The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-05-09

BOSTON GENTLEMAN,

Negro Was the Natural EqucI of
the White Man But Who
Has Now Modified His
Views.
The following extracts are from a
remarkable article in the Century
Magazine for My og Caarlss Francis
Adams, M. Adams is well and favor
ably known as holding Conservative
views on many questions affecting the
South. HIS opinions CT the negro and
OF the future of the negro race which
have been, psrforce, readiustsd after
8 closer contsct with the black man
in bis home and at his bsst, are slgnl-
fcant as showing the tendency Tow
ard fuller knowledge OF the race ana
truer appreciation OF its possihlli-
ties. The article should be widely
read, marked, and digssted.
BLACK AFRICA.
AS to Om6urnan (Jhis name is pro-
nounced with the accent on the last
SYLLABLE: the town is only six miles
FROM K 7artum) the morning Ct sbru-
sry ll5i spent there proved most in.
teresGing and sirgulary suggestive.
FIR the first time saw Afrtca-not
Egypt, but black Africa-its streets,
its inhabitants, its uar,s: Its psopla.
AS an American. it then came direct.
IL home to me what those people were
and how they lived. I looked On the
larzest native city Of a STATIONARY
barbsrous contirent-the chief CON-
mercial centre Of an "inferiorrace'-
and, comparing it with London, Paris
or New YORK, those material outcome
Of the two species indicated the differ
enve OF their capacities. For, Ct
course, races ike individuals OF the
same race, must be measures and
classed by their visible output: aid as
Omdurnan is to London, so is the AZ
ricad to the Anglo Saxon, D.ssiLc-ly
the difference is too great to admit OF
neasurment. And then Genes tie
awful corollary: Whist is the duty
and what the function OF abe super
ior to the inferior race under e1is Ting
condition, end in the present advan-
ced stage Of civli:Z3ticn? Can we,
have we right to wrap ourselves IN
our somewhat Pnarisaic individuality
and taking care Of ourselves, leave
the less developed, or wholly undeVel-
oped, to work out through force AID
fraud destiny which is no destiny at
all? Unless as IN tie fcrner Suoan
an unrendirg tale Of violene and
wrong be termed e destiny. But il
we have not such right, and are IN,
der an obligation, what l asked my.
self, becomes OF all my ptTosophica
theories hsrstofore so confidently I'D
vanoei2 / ccnse IS to a faltering. Nj
morning at Ondurnan, ano my sub
souent days in equatorial Africa, were
in this respect pointedly suggestive
indisputably educational. Wien thus
face to face with such problem one
ponders good deal. ............
In his description Of the dreary rs
gion known as Subtle region be-
tween Lake No and Gondokoro-Bs.
ksr refers to the natives and be
wrote in 1864 what these who follow
in the track be blazed might write
today-"they ars something superla-
tive in the way OF savsges; TIE men
as naked as they came into the world
their bodies sucbed with ashes and
their hair stained red by plaster OF
ashes and COWS urine And sgsin
he adds-''the weather today (Jau
q, 1869 is dull. oppressiVely. and
dead calm. AS usual ed6less marshes
and mosquitoes. I never either saw
or heard OF SO disgusting a country as
that bordering tie White Nile from
Khartun to this point" 4 finer
mosquitc-bree6ing locality could not
be imagined; yet they did not annoy
Us to any noticeble extent, Tney were
indisputs bly, there; and they bother
ed, making mosquito netting at
nights a necessity, and nosquito-bcots
in the evenings very desirable; but
they were neither more numerous
nor ncre yencmcus than, in their
season, here on the banks Of Boston's
Charles; ana the stories hesrd con
corning them struck Us good mos
quito proof Americans as greatly ex-
agge1atsd. They we're mere mere
babes and 81 CEILINGS con pared With
the genuine jersey breed.
But to return to Bakers narrative TO:
one last extract; he winds up by say
ire-''it is q heart breaking river
without single re6eeming point. l
do not wonder at the failure Of all ex
peditions in this Wretched country. I
could not believe that 50 miserable 9
country existed as the whole OF this
land. There is no game to be seen,
few birds, and not even ccocoolles
show themselves: all the water animal
are hidden in the nigh grass; tnus-
there is absolutely nothing living to
be seen, but dsy sitter day is passed
in winding slowly through the lab,
rinth OF endless marsh" Then re
teering again to the natives at th:,
low abandoned Austrian missionary
station OF Konisa, be says twenty
or Thirty OF these disgusting, ash
sneared, stark-raked b;utes, AIMED
with cI1bs OF hard wood bccught to
point, were lying IDLY about" l. was
jast so at the same landing place or
the 27an Ct February. ~ years later.
The Successors Of those Baker saw
were loiterirg 6 about the Wocdipg sta
tion one OF them man, Old looking
foot in