The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-24

when in the war of 1872 the English fleet
under Admiral Cochburn carried off large
number OF negroes from Tidewater Viz
ginia to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and there
colonized them, has been likewise a dis
| NAL failure, for 1 am informed by an eye
witness that, though left to themselves and
supplied with all the privileges Of educa-
ton, they have dwindled to a mere hand
full, and are living in q condition OF poverty
and degradation that will sooner later
end in a state of brutal savasery.
QUESTION OF EDUCATION.
1t may be pertinently asked if education
would the better fit this race for the re-
sponsibiities before them. Surely SO, but
thd history and statistics of the past thirty
five years in the South show that the negro
neither desires q full and systematic edu-
cation nor has he, as class. received any
substantial benefits from it, for though
there may be an occasional CLEAN of in
tellectual brilliancy, 1t is the exception and
the dark pail of ignorance still beclouds
the race Of Southern negroes, although
the public school system, 1920 of whose
cost has been paid for by the whites, has
been their common privilege. Before this
method OF eeva ting the negro can be re-
lied upon for their material advancement,
experience has shown that the methods of
education now in vogue must be changed,
and that it must be industrial and me-
chanical, and, above all, that it must be
directed by the maturer wisdom OF the
whites in order that intelligence may give
dignity and beauty TO his labor, and that.
added to this, religion and morality may
be weaved into the wool and warp of the
! practical affairs OF the negros daily life.
In order to uplift this race the eypari-
lnent Of amalgamation and miscegenation
has also been suggested, but Southern
civilization stands aghast at such a
thought. If such should ever occur it
will be the first time in the history OF man
that Teutonic stock has SO fallen. The
Latin races naturally mingle their blood
with any race they touch, but the Teu-
tonic roots never.
And. Furthermore. no one need fear taat
the negro race will SO increase that nu-
merically they will drive out the whites,
for # I had the time and opportunity
could prove from statistics t:1at ther
growth is not so real and so alarming as
it may appear for the enormous increase
OF the negro since the war has had much
to do with his physical and intellectual de-
generacy, and in the end, if not counter
acted, will react by q reverston TO MS
primitive type
The .Anglo-Saxon blood has never yet
gone down before any race, and never
will. Says Grady:
ANGLO-SAXON BLOOD.
always and everywhere. 1t fed Alfred
when he wrote the charter of Eng,is
Liberty: it gathered about Hampden as
he stood beneath the oak; it Numbered
in Cromwe!l's veins as he fought his king;
it humbled Napolean at Waterloo; 1t has
touched the desert and jungle with
/ undying glory; it carried the drumbeat
of England around the world and spread
on every continent the gospel Of liberty
and of God: it established this republic,
carved it from the wilderness. conquered
it from the Indians. wrested it from
England, and at last. sitting its own
tunlut. consec-ated it forever as the
home OF she Anglo Saxon and the theatre
OF his transcend:ns achievement. Never
one foot of II can be surrendered while
8 tfat blood lives in American veins and
feeds American hearts to the DONNA ton
OF an alien and inferior race.
speak this In no spirit of prejudice
s or malice. I but state a fact, but speak
the truth. Neither do agree with those