Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-06-02

among the Negroes, where il was al
most unknown. Well, what else could
he sxpect7 It is only to be wondered
that all of as did not 60 crazy. From
. condition sof serene irresponsibillty
to one Of absolute responsibility It is
to be surprised that the insanity rate
did not.increase to an alarming extent.
AS the matter now stands, there is
one lunstic ssylum in this state for
people and two for white with
out counting the many private institu-
tions throughout the commonwealth.
II freedom brought insanity TO the
Negro, DIR. HoDaEs, what has it doze
for the white man?
He says:
"Dr. Drewry recently stated that
the ratio Of insanity ia the whites is
slightly larger in Virginia shan in the
Neg ees, though in recent years inssn-
ity has increased more rapidly among
the latter than the former, and that
there are now $40 Negro insane under
hospi al treatment In Virginia; and
that during ths past two years ITO in
sane have died in Jail or at their homes
waiting for room TO occur at the Oen-
trail Hospital. He very significantly
remarks that the above figures do not
cover ala the Negro insane in this
Ssate."
He comedies the point that VIC had had
previously made and we can truthfully
say that 1.-The above figures do not COW
or all the white insane in this sta to-
1t is evident thai DR.. HoDaEs realized
that he had over-stepped the mark,
for he made the following spolygetieal
statement:
"In many of the public discussions
OF late there has been TOO much of SEN
timent. too little OF scientific truth
and what shall say applies to the race
as mass and not Co individuals, and
is spoken in no csrping and censorious
spirit, but in q sense OF fairness sno
justice TO all con cerned. am mot yet
old enough TO have forgotten the COM
Ipsnionship OF other days, the black
boy who was raised by my side, nor
the comradely sympathy Of my old
black nanny, now dead and gone to
rest, who soothed me with her Groom
ing lullabies sno led me smiling into
oACCF hOA h1NO u AOA kObsCh VIC w 0C
soul Il the trusty slave, keeping o faith
which had no parallel in history"
This then, is the only compliments
~ remark which this "child of black
nanny" could Hnd to say concerning
her and her offspring. He then makes
the following reference to the Negroes
origin:
'If science thus demonstrates the
Negroes mental interiority, certainly
history, dating as far back as to the
time OF Pepi, Of the vi Dynasty OF
Egypt, 2 800 years B. o., proves his
phyiogeny TO have been of an Inferior
type, and that the general characteris-
tics of the Negro OF that date were the
same as those of the Negro OF equato-
rial Africa to-day"
And again:
From the time of Genesis aud the
curse of Canaan: "a servant of SER
wants sh alt thou be TO thy BRETHREN
the Negro has belonged to subordI-
nate race, and ancient history has left
no records OF his achievements as war.
rior, king or councillor, but along its
whole pathway he has plod in servi.
tude, even from the day when the Oy-
renian was laid hold upon and made TO
bear the Cross OF the fsintiog Christ"
This is drastic language, as unfortu.
nate as it is untrue. The Negroes origin
is tracesble to HAM and the Hamitic
races were the pioneers OF civilization.
Ito them is traceable science, Iitera-
ture and art.
According to DR.. HoDGKs, ability lie
synonymous with white, and no mat
ter how black race may be, il it has
ability. it is white or has an Anglo
Saxon ancestry.
To prove this, he won rob Us of the
manly qualities of even the Negroes OF
Africa. Here is what he says:
This new issue of the race, essen.
TALLY ignorant and superstitious, vic.
ious and impulsive, idle and Improvid
emit, mentally never more than O half
grown child, without self. con id ence
or ambition, without originality or
psrsistency Of purpose; descended
from the most inferior and degraded
race OF West Coast Africans, noS at ali
equal Co the Kaftirs or Zulus of South
ern Africa or the 5oudansse OF North
ern Africa-this type of the second
generation, which to-day confronts
our Southern civilization, is to any I'M
biased mind worse than the frat"
He concludes his remarks az foil 1ws:
"No, the Negro will remain with us
ii the South, II he will but give up his
AaDira eiOus tn fnll aitjzanahin and oop
tde his education and governments to
the whites, who, in times past, have
proved their love for him-remain in
peace, remain to fill the offices for
which God and nature designed him,
remain TO be the white mans servant.
'hewers OF wood and drawers Of wat
err"
We did not know that such type of
white man as DR.. HeDaEs lived in
Richmond. Freedom of the Negro has
soured his temperament aRd clouded
his Judgment. He lives in tha mast