Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28
THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN NE
GRO-AN INTERESTING DEBATE.

The future of the negro in America is
subject engaging very much attention, and
is the source of wide speculation and di-
vergence of opinions. In the North Amer
ican Rerielo for July ten essayists discuss it.
Professor Charles A. Gardiner, pointing out
the fact that the negroes of the South have
not, since the close of the war, dispersed
throughout the country, as was anticipated,
concludes that they will not migrate in the
future, despite ostracism, poverty and po-
litical oppression. With 1914 1876 whites
and 1921 ,4S1 negroes in the South in 1880,
he estimates that in 1885 the
white population will aggregate
100000 and the negro 11S,4O0,000.
Rawhnson is quoted as showing that the
race problem in America has not had a
parallel, and is the most difficult that ever
confronted civilization. The indications
are all adverse to the theory that the negro
will he absorbed by the white race, and the
testimony is unanimous of Intellectual de-
terioration as result of race fusion. In
the South a legitimate amalgamation is
beginning, and viii, he holds, continue
that Is, the negro is asserting and main
tanning his legal and political rights, ac-
quiring land, becoming educated, and
approaching to the social level Of the
whites. He concludes. therefore, that in
fifty years more, outside of seaport cities,
the negro viii be the superior and the Cau-
casian the inferior race. This is certainly
arriving at a conclusion totally at variance
with the accepted theory of absorption of
the black race, so generally re-
ceiyed at thcliclose of the REBEL
ion. As to expectation and colonization,
he scouts the idea The negro citizen is
proud of his rank as such, and will not ex-
patriate himself His legal equality is de-
clared. and he will stay. But amalgama-
ton is in progress in the South, and the
whites must yield to it or migrate. they
accept the first, a mentally inferior race
win result if they refuse it and remain,
they will be dominated by the negro and
must submit to his supremacy. This is a
sufficiently startling theory, but we may
pose is to simply compare it with the views
Of the other essayists
United States Senator John T. Morgan,
one of these, holds that the statistics prove
that the negro in the United States will in
crease. Physically he has constantly
gained since his introduction here. But
all the plans of the Government for the
lettering of the negroes have failed They
are not a stronger race to-day, for all the
legislation had to secure them civil rights
1t is probable that the latest remedy, Fed
eral appropriations for educational pur-
poses, will fail also The time will come,
he forecasts, when the effort will be made
TO diSfranchise the black. All Congress
sional attempts to elevate the negro race
have been in effect TO wage a conflict with the
white race on a question of caste, and to
stimulate negroes to demand a social equal
ity they are not prepared to enjoy The
races do not desire TO blend physically or
socially, and micegenationists lose the
respect of both races. The power of the
negro will increase in the South as he ad-
yances and attains wealth. But it will not
avail him in the competition he encounters
with the white man. Successes viii but
intensity the jealousy of caste and so race
prejudice will forever remain an incubus on
the negroes individual or aggregated efforts.
In the free States of the Congo the negro