The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-09

| in him. the tendency to rule and dominate l which is already beginning to appear wherever he sets his foot. If to this | innate sense of dominatioE he wln only add the wisdom born of the centuries of contact, then he will be fitted for his great career as the world-controlling race. That there must be some extraordinarily powerful and wise people to govern and direct the teeming millions which modern invention has brought together is appa- | rent to the most superficial. Are we not | to be that people?
 I Then there is another aspect of the effect of American slavery. This Is the | fact the American negroes ought to sup- | ply the main body from which the eleva- ton of the African savages must proceed. I have already shown that any wholesale emigration to Africa is totally beside the work But there is plenty of room for many thousands of the best American negroes to work with and for the African cousins and these Ameircan negroes | ought to be encouraged to go over to Africa to commit themselves definitely to That work.
 | cannot close this part of this question without referring to a conversation had some time. since with ex-Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain, of South Carolina. It so happened that Governor Chamberlain was stopping at a house directly, across the street from my, fathers home In Co., | iumbia. South Carolina, and that hap pened to be in Columbia at the time. Some of the readers of these articles may not be aware that Mir. Chamberlain was the most famous of all the "carpet bagger' Republican Post Bellum South ern Governors. He was originally from Massachusetts. and is personally a gem | tleman of polished manners, of high in- | taltnrfna1 .lf aa1 r,oIf nl | ability. He is far from being .he scala wag and place-hunter that most e his fellows in the days of good-stealin& cer- tafnly were. Governor Chamberlain en- | joyed more respect and confidence from the people of South Carolina than any of the others of his comrades. He was compelled to retire from political power | in 1876, as the result of the election of General Hampton, and as the out | come of the arrangement by which the | electoral vote of the state was given to Hayes in consideration of his non-inter- | ference with the Democratic control of State affairs. What may lend peculiar interest to the words which Mir. Cham- berlain said to me in Columbia twenty five years after he had left in disgust. is the fact that my father had been one of the foremost in the forcible entry I to the hall of the House of Representa-
  was turned out. It was in that way that Mir Chamberlain came to know my fa- ther-as one of the Democratic fred shirts" of '76 When he learned of my life and work in Africa, he was not only | surprised but greatly interested. So | when the opportunity came. I was glad to meet him, to hear what he could now say to me on the negro question. The | former missionary from Massaehusetts fn SOtrfh Carolina fba oi0tta arxr from South Carolina to Central Africa met to exchange views! We'll, I found that MT. Chamberlain had become n thor ough convert to my way of thinking. He had long since become convinced that the Northern propaganda of sentimental foolishness, was a mistake in the past. and a crime at the present. Ills work in South Carolina, which every one who knew him well admits was at least hon. est and sincere. was a failure, colossal and monumental. because it was founded upon the sandy basis of the capacity of the negro for political independence and self-direction.
 After had told him about my exper- fences in Africa, to all of which he was most attentive listener, the aged ex- Governor, as he rose to say goodbye, and looking across the street to the resi- dence which the love and veneration of
 
 for the old age of Wade Hampton, said sadly, but with earnest emphasis, q cannot say that tnvy you your under taking; but do not fall into the mistake we once made and expect too much of the negro.'
 In an able article in the Atlantic Monthly. MT. Chamberlain has set forth at length his views on the subject of the futility of the Reconstruction theory, and it furnishes food for thought.
 The consensus of opinion among those who are fire from the illusions of senti- ment. which blinds some white people, or from the delusions of vain hopes, which inspire some colored men, is to the effect that If we are to help the Afri- can, at home or abroad, we must treat him as a child in his present status as a race. and we must provide for him as the benevolent and good in all ages have provided for the orphan children of so- ciety. Control them, train them, restrain them, correct them, allow no undue self assertion but provide for full self-devel- opment and then our great race will go on to it's high destiny, side by side with that race which God has been raising up for its share in worldwide elevation and redemption.