The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-10
FUTURE OF THE NEGRO.

american h6OttGO appears SSmPOe
SUM by Senators Morgan and
Vancs, Professors Charles A. Gardi-
ner and Richard T. Greener, Frede.
rick Douglass, Joel Chandler Harris
Oliver Johnson, 8. G. Armstrong, j.
II. Walworth aud J. A. Emerson on
fsThe Future of the Negro" Doug
lass, Emerson and Greener belong
to the colored race; the other con-
tributors have been interested OBJ
servers of the negro before and since
his emancipation. They agree that
the negco Will neither emigrate
nor even migrate to any considerable
extent, but remain where he is. 1t
is shown that two thirds of
the American negroes are
In the seven South Atlantic
and Gulf S:ates-North Carr
olina, South LCaroIina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana-where they will stay,
according to these writers, increas-
ing their numbers at the rate of 81
per cent. annually, while the white
population of the same States in
creases only at the rate OF 2 per
cent. Prof. Gardiner says that inn
migration of foreign or Northern
whites can hardly be considered q
feature in the question since of
100000 foreigners who landed in the
United States during the years 1892
SO only 1856 settled in the seven
States named. The blacks now
equal the whites in the rural popu-
lation of these States in few years
they will predominant, and within
the coming century the negroes viii
double OF triple the whites in NUNS
Der there. In seeking for the prob
able consequences the pro
lessor suggests that the
whites must either amalgamate
with the negroes-Which he does
not think possible-or they must
migrate from the south, or they will
remain an inferior element to the
negro, and submit to the supremacy
of the latter. He predicts that the
wealthy and enterprising whites
will gradually migrate to the border
states or to the sea~board cities. while
those who have so far degenerated
from their race pride and race spirit
as to prefer such supremacy to en-
igration will gradually be absorbed
or controlled by negroes.
Senator Morgan seemingly has
less confidence in negro Intellectual
development, for he says the colored
will always remain an inferior and
subject race, and finally. firing Of
the hopeless struggle with the
whites, viii welcome transportation
to the free states of the Congo
there to build up a republic
of their own, in which
they will have only equals with
whom 10 compete. He says that
interested politicians have tried to
force hot-house system Of develop.
ment, for which the negroes are I'm.
fitted, by Freedmen's Bureaus and
banks and civil rights statutes, and
still the blacks are no stronger as a
race and probably no better as in
dividuals than they were at the be-
ginning Of these efforts. The trial
has failed and Congress has already
begun to undo what the ballot was
intended to accomplish for the negro
in politics by disfrsuchising the
people of the District Of Columbia
because it was found that even
where the negroes are of much
higher average intelligence than in
thesouth, negro suffrage has proved
inimieaI to good government.
Mr.. Harris, who perhaps under
stands the true inwardness of The
negro and his characteristics and
capabilities better than either of the
other writer's taking part in the dis
custom, says the negro must make
his own future by education and
experience, and that if he
proceeds in the spirit which
should characterize every man
who appreciates the responsibility
of citizenship, he will not lack the
active sympathy of his white fellow
citizens, Mr.. Harris does not ssy
what he believes hatfuture will be,
INIT from the toneof his paper it may
he cleaned thai he does not think
the black capable of the high INTEL
ectusl Development attained by the