The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16

of the Nile and behold Egypt, the an
cient mother of art and science, the
land of literature, libraries and famous
dynasties, whose crumbling tombs,
ruined temples and gigantic pyramids
furnish the positive evidence that 5000
years ago Egypt was arrayed in the
time worn habiliments of a civilization"
that was, even then, a thousand years
old. Here we find the negro also, but
invariably in the capacity of servants
and slaves.
From the temples Of Hundred Gated
Thebes have been rescued pictures
more than 1900 years old, representing
groups of negroes dancing in the streets
with the same faces, the same cranial
formations and executing the same
wild, fantastic figures that may be seen
today at any genuine, unrestrained
negro breakdown. In another picture
of like antiquity is a graphic presenta-
ton of the renowned Egyptian ruler,
Rameses the Second, making war on
the Africans who are fleeing before him
with exactly such terror depicted in
their countenances as you will recog-
nize today on the faces of any panic
stricken crowd of negroes, while Rame
ses himself standing erect in his war
chariot, as he rides down the fdgitives,
is the highest type of physical manhood,
whose handsome, classic features are
not surpassed by the finest Caucasian
model of modern times The oldest
Egyptian models speak of Africa as
''Nahsi, " "preverse race, " or barbarian
land" Among all the millions of
mummies gathered from the catacombs
of Egypt, only one negro has been
found and that not in Egypt proper,
but in the first cataract of the Nile, in
lower Nubia. This lone negro mum
my is near 1900 years old, and is sup
posed to have been a favorite domestic
slave of some worshipper at the shrine
of Osiris. This proves almost conclu-
sively that the Egyptians did not accord
to the negro the same rights of sepul-
ture universally paid TO their own races,
because it was the duty and custom of
Of the priests to embalm even every
Egyptian pauper. The Egyptians rec
ognized and respected tine indelible line
of division which Omnipotence had
drawn between the original types. The
The brain of the negro to-day is just
what it was fifty centuries ago, II cubic
inches smaller than the brain of the
Teuton and cubic inches smaller than
the brain of the North American Indi-
an, while the Teutonic brain is no larg
or now than it was 1900 years ago, be-
fore he emerged from savagery. In the
brains of the negro and North American
Indian the lower lobes, or animal por
tion of the brain, are developed out of
proportion to the higher or intellectual
faculties
With the ancient Mexicans and Peru
vians, who reached degree Of civiliza
ton, the cranial formations show high
er intellectual and lower animal devel
opment. From the earliest dawn of
the historic age, lhuman civilization is
traceable from different and distinct
centres, Asia, Egypt, Rome, Mexico
and South America aud Europe But
from the primeval and everlasting
darkness of Africa not the faintest
glimmer of light has flashed across the
pathway of the centuries Why is
this? Let the morbid and silly philan-
thropist, who pirates about the ''uniyer-
sal brotherhood of man." answer. Let
him compare the negro in America
with the Caucasian in Africa and he
will find them in the manhood and the
morals and material possibilities of cit
izenship as they we're in the days of the
PharaOhs The Caucasian leaping
into the wilds of Africa, surrounded by
the rayless gloom of hereditary savage
ism, plantsa civil government, hoists the
banner of the Christian religion, estab-
fishes constitutions, laws, literature
and sciences, while with a valOr and
patriotism that "staggers humanity" "
he presents to the world the most sub
lime picture in the heraldry of wars, of
25, 900, 900 undisciplined farmers con-
fronting.25, 900, 900 English soldiers, and
defying to the death, the power and
and resources of the British Empire,
aided and abetted by the sympathies of
the United States government
If the North American Republic, with