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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MARCH 14. 1884.
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
The Reviewer Roviewed«Fnl«e State
ments Exposed and False Reason
ing Refuted—An Experiment
Station Suggested.
BY **V. w. J. SCOTT.
One of the latest contributions to the lit
erature of this subject may be found in the
January number of the (Northern) Jfetfuh
dut Quarterly Review. It is from the pro
lific pen of Dr. Abel Stevens, of New York
who for the time being is a resident of
Paris. Dr. 8. is one of the advanced
thinkers of his denomination and is of no
mean reputation amongst them
church historian. He may therefore be
regarded as a representative man. It is
this fact that gives to his article its chief
value and that alone entitles it to a reply.
It proffers, also, a solution of the negro
problem which indicates the drift of pop
ular sentiment in the Northern Methodist
chu^k. That church in numerical
strength and possibly in political influence
occupies the front rank amongst our ec
clesiastical organizations. This, solution
which Dr. Stevens claims to be the final
and historical adjustment of the whole con
troversy respecting the negro reveals alike
the weakness and desperation of
RADICAL STATESMANSHIP.
Rightly interpreted it is a reluctant con
fession that their former methods have
been the merest political abortions. It
clearly imports that emancipation has
been a failure—that the conferring of the
ballot has been a cheat, and that educa
tion, elementary or higher, is itself a delu-
sion. The entire Radical programme in
cluding the constitutional amendments
and the exploded civil rights bill, which
were foisted on the country by bayonet
rule, are tacitly acknowledged to be utterly
inadequate to the elevation of the negro to
a plane ot equality with the white race.
As the last resort of baffied trickery, as
the forlorn hope of a sinking party, we
have now thrust upon us the naked issue
of unrestricted intermarriage on this con
tinent.
Here and there throughout Ids elaborate
article Dr. Stevens affects an ojKj’.ogetic
tone, which shows that he is either lacking
in the thoroughness of conviction, or else
that he has a set purpose to mislead the
incautious reader. At other times he is
outspoken in his utterances-as when he
says that “the prejudice which ordained
4Tia Vnlnr linn’ nmnneret til was an PPrt>-
and rose-colored wophecies. he is evi
dently fearful of tfly negro’s destiny when
brought in conflict with the white race.
Between the lines we read—“Help me,
Cassius, or I sink.” After taxing his brain
to its utmost tension,. he can see no con
ceivable solution of the African (?) prob
lem except
COLONIZATION OR AMALGAMATION,
thereby virtually saying education is good
—the 'elective franchise is helpful—Fed
eral legislation may put off the evil day.
But nothing short of wholesale expatria
tion or gradual extinction by intermar
riage with the higher race can save the ne
gro from the bondage of a caste more rigid
than that of Kindoolsm. Were we not
justified in saying that Dr. Stevens’s article
revealed the weakness or desperation of
Radical statesmanship?
We have somewhere read of a learned
Buddhist who spent u score of years In the
speechless contemplation of his own navel.
It is fair to conclude that in the process of
years this self-absorbed devotee came to
regard his umbilicus as the hub of the
universe. So probably with our venerable
opponent. He has so long considered the
negro as the principal factor in American
civilization, that his brain is confused and
his statesmanship decidedly muddled. He
may, however, put away his apprehen
sions. A kind providence and sound
statesmanship will care for ‘‘our brother
in black.” The negro will find, and if
wisely let alone by silly marplots, will
keep liis proper social level. Barring ex
ceptional cases, he will continue to eat and
sleep and labor at intervals, as he has done
oini'o (lio /lntxrn rtf-'UlouffAtl fr*»Pflf»ni." In
iy.
t is no exaggeration to say that
many of the better tribes even
knot and gender like frogs in the marshes
or fiies in the shambles. And this with
out regard to color, race or condition. In
Hayti we have the first fruit of miscege
nation as seen in the bloody combats of
blacks and mulattos, but throughout Af
rica we see its rine fruits in a physical and
moral degradation that has scarcely a
parallel on the globe. We have little hope
of a brighter destiny for Africa, short of
the providential extinction of the existing
races. Commerce and Christianity are
potent factors, but hitherto ihey have ac
complished but little. It is idle, < herefore,
to dream with the great Livingstone oft a
Christian empire in the heart of the conti
nent. or to prophesy with Dr. Stevens of
a good time coming when the Congo shall
be a ct inmerciui thoroughfare for the
nations.
Dr. Stevens next turns his attention to
TROPICAL AND SOUTH AMERICA,
as a promising field for ne
gro colonization and amalgamation.
