The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-05-10
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liff.rencs between Oudurman and
London about measures the difference
between, the black and white. In
1isputably great, that 1T admits Of
measurement is questionable.
So far as am advised, the Sudan.
ESQ are the finest race Of the whole
4 f.ican species. Physically, they
are tall, as a whole Informed; and,
IN their savage way, they are lndis
outably courageous. Yet in them
not the slightest inherent power OF
development has as yet come to tbe
surface. Baker, after living amoDgst
taem for years, calls attention to the
striking elementary fact that, since
the beginning of time to the day that
cow is, they have neither dcmesttcat'
I'D the elephant nor invented pottery.
AS respects pottery the Chinese, for
instance, were "as civilized as they
ire at the present day when the Eng
lish we're bsrbarisns;" the Hindoos
1omesticated the elephant at a period
now beyond the memory Of man. TO.
lay the Africans uses the gourd, and
xills the elephant for his ivory!
Baker was q rough, typical John
Bull; and as an authority ON the sub.
CT Of the negro what he wrote Is
very open to question. 4 sportsman
more even than an explorer, he look
ed with contempt and DISLIKE on the
natives; yet he got along with Them
and dominated them. He was truth
tul and just In his dealings with
chem, even II he did, when the
emergency came, lash out with strong
;eru arm It would be we'll to Offset
ais evidence and inference with those
Of Livingstone. But, when all allow
.nces are made, there Is for Ameri
,ans much food for thought In Bakers 8
conclusions. His verdict on the
Sudanese was at any rate explicit. -
II believe that 10 years residence IN
Sudan and this country would spoil
an angel, and would turn the best
heart to stone. And again-the
apathy, indolenca dishonesty COM
oined with dirtness, are beyond des.
.ription; and their adherence OF
anything like order increases their
natural dislike to Europeans. The
following we also have observed 10
America-''In childhood I believe
the negro to be In advance In intellec
tusl quickness, Of the white child OF q
similar ago, but the mind does not
expand-it promises fruit, but Goes
aot ripen; and the negro has grown
in body. but not advanced in intel
lect." Ia this respect, ss the In
lividusl, so is the race. I'm no in
stance has he evinced other than
retrogression, when once freed FROM
restraint :. and his natural in
,tincts being a love of idleness and
savagedom, he will assuredly relapse
into an idle or savage state, unless
specially governed and forced by In
iuStry." The restraint" in this
case is not necessarily physical; II
may be moral; but contact with the
white man Is necessary to keep the
negro from retrogresslon. He has
never invented anything not letters,
nor numbers, nor tools, nor harmony,
nor arts, nor architecture; nor has
ne voluntarily adopted anything, e1'
,ept rum and firearms. He taught
himself to handle implements and
Weapons, both of the rudest and
most elementary kind; and he car
5slk. There his development stops.
In architecture, he has not progress
Cd beyond the cave, the hovel and the
aest. In letters he has not devised a
symbol for a sound. In science, bis
tights represent the sum total of bis
capacity for computation. Art,
poetry, music,---it is the same old
story! Religion, lay, medicine--to
lay the natives of Uganda are per-
.shing by thousands from a strange
spidemic known as the sleeping
,ickne,s" The prevailing scientific
c)nviction is that 1T Is caused by a
poisonous insect Of the mosquito
,pi cIes, to whose attacks the negro Is
peculiarly exposed from the fact that,
unlike the Hindu, for example, be
,as not yet got SO far as to invent
garments, and cover his nakedness
And the worst CT 1t Is thSt, being
bus, he is stationary. The instinct
IS we'll as the desire for development
3 lecgirg. Such being the indiSrut-
able fact, Baker, writing In 1865,
closes his long enumeration Of coad''
ilons with a startling corollary-' ST
oug as IL Is generally considered that
the regro and the white man are tc
oa governed by the same lava 9nn
guided by the same management, 81
eng will the former remain thorI
in the sida OF every community tt
which be may unhappily belong"
II true, this strikes at the very
root of our American polity-the
equality of man before the law. W.
cannot conform to it. II the fac1
must be conceded-so much the worse
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