The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-02-24
Mn Nnmrn In ihr NMill-D.

Mr.. trou les recent book ON the con
dltiou of the blacks in the West In
dies imparts apeculiar interest. What
u to become, or what has become, OF
the 100000 negro III the British
West Indies is a matter of small con-
cera in comparison with what is to
become of the 100000 negroes in tho
southern section OF the I'M
ted States-ior the tuuro Of the
blacks in that quarter necessa-
rily involves the future of the whites
also, aud, indeed, the future of south
ern civil z,tion. In three of tue
southern states South Carolina,
Mississippi and Louisiaan-thc
blacks outnumDered the Wnttes in
1850, and, rs everywhere through 1ut
the south, they exhibit the teCundity
which is an accompaniment otpoverty,
it is probable that nj th9 next census
they VIII outuumOer the whites in
Alabama also, and be even with
whites in one ortwo other states. La
South Carolina there were sixty ne
grocs to every thirty-uine whites in
Mississippi, siXty-four negroes to
every forty seven whites: in LOuiai-
ANA, forty-elght negroes to every
Torty-tiye whites. These are The pro-
portions that prevailed through the
states; in what are called the "bAc
di-tricts--a name omiuou7 of sepQ-
ration ALREADY going on the d..pro-
portion is more marked and striking
| La tIrse "black' district, there are
tour. five and even seven blacks to
every whi persoa; lnteGd,
the precipitation of the blacks
! il to the lw bottom coast lands
of South Carolina and 10 river and
bayou lands in Louisiana Is forcing
the " hitcs TO seek homes elsewhere
aud abandon the soil to the inferior
race whose presence in ovcrpowering
numbers benu1ubs all enterprises, ar
rests progress aud STILES civilization.
The sum and substance of MIR
Froude's observations in the Antilles
is that whil4 they are still under the
nominal rule of the British govern
meut they are absolutely lostto Anglo
Saxonism. The English language
still prevails in Bermuda, the Baoa-
mas, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, ST.
Lucia and other British islands, and
always will; but the population is
black, not white-Atrican, not Eng
ish; and the islands have ceased to
have an value TO The British people,
except as military and naval stations
III quarter of the globe where mill
ttry and nava. st ltions are little
needed. En- luci patton WAS followed
10y the grant Of suffrage and partial
home rutland this, i'll islands whore
the blacks Uutnumbcr the whites,
conld result in bat one thing-ncgro
Ascendoncy. Tho once productive os-
lAtes are either broken up and passed
into f"a9mehtury ownership among
the negroes, or abAnd med II trUpica
underground; and tie whites who
once owned them and dispensed on
them prince y hosplt lNY have conc
TO other quarters OF the globe. /
IN y be sa that the negro Was no
created on the earth to forever re
melh III STATE OF SLAYER, ana RAISE
sugar, collee and tropical fruits Tor
white maSier--and that there
Is historical proprlfty n
his coming al lat lhIo uhdls
putCd oW nershlp OF the ialr ant
beautiful Islands which he cultjYat d
~ slave, for two hundred yenr
pev rtheless, it is impossible III thi'
age OF pr duction aud int rchange t'
suppress a Sigh at the rejection tha'
the once llou 'iahing commerce OF tAes'
islands has dwiudl3d TO most not4
ING, and tnat the l-ltnds and thei
populations have ceased To be OF coz
Germ to the world
The whites, MIR. froude tells Us
l desire annexation TO the Uniteo
; at $ as a means of improving theil