The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-03
OWL RIGHTS IN AFRICA.

be an issue in America, it has been revived
quarter where one would think he won
be least likely to find the negro serving as
conundruno. namely, in Africa. There are
the southern quarter of that vast continen
!. IN It's temperate region, two large and pro
porous English colonies and two thrift
Dutch republics These countries have, ma
urally enough, common interests, for the
climate, productions and commercial Quite
are the same; but Q more vital interest tbs
these, the negro question, is bringing thel
: together and paving the way for South Afr
Q can confederacy. Although the whites are raj
idly coming in, they must for many years b
a outnumbered by the native blacks, who al
now in the proportion Of four to one.
seems that the negro is very much the sam
in South Africa as he is everywhere else, fo
the colonists complain that he is lazy an
turbulent, given to stealing and obstructin
in thousand ways the farm work and mimi
of the settlers.
The English colonies have proposed to con
federate with the Dutch Republic-the Trans
vaal and Orange River Free State-and max
Common cause against their black enemy
The Dutch, although suspicious of English
influence, will doubtless perceive that thei
own existence depends on combined effor
with the British colonists. The only way tt
treat the negroes in South Africa is to en-
slave them. Nothing but slavery will evel
| raise the savage negro to condition approx.
| mating to civilization, and nothing but
| slavery, as our own unhappy experience
since the war has demonstrated, will eve,
make him industrious. No one can doubt
that the Zulus of South Africa, who now wal.
low in the 6lthiest of savagery, would be in
tinitely better of in state OF bondage under
British and Dutch masters. These Africans
might gradually be reduced to q condition of
serfdom, for they are utterly unsophisticated,
and have never heard of ''swibbel rights" or
any Of the great advocates Of negro equality
The man who teaches the colonists to utilize
the labor of their black neighbors will be the
benefactor of the rising confederation Of
South Africa Chicago Times.
These are remarkable utterances consider.
ing their source. 1t is not little singular tina.
any Northern journal should recon- mend COM
pulsory service anywhere and under any
contingencies, but more especially the COM
pulsory service and labor of Africans to any
colony or association of whites, American,
European or Asiatic. The whole North has
been SO long fighting the system of COM
pulsory African labor as something horrible,
revolving, sinful and diabolical, that a recon-
mendation of slavery reads strangely in
Chicago journal Yet here it is in black and
white, very distinctly and logically put.
'' The only way to treat the negroes in South
Africa is to enslave them" They will be
they will steal !; they will not 20 |
sway, and they will not work. Therefore
hey ought to be made to work. Nothing
out slavery will make negroes industrious
hey ought to be industrious therefore it is
light to compel them to be industrious.
Compulsory industry" is a mild phrase for
lavery, but that is exactly what slavery was
this country. Always, when the civilized
nd the barbarous come together, and when
he barbarian refuses to work, but eats the
ruit OF the toll of the civilized man, one of
wo things must be done with the intruder-he
AUST be driven out from the hive of industry,
else no must be made to work enough to
arm his own subsistence Here is the prob
I'm presented to the Dutch and English
outh African colonists; and as we know that ,
,e governments Of Great Britain and Hol. :
md will not sanction or tolerate any form of ,
avery, 1t is certain that the obvious and
Try natural suggestion of common sense and {
will no! be carried out.
II the colonial authorities were to consult 7
We should most urgently advise them not =
enslave these Troublesome Africans, even if h
Owed to do it. We should tell them that ;,
9 enslaved Africans, while increasing the !,
'alth Of the masters, would multiply in h
odigious ratio and soon leave the whites :;
erwhelmed and drowned in an African :.
cd of population. We should admonish :,
EN- that slave system begets condition e.
things in which slavery becomes necessi- ~
and from which there is no exit which does O,
lead to distress and disaster. We should =
w to them that the trouble caused by the =,
d Africans now, is but an Insignificant IL
lie in comparison with the enormous e.
uble which would be caused by another
leration of enslaved Africans which they
uld be forced at length to emancipate. We
'uld prove to them that they cannot take a
lion of barbarians into their system with m
contamination or without lowering their Isl
q grade Of civilization. We should warn az
m that, BY adopting system Of slavery, pI
y would array against themselves all the II
pie in every land where slavery does not to
st or has ceased to be profitable. We pa
uld, with the light of . sad experience be- So
> us, most urgently recommend to them to M
10 an impossible barrier between them ia,
res and the barbarian intruders, and never Fs
consider themselves as safe while there was otl
among them class twenty centuries be- of
d them in civilization. And We should ex
Use them, IS philanthropists who desire to 10,
mots the progress of the human race, not is
assume the control and tutelsee es,
degraded heathens, but rather to ]
. them to the slow and certain est
rse of events and influence which are no
q year to year more and more operating Gil
n the people who are still cropping in the int
zness of barbarism. The civilized armies us,
he world are making constant inroads of
n the dark and sickening realms of bar hal
SIN, planting law and government, order mo