We are free to assert that nowhere outside
of Africa have the evils of amalgamation
been more clearly defined than in Spanish
America. Mexico, the ancient empire of
the Aztecs, chiefly from this cause has be
come the jest and riddle of the political
world. The higher 8panish classes have
preserved their blood from this shameful
pollution. But the remainder of the pop
ulation arc a mongrel blood, the product of
cohabitation between negroes. Indians and
thriftless adventurers from all quarters < f
the earth. The outcome of this mixture
is seen in the catalogue of assassination;
clap, loud as tLe “crack of doom,” which
has fallen on our shivering ears. God In
mercy spared them the spectacle of
“States discordant and belligerent.”
We of this generation have seen this and
more. The legend of Mokanna is tame
compared with the authentic history of
this political mania. The very least of
its enormities is that It is an imposture—
for to borrow the language of inspiration—
“its word* are smoother than butter, but
under its tongue is the venom of asps.”
THE CIRDLE OF FRIENDSHIP.
A MONTANA JUDCE.
She gathered at her slender waist
The beauteous robe she wore;
Its folds a golden belt embraced,
One ro*<shtie«1 trem 4 bore.
The girdle shrank '. Us lessening round
Still kept the shining gem,
But now her flowing locks it bound,
A lustrous diadem.
And narrow still the circlet grew;
Behold! a glittering band,
Its roseate diamond set anew,
Her neck's white column spanned.
tu^ he wHl ^the same iovial darkv that robberies and revolution*, the recital of
SiTwis'lntii^/dptotlition^Uy^''^is sickening inthe extremei0.te
We agree for once with lir. Stevens that
Trot. Gilliam's scheme of colonization is
largely impracticable. The negro is not
nomadic in hia tendencies. Without some
measure of physical coercion, or some sort
of moral stress, he will linger still abont
his old haunts, with the tenacity of onr
domestic cat. There remains then bat
one alternative,
MISCEGENATION,
and we shall proceed at once to remove
this surviving prop of his tottering the-
tlic -color line' amongst us was an egre
gious social fallacy.” Still more when he
stigmatises the race Instinct which God
designed for the conservation of the integ
rity of species as “a whimsical prejudice
that should be thrown to the winds.
That bold assertions are unmistakable.
They present an issue squarely, which we
propose to meet with perfect fairness and
yet with uncompromising fidelity to the
right, as we :
enabled to see the
other hand, take the little republic of
Chill, shut up between the Andes and the
Pacific, with only a small extent
of arable land. Here we have a
peaceful, orosperous commonwealth,
with schools, churches, railroads
He Oscillated Between the Bar, the Poker
Table and the Sunday-School.
Washington Special.
W. A. Burleigh, formerly delegate in
Cong&s from Dakota, but now a resident
of Montana, was before Springer’s commit
tee Monday and was examined in relation
to the official conduct of Judge Conger,
one of the district judges of Montana,
recently .succeeded by Judge Cobourn, of
Indiana. The witness testified that Judge
Conger was under the influence of liquor
so of cn that business suffered. Burleigh
had seen him go to sleep on the bench
while important cases were being heard.
The delay in appointing a successor to
Judge Conger, Mr. Burleigh asserted, cost
the district from $75,000 to $100,000. and
had also cost the government a large sum.
Kx-Chief-Just ice Shannon was also be
fore the committee. He said he had in
vestigated the charges against Judge Con
ger. The testimony from two counties in
Conger’s district hud been in favor of him.
while that from two other counties had
been against 1dm. Judge Shannon testi
fied, in regard to the charge of
i set; the straining clasp
Sun rise and l
The shortened links resist,
Yet flsHbcs in a bracelet's grasp
The diamond on her wrist.
At length, the round of changes past,
The thieving years could bring,
The Jewel glittering to the last,
Still sparkles lu a ring.
So, link by link, our friendships part,
So loosen, break and fall.
A narrowing zone; the loving heart
. Lives changeless through them all.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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gambling,
that he ound that Conger, while holding's
telegraphs and other marks of progressive
civilization. In Chili there is a larger per.
* as
It behooves us. however, before reaching
the main question, to dispose of some
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
which he makes the premise of his entire
argument. These statements he repro
duces from an article published in this
same review in July, 188.1. They relate al
most exclusively to certain tabulated sta
tistics oi the present and prospective pop
ulation of the United States. They were
prepared by Professor Gilliam and M.
Slmonin, a French geographer of consid
erable celebrity. According to the esti
mate of one of these authorities (Professor
Gilliam,) we shall have in ninety years
within our present national limits a negro
population of one hundred and ninety mil
lions. We have elsewhere shown the fal
lacy of this statement, contradictory as it
is of all former experience in this country
and in the West Indies. We insist that our
multiplication table must be revised and
corrected, or else the present ratio of blacks
and whites will be at least maintained,
and most probably greatly augmented, in
favor of the former. 8o that whether the
estimates in question be right or wrong,
the whole statement is an arithmetical
bugaboo that cart only frighten the in
mates of the nur*f ry.
