Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-21
The American Future.
THE INCREASE OF THE NEGRO AND THE
DISAPPEARANCE OF THE ANGLo-ANIERG-
CAN
CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.

THE INCREASE OF TILE NEGRO AND THE
DISAPPEARANCE OF THE ANGLo-AMERG-
CAN.
Goodwin Smith says There seems
to he no doubt as to the momentousand
pregnant feet that the hlaa'Ss ara increas-
ing f4ster than the whites i'll the United
States. When emancipation first sent
the blacks adrift, helpless and thriftless,
there was great mortality among them,
and predictions were freely hazardous
that the social and political problem
which perplexed statesmen would be
solved by the gradual extinction OF the
negro race. The problem, on the con-
trary, now seems likely to present itself
on larger scale than ever. There are
those who fancy that education will turn
the negro white but generations, prob
ably, must elapse before his low intellect
can be brought up to the Anglo-Ameri-
can level. You may teach him his let.
ters at scnool, but You cannot force him
to keep mp any mental culture after
ward. If supreme power We're IN his
hands, he would make the South Hayti.
The whites will. of course, struggle
against his political ascendency they
will prevail, ut all events, so long as
they retain anything ike an equality of
numbers and the result apparently will
be the perpetuation with ever-inrreasing
sharpness of mastery of race, anti re-
publican in all its tenderness. which can
hardly fail to taint the life blood of the
republic. Fusion of the races by inter
marriage is impossible, and without it
there can be no political or social union !;
there can only be the ascendency of one
race over the other. With blacy pep
ulation superior in numbers and white
asc-ndency the South would be a mag
nified counterpart of the West Indies,
an unwholesome element in the compo-
sition of a republic.
The census appears to show that the.
danger from the foreign element is less
than was supposed. The foreigners born
are not more than Is per cent. OF the
population. What cannot be doubted
is that the proportion of Anglo-Ameri-
cans, who are the organic race, declines.
So much, any ones observation may telli
him without statistics. More chilarent
are born to the Irish and other immi-
grant races than to the AngloAmeri
cans; and the movement now going ON.
for the removal of what is called the.
limitation of sex, and for turning the
minds of women to e0ployments other
than those of the wife and mother, as i'll
scarcely extends beyond the Anglo.
Americans, can hardly fail to increased
the disparity. Social-reformers, in the
war of words which they wage against
nature, are victorious because she is,
mute her arguments come in the form
of practical consequences. The race
which rebels against the limitation oil
sex will put limitation to its own ex4.
istence. !,
SALT MINEs.-The great salt mines oe
Cracow i'll Poland employ 500 to Coz.
men at time, and are, i'll fact, undero )
ground cities with streets, roads, and !;
large population of human beings and
horses. In these mines the natural sal Q
forms the sides, roofs and floors of p
series of vast caverns, and when the meI
are all at work and the light gleamu
from torches and lanterns on the toiiina,
figures and glittering white crystals, thu
scene is very striking.