Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-06-26
Tho rutnrc Of the Negro.

The July pumbvr Of the North American
R,pts,V rublish-s letters on "The Future
a. OF the Negro" from Senators Morgs an
and Vance. Prot Charles A Gardiner
Prot Richard r, Grseper Frederick |
Douglass, joel Chandler Harris, Oliver |
Johnson, s. C. Armstrong, J. Fl. Wal
worth and ]. A. Emerson. Three OF
these contributors, Messrs. Douglass,
Greener and Bmerstn n, belong to tae negro
as the others have bssn interested |
aud aOuts observers OF the negro before
and since lis emancipation. They agree
-st that the negro will not emiSrate, nor
will he even migrate to any considerable
Two thirds OF the American resrOes ar
gathered in the seven sonth Atlsui IL
and gulf ststea - North Carolina, South
Carolina. Georgia. Florida, Alahsma,
Mississippi and Louisisua-sud We must
accept the conclusion that lhey will stay
there and so on increasing their number
at the rate OF 81 per cent annually, while
the white pOpulati n ef the same states
increases At the rate Of only per cent
Immigration OF foreign or northern
whites, says Prof. Gardiner, can hardly
be considered q factor III this question,
since ot 400, 900 foreigners who landed in
the Uni ed States during the year 1882 SO
only 736 settled in the seven stal,s
named. The blacks now equal tine whitos
in the rural population of these states
in few years they will predomip ate, and
within the coming century the negroes
will double or triple the whites in number
there.
What will be the consequence 7 Prof.
Gardiner thinks the whites must either
smalgama,e with negroes, solution
which he does not think possible, or they
must migrate from the South, or they
must remain au interior element and sub
init to negro supremacy. The wealthy
and enterprising whites, he predicts, will
gradually migrate to the border states or
to the sea board cities, while those who
have 80 far degenersted from their race
pride and race spirit as to prefer such
supremacy to emigration will gradually
be absorbed or controlled by negroes.
Senator Morgan believes that the negro
will always remain an inferior and sub
lect race and, finally firing OF a hopeless
attempt to compete with the whites, will
welcome transportation to the Free States
OF the Congo, there to build mp republic
Of his own. He says that interested
politicians have tried to force hot house
system of development, for which the
negroes are untitled, by Freedmen's Bu-
reaus and banks and civil rights statutes,
and till the blacks are no stronger
as race and probably no better as in.
dividusls than they were at the begin
ming Of these eforts. The trial hGi
failed and Congress has already begun t,
undo what the ballot WAS intended Il
accomplish for the negro in politics hy
di4hanohising the people of the Distric
OF Columbia because 1t was found tina
Il even where the negroes are Of mucl
III higher average intelligence than in th,
u SouIh, negro suffrage has proved inimica
70 good government,
= NJ Harris says that the negro mus
= make his own future by education an,
Il experience aud that II be proceeds in tn
spirit that should characterize every maj
II WHO appreciates the responsibility c
% citizenship, he will ne. lack the setiv
~ sympathy Of his white fellow citizens.
y Mr. johnson looks for the "yulga
1t "prrjuiiae of color" to fade away 81
e the time to come when 'blsek skin, L
" more than red hair or blue eyes, vi
&" be regarded as badge OF sooiI
's g .uf-rority.n lie thinks amagamatio
D. not only possible but probable and th'
ls marriages b-tveeu whites and blsel
y will eventually become so frequent a.
lg tx, tie ueitler wonder nor opposition.
10 Mi. Armstrong looks upon the negro
IA An Uncertain and dangerous factor
ID politics, but, "the social questiou "
o, Il" take care Of it4elt. Accomplished al
rs " succ5ssiul negroes will find their plsC
4e "coiors1 millionAires will not suffer mu
at from prejudice
N Frederick Douglass having done
n share towards smalgamat!on, looks up
" that course as he panaees for the unift
'e tiou o. mankind and dreams OF comi
A. "lumAu brotherhood :" while
ne Gieener, smother OF the eolored &c
'st tributor4, says that the tendency of
III negro race will he to perpetuate iieelt
To- race OF pure blacks and that only
a Isolated cases V i'll the pegr' seek an
ay uiNturr Of white blood.