M. Simonin likewise predicts that three
hundred and twenty years from date we
shall hare an American population ot
14300,000.000, exceeding by two hundred
millions the total population of the earth
_'r. Stevens has the hardihood to char
acterize this abomination as both the sci
entific and historical solution of the prob
lem. As for the scientific phase of the
subject, he has recourse for illustration to
the intcr-breedlng of horses and cattle. In
utter defiance cf ethnology, and with a pro
found contempt for the lessons of history,
sacred and profound, be applies this reas
oning to the inter-breeding of human races.
He docs this too with no seeming com
punctions of conscience, and with no
perceptible scruples of decency. With
an air of perfect nonchalance, he speaks
of Bishop Haven fraternizing with the
humblest black man, and extending knight
ly gallantries to handsome colored women.
As ne learnedly remarks, de guttibun non
est dispntandum. We have no quarrel with
his Latin, commonplace a* it is, but we
must dissent from his logic. His sugges
tions on this point, we venture to sav with
out fear of his precept or Bishop Haven’s
example, are coarse to vulgarity, and al
together unbefitting a prominent minis
ter of the Gospel. They are better suited
to the columns of a Police Gazette than to
the pages of a Quarterly Review. With
this emphatic protest, we waive the ques
tion of taste, and proceed to examine his
scientific proofs.
Dr. Morton, the greatest of American
ethnologists, alleges in the “Types of Man
kind,” that there is no instance on record
where an inferior race has been improved
in a degree by this process of amalgama
tion that it has not been damaging
in a larger measure to the
higher race. So that on striking the bal-
lance there was a net loss to our common
humanity. Besides, the same great scien
tist mentions cases, notably that of the
Berbers—the Nuraidiana of Sallust—whose
civilization was destroyed by this identical
process. To little purpose, therefore, does
Dr. Stevens allude to the superior intelli
gence of the mulatto and the physical
beauty of the quadroon. It is more than
questionable, in the light of ethnological
research, to say nothing of the moral bear
ing of these non-ecclesiostical unions,
whether there is not in the end both physi
cal and intellectual degradation.
I)r. Stevens, however, endeavors to
strengthen his position by
HISTORICAL REFERENCES.
The examples he adduces are singularly
unfortunate for his hypothesis. In regard
to England, France and Spain, ha speaks
of “homogenco”* populations compounded
of various races.” Suppom* we allow what
has been gravely disputed by eml-
>nties; that the * * ‘
centage of unmixed European blood than
can be found elsewhere in Spanish Ameri
ca. Her next door neighbor, Peru, the
former empire of the Incas, has been
dreadfully cursed with hybrids and In
dians, and hence it is a laggard in the race
for national distinction. Yet again—Bra*
zil. the most stable and powerful govern
ment of South America, has been a slave-
holding community. We state on high
holding community. We state on high
official authority, that notwithstanding the
prospective abolition of slavery, the theory
ot miscegenation meets as little favor in
Brazil as in Georgia or South Carolina.
The conclusion of the whole matter is
this, that from China to Peru the facts are
overwhelmingly against mixed races. That
from the ancient Jews to the modern Ger
mans, the pure-blooded races are the great
forces and factors of the grandest civiliza
tions.
Upon this proposed solution of Dr. Ste
vens we feel constrained to offer a few ad
ditional observations. He is quite san
guine in regard to the successful working
of his scheme, but wo have very serious
misgivings. With the Northern States,
especially New England, where the negro
element is an almost intinitesslmal frac
tion, it is a question of purely speculative
interest, or at most petty political advan
tage. Not so with the late slaveholding
States of the Union. It is with them
question of momentous import.
term of court at Miles City, played poker
for money Sunday afternoon, while during
the morning of the same day he had deliv
ered an address before the Sunday school.
On other occasions the witness said he
found Judge Conger hail played stud
joker and faro for money, cigars and the
In relation to the charge of having dis
reputable associates, Judge Shannon said
Judge Conger had been seen in Miles City
in Line. 1882, at a dance given by colored
women of bad repute. As to drunken
ness, the witness testified that Judge Con
ger bad been seen on the bench on several
occasions when under the influence of liq
uor and unfit to be there. After the arri
val of Judge Conger’s family in the Terri
tory, nearly three years after his appoint
ment as judge, there was a change in his
conduct.
nent author!
at the present day. Whereupon Dr. Ste
vens in one breath scoffs at the idea of the
social proscription of the blacks in
Dm face of such numerical aggregates,
and in the next snaps his fingers defiantly
in the teeth of the Malthusian*. _
We shall nqt stay to consider these fabu
lous estimates. Conclusions based on sucli
a flimsy foundation are as unworthy of be
lief a* the mlllenarian prophecies of Joe
Miller or the crazy vaticinations of Moth
er 8hipton.
