The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-12-08

AGAINST him a. soldier, while even
m Boston = book on "gae Nero rs
He Vs." rd,cul,ng aDdssbus'ng
him. shows what il the popular
OPINION Of young New Eugtaad ON
,his subject.
A uunbsr OF leading sNoythsrn
papers. tho New York Fribnns. Gnu
canuati Coin he rcisl, Cincinnati ia.
settle and Chicago IrMes, peDed
th,s question the other day, and.
after having thoroughly investigA
red The negro 'as' he u.s. unani-
lnously prononnce the African race
IN America "a doomed iace-doOm-
ed to All earl extinction. The Ga-
zette aud Times have collected lot
If interesting statistics OH this sub
iect. In Chattanooga, the negro
death rate is fifty seven ia = thou
ssud, which would shorten the du-
ration of human life fully one malt;
IA Mobile and Richmond thu negro
mortality Is twice tbst of the
whites; III New Orleans it Is almost
the same; III Charleston. where the
two races are almost exactly equal
in number, three negroes die to
every white person. Even Ia WASH
lugton, under thc very nose Ut the
government, and where there ID u
ph,lanthropic effort on its part to
teach the blacks how to live, the
death rate among the negroes ID
kept ut such y nonstrously high
figure that no race, however great
us annual increase, can long exist
under it.
The negro increase in . decade
under slavery Was 2, per cent In
the SIX years Ut freedom between
1854 and 1870 1t was barely 2 per
cent, and tins Was before the Ne
groes were wholly sadicaliz-d-be-
fore those vices aud diseases that
nov prove such 'scourges among
them hsdsbecome prevalent, as they
now are. After viswisg the subject
critically, aud studying all sttAina-
ole statistics, the Commercial comes
to the conclusion that the census vi
1880 will SHOW that the negro pop
ulst,on Of the south Is NJ = stand
still. aud that every census thereaf-
Ter viii snow . tiecl,lsd decrease
each year until the race altogether
disappears. In support Ut these
predictions it gives y description Of
the manner III which the negro
lives III the various outhern States,
Of his utter ignorance Of al santa
ry kuoweldse. of the dirt and filth
IN winch lie propagates small -pox,
holers, typhoid fever and every
disease thai thrives ON filth, bad
air aud bad food.
cuch 10 the unanimous confession
Of Northern Radical opinion. NJ
one denies these facts, and few pro-
pose ANY remedy for the evils ksdi.
cal rule hss brought On the South
and the negro. One Geo. DowlinH
writes to the New York Times u
Wild .criminai letter. Suggesting uiis.
css,-nxtion ~ the hope and sscapt
Of the colored race, u doctrine thai
he is not likely to talk innch about
down here. The New York Fri
bune, Oh its part, suggests sending
missionaries, lnferentially Northern
missionaries, among the negroes Il
teach them how to live properly
how 10 take care Of themselves, etc
These two absurd, ridiculous sug
gestions - missionaries and misceg
enstion are tho only remedies til,
Northern press and people Gal
suggest for tins mighty evil the,
brought upon the nsgro-brought
not by his freedom, but by turniD,
the south over to him bodily t. h.
plucked and ravaged by him. b,
teaching him corruption, prodigsll
ty and AL the political vlces in or
der to maintain the Radical part,
in political power. although the.
knew we'll that this crime wOul,
sap not only the life and prosIerit.
Of the South, but that Vt the Who'll
Union.
The suggestion Of the Tribune j
as foolish ~ that Of Dowling
criminal Let US have NO more Nor
thern missionaries to teach tn
Southern negro how to live; W
have had Northern missionsrie
before to teach him politics. and
thank heaven, most Ut them ar
now in the Penitentiary.
The North has failed, say the Tri
bone, Gazette, Times and CONNIE,
cial, in lts solution of the negr
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