The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-05-10

Magazine for May by Charles FRANCIS
Adams, Mr. Adams is well and favor.
ably known as holding conservative
views on many questions affecting the
South. His opinions Of the negro and
of the future Of the negro race which
have been, perforce, readiusted after
q closer contact with the black man
rinehis home and at his best, are signi.
fcant az showing the tendency tow
. ara . fuller knowledge Of the race and
a truer appreciation Of Its possitlli-
ties. The article should be widely
read, marked, and digested.
, BLACK AFRICA. ,... -aa
AS to Omdurman (this nsue is pro.
aouncad with the accent on the last
syllable: the town Is only siT miles
from Khartum) the morning Febru-
sry 1ltb) spent there proved most In.
teregting and siugulary suggestive.
For the first time ] saw Africa-not
Egypt, but black Africa-its strests,
Its inhabitants, its yuarts, Its people.
AS an American. it then came direct
ly homo to me what those people were
and how they lived. I looked on the
largest native city of q stationary
barbsrous continent-the chief com.
mercial centre Of an "inferiorrace"-
and, comparing it with London, Paris
or New York, tnoss material outcome
of the two species indicated the differ
envs Of their capacities. For, Of
course, races like individuals OF the
same race, must be measures and
classed by their visible output: aid as
Omdurman is to London, 30 is the Al
ricad to the Anglo Saxon, Distinctly
the difference Ia too great to admit of
| measurment. And then comes the
awful corollary: What is the duty
and what the function Of abe super
ior to the inferior race under existing
condition, and in the present adVan-
ced stage of civilization? Gan we,
have we q right to wrap ourselves In
our somewhat Phsrisaic individuality
and taking care of ourselves, leave
the less, developed, or wholly undevel.
oped, to work out through force and
fraud a'deshiny which is no destiny at
ali? Unless as in the former Sudan,
an unrending tale Of violene and
wrong be termed q destiny. But II
| we have not such Alright, and; are un.
der an obligation, what j asked my.
self, becomes Of all my philosophical
theories heretofore 90 confidently ad
vsnoe1p Iconsess to faltering My
morning at Omdurman, and my sub
squent days In equatorial Africa were
In this respect pointedly suggestive
ipdisputablV educational. When thus
face to face with such q problem one
ponders a good deal. ............
In his description Of the dreary re-
gion known as Subtitle region be-
tween Lake No and Gondokoro-Ba.
ker refers to the natives-and he
wrote in 1854 what those who follow
IN the trace he blazed might write
today" they, are something superla-
tive iii the way Of sayages; tie men
as naked as they came into the world
their bodies subbed with ashes and
their hair stained red by q plaster OF
ashes and COWS urine" And aeair
re adds the weather today (Jau.
81, 1889 is dull. oppressively, and
dead calm. AS usual eddless marshes
and mosquitoes. I never either saw
or heard of so disgusting country as
that bordering the White Nile from
Khartum to this point" a finer
mosquito-breeding locality could not
be imagined; yet they did not annoy
us to any noticeble extent, They we're
indisputsbly there; and they bother
ed, making Q mosquito netting at
nights Q necessity, and mosQuito-boots
In the evenings very desirable; bu'
they we're neither more numerous
nor more venomous than, in their
~eason. here on tho banks Uf Boston's
Charles; and the stories heard COZ
CSIu4AS uuSA D0t OOh oo koOu nao$
quito proof Americans as greatly e1-
Aggerassd. They we're mere nero
babes and suctlings compared witt
the genuine Jersey breed.
But to return to Bakers narrative for
one last extract; he winds up by say
ing-"it is Q heart breaking river
without q single redeeming point 1
d. not wonder at the failure OF all *
petitions In this Wretched country. |
could not believe that 30 miserable .
country existed as the whole Of this
land. There is no game to be seen,
few birds, and not even crocodileS
SHOW themselves: all the water animal
are hidden in the high grass; thus
there is absolutely nothing living to
bs eeen, but day after day is passed
in winding slowly through tho lab
rinth OF endless marsh" Then re-
feering again to the natives at the
now abandoned Austrian missionary
station of Koniss, he says -"twent'
r thirty Of these disgusting. ss'-
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