A man need not master the learning of
Malthas to understand that wars r pesti<
lences. famines and similar mishaps ma
terially modify and sometimes greatly b
en the growth of population. As for Pro
fessor Gilliam's exorbitant figures they
cannot be reached in two hundred years,
atUl leas in ninety years, unlaas some ma
lignant deity should quadruple the procre
ative capacity of the negro. As respects
descendants
of the dark-skinned Euskasians are an
important element in the present popula
tion of Knsland. What conorirablebearing
does this have on the question of amalga
mation between the Aryan and negro
races ? Were these Euskasians negroes in
physical or mental traits or habitudes?
ATere they not instead as much as the
Greeks a collateral branch of that grand
Aryan race that set forth from, the plat-
ea»is of Central Asia on its missions of
world conquest and world redemption be
fore the pyramids were built or possibly
before Babylon was founded? ThlaEus-
kas'nn element, if it still exists, is found in
the mines of Cornwall and the mountain re
cesses of Wales. It Is the Teutonic element,
not less than 80 per cent, of the total pop
ulation which has made England the mis
tress of the sea* and the arbiter of the conti
nents. This Teutonic blood,traceable to the
Denmark,
Wc suggest, and the suggestion ought
not to give offense to Dr. Stevens or any
of his aiders and abettors, that he project
AN EXPERIMENTAL COLONY
in close proximity to Bunker Hill or Ply
mouth Rock, where his theory of hy
bridization may be thoroughly tested. We
observe in the census tables that there is a
large surplus of raarriagable females in
Massachusetts. Let him, therefore, organ
ize a joint stock company which rhali
purchase the necessary buildings and
lands and import a few hundred
educated young negro men from Alabama
or Georgia. They may be disposed of by
some sort of matrimonial lottery. Let the
general government, if needful, help the
enten rise by a liberal appropriation front
the Federal treasury. It at the end of fifty
years Dr. Stevens or his successors have
improved the breed of the Adamses and
Franklins, the Winthrops and Webster*,
who have so grandly illustrated New Eng
land in the forum and cabinet, then
we of the South will look with greater favor
on his theory and place a higher estimate
on hi* own honesty. As it now appear*
to us his solution, both on its scientific and
historical side, is a gratuitous insult to th*
nation at large. To the South it Is not |
simply a shameful indignity but a cold-1
blooded invitation to commit sectional
suicide. We bar fly know whether to be
most shocked by the meanness that con
cocted or the malice that prompted it.
T1IE NEGRO AS A NIHILIST.
In the concluding pages of his article.
Dr. Stevens reads us a lecture on our polit
ical, social and religious duties to the ne
gro. He warns us that his political griev
ances must be extinguished—bis social dis
paragements removed and the obnoxious
‘ color line” blotted out in the American
churches. We have neither leisure nor
Inclination to parley with our opponent
on these hackneyed topics. It is
in order, however. to inquire
if these grievances and disabilities do
not inhere in the mental and physical con
stitution of the negro. If *>, they are
manifestly beyond the reach bf legislative
tinkering, anu are not to be remedied by
statutory enactments, whether State or
Pigs on an Alcoholic Diet.
From the Popular Science Monthly.
W. Mattieu William* says that he once
witnessed a display of drunkenness among
301) pigs, which had been given a barrel of
spoiled elderberry wine all at once with
their swill. “Their behavior was intense
ly human, exhibiting all the usual mani
festations of jolly good-fellowship, includ
ing that advanced stage where a group
were rolling over each other and grunting
affectionately in tones that were distinctly
expressive of swearing good fellowship,
all around Their reeling and staggering
and the expression of their features all in
dicated that alcohol bail the same effect
on pigs ns on men: that under its influ
ence both stood precisely on the Lame zo-
lziirnl **
ologlcal level.'
He quotes also MM. Bujardln Bcaumttz
and Audege’s account to the French Acad
emy of Sciences of their experiments du
ring three years on the effects of alco
holic diet on pigs. Eighteen of these
animals were treated sumptuously, ac
cording to old-fashioned notions of hospi
tality. by mixing various alcohols with
their food, in proportion* about corres
ponding to a modest unlf-plnt of wine at
dinner. The alcohols that wc drink in
wine, malt liquors, whisky. Hollands
brandy, etc., invariably produced sleep,
prostration and general lassitude, while
absinthe (included in another variety of
alcohol) produced an excitation resem
bling epilepsy. Some ot the animals died
from the effects of alcoholic poison. The
survivors were killed and subjected to a
post-mortem examination. Ail were
round to be injured, but the mischief was
greater when crude spirita were used, less
when It was carefully redistilled and puri
fied.”
