An Ex-Slaveholder's View of the Negro Question in the South (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist Robert Bingham
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ISBN: 9781330485583
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Excerpt from An Ex-Slaveholder's View of the Negro Question in the South Heretofore the Race Question in the United States has been local, sectional and more or less sentimental. But now it is one of the most important National questions before us; and the necessity of dealing; not only with the Black man and with the remnant of the Red man in continental America. but with the Hawaiian, the Japanese, the Chinaman and the Philippino in our new Pacific Islands and with the mixed races in our new West Indian Islands, makes it a highly important question. That "History is philosophy teaching by example" is a saying as old as Cicero. Ix: t us look at the history of our contact with other races dispassionately and take lessons calmly for our future from what has occurred in our past. I suppose that Gail Hamilton's contention will be admitted that "If God made the white man white, the yellow man yellow, and the black man black, He intended for the white man to remain white, the yellow man yellow and the black man black." He prevents the loss of species in the lower animals by the infecundity of hybrids. He seems to have protected the integrity of race types among men by Race Antagonism. At any rate race antagonism is a patent and a potent factor which must be reckoned with in any philosophical study of history; and the effect, of race antagonism. visible everywhere and always whenever different races conic into contact, is no where more visible than in the contact of our race with other races. What our race-history was in prehistoric times we can only guess at; but History teaches that the Roman, who subjugated and absorbed so many other races, failed in all his attempts 011 the Teuton, and Augustus on his death bed said with tears to Varus, who had been sent to subjugate Germany, "O Varus, my legions, my legions, where are my legions?" And History teaches very clearly that the race characteristics of the Angles and Saxons are more distinct and more permanent than those of any other of Teutonic tribes who overwhelmed the Roman Empire. The other Teutonic invaders of Southern and Western Europe lost their language and much of their race identity and were themselves absorbed, or were at least greatly modified, by their subjects. They failed to change the names even of the countries which they overran. Graecia remains Greece, Italia is Italy, Hispania is Spain; and though the Franks changed the name of Gallia to France, they lost their language and race identity so completely and were so thoroughly Latinized that the French are the head of the Latin races to-day. And the latinized Franks who went to England with William the Norman lost their language and identity a second time at the hands of the English. But the Angles and Saxons who landed with Hengist and Horsa in 449 changed Britain to Angle-Land, and it has been England ever since. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."