The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-09
PART Y.

PART V.
 The story of the relations of the Ameri- can and African continents is one of tho most wonderful and romantic in history. When Europe came to America, she soon brought Africa along with her. In two centuries the negroes in America num- bered more than the Indians when Co lumbus found the new world. The phil- osophic statesman cannot look at this accumulation of African people in the midst of totally alien race without pro found interest. There has been only one case of the kind in history before. The whites of Hindostan allowed the con quered blacks 10 survive in their midst. and the heterogeneous population of mod ern India has resulted. The two issues of most importance in this situation in America today are the effect of the pres ence of the negro in the midst of the dominant white race and the effect of the present status of the negro here on the life and destiny of his cousins in Africa.
 The first of these issues Is strictly for eign to this discussion. except wherein the experience of America can teach Africa. But in this there Is much of the greatest importance. In the first place, note what two centuries of a different environment has done for the people brought from the depths of savsgery into vital relation with the most powerful and progressive nation on earth. The white man found the negro in the jun gles of Africa a savage, and a heathen. He has made of him a civilized man and Christian. Whatever may be said of slavery. it was certainly the most eff fective agent of elevation ever known to mankind. With all the work of for eign missions for a century, under the powerful impetus of the militant Chris tian religion. the results have not shown up numerically one-twentieth the num- Der of church members that are DOW found among the American negroes. The saye-owners without any religious mo- tive directly whatever, has been made in- directly the means of changing from a non-Christ!en to a Christian people more men, women and children than have been added to the church as tho result of di- rect mission work in all history What is the underlying philosophy of all this? It is the fact of the close personal civsli- zation. This would not have happened for ages. if the negroes had been left segregated and their civilization left en- tirely to the work of the white men who would go to reside in isolated groups in their midst. It takes an immense stream to cleanse the Augean stables of African life. Nothing less than the total inclu-
 
 polite of the Caucasian could accomplish the immense results We find around US. Then. too, an indirect result nf thls en- forced migration to America of so many Afric ans was undoubtedly the principal cause of the awakening interest which began 10 be manifested in the continent from which they were taken. The slave trade led to African exploration. Explo- ration led to scientific curiosity and to religious opagandisni. These in turn, led to public interest. Public interest led to further exploration, and to settlement Settlement led to territorial acquisition This led to the partition of the continent among the European powers. The first slave landed on the shores of the New World was the fore-runner of the occupa- ton of Central Africa by the British Government
 But the presence of this alien popuIa- tion has caused much perturbation to the minds of thoughtful men. What will the outcome be? Looking at the case of In- dia, already referred to, we find that as- <similation of the black races, by the for eign intruders, was the beginning of the gradual decline of the whole population Of that country. The land which success fully resisted the phalanx'of Alexander, when the Hindoos were an unmixed race : succumbed to a handful of British trad