Bishop Littlejohn on the Decline In Its
Power.
New York Times.
St. reter’a Protestant Episcopal Church,
in West Twentieth street, was comfortably
filled last evening on the occasion of a lec
ture delivered by Bishop Littlejohn to the
students of the General Theological Semi
nary on “The Christian Ministry at the
Close of the Nineteenth Century.” The
Bishop said there were various estimates
of the Christian ministry, which were re
ducible to three views—that of the agnos
tic, who held that it would be supplanted
by another instrumentality; the view of
persons to whom the ministry was a mat
ter of doubt; and thirdly, that the Chris
tian priesthood was an institution by
which God was re onciling the world to
Himself. The free thought of the time
handled the ministry with scant courtesy,
but that was not the most abiding thought.
The clergy once wielded a wide influence
as n learned class, and founded schools
and seininanics, and in this country there
was scarcely a college, up to forty years
ago, that did not owe its cxistance to their
sympathetic interest. To-day, at homo
am! abroad, in the movement for secular
education, the clergy had been retired
and any attempt on their part to manage
the public school* would be met with de
termined opposition. The battle had been
won by the secular power. There were
still schools where clergymen governe*,
but it was as the representatives of the
relijdous bodies to which they belonged.
In England, clerical influence was waning
in this respect, and the drift of legislation
was adverse to the clergy as educators.
In view of these facts it was apparent
tliat the clergy was losing control in this
direction. The solemn trust had changed
hands. There was no limit, continued the
Bishop, to the power of the press in throw
ing off marvelous photographs of the
thought and movement of the world, but it
was not easy to see how this agency should
be forced into comparison with the pulpit.
The press could set up a pulpit in count
less spots all over the world, but spoken
truth and written truth were widely differ
ent things. The pastoral office also, was
no longer the chief dispenser of charity.
There were altered methods of relief,
which were now largely accomplished
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date.
HjPl
But we come now to consider what Dr.
Steven j has styled
“OUR AFRICAN FROBLSM.”
Why does this learned divine misstate
tBe question? Wherefore does he substi
tute Africa.! problem for negro problem?
Certainly not lor the sake of euphony, for
\ycnoiui; liu. ivi wi sujjuuii; .
in this rtg.nl negro U a better word than
African. Is be handicapped by the term
negro because of the odiim associated
with U? Or altall we say that it is the tin-
canny trick ot a controversialist more in
tent on triumph than trathT Charity
‘•which hopeth all tilings" might suggest
that ignorance was the cause of this singu
lar misstatement. If, so we beg to re
mind tin. Doctor that whilst all negroes
arc Africans by natieity or descent, the
converse of the proposition la not true that
all Africans are negroes. This fact is
vastly important to a correct solution of
our problem, and yet It is practically and
logically overlooked by some who under
take its discussion, hot la a dark com
plexion and woolly hair the distinctive
mark of the negro. Rather is It his defi
cient frontal brain, hia prognathous Jaws,
his general anatomical structure, extruding
from the occiput to the os colei’s. We may
truthfully subjoin a physical and mental
organism that approximate! the Pithecoid
man of Darwin and Haeckel. But
na. tramas' ilcndeb
is not limply ethnological; it is moreover
geographical. The negro race proper is re
stricted to a district on the west coast
of Africa, lying between the equator and
the twelfth degree of northern latitude
and extending a few hundred miles into
the interior. As Pritchard, tha great mon
ogamist, and therefore an unexceptionable
witness to Dr. Stevens, testifies he is only
a little less circum-erilied than tha stunted
hyperboreans of Northern Asia, or tha
equally diminutive Lappa and Kakimos of
Arctic Europe and America. There are
negroid races elsewhere both in Africa,
New Guinea and the Phillipine
Islands, bat this does not, in anywise, af
fect our argument. From then degraded
tribes of Western Africa, who for tbou-
aanda of yean have not risen above the
level of fetiscb worship b> religion—wbo-e
vocabulary ia composed of a lew hundred
wor : la—who have contributed nothing to
the enlightenment or enrichment of man
kind—from these tribes hare sprung nlne-
tentbs of the four millions of onr lately
ipatod Southern slaves.
tierce Vikings of Norway and
pulsated tn the heart-throbs of thoao great
adminls, Blake and Nelson. This
same blood headed the charge at Bala-
klava, the Therroopyln of modern history
—it courses in the veins of Graham, who
but yesteaday planted the crosa of St.
