Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-03
UNIQS AND AMERICAN.
Farm AND GARDEN.
DOGS. SHEEP AND NEGROES.

DOGS, SHEEP AND NEGROES.
In twenty-one counties In Georgia,
very careful agricultural statistics were
collected last year, IN compliance with
State law. In these counties the
whites had 85,697 sheep; the negroes
barely 265. They owned 4,211 dogs, or
about twenty times as many dogs as
sheep, to supply them with wool for
clothing and mutton. It is difficult to
discover any way in which Southern
agriculture may prosper while a savage
taste for dogs and guns is so powerful,
not only with persons of color, but
with some millions Of the white race.
In the twenty-one, the counties referred
to, the whites keep seventeen thousand
six hundred and ninety seven dogs.
The presence of so many CANNES and
negroes tends to idleness, hunting, dis
sipation and barbarism. A people who
need 4,2Il dogs to help them take
care OF 265 sheep, are at least 1000
years behind the civilization of Abra-
ham and Lot, who lived three thousand
years ago. 1t II all the Caucasian race
can do to elevate itself in the first in
stance and if Radical legislation ties
the negro to our legs asd neoks, in
stead of floating the people of color, it
browns both races by the unnatural
igatures. Natures laws are Gods
laws; and 1t is sin to violate them
which God Furnishes.
Have the white mans whisky, gun
powder, guns and dogs elevated the In
dams on this continent' They
viii do greater harm to the
more domestic free negroes.
We may say and believe the latter are
incapable Of forming and supporting a
respectable nation and government by
themselves, and therefore as an act of
philanthropy, we should incorporate
four or five million blacks on equal
terms, into our civil and social indus
trial and political system. An attempt
of this kind is now in progress, and
one of its early fruits viii be the ruin
of Southern agriculture. Why do
sayages remain such for unknown ages?
1t is not from any defect in the natural
fertility of the soil, or in the climate,
or in their want of vigOr Of muscle and
brain. True civilization grows only
under peculiarly favorable conditions.
These conditions are destroyed when
an inferior race is hung like a mill
stone to one which can barely swim
with no circumference whatever.
1t is a sad mistake to think Of car
rying so much dead weight, when we
are only able to support our own fami-
lies. Every species of the genus homo
must elevate itself by the force of an
inherent evolution, or remain in its
primitive state where the Creator
placed it. The sheep has been regard
ed as the best evidence Of rising hu-
mainly for indefinite centuries; and in
Georgia We see where the white race
has over $1,000, the blacks have 265!
Remove the blacks and put the same
number of Englishmen in their places,
who keep their thirty million sheep on
land worth over $500 an acre, and
Georgia viii soon contain ten million
sheep, yielding annually fifty million
pounds of choice wool. In our own
State of Tennessee Europeans would
come to raise and manufacture wool in
arge quantities greatly to our advan-
tage; while, in a few years, our colored
population viii have so degenerated by
habits Of idleness, drinking whisky and
other vices as to become a heavy tax
and burden on the community.