The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
SL C2EZARY BOMAPARTE
 ON RACES

F
 Editor The Advertiser.
 give below the evolution of the Republican partisan attitude on the race question. from Secretary Bona
 parte's address to select conysntion of negroes at Washington. the Young
 Peoples Negro Congress" It reads not inconeistentiy with the Presidents speech at Tuskegee:
 s"The first is the undouhted
 the only. one which has been able to live with the white people, both races increasing and prospering on large scale. Transplanting the race to this
 continent has strengthened, instead or
 The negro lis able to live" with all races. The Creeks, Seminoies and
 Choctaws owned many negro slaves. people owned negro siaves--Spanishy Portugesel Southern poor buckras of pure English blood. Puritans of New slave negroes. The honorable secre- | tary proves too much. In Montgomery are n few Chinese, twenty perhaps.
 who hire negroes but no negro hifes man. When the tribes moved from this side of the Mississippi to Indian l Territory, they set up excellent rep
 organ visited them. He Informed me ,@ ey had as near perfect civil instftu-
 lions as any people on earth except I the Creeks, who had mixed their blood -with negroes, were possibly behind the | man who was sold for $40 He even- | tua1ly owned 150 negroes and his off-
 spring are among the most influential
 sThe proper study of mankind is
 with the most impending future, Mir. to study of the coiored races in their native habitants-oll but Africans. He turned back before she touched them.
 He dld not visit south Airice. wnere s natives, nor Congo Free States, where | the Be1gians are. murdering negroes.
 He did not go to Henry clay's cxpsri- | fans hold the American destiny in the l hollow of their hands if they are fit for that part of their opportunity.
 The honorable secretary might have | that every negro on earth might evap- l crate into thin air before sunset today and mo local convulsion of society nomenon except in the Southern States. | The convulsioh in the Southern States ! that would follow the sudden evapo-, l ration of the negro into thin air. would | eovernment, distress the continent of Europe, drive out three-fourths of the
 ocean carriage of the nations and In | It is evident "the proper study or men is (tfe coloreD man." at this
 present juncture of aaffirs A century | from now, the shame of the Americana | will be their past charletanry Tn the l race question. The negro, brought to 1 these shores a savage. worked himseir
 primitive slavery. fIe did It himself. | The guiding master was necessary to l the process, but the slave worked him
 Sb self np so ths slatary statar s tha sss If Mir Abraham Lincoln had been statesman enough to, keep his eloquent
 mouth shut for one gensraddion hnnds lGngSr in gSc l South would have worked themselves | up from the status of bondage to the
 status of wages. The conclusion .,1aI wss
 causes. Ms. Lincoln interposea. with l the fashionable imperialism of his day. and we have an hundred years of cop. | stars out of their courses.
 | We of the South may as well renectf I that while we are the only organized
 in his present state of life, 1t may De l that we are not capable Of using ana
 assimilating the scum of Italy Hun. Hun.
 started population slowly with only l one Adam and his wife. We have al-
 ready q considerable population in Ala
 whatever that kind of edifice may be. if we can occupy 1t after setting 1t up. 1 Perhaps we might experiment. prof Aiabamians to stay at home rather
 than emigrate. leaving their places to foreign rlff-raff No body emigrateB from New York or Washington City.
 Imagine a splendid new sGapitol of Ala | bama marble on the hill That expe-.
 dient would compel home folk tp see
 and remember home An annual State l Fair, in sight of the now, Capitol, a | spring time season of public entertain:
 ment, the Auburn summer agricultural | school, the University summer school,
 better public school houses, winter
 lectures in every town. etc, etc, sKoulQ
 tend to increase population if needed,
 of the valuable description We den't
 know each other enough and the young ! people get lonesome and move away. | Archibald