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

Of Livir gstoDe But, when al allow
ances are made, there is for Amerl-
cans much food for thought in Bakers
conclusions. His verdict on the
Sudanese was at any rate explicit
II believe that 10 years residence III
Sudan and this country Woutc spoll
sn angel, and would turn the best
hea.t to stone And again the
apathy, Incidence dishonesty COM
bined With dirsness, are beyond des-
cr;ntior; and their adherence OF
ANYTHING like order increases their
natural dislike to Europeans" The
I Loving We also hsve observed In
Americs-'In childhood I believe
the negro to be In advance In intellec
tusl Qlickness, CT the white child OF q
similar age, but the mind does not
expand--lt promises fruit, but does
not ripep; ard the negro has grown
in body. bat not advanced in intel
lect." Il this respect, as the in
dividusi, so Is the race. In no In
stance has he eviDced other than
retrog when once freed from
restraint and his natural in
stincts being love Of idleness and
savagedom, he will asSuredly relapse
! into an iGle CT savage state, unless
specially governed and forced by in
dustry." The restraint" in this
case is not necessarily physical; it
may be mora; but contact with the
white man is necessary to keep the
uegro from retrogresslon. he has
never invented anything not letters,
nor numbers, nor tools, nor harmony,
nor arts, nor architecture; nor has
he voluntarily adopted anything, e1-
cept rum and firearms. He taught
himself to handle implements sno
weapons, both OF the rudest aod
most elemen-ary kinc; and be can
talk. Thera his development stops.
IN architecture, be has not progress.
ei beyond the cave, the hovel and the
nest. Ia letters be has not devised a
symbol fer sound. IN sc!erce, his
dlgiss represent the sum total OF bis
capacity for computation. Art,
poetry, music,--it is the same old
story! Rsligioa, law, medicine-to
day the natives Ct Uganda are per.
ishing by thousands from a strange
epidemic known as the sleepiaR
sickness The prevailing scientific
Conviction is that it is caused by q
poisonous insect Of the mNquito
sp: cieS, to whose attacks the negro Is
peculiarly exposed from the fact that,
unlike the Hindu, for example, be
mas not yet got 50 far as to invent
garments, and cover his nakedness.
And the worst OF 1t is that, bei7g
thus, he is stationary. The instinct
8 ~ell IS the desire for development
8 lac <isg. S lch baing the indisrut-
able fact, Baker. writing In 1855
clgs=s bis long enumeration OF coadi-
sions with a startling coroll2ry-So
long as it Is generally considered that
the negro and ths white man are to
be governed by the same Laws enc
guided Dy the same management, so
long will the former remain a thorc
in the side Of every community to
which be may unhappiiy belong"
II true, this strikes at the very
root CT our American polity-the
eo1ality CT man before the Law. We
cannot conform to it. II the fact
must be- conceded-so much the worse
:or the fac! By all good Americans
at least, the theory will none the less
be maintained, the principle conf
dently asserted! We are thus con.
f-onsed by 2 condition. The exist
encs Of an unersi:csble and insur.
mounta5!e race difference is indisput-
able. The white man and the black
man cannot flourish together, the
latter being considerable in number,
under the same system Of government
Drawing apart, they will assuredll
become antagonistac. An opposite
theory can be maintained: and Will
wosk with more or less friction where
the white greatly dominates, and the
black elsmenti is a negligible quantity;
when, however, the black predomin
ates, the theory breaks down, and
some prscsicsl solution is reached not
in conformity with it. As Hamlet
was led to observe In quite different
ccnnection--''This was sometime q
pa1sdox, but now the time gives ii
prcof."
What, then, is to be OUT American
outcome? The negro sQusts at our
hesrthstone- we can neither a'similatt
nor expsl him. The situation in
Egypt is com paratively simple. The
country will be developed by Europe
an money and brain; and the African
will find his natural place In the cut
come. Facts will be recognized, and
polity adopted in harmony with
them. Wal the results reached there
react on US in Anerica9-Who now
can Say? The problem Is intricate
Mead while one thing is clear-the
work done by those WHO were in poll.
tical control at the close Of our Civil
war was work done in utter ignorance
Of ethnologic law aid total disregard
Of upalterable fact. Starting the
movement wrong, it will be yet pre-
ductive Of incacu!able Injury to Us.
Tne negro, after emancipation, should
have been dealt with, not as politi-
cal equal, much less forced into q posi-
zion Of superiority; he should have
been treated as a ward and depend
ent- firmly, but in spirit OF kind
cess and absolute justice. Practical.
ly impossible as a policy then, this Is
not less so now. At best, it is sons
thing which can only be slowly and
tentatively approximated. NeVerthe.
less, it is not easy fer one at all ob'
servant to come back from Egypt and
the Sudan without strong suspicion
that We will in America make small
PROGRESS towards solution OF cur
race problem until We approsca it In