George upon the forts and battlements of
Tokar.
So likewise of France. With occasional
admixtures of Italian and Spanish blood
along the Mediterranean coast and Pyre
nean border, there has been no amalga
mation. Her blood is as pure from taint
as the liliea which ooce emblazoned her 11a-
tionnl standards.
Neither has any race been more jealoue
of foreign admixture than the high-bom
Castilian and the brave Arragonete. The
five centuries of Moorish domination in
troduced some impurities in the southern
departments, but the conquest of Grenada
by Ferdinand the Catholic, and the subse
quent expulsion of the More-cos. rid the
peninsula of that pestilence. Yet these
Moors, be It remembered, were no more
negroes than tha Indians of the far West.
The traditions of the English stage which
make Othello, who won the fair Desde-
mona. a negro, ia srithont historical basis.
If it were otherwise the denouement of that
trill not help Dr. Stephens’* argument.
Leaving the highly cultured nations of
Europe he takes us to Africa as furnishing
the beet examples of race advancement by
virtue of amalgamation. Especially does
he speak with much confidence ot a mys
terious race, known as Pools or Reds,
which by inter-breeding with the natives
have reared up a noble Kemlto-African
race, spreading from Nubia to Senegambia.
All of this he write* of the semi-barbarous
ject are reckless in spirit and revolutionary
in tendency. Let him take heed how he
prosecutes his fanatical crusade against
our distinctive civilisation. There is
oftentimes a terrible rebound In these
Nihilistic ‘'prophesying* and preach
ments.” Our census statistics admonish
us of other perils than negro expansion
and negro ascendency in our national
politics. The Eastern and Middle States
are already feeling the pressure and bur
den of a surplus population. The question
of snbeistence in that quarter Is fast be
coming a moatperplexlng social problem.
The labor strikes that now and then
frighten bloated capitalists from
their propriety are essentially bread
riots. These privileged classes, that hare
been enriched by government contracts
and unjust Congressional discrimination
are not above the danger line. The bonded
debt of the general government is not
more sacred than were the vetted rights
of the South in her immense slave property.
And yet this bonded debt it the basis
of Wall street prosperity and State
street shoddyiim. The higher law,
which Dr. Stevens more than once in
vokes in this discussion, may be applied to
other purposes than the spoliation of the
South. The enterprising Yankee has
learned the art of manufacturing dyna
mite for foreign consumption. It may yet
become available for domestic uses.
We disclaim the role of the alarmist.
But we understand thoroughly that when
the public conscience is persistently
debauched through the lifetime
of a generation by such
teachings aa have emanated from the pul
pit, press and platform of radicalism,
that such a seed time must have a rorret-
Krupp'a Filty-Ton Hammer.
American Register, Paris.
The fifty-ton hammer with which Krupp
belabors his large steel blocks bears the
name "Our Fritx.” Its strota, on the 100-
ton avail, although the latter rests on a
chnboote of upwards ot 100 square feet in
size, and it surrounded by water, causes a
deafening noise, and a concussion resem
bling an earthquake. The hammer bears
the inscription: ’‘Fritz, let fly.” This in
scription has the following history: When,
in 1877, the Emperor William visited the
works at E-ten, this steam-hammer at
tracted hia attention. Alfred Krupp, the
fattier of the present head of the firm, pre
sented to the Emperor the machinist,
Fritz, who he said, handled the hammer
with such nicety and precision os not to
Injure or even touch an object placed in
the centre of the block. Tlie Emperor at
once put liis diamond studded watch on
the spot indicated, and beckoned to the
machinist to set the hammer in motion.
Master Fntz hesitated out of considera
tion for the precious article, but the
Ki
which were now largely accomplished by
taxes levied by civil authorities. It fol
lowed from these considerations that the
inllucnce of the priest lmd fallen oil in
bulk and force, but might it not be that
in being less mixed with secular influenre
it would revert to the original apostoli'
spirit? As to the dearth of great preach
ers, no age had a more giiied and versatile
ministry than the present. There was a
great deal of preaching that was mere wind
and had no doctrinal backbone. There
was not a little that was heavy and dull b-
those whom a mysterious Providence lini
transferred to the pulpit from the byways
of mediocrity. But the ministry was on a
level with any other calling, and the world
was passing to a period when men would
crave the inner heat rather than the out
ward sparkle ot language. The ministry
was blamed for its want of self-sacrifice,
but it was not all given over to cosy living.
