The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-03-15

his loins he wears several wildcat SKINS,
Standing in front of his victim he makes AZ
first two or three feints with his knife to get
a proper swing. Then deliberately bending
and taking piece Of chalk, put there for That
purpose he draws n line around the neck,
and putting a little fine sand on his hand so
rs 10 get q good grp, with, zone quick DlowW Win
his knife sewers the head from the trunk.
Until lust before the execution the whole
village was wild in expectation Of the event.
Groups of dancers are to be seen. drummers
al work. and every kind Of musical instrument
10 add TO the tumult. The head after being
severed is ierked up into the air by the re-
| leased tension of the pole. Then upon SIGHT
of the blood their vilest and most lnhuman
passions are aroused. They act like wild
/ bcasts. clutch at the head. smear each other
/ in the face with the blood, and general scriln-
mage ensues. resulting, more often than not,
| fatally. After a little while groups are formed
and the dancing, drumming, and general tn
! multi is resumed until another victim is ready,
when the same scene IA repeated.
! In cannibal countries the body is Of course
/ eaten. but in some villages the inhabitants DO
! not eat human flesh They throw the head
/ less trunk in the river, and the heads are put
/ IN the ground until all the flesh is decayed,
when they place them about the houses OF IN
some prominent position IN the village as
/ family relics.
| The stangling Of tho women. as described
/ is equally cruel The convulsions and trem-
]
/ tors and initiated by the dancers. Further mp
| IN the interior funerals take place in a more
/ CHASTITY stvle. because they eat the dead. the
different parts of the body bong bargMned
/ for before the execution. Little boys ana
| Girls and women with children IN their arms
witness this bloody proceeding. Then follows
an account of Fetchish:
wi mair o. horrible and awfu'
! Which evn 10 name wad be unlawfu.'
EVERYWHERE the negroes are represented TO
be supersttious degraded blood-tmrsty
savages, increasing IL these attributes as We
pcnehute into the interior. indulglng III hui
man sacrifices and feasting upon the remains
| OF their victims
THE MIDDLE PASSAGE.
Such accounts will doubtless lead the des-
| ccndauts of the slave traders Of New England
and Old England ct. al. t. palhate the horrors
| of the middle passage INDUCED III by their
[ forcfithcrs to America with their cafgocS OF
/ Congo negroes even though they continue 10
charge MS with having degraded them by our
/ kind of slavery. But all we-cOnsututed peo-
/ pie will experience shudder when they le-
feet upon the misery inflicted upon rs OF the
| south our land devastated, our best ana braV-
est killed 10 hDerate the descendants OF such
savages.
And think Of il. my white brother of the
/ North that the Republican party sought To
/ put and now arc engaged IN schemes 10 place
/ such savAgos rulers over us and hlppantly
I tall, of giving over certain OF the Southerh
/ States 10 them.
DO Won know that besides the other horrors
of war 1t cost the lives and blood Of one million
brave white men to accomplish the crime. Tor
il was "a crime % lIberate such people, To turn
them udnit without means. without sense
more helpless than white children, 10 be the
lrev Of scalawags aud carpet baggers the
rid-rnn and scum If the Northern States, and
then 70 give them the ballot 10 keep the He
publican party IN power!
sTANLEY's DwARTs.
Mr.. Stanley describes a race Of dvarfs
/ found in the Congo forest Looking Ike
verltable evil spirits IN the half hight. were
the ugly dwarfs with their tiny bows ana
poisoned arrows. shooting at Us from their
lurking places as we hacked and hewed onr
way At first We regarded these lnsienlhcant
airociOuslv ugly little wretches with good
deal of contempt etc. II appears that many
of his men died of the poisoned wounds IN,
fictcd by these wretchcs. They are called
Wambut savage and vIndctive Ike AKA
and the Rushmen of South Africa. Stanley
dwarfs arc the pygmies who Aristotle relates
inhabit the region Of the sources OF the lhe,
aud whose battles with the Cranes, Homer
celebrates in heroic verse
NEW ENGLAND sLAvEs.
There are several types Of Africans among
us The Congo exists IN large numbers. the
mouth of the river Of that name beng IN
former times the depot near which the slaves
were corralled in BarncOOns 20 await the
European and New England slavers. 4 most
graphic account Of the last slave shlp Is given
/ by DIR Howe Of Louisiana who went as sur
geon with tho McDonough negroes 10 Liborla.
/ Their rendezvous was the mouth OF the river
I Congo. This venture Was in 1859. The
coast Of Guinea furnished q large number
more docle and less intelligent and OF smaller
stature than heupper Congoss. Again We nave
| the tyne spoken Of by DrummOnd, OF dark
tobacco leaf color: dark gingerbread hue,
with better shaped features. of high intelli-
grnce. He saw merely areinnant lett from out
Of the raids Of Tppoo 1ib.
The far greater number are prOgnathous,
thick lips, thin legs scanty, wiry Dearus;
nappy. woody hair. splay-tOoted ebo-shin and
gizzard foot. as described by the late General.
| Governor Henry 4 Wise of honOred memory;
/ long headed. with brain capacity, according 70
Agassiz. never exceeding that OF the Euro
pean boy of twelve yesrs
| once met in Arkansas mulatto, who told
me that his mother, full bloodod black, had
long straight hair: the son had long curly
locks. and resembled the mixture Of negro
and Indian. which caused me 10 ask he were
not part Indian He said he had no Indian
blood. that his father was white man. ms
mother could not have come from Africa, but
the Tippoo-Tibs of slave-tradlng times did
not confne their enterprise 10 Africa nor alto
cethcr TO the black skin race. II we credit the
| history of the great slave-deallng state OF our
| country. MOQlO IL not Dc II BOou lllllP 10 ~
TO war with the Narngansetts (lndansE We
could send the men prisoners 10 Barbados
and bring back Blackamores. The women
and children could be kept as slaves See
George H. MoOres History of Slavery IN
Massachusetts.
repeat il. Is ii not curious fact in history
that the people OF tho North and the West
should have made war upon thor white
brothers (whO had never harmed them but,
on the contrary. had fought for them all over
the North and East-in the West also. Tor
Vrgnian commanded at the battle Of Tip
pecanoe. and it is said that Colonel johnson,
If Kentucky. killed the famous Indian chief.
Tecumseh, in hand-to-hand contest. and
spent their own blood and treasure 20 hberate
the descendants of such savages, themselves
semi-sayage who belonged 10 almost the
lowest stock of the human race, and should
seek TO put them rulers over those belong
ing TO the highest OF mankink; Is II not a
strange fact also. that the civilized world
should have joined III this crusade against
the white men and women TO place the
African negro slaves whom their ancestors
had sold TO our fathers over US as rulers!
] cannot understand II.
The SOUTH AND THE NEGRO.
VIII the revelations of Stanley, Ward,
Drummond and the other explorers Of Africa
have any effect in arresting the Republcan
party in their bloody pursuit OF the SouthI
fear not as long as Congo has vote. In the
meantime lot the Southern white men be true
10 themselves and 10 their country. Is 1t not
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