Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-13

The average woult be: four whits; four
teen black; and eighty two brown mixed in
each 100 colored. But this table is sub ject
TO two important deductions: the light col.
ored people crowd to the cities, and the
undiluted Africans are not all black
Every where in the old states, and
especially in South Carolina, arc
seen unmistakable types of at least
three negro nations. Tho Mandingoes
average half head taller than the Guinea
niggers. and are little if any darker nan a
Guinea mulatto. When mixed VITA whites
the result is not mulatto brown-their
mulattces are yellow, or ginger cake color,
and their quadroons merely dark rudy.
For this reason the pure negroes along the
border Of the Carolina> are noticeably tai
Ter and lighter colorei than down on the
coast
Above the Mandingoes is, or was. THE
tribe IS exterminated) very superior race;
and their mixed defendants have almost
nothing of the negro but color. Their o-es
are straight as Apollo's, their fe atures 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-
con girls of this strain have sold as high a
s. 500!
One thing | have noted on this trip is a
decided revelation to me: the small proper
ton of the colored people who are pure blacks,
and the number of the mixed bloods who
are "a white as any of us. l have spoken of
this before, but the more / see Of it the more
L think 1t worth mentioning as an important
factor nay, as the important factor in the
situation. For instance: have just returned
from the afternoon session Of the Colored
Teachers association where able addresses
were made by DIR. ]. L. NJ. Curry, ID. d. and
L. L D., Of Virginia, and Hon. Gustave J.
Orr, commissioner of education for this
state-both WHITE both Democrats and both
old shareholders. The comments on these
addresses, and other speeches, were by col
ored persons; and yet in three hours
session | 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 rs white the whitest
in my home village took her seat
at the 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 as white, a, well dressed,
as genteel and as handsome as you will SEQ
at church IN the north: but they are all
'niggers'
Professor Richard K Wright, the eminent
colored educator Of Georgia, and now su-
perintendent Of the colored schools OF
Augusta Is almost pure African blood, and
am indebted to him for much valu-
able information. He IS but one
eighth white; but the other
side lie is pure Mandingo-that is. Of n
race north Of the equator and on the remote
highlands, who far superior t. the
Guinea type. Still above the Mandingoes
was u race with long noses and foreheads,
thin lips and hair but slightly curled; but
they are extinct, and the race is nearly
bred out in America Now it 50 happened
that the true "Gu.neas' mostly remained in
southern Georgia and Carolina, while the
Mandingoes were taken to the northern sec
tons and into North Carolina: and from
these are descended nearly all the talented
negroes IN the United States. Far below the
Mandingoes. but stlll above the ~Guneas,n
were the Dahomes, Doangoes and krew-
men Put all these are merged IN one type
in America To this day the coIored men
along the border OF North and South Caro-
lima are notic'ably taller and fairer as well
as much smarter than those Of the coast re-
gion.
iuiH'i Athl 4aCts pres 7 ATTENTION.: ana
tie reader will please observe that do not
make facts 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
cease his dreaming The negro will neither
die out nor move out. He is here to stay
Prejudice between the races grows les every
month. BE il for good or he it for i'll. the
white and the colured man are getting
nearer together every day. To-day Il0OyC
culored children are IN Georgia schos Is sup,
ported t.y the state Today 50 c5l1rsd
teachers are paid from the public funi q.
this state Today I,Ue4 600 colored children
are taught in the schools Of fourte sluth-
ern states.
Another fact demands attention. There
are in tie south abou: 4. 90 O0O cOiored peo-
pie. One million full black: and not
les than $1,000 are whit. q at a north.
srner wuuli not suspect the African in-
fusion. Thousands OF the~e are yearly pass
Ing into the ranks OF the white, by going
north. and as result there mus. today be
many thousand people IN the north with
African blood IN them who DO not know i;