It was true, however, that there was too
much ground for complaint. When a call
came to a distant field questions wero
asked a* to tht salary, whether the church
edifice was warmed in the winter, whether
it was near a railroad, and how about do
nations. The Bishop declared that no
citadel of sin could becarried by those who
asked such questions.
"Ill our day,” he continued, “boldness
in the pulpit lias become recklessness.
With us the system is greater than the in
dividual, The ancient ctccds arc greater
than any man's speculations. This tuav
In onr misfortune, but it is our character
istic. Some mini!- arc at peace only when
they are at war. und they are happy only
when they are thowing what fools their
fathers were.”
FedmL
Not a few ot his utterances on this sub- gentleman Krupp” urgedhim on by lay
ing: ''Frits, let fly." Down came the
hammer, and the watch remained un
touched. The Emperor gave it to the ma
chinist as a souvenir, "old” Krupp added
1000 marks to the handionie present, and
caused the above words to be inscribed
the hammer.
The Immigration Meeting,
Savannah Newt.
The immigration meeting lost night at
the exchange was not very large, but those
who were present teemed fully alive to the
* ” hich'
importance of the subject which brought I
them together. The necessity of doing
something to make known to those seeking
new homes the advantages of the South,
whether they are our fellow-citizens of the I
North and West, or the people of the
crowded kingdoms of the old world, wasi
fully appreciated, but what should
he done to make these advantage!
known, or what kind of an organization
was suitable to accomplish that object,
wot not readily determined. There are
plenty of good, cheap lands in the Southl
tribes of Soudan and Dortour. The whole ponding harvest. This law of reproduction
thing is a veritable cock and bull story os It the very Nemesis of clastic mythology.
lavery, which Dr. Staveni
.!<• tribe of Mgropbilith hive
If ■sand spin denouDcodea tha "sum of
all villainif was a m ol healthful disci
pline for th'-e wretched barbarian-, as
their preswat faoprovad condition attests.
td. indeed, that our op,w-
nent write, fig.,.
I- nve I re-:.'.
antly ot him at th« proa-
t or Vice-President (.1
ren now ha dubs hint
purely fanciful aathe monkish legend of
Wetter John. With equal credulity he
refers to the Kaffirs of Southern Africa as
the ethnical resultant of the mingling of
higher and lower races.
If Dr. Stevens will taka tha pains to read
Fronde's Notes on South Africa, he will
learn that lids distinguished historian had
no appreciation of this lazy and thieving
horde of savages. The British government
has expended millions of pounds sterling
for their edneation and material better
ment. but they are still wholly iacapabte
of self-goTermnent.
Africa is justly called the
DARK CONTINENT.
Once the seat of civUxatioa.lt has for
formed types of humanity. Hr tropical
climate and her defective water system
may in part account for this strange phe
nomenon; but are are firmly pereuaded
that the wide-spread amalgamation of
races has not been without its influences.
From Morocco to Capa Town, they arc
a generation of hybrids. The song of the
witches in Macbeth—
Block spirit* tad while,
Blee spirits ead gray.
especially in Georgia, capable of support
ing hundreds of thousands of people. Thi:
If it should occur that in the coarse of
human events, the engineer is hoist hy
hit own petard, it wUl be in this instance
at least not merely an example of practi
cal justice, but of item and righteous retri
bution.
We intend in ell this no disperagement
of liberty aa differentiated from license.
Tits nans mokaisa.
We recognise the deep philosophy em
bodied in the story from Ariosto, how
that liberty sometimes appear* in the form
of a deadly hissing serpent. We would not
despise pr defame her eren in thi* lowly
and disgusting guise. But there is one in
structive set off to this in the oriental
of the Veiled Prophet of
in. In that fair Province of the
Sun the pseudo prophet eat upon a throne
high andlifted up. Heordered his glitter
ing banner unfurled at his palaco-gates,
with the inscription,
widow to tws woau>.
Bat when tha tUver 'veil was lifted, the
impostor was sntszxkcd. and instead of the
tion it, how to manage so aa tomakeNH
lands available in an Immigration move
ment. It was decided that the best plan
was to appoint delegates to the Southern
llnimigation Convention at Nashville, who
should gather what information they
could at that meeting, and on their return
Ito Savannah report, if possible, tome feas
ible plan for a State immigration society^
An excellent delegation, composed of gen
tlemen who are able and willin to go to
Nashville, was selected. If they learn any
thing practical from the convention we
may reasonably expect on their return that
an organization in the Interest of immi
gration will be effected.
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Chas. Eayre Hinkle, Jersoy City Heigh: _
N. J., a lml of 12 years, who for eight year*
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Sold by all druggists. Price; Cuticura, 50
cents; Resolvent, $1; Soap 25 cents. Potter
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Send for our “How to Cure Bkin Diseases.’
