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among kicks and scowls on the Pacific slope
that he may go back to his far-away home to
live and die and be buried there; the Coolic
in Jamaica longs to sec again the coral reel
end fringe Of palms around his native isle IN
the distant Indian Ocean; the Jew turns
longing eyes to Jerusalem; all men OF all races
look back to the home and cradle OF thclr
race with love and longing-all except the
negro. He does not desire to 60 Dack W
Africa; he cannot be induced to go there.
The Dark Continent has no charms for hlm'
OF the one hundred and twenty-scven pelly
African tribes, which are said to have fur
niShed the slaves to the fields of the South, Is
there one negro of all the seven millions VINO
knows or cares to know to which he belongs?
Judging him by the standards applicable to
other men, philanthropy, at great cost, cstao'
lished for the negro the republic OF Liberia,
and a second Exodus was looked for. But the
l. egro prefers the tlesh-pots and still lives in
the land of Egypt. He prefers to live in a
white mans country, subjected to the lhhu-
ence and example and control of the white
man; and in truth, the negro is at his best
with these surroundings.
Shall we ask him or compel him
TO MIGRATE
to some Western or Southwestern reserva-
tion? Even if like obstacles did not make
migration as difficult as emigration, ii would
be found, apprshend, that reservation does
not reserve: for would the white man OBJ
serve the reservation? Let the red man tes
tify.
THE NEGRO WILL NOT DIE OUT.
Will the negro "die OUT as some sanguinc
prophets foretell? They predict the speedy
extinction Of the black race as in the case Of
the Red Indian, the Carib, the Maori, the New
Hollander. But the negro, although of the
most obligng disposition. will not oblige US
in this regard. He will not for our convcn.
ience efface himself and disappear as if his
day were done and his lamp going out in tho
darkness. He thrives and multiplies best
and quickest when living in white mans
The elasticity and Elasticity Of dis
position which is the negro's distinguishing
bas enabled him to submit
to centuries Of slavery, and VIII
enable him in q state Of freedom to live in
the presence of the white man without dan
ger Of determination.
OF all savage peoples the negro is the only
one that can see the Anglo-SaXon's lace and
live. The fierce Red Indian, the gentle Carib
the brave Maori, the savage Australian, all van
ish from before the white man. Civilized they
can not be; domcsticated they will not be. l
is with wild people as tits with wild animals
the untamable are doomed to cXtinction-on-
ly the tamable can survive. The horse anG
the OK the camel and the dog live and thrive
as mans faithful servants; but the days o
the lion and the buffalo, the tiger and the
wolf are numbered. Jobs question Is tho
test-"Will he make a covenant with thee
"Wilt thou take him for servant forcvcr?'
The Southern negros present condition is
one of
DoMESTICATION
and not one Of civilization. He has adopted
tn language, the religion, the customs, th'
dress of his former master. Civilization i:
the outgrowth of influences and tendencies
from within; domcStication comes from in
tiuences from without, and it necessarily
takes its color and character from its sur
Civilization is polish, domes
rough grain Of the pine, the other brings Out
the ingrained beauty of the oak. But tho
very ease with which he puts on the veneer
will secure the negro from extinction ant
danger Of determination. He IS q nation o
cockncys, as Carlyle says, happicst when liH
ing with the white man; and as such he vii
continue to live with the white man, happy
and contented-if the politician and Tho
pseudo o-philant thropist will only let him alone
1NTERN1AERIAGE.
Some think they see the solution Of th'
knotty negro problem, the only reasonable
and natural one, in amalgamation Of the two
races by intermarriage, whereby the whites
shall absorb the blacks, or the blacks shal
absorb the whites. OF this we need have nc
fear. The proud race whose blood flows II
our veins will never stoop to marriage will
the negro, or with any cOlcrcd race. II ha
scorned so to do with the Hindo0, the New
Zealandcr, the Rcd Indian: there is no rca
son to suppose it will consent to marriage
with the less attractive negro.
Although Bishop Dudley, Of Kentucky
thinks he sees it in the far distant frl
ture, and Canon Rawlinson plainly ant
torcibly advocates it as the "true remedy
for all our social ills and race conflicts, ant
Frederick Douglass agrees with him in theo
ry and himself furnishes an illustration
yet is race fusion so abhorrent to our race in
stncts and so out of accord with the history
of our race that we can smile at the absurt
suggestion. Rawlinson goes so far as to say
that such amalgamation "might be counted
son to improve in certain respects the mcnta
land moral temperament ifnot the phySica
characteristics OF our race" 70 quote hi
words is to explode his theory.
This is no theoretical question, but mos
practical one. 1t is no question Of improve
ment in breeding Of cattle, but question o
the future of two races of human beings
This is no question of caste; it is a question
of race; no question of master and menial
rich and poor, intelligent and ignorant, cul
tured and rude, but one OF race; it is not {
question of TRADITIONAL sentimcnt,' as Mr.
Cable thinks, but Of
INSTRUCTIVE RACE ANTIPATIIY;
race. And although Cable may speak of race
instincts Us "cheap twaddlc," and Rawlinsor
may thcorize about improvement Of our An
glo-SaXon stock by the infusion of negro
blood, the test question after all is this: vii
you let your daughter marry negro? He
who can say Eyes" to that question readily
easily and as q matter of course. and not in
the spirit of a martyr to some theory or sup
posed principle of equality and high human
itarianism, he and he only has the right tt
speak seriously Of amalgamation by inter
marriage.
Besides, the negro, his own writer's being
the judges, does not desire marriage with the
whites and tho whites next in the socia