWHELMING ARRAY OF
EVIDENCE.
CIVILIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY HAVE
NOT CHANGED HIM.

ioVl luououilit y cbiS tHCil uC Wao tA-
actly what he is now, Ammo Domini
lS67,-and what he ever will be, save
as he comes in contact with the civili-
zation OF q superior race. The Egyp-
tians whose genius created the pyra-
mids, the Sphynx, the obelisk, the
Carthagenian, whose soldiers under
Hannibal surmounted the then horrid
Alps,--rollcd over the Campagna of
Rome, and the plains Of Capua,-
Roman, whose arms and whose arts
embraced The world, all, have brought
their civilization and their arts before
the negro race, but all in vain, The
Church had holy foundations in Car
thage, in Cyrene, in Alexandria,
throughout all Egypt. and far, far up
the Nile, and ascetics from upper
Egypt, clothed in the wild raiment of
the Baptist, wandered forth in sheep
skins and goatskins, and dwelt in des
erts, and on mountains. in dens and
caves, to bring the negro to Christ, but
all, all, in vain. Pagan, savage, can
nibal even, the negro in his own ma
tive home, for thousands ofycars, has
dciied all civilization, all christianity,
and only when in close individual
contact with the superior race, is the
negro then improved or improbable.
He cling5 to his grisgris, iujus, fcti-
chism,-with as much peril 2acity as
he did, hundreds ofyears ago. But a
wonderful initiative genius is that of
the negro! 1t displays itself surpri-
singly in mrsic and in Il variety OF our
culinary arts. When associated with
the white man, the negro, through his
faculties Of imitation. becomes in many
occupations almost the equal of the
white man. But when left to his own
guidance. as in ljayti, Jamaica, or in
upper Egypt, he returns to his barbar-
ic tastes, his girls girls, his jujus, the fe-
itch, 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, exhibited any Of the tri-
umphs of genius? Where have we
found that race producing a Homer, q
Phidias, Praxiteles, Socrates, Dc
a Virgil, or Milton, or Il
Shakespeare? Where has it produced
any great architect, like Micheal Angc-
10? Where any great poet, where any
heroic soldier like Alexander, Caesar,
or Napoleon,--where any wonderful
mechanic? What negro of pure blood
ever started steam engine, or spin
ming jenny, screw, a lever, the wheel,
or the pulley2 What negro has in
vented a telegraph, or discovered Il
star, a satellite, or an asteroid? What
negro ever constructed a palatial edl-
ice like this in which we are assembled
these corinthian columns--these frcs-
coed walls? Negro history makes no
mark in the great worlds progress.
That history is all blank, blank, blank,
Sir. The negro can never rise above
4 certain range of intelligence. The
children of the negro, up to ten or fif-
een years of age, may be as bright and
Is intelligent as white children. They
acquire knowledge as rapidly, but after
hat early age the negro youth does
not advance as does the white youth.
While the white man is increasing in
knowledge till the day Of his death, the
negro reaches before the age of matu-
'itya point beyond which he cannot
we'll advance, in anything save in the
,rts of mere imitation.
Mr.. GARFIELD.-Will the gentleman
ell us who Euclid was?
Mr.. BRooKs.-Does the gentleman
mean to intimate that Euclid was ne
gro? Why, sir, he had not a particle
,f wool on his head.
Mr.. GARFIELD.--He was only IN
Abyssinian.
HE LESSONS OF LIFE--THE ARABS FIRST. |
Mr.. BRooKs--Now, Mr.. Speaker, I
I'm about to show further that wherey-
# there has been an admlxture of su-
'erior race with the negro, the utter
deterioration and degcneracy, if not
he destruction, of the dominant race
as been the result. Look at the his
Ory OF the Middle Ages, when the men
4 our race were involved in mental
arkness. when even the priests could
ot read or write, and when books were
ot printed. At that time the Arabs
ad almost all the knowledge and lear
ing in the world. Under the banner
f their prophet, they started from the
oily City of Mecca, and swept along
he whole Northern coast of the Medi.
srranean, by Alexandria. Carthage and
eyond the pillars of Hercules; aye,
arrying over the Sierra Nevada of
pain, into the beautiful valley of the
Irenadian La Vega, their wonderful |,
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