The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-03
THE DOOMED RACE.

| NOEbueEH pcOple, HHu Is DelllS uiSCuSSe'
just now with almost as much yea
and feeling as 1t was In that unhappy de
cade of 1s50-1S60, which plunged this countr,
into civil war. But the negro to-day stand
on different footing from the coloret
brother of abolition times, a different footing
not merely politically, but In the sympathie'
and feelings of the Northern people. Thes,
see that they can no longer build UP an Issue
on the negroes wrongs: no longer raise wal
cry throughout the land for his rights; tha
his vote will no longer carry the Southern
States for the party of progress and civiliza
tion," and fill the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives with Northern-born men
pretended representatives of the South
ern States, but allied In every idea
sympathy and prejudice with the people
OF the North. Now, therefore, that moth
| ing more can be got from the negro, HI
has ceased to be the Northern idol The
newspapers declare him O fraud Gen. Orc
| reports against him as q soldier, while ever
in Boston book on "The Negro as He Is
| ridiculing and abusing him, shows what is
the popular opinion Of young New England
on this subject.
"A uuIhD6l VI lettdluk NOIbHelH PAPERS, LIle
New York Tribune, Cincinnati Commercial,
Cincinnati Gasette and Chicago Times, re-
opened this question the other day, and, after
having thoroughly investigated "the negro
as he is unanimously pronounce the African
race In America "a doomed race-doomed to
an early extinction" The Gazette and Times
have collected a lot of interesting statistics
on this subject. In Chattanooga, the negro
death rate is fifty seven in thousand, which
would shorten the duration of human life
fully one-half; In Mobile and Richmond the
negro mortality Is twice that of the whites in
New Orleans it Ia almost thesame; in Charles
ton, where the two races are almost ex-
aetly equal in number, three negroes die to
every white person. Even In Washington,
under the very nose Of the government, and
where there is philanthropic effort on its
part to teach the blacks how to live, the death
rate among the negroes liz kept at such a
monstrously high figure that no race, how
ever great its annual increase, can long ex-
LIST under it,
The negro increase in decade under slave
ry was Is per cent. In the six years of free
dom between 1864 and 1870 it was barely per
cent, and this was before the negroes were
wholly Observation-Disclosures those vices and
diseases that now prove such scourges among
them had become prevalent, as they now are.
After viewing the subject critically, and stu
dying all attainable statistics, the Commercial
comes to the conclusion that the census of
1880 will show that the negro population of the
South Is at a standstill and that every census
thereafter will show decided decrease each
year until the race altogether disappears. In |
support Of these predictions IL gives a de-
scription OF the manner In which The negro
ives in the various Southern States. of his |
litter ignorance Of all sanitary knowledge. OF
The dirt and fifth in which he propagates
smallpox. cholera, typhoid fever and every
disease that thrives on filth, bad air and bad
God.
Such is the unanimous confession of North
I'm Radical opinion. No one denies these
acts, and few propose any remedy for the |
wills that Radical rule has brought on the
south and the negro. One Geo. Bowling
writes to the New York Times wild crimi-
lal letter, suggesting miscegenation as the
lope and escape of the colored race, doc
rine that he is not likely to talk much about
own here. The New York Tribune, on It's
'art, suggests sending missionaries, infer
ntially Northern missionaries, among the
egroes to teach them how to live properly,
low to take care Of themselves, etc.
These two absurd, ridiculous suggestions
Missionaries and miscegenation- mare the only
emedies the Northern press and people can
uggest for this mighty evil they brought upon
be negro-brought, not by his freedom, but
y turning the South over to him bodily to be
Tucked and ravaged by him, by teaching
Inn corruption, prodigality and all the politi-
al vices In order to maintain the Radical par
Y In political power, although they knew
yell that this crime would sap not only the
fe and prosperity of the South, but that of
he whole Union.
The suggestion of the Tribune is as fool
,h as that OF Bowling is criminal. Let us
ave no more Northern missionaries to teach
he Southern negro how to live, we have had
Northern missionaries before to teach him
olitics, and, thank heaven, most Of them are
ow In the Penitentiary.
The North has failed, say the Tribune, Ga
cite, Times and Commercial in its solution of
he negro question; more than failed, for the
IDEAS and habits its political missionaries
AVE introduced among the negroes have
doomed them, so these papers say, to COM
'lete extinction. 1t is about time, then, that
he people of the North admit this failure
and the elections of the past few years would
eem to indicate that majority Of them do),
nd turn over the negro question to the South
0 solve as altogether and solely Southern
question. The people of the South know the
legro, the true negro, with all his faults and
ices-not the New England ideal-and they
lone can solve this question, and prevent
hat doom which the Radical papers of the
North SO freely pronounce against the whole
olored race. The sooner this is admitted by
he North, the better it will be for the negro
ace.
In three States-Delaware California and
levada-the whipping-post is in full opera
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