Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-05

gression each race possesses. The Hot
teniot, the negro, the American Indian
OF the present day, the Australian, the
Polynesian have shown that they have
not the power OF progressive civilization
In themselves, for we see nothing in their
countries 10 show us the contrary. /
will say more. They cannot possess that
progressive power, for they are dying out,
and when the vital energy Of race ID
gone there can be no progression in that
race. In thousands of years they have
made no progress The Mongolian, the
Indian, the Caucasian, aud the families
more closely allied to them, seem 10 be
the only ones which, at the present time,
have shown a sufficient progressive mind
to create civilization Of their own. /
think it beyond the power ofman to bring
q race to the same standard Of thought as
that Of the other races. For the causes
that have led to the disintegtation
Of the body in the human family
have led alse to the disintegration OF
their minds, and as the races cannot be
united in one type the causes which have
created an IDIOT have deteriorated his
mind and body. We cannot educate a
Caucasian TO think as a Chinese, though
he may learn the Chinese language, and
pice eersd the same may be said Of every
race. Though the arts and sciences of
a more gifted type may be taught to an
inferior one though they may become,
if / may use the expression, perfect
copyright, and learn them as well appa-
rently and sometimes better than the
children of the superior race, it will do
them no good in one sense as a race /;
they. may become more educated, but
this will not give them progressive
mind and that race, in order to keep
that superior standard of knowledge
which their race was incapable of learn
ing by themselves, will have to be con-
tinually taken care Of by the more gifted
race. For hundreds of years Hebrew,
Greek, Latin and other languages have
been taught to Chinese, Indians, ia
pauese, American Indians, Africans,
etc, etc., and have been learned by them
with success What then? AS the
Caucasian race went away, one, two,
three generations-and all was for
gotten. They cared not. Their inquisi-
tive minds did not run in the same chan
nels as ours do; and in no way have
they left higher mark of progressive
development than that Of their country
men, who had learned nothing You go
to Africa, ascend the Congo river, where
once the Jesuit missionaries had full
sway, at that time over very thick and
settled population, and for long two
hundred years taught the people the arts
and sciences, and many became very
proficient; they had also become chris
AT last the Jesuit missionaries
were driven away, and when Tuckey ex-
plored the Congo, knowledge had gone,
the people had relapsed into barbar-
ism and the population had dwindled
down to nothing. Take the Sandwich
Islands and you will find it
the same. All the knowledge of
the world will not prevent them from
disappearing. The vital energy. of the
race is gone. ! could give You example
after example to show you, as / have told
you, that races will never become equal
in their intellectual developments, for
the natural causes which have dsinte
grated the human family have dBinte-
grated their minds. A Hottentot, Bush
man, an Onongo an Australian, negro,
q Chinese, an Indian, a Caucasian, in
fact all the races of mankind will never,
and can never come all to one standard
Of thought, progression and civilization.
The realization of such state Of things
cannot take place. 1t isagainst the very
law that disintegrated us; and as reinte-
grafton does not come, the mind will
not come to one standard. IL all the
races are distinct creations, the mind, of
course, of each race was also distinct
creation. As have said before, to learn
s one thing and to progress is another.
To admit that with education the low
aces Of mankind will come to our
standing, that fifty years of education will
,ring any savage race to our level OF
progressive intelligence, is at once to say
hat the savage race will overstep US, in
act that the inferior is superior to the |
progressive one. Progression can never
,e taught; it is in the race itself In.
'entions, scientific discoveries, great
'ower of imagi stion, have not been
aught; they have come out of them
elves, and been worked out of the very
nen from which they sprung. If the
1en who started them were unable to 20
urther, they were followed up and
rought to perfection through the pro-
ressive genius of the individuals of the
ame race, and never by the individuals
f another race Almost since the time
re possess historical records, we see
nat superior races have come in contact
18th other distinct races, and despite
ls we have no knowledge that the
lferior has caught the civilization of the
uperior; they may have copied some
art of them, but no more. If by some
ngular catastrophe the superior race
as to die out, | cannot admit that the
the Hottentot, and other
aces would follow in the track of pro-
ression, for we have no example to the
ontrary. The Chinese have reached
ing ago the highest civilization of which
le type of the race of which they are
le representative can attain. For cen.
lries their discoveries have stopped
ley are stagnant, aud the glory of their
zee, of which they are the highest
;pIcoeutdlANci iag az tue past ~ may |
, possible that the Japanese ia the
oungest representative of the Mougo-
an, and that there is still progression
that branch of the type.
] should be sorry to be misunderstood.
see no reason why a race is to die
way. We are not to take care Of it7
srtsinly we must try to improve i. to
AXE i reach the highest standard Of
hich it is capable oi attaining. see
} reason because a man is to die of
ow consumption that we must not take
re Of him. But die he will. believe
e Caucasian race to be the most vigor-
. and The last type Of progressive de
lopment an the human family. Hence
It yeF passes away but discoveries
e made, knowledge is added 10 onr nrev;-