The Washington bee., 1888-11-17

There was simply an error in
last weeks issue in the name of the
writer, and therefore the above al.
teration.
To prove the recent mentioned |
trait to be an idiosyncrasy of the |
Negro, let US see. Though the |
Negroes had been away |
from the land of their origion for
two hundred years, away from the
land where their nature, owing to
the congenial atmosphere to which
their ancestors were accustomed,
could have more readily developed,
they had not lost that which every
where characterizes the race; for
during the American civil war
when they could have wrought
vengeance on their oppressors,
fidelity, a part of their nature, stay
ed the destructive hand, the result
of which they stood by their fellow
man with untiring zeal. Had it
not been for the loyalty of those
people, today many home would
be darkened, many a heart broken.
Their unparalleled deed will be
handed down to posterity as a sacr-
ed inheritance of people who have
once been trammeled under foot
and now called the ''despised race.n
Their respond to the war call and
their fidelity throughout the cam
paign, rank among the noblest
features history has ever recorded.
Their undaunted courage takes a
lofty place in the annals of your
country. Negrophobists have been
upon the stage and tried to prove
him coward by referring to their
silence on the occasion just men,
toned they have proved only one
thing, which is they themselves
to be ignOramuses. Does cowardice
consist in loyalty to mankind, and
does bravery lie in wreaklng VEN
geance? No; and for that reason
we are proud of Ceasar's blameless
Ethiopians. But let us return, we
spoke of the Africans loyalty to
government. AS far as our exper-
lance carries us, we find however
crude their system of government,
it's citizens rebel not against it..
African empires and kingdoms are
properly conserved governments.
In the far interior there are various
forms controlled by men who make
no change unless they can see il,
the future the promotion OF the
life, property and happiness of
their subjects.
We now proceed to inquire how
these people are divided up and
from whence arise these various
forms of governments. The popu'
lation of Africa is estimated at two
hundred and sixty.five millions,
and it's area is eight million seven
hundred and twenty thousand
square miles. According to Mr..
Robert n. Gust, we have the follow
ing families or groups, branches,
| tuu
LIST family or group, Semitic,
branches, 10 languages and 9-19
dialects. 2. Hamitic, 8 branches
20 languages and 27.56 dialects. 8
NubaFoulah, 2 branches, IL lang
uages and 724 dialects. 4. Negro
4 branches, 1875 languages and 49
241 dialects. Bantu, 2 branches
1853 languages and 55.223 dialects
6. Hotentot Bushman, 8 branches
IA languages and 6-20 dialects,
There are six families or groups,
having each different branches
four hundred and thirty-three Ian
guages, one hundred and fifty three
dialects, making grand total oI
five hundred and eighty-six. Each
family or group, let US take the
Negro, is divided into various trib
es, each tribe has a different ruler
and in many instances different
form of government. The chiefi
or kings have sometimes fifteen Of
twenty thousand subjects, a domin
ion extending for two hundred o.
more miles as an example the his
torical town of Sego of which Mr.
Mungo Park spoke so favorabIy
1t was there nearly an hundred
years ago Mr.. Park first felt African
philanthrophy. He says at tina
time it was a town OF thirty thou
sand inhabitants governed by 6
king; yea, more, it is said thai
there is ruler i'll the heart OF tn
continent who has under his con
troll ten thousand towns. Thus al
over the country are dispersed
minor towns and villages governed
by chiefs who are subject to a kim
or other supreme ruler. The sever
i al tribes coming in contact wit
each other by inter.marriage, trad
and otherwise, occasionally engeD
| ders disputes which sometimes cul
inmate in wars but what we wis
to enforce, among themselves n