Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-01-15
The Negro Man.


We take from an exchange the follow
ing article, complied from news in different
parts of the world, illustrating the capacity
of the negro for government. 1t will not
arrest our Radical knaves in their diaboli-
cal career of Africanizing American States
but it shows what may de expected from
the miserable experiment which they have
on hand.
From the West Coast of Africa old Cal
abar River we have details ofthe butchery
Of twenty four persons, men, women and
children, in October, by order of King
Archibong. The poor creatures had been
basely betrayed into Archibong's hands by
other negro chiefs to whom they had fed
for safety, and who had promised TO protect
them. The heads of nine of these victims
were cut of, packed in cask and sent to
the king, for him to examine and gloat over
at his leisure. A party of missionaries and
traders living in the dominions Of this mon
ster, forcibly rescued four of the doomed
ones, a man, woman and two children, and
placed them on board ship in the river.
King Archibong demanded their surrender
but the small but determined party of
whites not only refused 10 give them up
but favored the cowardy tyrant with a
piece of their mind telling him that if be
did not stop his barbarous practices Euro
peans would find a way TO make him do So
To this manly defiance the wretch yielded
and soon after the four rescued captivcs
were at sea, on their way to a place Of
security. The same courageous band of
white men had saved six other prisoners
from horrible death, in the month of Sep
tember-a month when King Archibong
revealed in a saturnalia of blood and cruel
tv. No better evidence could be adduced
of the superior mettle of the white race
over the black than that a mere handful of
missionaries and traders should beard this
incarnate demon in his own den, where he
is surrounded by host of warriors faithful
" devoted to his service.
Recent intelligence from Hayti is quite
Of piece with the foregoing In Hayti
the blacks have had every opportunity and
every incentive for demonstrating their
capacity for selfgovernment and civiliza-
ton. And yet we find, under the thin
varnish Of semi Christianized exterior,
the same brutal passions which distinguish
the governments ofold Calabar River and
Dahomy. General Leon Monies, a captive
revolutionist, has been poisoned, and then
knocked on the head with crowbar, BY
his jailor. In this atrocions murder it is
reported that President Salnave is an ac-
complice. Universal alarm and discomfort
reisned at the capital, and foreigners were
fying to Jamaica for safety. In addition
to this comes the rumor that six millions Of
counterfeit paper dollars are in circulation
in Hayti, and that the government con-
nives at this fraud also. Salnave left Nov
ember 20, on a tour of inspection amor
his arsenals and powder magazines, aud
was evidently preparing new horrors for
his political opponents. Sslnave is full
blooded negro, and has been represented as
trying to give to the world specimen Of
negro government, at its best, with every
chance to see in the future of Hayti, as we
have seen in the past, how little aptitude
the negro race has for its own advance
ment and we trust that the lesson will hot
be lost upon those who, at the safe distance
of New York Bnd New England, are look
ing with philosophical serenity upon the
institution of similar experiments in the
Southern States, The last news from Ab,
yssinia reports the English captives alive
and well and the British army advancing
to their rescue through parching desert,
and suffering greatly for want of water
No more melancholy proof of cruelty ig-
norsnce and superstition ofthe native negro
mind can be found in contemporary history
than in the fact that this costly and troub-
lesome expedition has been forced upon
England by the obstinacy of King Theo-
dore. He Is keeping these few English
men in durance, because it tickles his vani-
ty to lord it over white men; 4; because il
gra:ifes his instincts oftyranny to see them
suffer from torturing apprehensions Of
death at any moment, and because he is so
ignorant of EngIand's power as to suppose
that he can defy it with his barbarous horde.