The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16
The Negro an IdO1atOr.

cess tingles through their veins. The
blood of Senegambian princess would
stain the genealogy of an Anglo-Saxon
for hundred generations.
And yet we are no nearer to the North
American Indian as race than when
we first invaded the realms of his proud
and ancient domain.
His doom is sealed. We are pressing
him to fate memorable as the extinc-
ton of his mound d-building predecessors.
Why did not the New England Puritans
enslave the Indian as they had the ne
gro? The record shows that they were
equally anxious to do so. 1t was be-
cause they would have found it neces-
sary by the most desperate and costly
methods, to REDUCE the Indian to slav-
cry, whereas the negro had to be ELE-
WAITED to slavery; he had to be lifted
up to the more exhalted station of a
chattel The ownership of the white
man was far higher place than he had
occupied before. The negro accepted
slavery because it advanced him physi.
cally, morally, socially and intellectu-
ally.
Any other race on earth would have
liberated themselves as the Israelites
did. The negro, left to himself, would
not have conquered his own freedom in
ten thousand years
Nations and races like families and
individuals, are entitled only to what
they lawfully inherit, or rightfully
achieve. Whatever they possess, more
than this, must be bestowed as a graf
uity, or come as the product of robbery
or theft. The negro inherited nothing
and achieved nothing in all the ages of
of man. All that he has above the low
est degree of barbarism has been thrust
upon him by the white man. The die
tates of humanity and Christianity ac-
cord HIM the right of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness, the posses.
sion of property and the protection OF
laws made and executed by the white
man.
He is no more entitled to representa-
ton in the government of the State, OF
of the United States, than minor
child is to the possession, control and
disposition of its fathers estate.
The violent, irrational and fanatical
infraction of these normal relations of
the races, established and ordained by
God in his wisdom, is the seed bed of
murder and rape and the blind parent
age of lynch law, The doctrine of the
unity of the human family has long
since been repudiated and relegated by
the patient, profound and exhaustive
researches of the ablest ethnologiststs
in the world.
The long years of continuous and in
telligent investigation devoted to this
question by such men as Agassiz, Pick
ering, Morton, Mott and Gliddon and
many others leave scarcely shadow of
doubt as to the original diversity of
races in the creation of man. OF these,
the Caucasian is the highest and the
negro the lowest in the scale. The ne
gro is the only type of the human race
always and absolutely devoid Of any
native Or inherent element of moral and
intellectual growth.
No archaeologist, ethnologist, anthro-
pologist has ever discovered single
element of self-development or sponta-
neOus evolution in the character of his
organization, when left to himself. All
the civilization he has ever exhibited is
simply the little veneering acquired
from contact with the white man. In
and of himself as a type he has for five
thousand years remained as free from
any shadows of change as the four-foot-
ed wild animals Of his native jungles.
Mott and Gliddon in their magnificent
WOAh VI hAoOOlJ duQ 'OuC0J IuO 1t pOS
of Mankind, tell you that if you could
stand on the highest peak of the noun
tains of Abyssinia and with one grand
sweep of vision could survey the tab
leaux vivants" Of whole continent,
looking southwark beyond Sahara, you
would see Africa with its seventy five
millions of savage negroes; stepped in
the same deep, dark, impenetrable bar
barism that enshtouded them 5, 500 years
ago. Although for centuries the tide
of civilization has flowed around and
over them, it has not made the slightest
impression on them, nor modified in
any shape, form, fashion OF degree the
original negro type. They tell you that