Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-04-21
The Conflict of Races.

ever they come together. There can be no
mixture. This is not in the order of ma
ture. II, as some believe, all the races are
from a common origin, that origin must
have been SO many million years back that
to us it is as though there never had been one.
Two of the races show no marks cf progress,
and these two are perhaps the oldest-the
African and the Australian. No explora-
tions of Africa or Australia have discovered
any evidences of social or civil condition
among these people above what they are
now. This is not so with any other race.
No other seems to have been created and
destined to live to the end barbarians, rs
except where higher race not only lifts
thems, but every moment sustains them,
above that level With the Indians we find
the remains of better condition enioyed
by them long before the white men came
to their country They had reached the
acme and had subsidized before we knew
them. The Mongolans, too, Of Eastern
Asia, though they have made no progress in
thousands of years, yet have a civilization
OF their own, which, in some respects, will
bear favorable comparison with ours.
In conflict of races--as. we say, it al
ways come when two are in competition
the superior race overcomes and roots out
the inferior, unless the former are SO weak
in numbers as to have no ochance OF success.
Such is the case in the West Indies, where
the whites are so few that they may event
ually be driven out, as they have from ST.
Domingo, unless arbitrary power restrains
the inferior. But where they have any
chance, the superiors-superior in mind,
though they may not be physically--will
win the day, if equal advantages may be
given. With the inferior their language,
their blood, their features, and their east of
mind Will disappear. In Africa the negro
type within the memory Of man has not ex-
tended north of the Great Desert, where
! the Arabs and the Moors prevail. They
have been held there as slaves, and been
brought there as captives in war, but they
have never mixed with the people to adul-
terate the blood or gain the asccndencv bv
numbers So il has been in the south of
Europe. The Moors at one time were very
numerous III Spain and highly civilized,
but in the conflict with the Baucarians thev
were destroyed or exiled. In Italv, the
Africans that were brought to Rome in tri-
umph, all disappeared How numerous
| they were we have no means of ascertain
ing, but it is estimated that no less than
million negroes were brought there and
mixed with the people ; but to-day the Itali-
ans shows not the slightest faint of African
blood. The African has been absorbed
In the main stock, and as taking food into
the stomach, what would not assimulate
has been rejected and cast out. It is the
same in Egypt. There from the earliest
| ages the African has been a slave, and
| though few mulattoes are found there, the
greater part ofth people show no traces of
African blood. 1t will be the same in this
| country. There may be swamp lands in
Louisiana, Florida, or other States, which
will be deserted by whites, in which the
| negro may thrive but in those sections
| where the races will be in competition,
| though the Africans may have the majority
now, they will gradually disappear When
they were slaves, they kept separate, and
the care of the white man was to have them
increase, but the more they mix with the
whites the fewer they will become and the
less the whites are bound to do for them
the quicker they will sink. So We see that
In all the Northern States they have rapid
ly disappeared, and the bleaching process
gradually works South Fifty years ago
Massachusetts had as many blacks as New
York now has ;and hundred years hence,
Virginia will have no more than New York
has to-day. 1t is the order of Providence
the law of God-that the higher shall
overcome the lower, the superior occupies
where the inferior have been; otherwise
there would be no progress.
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ternal Revenue law of July 20, 1868, pro-
vides that on and after the first dav of
April, 1869, all cigars shall be packed in
boxes not before used, containing respec-
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