The new North-west., 1885-06-26

The average would oe: -FOUR white; four
teen black; and eighty two brown mixed In
each 100 colored But this table is subject
to two important deductions: the light col.
ored people crowd to the cities, and tao
undiluted Africans are not all black
Everywhe in the old states, and
especially in South Carolina, arc
seen unmistakable types of at least
three negro nations The Mandingoe,
average half head taller than the Guinea
niggers." and are little II any darker than
Guinea mulatto. When mixed with whites
the result is not a mulatto brown-their
mulattoes are yellow, or ginger cake color,
and their quadroons merely dark ruddy
For this reason the pure negroes along the
border of the Carolinas are noticeably tai.
ler and lighter colored than down on the
coast
Above the Mandingoes is, or was, the
tribe is exterminated) a very superior race;
and their mixed defendants have almost
nothing Of the negro but color Their noses
are straight as Apollo's, their features of the
Greek ideal and their hair just wavy enough
There is now probably not pure blooded
specimen Of this tribe in America: their
women were never put to field work, being
too valuable for household services Octor.
oon girls of this strain have sold as high as
"a 500l
One thing l have noted on this trip is
decided revelation to me: the small proper
tion of the colored people who are pure blacks,
and the number of the mixed bloods who
are rs white us any of us. ! have spoken OF
this before, but the more / see of it the more
l think it worth mentioning as an important
factor hay, as the important factor in the
situation. For instance: have just returned
IA M nF
Teachers association, where able addresse,
were made by DR.. j. L. NJ Curry, D. D. AMI
l. L. D., Of Virginia, and Hon. GustaveJ ].
Orr, commissioner Of education for this
state-both white, both Democrats ami both
old Shareholders. The comments ON these
addresses, and other speeches, were by col
ored persons; and yet in three hours
session l could not discern the slight
est difference in any respect be-
tween the races. In courtesy abil-
ity, in mutual regard for each others feel
ings, they might have been OF one color
When the interval for music came,
lady as white as the whitest
in my home village took her seat
at tine organ; and a gentleman as black as
the blacklist in my native county stood by
her to lead the singing. Yet both RANKED
as "niggers." In the association
counted nine ladies rs white, a well dressed,
as genteel and as handsome as you Will see
at church in the north; but they are all
"niggers."
Professor Richard r. Wright. the eminent
colored educator Of Georgia, and now SUI
perintendent OF the colored schools Of
augusta Is almost pure African blood, and
am indeoted to HIM for much valu-
able information, He is but one
eishth white; but on the other
IA ptr th.N
race north OF the equator and On the remote
highianlS, who are far superior t. the
Guinea type. Sull above tbs Maud ingoes
wa u race with long noses and IoreneIds,
thin hp' aud hair but slightly cur.eI; but
they are extinct, and the race is nearly
bred OUT in America. Now it so happened
that the true "Guineas" mostly remained in
southern Georgia and Carolina, whi!o the
Mandingoe' were taken to the northern Soc
lions AM into North Carolina; and from
tne,e are descended nearly ell the talented
negroes III tie United States. Far below tho
Mandinsoes. but still above the "Guinaas"
Were the Dahomes. Loangoes and krew-
men. But all these are merge in one type
In America. To this day the c1ored men
along the border OF North and South Caro-
hna are noticeabiy taller and fairer, as well
as much smarter than those Of the coast re-
gion.
!, Important facts press attentions; and
tie reader will please observe that do not
make iacts-l simply relate them. II they
are NOT agreeable, nobody need quarrel with
me The theorist who vaguely hopes that
the negro will get away somewhere may
eeas' MS dreaming The negro will neither
ole out nor move out. He Is here to stay
Prejudice between the races grows le, every
month. Be it for good or DO it for ill., tho
white and the colored man are getting
nearer together every day. To-day 1lO,OO6
colored children are In Georgia schools, sup
ported by the state. To-day 1854 cclnred
teachers are paid from the public funi of
this state. To-day 1904, 900 coIored children
are taught In the schools of fourteen south
ern states.
Another fact demands attention. There
are In the south about b 00O, 900 colored peO-
Pie. One million Q full blacks; aud ut
less than $4,000 are so white tnat a north
srner wonii not suspect the African la.
fusion: thousands Of these are yearly pass
ing into The ranks of the whites by going
north. and as result thera must today be
many Thousand people in the north with
AFRICAN blood in them who do not know It'll