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

sensa tionalists who think that the day IS
coming when the Anglo-Saxon Will make
holocaust of the negro-Such PROPOSE
ton is simply preposterous for l am no
pessimist, and 1 have too much faith in
human kind not to believe that white
supremacy VIII make itself felt before
that day to the everlasting good of the
negro race.
No, the negro will remain with US in
the South, if he will but give up his
aspirations to full citizenship and con1ide
his education and government to the
whites, who, in times past have psoved
their love for .him-remain in peace, re-
main to fill the Offices for which God and
nature designed him, remain to be the
white mans servant, '.hewers of wood
and drawers of water" Some kind of
restraining and inhtbitory influences such
as once characterized the institution or
slavery, must be thrown around him as
safeguard for many years to come, or
there will be a continued degeneracy and
tendency to a reverslon TO his primitive
type as a savage
He must eliminate himself directly from
the body polite, and the education which
he is capable of taking Will the better
fit him 10 :gravitate to his appointed
place in ne onward march of Southern
civilization. This is the problem for the
South; to carry these two races in peace
for discord means ruin; TO carry them
separately, for assimilation means de-
basement; to carry them in equal justice.
for to this she is pledged: to carry them
even unto the end. for this is her destiny.
This burden no other people bears 10
day, on none other hath it ever rested.
OFFICERS ELECTED
The second days work of the conven-
ton Of the American Medico-Psychologicd
Association was begun yesterday morning
at 10 O'Clock at the Jefferson.
The report Of the Council was submitted
and number We're elected for active ana
associate membership in the Association.
The election Of officers of the Associa-
ton was quickly disposed Of The Of
tlcers elected were as follows: President,
Dr. P. NJ. Wise, of New. York city; Wee
President, DR.. r. J. Preston, OF Marion.
Va; Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. c. 3.
Burr. of Flint. Mich. Councillors-Drs.
5. p. Smith, of Indiana; William Malone,
of New York; Joseph Russell, OF Ontario;
and A. B. Richardson, of District OF CO.
lunb.a. Auditors-Dr. VIM. NJ. Edwards,
or Michigan, and DR.. w. B. Lyman. OF
Wisconsin.
vIRGINIAS INSANE.
Dr.. r. J. Preston, of Marion, Va, read
paper entitled Some Statistics and a
Partial History of the Insane in Viz
10 give some partial history of the insane
in Virginia. sad he. He claimed that
Virginia constructed the first hospital Tor
the insane in this country at Williams
burg. He told of the number or the m
sane in the hospitals OF the State Inc
number of insane in the hospitals of the
State are as follows:
Eastern State Hospital. 564; Western
state Hospital. $40: Southwestern Hospi-
tai 3Ss: Central Hospital, So. The total
porula ton of the insane in Virginia Is
about 16,559.s0. The increase of the white
and colored insane in the State has been
about the same ratio--50 per cent.
PAPERS READ AND DISCUSSED.
Dr.. W. Z. Drewry ana DR.. j. N. Hen
t:erson. OF Petersburg, submitted a paper.
which was read by title only, on the sub
iect OF clinical Study Of Thr> old Ex-
tract, Dr. Drewry was absent. owing to
illness.
DR.. H. Ernest Schmidt. of White Plains,
N. y. submitted a paper on ''Myxoedanal