The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-05-07
AFRICANS.

AFRICANS.
Africa is great tact we can not tet
rid of Il. and we are fast becoming con-
yin,x,d ti,at It NAV be turned to q better
use than we have hitherto made Of it. The
Africans are irrepressible; they have the
gift of vitality above mast men. and live
and multiply under circumstances that
would be death to- other races. The ma
tives of Tasmania have disappeared the
Australians are nearly extinct. II is bnt an
actuary's question as to when We shall see
the last of New Zealanders. and the IiF-
dians of America die out in the presence of
the white man. Not so the African.
Place him where you will, 90 long as ne
gets sunshine, and under what circslm-
stances you may. and Israel In Egypt
scarcely increased faster. It is estimated
that there are nearly 100000 OF people
of African descent In the mafnlands and
islands of America. Africa itself is more
thickly peopled than was supposed. Instead
of 80. 00O, 600. ie probably contains 1OO.-
600, 600, of people. We cannot hope TO
possess ourselves of Africa as we did OF
America, for, side by side with us on his
| own soil, the African would surely prove
| the stronger. So whether we meet with
| him in his own land or elsewhere, it Is
| nlanifestly tn our own interests TO say
| nothing of higher motives, 10 make the
| best of him. it Is in AfricR itself we must
| look to the highest possibilities OF the race,
| for those outside are slaves or the descend
ants of slaves. They live also In the lands
! of their thraldom, and in the presence Of
those who are, or those who have been,
their masters. You may free them al:
| but you will not purge them from the Ill
effects of slavery simply by emancipatipg
them. 1t will take many years to get rid
/ OF the mischief which long generations OF
| slavery have wrought in their natures.
| Had the Israelites, after their emancipa-
tion, remained in Egypt ia the presence OF
their former masters, they would have
! been slaves I'm nature still. And so It was
with the free coloretl men In the United
| States and West Indies. Their assOcta-
/ tions tend to keep alive the recollecti0ns
| Of the past and to check nOblesE aspira-
tions. The CALLING discomfort, hnOt Of
legal prescription. yet of bitter caste pre-
judice in the whites. and which manifests
itself in everyday life In thousand cruel
and annoying ways, are greatly against
them. These people, therefore, afford as
yet no fair criterion OF what the African
race is capable. ! believe. however, that
the possibilities of the Africans on their
own soil are not inferior to those of any
race of men on the earth. Their civiliza-
tion may, in some things. prove unlike
our own, their range OF virtue and vice
somewhat different, yet / do not think
they will prove mentally our interiors. or
that their moral standard viii be lower.
say this from no theory evolved from
my own inner consciousness, but from a
convietion which Is the result OF personal
knowledge of them. .-cor'shtu Magazisse.
PITCHER BROKEN AT THE FOUNTAIN
They lately had an ice sensation in Davesl-
port. Iowa. The poor people living on
, the riverside had hole In the ice where
, | they went with their buckets and drew
clear, ready-matle ice-water. The hole
was about twenty inches in diameter, and
the consumers keep the well open and In
good order. The other morning a river
the well, and told his little daughter to &c
E and see whose it was. She went and soor
; came running back terrified and said theFs
e was a dead woman In the wateT-hole. Tht
man stirred around amongst his neighbors
to find out who was missing. He found q
man sleeping in bed whose wife had go
: up at five o clock in the morning and gone
! to the river TO get water to make his coffee
He had fallen asleep again and was no
: aware of how long the partner Of his bet
had been gone. A. little procession o
poor people was made across the ice TO TIN
water-hOle. There was the missing woman
lying face upward, staring at the sky
| through q thin sheet Of ice that had closeG
B over her after her death struggle was past
: There were marks of blood on the brink
{ where she had cut her hands clutching a
= the ice. She had become wedged in tn
4 narrow aperture so that she could not sinl
i and float away under the thick, frozel
. sheet with the current Of the river. He
q bucket was right-side mp and close to tn
brink. She stepped into the well by acci
den& in the shadows OF the dark morning
D and could not drag herself out. She faces
:. futurity just as She lar, and the pitying
# frost tenderly spread thin veil over he
e white tace. The poor people. dweliers OF
: the riverside, have abandoned their water
d hole. and no more dripping buckets m
p carried across the ice since the pitcher wa
broken at the fountain.
: A FIFTY CENT LAWSUITS C0NCoMI
. TANTs.-A paper printed in Scranton
PENN. tells this suggestive story: :" Som
days since we gave the detnils of dunnlnI
e suit, to recover fifty cents-Hill vs.. Nc
r Donald. Defendant paid the amount AM
o Alderman's costs. Plaintiff on return da!
came with witnesses, and for that Claimet
costs amounting to $26 sued Mcdonald
r and got Judgment. whereupOn COW AM
heifer were levied upon and sold. and tn
8 Judgment satisfied. But it was a Filan'
cow, and n suit. Fi1an We. @. T.. WeIcfl
constable. was brought to recover the vaIu
. Of the cow. whereupon plaintiff got judg
ment for $40-the value of said kline
Then Welch, to be made whole, cues Nc
Donald and loses his case. Everybody get
mad at everybody, and Alderman Lochli
N sues Mcdonald Sof trespass committed b
his cattle. and the defendant claims
wasn't his cattle that did the trespassing
This case Is not decided, having been I'd
d journed.''
Saloon life at Dubuque according 3