Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-04-05
THE RACE PROBLEM.

THE RACE PROBLEM.
DR.. Martin 2. Scott, of Washington
formerly Of Fsuquier county, Va, hsi
written letter in answer to Col. Mos
by's paper, "Dawn Of the Real South.
He Gays Col. Mosby sets forth the
opinion that the negroes are certain to
be absorbed by immigration. and in
this epgulfmeDt they will disappear. u
He says: This is the natural and
wisest solution OF what We now call the
race problem"
CJl. Mosby is not alone 10 bis views
as to the wisest and natural solution OF
the race problem. Wendell Phillips
left his views, as follows:
Remember this, the youngest OF
you, hat on the Fourth day of July,
1868, you heard man say that, 10 the
light Of all history, in virtue OF every
page be ever read, he was an amalga.
matioDist to the utmost extent. have
no hope for the future, as this country
has no past, but in that sublime ming.
ling OF the race which is Gods own
method of civilizlDg and elevatiDg the
world"
Bishop Gilbert Haven entertains
-imllar views.-He is recorded to have
said:
I'VE shall live to see Helen's beauty
in a brow OF Egypt. We shall say, what
a rich complexion is that brown skin.
We shall be attracted to this hue be-
cause it is one o. Gods creations, and
beautiful one, too; because 1t is the ia
vori hue OF the human race; because
chiefly, we have ost wickedly loathed
and scorned it. This law is the grand
undertoue of all marriage. Amalga
nation is Gods word declaring the one
oets of man, and ordaining its univer-
sal recogni ion. ."-Nstional Sermons.
Canon Rawlinson says:
1t seems that amalgamation Is the
true remedy for the presence of negroes
in the United States, and ultimate sb-
sorption OF the black race into the
white, the end to be desired and aimed
at.
In regard to the ultimate amalga-
lion of the two races, II something be
GOT done to end this commiDgling OF
slack and white, l have little doubt;
but the wisdom OF it Is quite another
thing. II the object is alone to elevate
the negro, that is the way, and the only
wav to 10 1t, but such q remedy will as
certainly lower and degrade the white
race. but what OF the CIVILIZATION that 1t
alone has created? Amalgamstion of
the whites and negroes OF the South
would produce the mesnest race of peo-
pie on this planet. 1t would set us back
70 the time when Cain fad east OF
Eden, married some dark maiden, and
built q city. The African is nearly at
the bottom OF the scale OF human races,
while our Ayran white is at the top.
The African has, we know, lived
during nearly 5000 years on one Of the
finest continents of our planet. He
has left no greater sign than the quad
rumsns, among which he has lived.
Had he been blotted cut Of existence
the world would have been the betler,
for he has ruined every race with which
be has come in relation. He has ruin
ed Africa, and, laisst faire, he will ruin
the U lifted S.ates.
Won Tschudi, noted scientist. speak
ing OF the mixed races OF South Ameri.
ca, SAYS:
As a general rule 1t may be fiirly
said that they unite In themselves all
the faults without any of the virtues OF
their progenitors. As men they are
generally inferior to the pure races,
and as members of society they are the
worst class If cilizens.-Travelers in
Peru.
DR.. KneeIaDd, OF Boston, has given a
borrid picture OF miscegenation 10 that
eity--s diseased, mongrel set.
The colored population is more 10.
telligent than the negro In proportion
Of the degree OF white blood. In other
respects, they are IL fsrior. The head
is the chief structure Of man. Agassiz
has said that the brain OF the negro de-
velops only to the sizs Of the European
boy of twelve years. Also that 10 Ger.
tain respects il resembles the brain OF
the orang-outang.
Miscegeoation with the negro will
give US q nation of Griquas, q tribe Of
South Africa, resulting from Q mixture
OF Beers and Hottentots. The negro
has done nothing toward the advance
mept cf civilization during lifs Of |, 900
years.
WHAT has the Avyan race accomplish.
ed? Well, read;
With the Aryan races has originated
everything that is highest 10 science, 10
art, in law, in politics. and in mechanical
inventions. In their hands the present
moment lies the order OF the social
world, aod 10 them Its progress Is COM
mitted.-Huxley.
Would you substitute for such q race
a mongrel set OF Griquas?
The negro problem must be consider
ed, not from the point of view OF what
the negro ought to be, but what he can
be. This race problem is one of the
most difficult with which We have to
deal. II should be considered anatomi.
cslly. physically, psychologicslly, aud
historically. -,
lam satisfied that il the colonel will
thus consider it be will agree with me
that the very worst solution will be the
amalgams.ion OF the two races.
The great Arysn race must not De
sacr.f e ,ed to the negro.