The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-13

make man better morally or religiously
He is good or bad according to his cranial
development and his opportunities Tor do
| ing good or evil. When you educate you
only stimulate and invigorate that which
is already in the man. In slavery days
the negro had few opportunities for evil
doing. The bent was there but his evil
desires were in restraint. Freedom and
| false teaching turned loose his passions,
| his Incidence and his tendency to pag-
anism His apish trend has saved him
! thus far from idolatry and human sac
rifices.
Robbie Burns never penned more
| truthful line when he wrote:
what though on homely fare we dine.
| Wear holden gray, and a that?
! Gle fools their silk, and knaves their
| wine,
A mans man for a that"
Paraphrased to fit the negro it might
read.
What though in college halls they
walk,
Wear savants gowns and a that;
| Gle cads their books, and let them talk,
a nig's a mig for a that.
And this is one of the irreyocable laws
of nature, for throughout her dominions
there is a perpetual tendency to rever-
| sionary series, or toward some pre-eXist-
| ing form, thus, the tomato for instance
a most delightful and wholesome vege-
table, was brought up by cultivation from
| a little poisonous nodule; and, left to
! its own resources would revert to its
original state in a few generations. The
] domestic hog is an instance in natures
! fauna where cultivation has changed,
! from a savage brute to most scottish
and indolent pig one of Russia's widest
and most ferocious animals. Turn the
| hog loose and the LATEST old grunter will
soon have a raZor-back, sharp tusks and
legs capable of outrunning the feetest
dog. The land itself has the same ten
dency to go back to its original condition
| Poor soils made rich by fertilization, left
alone will in a few years be as poor
as ever, while naturally rich ground iro
poverished by exhaustive cropping re-
leased, will soon regain its fertility.
This universal law of nature includes
all, and man is no exception. The savage
will as certainly revert to barbarism
when the restraining influence OF civil
Zation is withdrawn, as the plant will
degenerate or the lower animal retro
grade. But sayagery is ever at a greater
disadvantage in the race for improve
! ment than the plant or the wild beast,
for under the influence of civilization most
savagcs not only fail to catch the inspira
ton, but actually die and become ex-
tinct when goaded beyond their capacity
for improvement. History shows many
examples of the utter inability of savage
men to take on civilization. The red In
dian of North America, warlille and liv
ing by the chase; the Sandwich Islander
peaceable, docie, indolent and happy
the Australian on his log with snake
for his dinner, and many other tribes
have succumbcd to the influence, and
had their nationality, if not their very
existence obliterated. The negro is the
ono solitary exception whose life and hap
piness have not been menaced by the
/ current OF human progression, and the
negro is the only savage man ever found
/ on this earth whose existence was worth
! preserving. All other savage tribes seem
allied, in their psychic organization to
the irreclaimable wild beasts of the for
est, while the native African bears a
certain theological similitude to our do
nestle animals. The one will pine away
and die under the tyranny of domestic
alton while the other will increase and
multiply grow fat and be happy under
the same conditions. And this is what
makes the negro of use to the world, and
! this is what will prevent his extermina-
! ton. But there is a menace now hanging
over the negro race with more destruc
! tive threatenings than emancipation or
the paitry stipend of suffrage With his
rapid increase, and that siren song from
the North with it's reverberating echoes
IN, hn foIe IN
on the untuned keyboard of the Africans
ear, he will, by his numbers and his
false notions of equality, demand rights
which his maker has denied him and
which his white-skinned brother will
never grant. College diplomas and sa-
wants gowns will turn his head, and
then his Yankee friends will preach to
him a second time from the text of the
New England slave-ships. expou1ded long
years ago on the Guinea coast:
Il am white and I am stronger.
You are black and you are weaker,
And besides you have no business
And no right to be niger
Then goodbye Cuffee,
That mawkish sentimentalism now be-
ing displayed toward the African will
phrase and hypocritcaI exclamation, ''lo
the poor Indian!" which being translated
into practical every day language means,
''the only good Indian is dead Indian"
Trinity calls loudly for freedom. The
| greatest calamity that ever did or can
befall the human race was precipitated
by crawling sophist, who came as
teacher to the ignorant but innocent
children of Eden. He was not only a
self-elected professor of history, but
progposticator of what was to come. He
doubtless saw in e prophetic vision this
hybrid product of greatness, this South
ern wonder of the goth century, and
photographed his image upon the mental
retina of his degenerate but reincarnated
son, knowing that the calcium light of
the Internal Regions would be turned
on from the laboratories of Trinity. And
thus it is that freedom, that conjurins
word of Satan has established a cory
bantic priesthood in our midst.
The sole representative of personal lib
erty worthy of the name Freeman, is