The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-07-19
ANOTHER DICKSON.

There lives in Vicksburg, Miss, the
author of "The Black VOLTS Breed"
Harris Dickson man who lets no op-
portunity pass him for making an at
tact on the Negro. He is insanely
fanatical in his hatred toward him.
He moves and has his being in that
atmosphere of hatred. His is a mind
that feeds on, digests and assimilates
nothing but morbid contemplations and
images of the Negro His stock and
store of mental pictures are ever re-
cruited from his gloomy forebodings
over what the Negro is actually accom-
plishing. His dreams are perturbed;
his waking hours are filled with hal
lucinations, and, in fact, his life is
made miserable by the thoughts Of the
possibilities which are presenting
themselves to the Negro and which he
is accepting and turning to account
in a way that tells of advancement
in civic righteousness, material prog
ress and intellectual strength.
Mr.. Dickson is ever casting about
to find material out of which to weave
one of his highly colOred stories OF
yellow" journalism. He prances out
before the public in his latest article,
saying in manner: Look! behold! {!
here is the unimpressible Negro! He
attempts to show that the Negro amid
all the influences surrounding him in
times past has remained stunned and
stolid, a thing that grieved not and
that never hoped. The mighty Egyp-
tian civilization fourished about the
Negro, says Mr.. Dickson, yet he re-
mained unaffected by 1t. He worked
at the building of the wonderful pyra-
mids, vet he learned no more OF them
than did the donkey which assisted
him drawing to their place the mighty
stones; he polished into beauty the
marble columns that made classical the
far-famed Karnac, yet he was dul'
lard to all this grandeur; he sailed the
seas and propelled the commercial
galleys of the Phoenicians, the ven
turesome and hardy mariners OF
their day, yet no lesson of com
merce did he learn, all OF this MT
Dickson asserts in a sort of way thai
seems to try to compel acceptance
and belief. He would have you be
lieve him. who has gathered his few
little pebbles OF information from
preiudicial writings to his liking in hif
yazoo home. rather than DR.. Root, one
of the worlds most renowned archae
| ologist.
| DR.. Roots testimony, which is dla
metrically opposed to that of Mr.. DICK
son. Is without qualification, these
words: at is clearly to be seen ina
the Negro was the first to lead on II
the march of civilization" DR.. Roo
and others claim that Negroes, Egyp
tians and Phoenicians had common
ancestry. These men were honest IN
vestigators and gave their testimony
basing it upon actual investigation
after making due allowances Tor al
collateral theories. DR.. Root delVe'
into the sands of Egypt peered int
the catacombs of the Pyramids at tn
mummies that had lain there undls
turbed centuries upon centuries; h
studied the magnificent ruins of Kal
nae those of ancient Memphis an
others of less renown in the land @
the Pharaohs, but nevertheless intel
esting; he gave to the world fund 9
LIGHT and information on the manners
customs and habits of that intensel
interesting country This great scho
ar says that the Negro was the world
first teacher, and we are willing to a,
cept his opinion to that of the littl
Mississippi author.
But let our enemies howl and sa
, what they will, we, as men and womel
! are going to sweep onward. We al
going to acquit ourselves nobly. "
are going to give to posterity y
/ wrapped up in the matrix of comir
! years the noblest examples of a RAJ
determined to win.