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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1912)
GENERAL ROBERT TOOMBS SAYS NEGRO IS INFERIOR Remarkable Interview by Georgia’s Late Gif ted Statesman The last time I saw Robert Toombs was a year or so before his death. I met him on Deca tur street alongside the Kimball House. Of course, I asked him a question or so, and in about five minutes he gave me the best in terview for the length on record. “General," said I, “are the ne groes an inferior race?" “Yes, beyond all debate —a very inferior race. Listen a moment to a little story from Holy Writ. The Most High, at whose altars slave-holding priests ministered, tells us that Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet. Indis putable history shows that Ja phet’s descendants penetrated to Europe, Shem’s stayed in Asia, and Ham’s went to Africa. “Now then, the three had an equal start. Japhet representing the white face, or Caucasian, stands for the highest modern civilization, illustrated in the lit erature, science, art and all forms of progress by the people of Eu rope. Shem, representing the brown face, or Mongolian race, second, but not a good second. See what the Chinese, the Hin doos, the Japanese, all pagan peo ple. have done in the Orient and know that they have been out stripped in the grand race for betterment. “As for Ham, he was, as any ten year old school boy ought to know, incontinently left at the post. A savage in Africa he re mained, and a very low order of savage—far below the barbarism of Goth and Hun in the German forests; far below even the Tar tars, from whose stalwart loins sprang the great Russian people; far below even the American In dian, who heard God in the thun der and saw Him in the wild winds. “There remain these three — Japhet, Shem, Ham. All had a fair, equal start in the great race of life. Japhet leads, and will forever lead. Shem is a bad second and will remain so. Ham was left at the post, because in him was no element of civiliza tion. The only touch of civiliza tion that he enjoyed was by con tact with the Caucasian. And but for slavery, Ham’s people would never have seen civiliza tion. “Their thanks are due English and Yankee slave traders, who bought them from black, savage kings, where they w* re found, ‘as servants of servants, ’ accord ing to Noah’s curse of Canaan. “There was nothing in Ham but savagery and ignorance; black, his color, being the em blem, as white was the type of intelligence in Japhet. “Will the negro rise? Never! Nothing but contact with civili zation holds his head above the black waters of the lowest sav agery. Left to himself, he will sink into the same barbarism, always characterizing the black millions, which Ham could never in Africa rise above! “An inferior race,” declared Mr. Toombs, “left to themselves, none are lower in the scale of civilization if as low. As I said in Boston once, I repeat: “If the whole negro race should be swept from the world today it would leave not a single poem, not a single oration, not a single. invention worthy of the remem- j branceof mankind.”—By Smith Clayton in the Atlanta Constitu-1 tion. CINGINNATI-MACON SPECIAL TO CINCINNATI and LOUISVILLE VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY Premier Carrier of the South Lv Macon 2:05 pm Ar Flovilla 3:13 pm Ar Jackson 3:23 pm Ar McDonough 3:53 pm Ar Atlanta 4:55 pm Ar Rome 7:15 pm Ar Chattanooga 9:35 pm _ Ar Memphis 6:00 am Ar Louisville 8;40 am Ar St. Louis 5:40 pm Ar Cincinnati 8:00 am Solid through electric-lighted train of coaches and Pullman Sleeping Cars Macon to Cincin nati. Through Pullman Sleep ing Car to Louisville. Dining Car Service. Connections at Cincinnati for all points North, East and West. For rates and detailed infor mation ask any Southern Rail way Ticket Agent or address, C. A. CARSON, JR., T. P. A., Macon, Ga. p m e Machine Shop JOSEPH L. WAGNER & SON, Proprietors. Bicycle Repairing Machinery erected and repaired; Pipe Fitting, Plumbing, Electric Wiring; Automobiles and Gasoline Engines Repaired. WANTED: Scrap Iron,Brass,Copper,Lead BARGAINS -AT THE QUALITY DRUG STORE One Tooth Brush . 25c One Box Pearl Tooth Powder . . 25c 50c Both for 25c We have only a limited number, sojbe sure you get yours. Slaton Drug Cos. Tka 'R&KCxJUL-Siara BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS. Troy E. Heard Passes Away Mr. Troy E. Heard, a promi nent citizen of Dublin district, died at his home near Sandy Creek Sunday afternoon at one o’clock. Death was due to a stomach trouble and other com plications. Mr. Heard was 36 years of age and a member of a prominent family of the county. He was a nephew of Capt. J. W. Heard, of Flovilla. Surviving Mr. Heard are his wife, who was before marriage Miss Sallie Andrews of Jasper county, and two children. The funeral was held at Sandy Creek Monday afternoon at two o’clock and was largely attended. 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