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only the finest dgara tha world could pro-
|due*. Prof. Hortford uji the Emperor *
d»r*r* were tfiade specially for him In Ha
vana from leaf tobacco grown tn the Golden
Bd t of North Carolina, thla being the finest
leaf grown. Blackwell's Bull Durham
iBmoklw Tobaceola made from the same
leaf used In the Emperor’* cigar*, is abeo-
lately pure and Is unquestionably the beat
tobacco ever offered.
Thackeray's gifted daughter, Anne, In
her sketch of Alfred Tennyson, In nmrptr’t
Monthly, tell* of her visit to the great poet
Hhe found him smoking Blackwell's Bull
Durham Tobacco, sent him by Hoo. James
ItCMcll Lowell. American Minister to the
fort to smokers to knot* that the Bull Dur
ham brand la absolutely pure, and made
from the beet tobacco the world product*.
Blackwell's Bull Durham Smoking To
bacco is the Utt and purest made. All
dealers have It. None genuine without
the trade-mark cf the BulL
The Savanrah, Florida anti Woaturn
Railway.
Savannah News.
The annual meeting of the Savannah.
Flor.da ami Western railway was held
yesterday, at which arrangements were
perfected for consolidating the various
fine* now known oa Waycroas and Florida,
the Fast Florida, the Live Oak, Tampa
and L'harlMte llarbor. and the Chattahoo
chee and East Pass railroad* with the Sa
vannah, Florida and Western. This con
solidation, when perfected, will make the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway
one of the longest lines in the South. The
management has been very active in keep
ing pace with all the improvements of
modern railroads, and has done aa much to
develop the country through which ita main
lines and its branches have been extended I
a* any corporation in the Union. It has
built up South Georgia and Florida as if
by magic, and made what waa a few years
ago an almost unknown region, one of the
KTOnr CANE MILLS havo
Wronght Journals.
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$30,000 For $2.
. REGULAR MONTHLY DRAWING WILL
take place in Covington, Ky.,
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1804.
A lawful Lottery and Fair Drawings, char
tered by the Legislature of Kentucky, and
■* ’ " ’ legal by the highest court In the
reu to Henry county in the sum
of $100,000 for the prompt payment all prizes
•old.
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6 prizes 1,000 each
20 prize* fiOO each
100 prizes 100 each
200 prizes fiO each
603 prize* 20 each....
1000 prizes 10 each .......
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9 prizes 200 each
9 prizes 100 each
.4 29,000
... 10,000
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1857 prize* 4110,400
Whole Tickets, $2. Half Ticket!, $1.
27 Ticket*, $o0. 66 Ticket*. $100.
Remit money or postal note bank draft in
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beet known sections in (lie South. The
work of ininrovement will not atop with
the consolidation. Immense as is
^^Hamoant of work which has
been fione in tin- past few yean by
ilhis corporation, it is but the begin
ning, it may be said, of its undertakings.
iThe road is now completed 000 miles.
Steel rails, improved engines and magnifi
cent can are ready to assist in develop
ing the enormous area of country which
the lines of the company traverse. Tlicl
country is capable of great development
and the company ia prepared for this
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Which, while acting aa a stimulant of the
kidneys, neither excites nor irritates
them, was long since supplied by Hostet
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vice-president, the company owes its great
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Turimcn, Homo Rfilr.Mii M.iMif.ruirrr..
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nod Mcnaacrlc*. anu oibcrs aaaiiuag stock.
The Wrlchtirtlla and Tennllle Railroad,
fiarannah New*.
8.W. Perkins, president. W. B. Thomas,
beaming countenance of God's anointed,
lo! there was revealed the ghastly features
of tht d-rk Mokanna.
So of this negro craze. In ita begin ting,
tu muffled tones were feint aa the matter
ing* of distant thunder. LUtl* did
our patriot tire* of tbneeearlier and better
days of tha KepaMic dream of the after-
superintendent, of tha Wriehteville end
Tennille railroad, are in the city, end will
call on onr business men today for sub
scriptions to that road. The survey baa
been completed, and it Is found that to
bnild and equip the road will only cost
MO.OOO outside of the iron, which the Cen
tral railroad has agreed to furnish. Thirty-
two thousand dollars of this amount has
been subscribed by the people of Wrights-
till* and Tennille. A lama force ft now at
work on the graffing. Light thousand
more la wanted WUl not the merchant*
of Savannah take this amount of stock in
s road so much needed by their business
friends, to say nothing of the benefits
arising to them from the development of e
section that does all its bnrinees with
them?
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