The Negro is a "He is "He is a Beast!! "The Jungle calling "That Sadde Tuskegee know as much ourite man who as a an unbiased, careful student of human nature. What do these wide-mouthed philosophers know about the Negro anyhow? Have they the confidence, respect and heart-secrets of the intelligent colored folk? Have they entered their lives, thought their thoughts and experienced their hopes and fears, their joys and tears, and felt the burning, choking sensations of humiliation, to which they are so often subjected without redress or a word of complaint? Do these agitators realize that they will be regarded the fools of this age a hundred years hence that they are treading a mill that will grind long after their mortal bodies have been given over to the worms and have returned to dust; and that it will grind so fine that their immortal self (if they have not lost their identity) will be in danger of hell-burning remorse? The paramount question will soon confront America -What shall we do with the white color line maniac of the country? GOD'S FINGER OF APPROVAL IS UPON THE MULATTO.-If this man from Georgia and others like him mean that the average West African Negro in his native jungle is not capable of receiving more than the rudiments of an education, they may be partially right; but when they say this of the American Negro, they are wrong. And when they say that the present generation is retrograding to savage ry, they are decidedly wrong. When they say the mulatto is the curse of both the white man and the Negro race in the South, they say right. The mulatto is the greatest curse (?) that God Almighty has ever raised for the purpose of lifting up a whole race of people, and to lay bare the hidden foulness of the prevailing wrong social condition in this country. These statements may sound radical, and out of place in a work given to science, reason and justice rather than religious sentiment; but we shall give you plenty of sound, scientific evidence to back up every statement made, before you close this book; and if we can impart to you a glimpse of Divine Providence in the marvelous evolutionary process that dominates the American Negro, as we proceed, we believe you will be better prepared to draw your final conclusions when all has been said and done. We say that God has placed his finger of approval upon the colored Caucasian, and that this race is destined to become one of the intellectual and industrial giants of America and the civilized world. This is why the mulatto is considered such a curse to the South today, is it not? Ninety per cent of all the great people in the world's history, of whom we have any record, have been of a mixed origin; perhaps this is why the mulatto is a curse. CHAPTER VI NORTHERN PREJUDICE A SCATTERED FEW HOLD COLOR LINE IN CONTEMPT.-We have said considerable about the so-called "smart nigger," as the enlightened colored gentleman is designated. We shall have occasion to mention him again. But before we speak of him further in this chapter we shall take up northern prejudice in order to convey more clearly the chain of thought begun in the preceding discussion. There is an old proverb, "Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you." The southerners have long had a serious trouble, and this same trouble is now confronting the northern Yankee in the South. We honor every northern sympathizer with our work, who believes in and champions the cause of the poor, down-trodden, despised colored race. We have in mind, while we write these lines, several persons of ability and influence who would willingly give their best thought and energy to untangle, adjust and alleviate the difficulties of the colored people, if they had in their possession the key that unlocks the door to the "Hall of Reason," so that the light thereof might illuminate the black caverns of mental |