The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
sNAKE-WoRsHIP AND sAyAGER
The Negro Not Fit for SelfGoVern-
ment, &C., &c.
From the n. Y. World ]

Jrous, and generally barbarous nation,
was startling only to that portion of
our readers who have watched the
career and studied the histories of ne
gro nations generally. All past expe-
rience with the race, the history of
every country in. which the negro has
predOminated and controlled. is proof
and illustration that such Africans as
are of the nature, habits and cduca-
tion of the four millions who were
lately slaves in this country, and who /
are now ranked among its citizens, |
are not only incapable of self-govern-
ment, but wholly unfit to be free. We |
do not argue, as some do, that 1t Is |
impOssible to educate the negro to |
condition of enlightenment at which |
il will be safe to trust him with his !
own government we do not propose |
to show, as we do hold, that the ne
groes of the South are incapable, In
their prescott state of mental culture, |
of self-goVernment; but TO show by
illustration and fact that, aside from
all abstract questions of humanity
and Justice upon which the best men
may differ, they ought not, for com
mercial reasons of the most moment
Gus character, to be lett entirely indie
pendent of control. Now that the pD-
Ltical aspects of the negro are virtu-
aIly settled, as far as Congressional
legislation can settle them, it would
be a waste of time to show the folly
of emancipation and the past legisla-
tion of the party in power, But the
industrial aspect of the same question
now presents itself for legislation; the
labor department of the Freedmen's
Bureau, which has controlled the
planters and freedmen for the past
h 20 RI no tom FIlW Rnn-
tinued; but the next Congress will
have to largely legislate upon the sub
ject, and it will be wise for our Con-
| greSsmen-elect to study the negro ques-
! ton and the complex problems still
involved in it from the new view we
have suggested, in order that they
may not further extend, if they can
not remedy, the evil already done by
partiZan, passionate, and uneducated
legislation.
The revelations from Liberia, the
fate OF Abyssinia, the disrupted con-
d;tion of st. Domingo and Hayti, and
indeed of ali the South American re-
publics which are controlled by races
| of Indians, very little superior to the
negro, are proofs of the aXioms which
we have presented, that the negro in
his present state is incapable Of self
government, and unfit to be free.
But the story of Hayti is the
nearest parallel to our own as
far as ours has proceeded, and
contains in the later developments
which we have not yet reached, the
most serious lessons for our consider
alton. We have lately come into pos
session of a remarkable manuscript on
this subject by a man of large expert
ence, finished education, and republi-
TIL ~ hid fMnr-
manic type, who personally witnessed
and aided the efforts Of President
1 BOyer-the wisest and most disinter-
ested of the Haytien leaders-to civil
ize that people, and who speaks from
practical knowledge of subject with
which there are not two educated men
now alive as intimately acquainted
He saw Haytt under the most favor
able aspects, its greatest agricultural
and commercial prosperity since tbs
emancipation of its slaves, and it.
, strongest and most liberal president
his memoir may be read with inter
est and profit by all classes at thii
time. We present only those por
? tiOns which apply to the industria
state and legislation of Hayti as anal
agous to our own, not strictly follow
ing the text of the memoir, sine
our subject.
The author is Professor B. Jaeger
for ten years professor of Zoology ant
e Botany in the College of New Jersey
n author of q textbook on Zoology,
J. volume of Natural History on Amer
: can Insects, published by Harper
a Brothers of this city, and of "Versucl
elmer Darstellung des Naturliche
'Reichtheims der Russich Trans eau
: casichen Lander" Lectures su
, PHistoire Naturelle de Haiti" an
other works published in Europe, an
l member of several learned societies
h Europe and America. Previous
: his life in Hayti he was in the serviC
of the Emperor Alexander of RussiS
and on the death of that monarch l
1925, and the accession of Nichola!
: he fell under suspicion as being col
70 cerned in the conspiracy and lnsu
If rectien led by Prince Trubetzko1
!, prevent that usurpation. F1ndtn
himself under continued surveillanc
he asked an interview Of the EmperC
and obtained permission to visit tt
D Antilles. Nicholas gave his consen
glad to get rid of 3 German republics
by such an exile, and authorized hi
to make botanical collection Of II
Ie flora of the Antilles for the imPeri
1t lgardens of st. Petersburg. ,Undi
NJ these circumstances Professor Jeg,
+ left Russia, and November, l82
j. landed in Hayti, 'iimpatient, az
T. says 'Ito study the heroic black n
N tom and to iahale the fragrance
q FIora's tropical riches, to eat the de
cious fruits of the country, and to wa
h' in the shade of the gigantic palI
@. tFeea,"
10 In this memoir of Hayti, Profess
to jaeger gives q brief history of the 7
III public previous to his arrival, Whit
n we give as applicable to our subjeC
y and particularly significant to o.
M Cuban friends and our own pape
er who urge Spain to emancipate Il
az Cuban slaves by q word. The Ha.
a. items won the name OF the "herC
W black nation" at the period when &
French Red Republicans were col
mitting so many crimes In the nan
ar of liberty. Not the least of the n.
in takes of that party was the sudd
- emancipation, in a moment OF enth
siastic fervor about universal hbert
ne of all slaves in French colonies Yl
he was done by order Of the French q
rv tiOnal Convention in lT0l- As so
; as the decree was made known,
ire Haytien slaves fell on their master
ed black nurses blew out the brains
las innocent babes, stabbed them to dea
ve or threw them into the rivers. Otl
80 negroes tortured and murdered in
~ most barharons manneF, ,.men, Wom
as, and children they shut up Wh
in families, with their male and fem
snt relations, In barns, set than On d
a., and reIoiced when they heard the I
iful, heart-rending cry of their m
10 ters, mistresses and childreni tf
Of robbed and pillaged the houses, c
ard ried aYsy gold and silver mon
jewelry and precious articles, al
lastly, wantOnly reduced TO ashes
most splendid dwellings and yalua
1"= plantations. The POPULATION Of
ich colony at this time consisted Of 80,
his whites, $4,000 free mulattoes, {
mt 48a, COO negro slaves. OF the Will
~ very few escaped death before the
9ed beliion was ended these chiefly OV
heir. their safety TO TousSaint L'OuVertu