A curious racial transformation is going on in the United States outside
the two divisions of man, the Jew and the Colored man, which means much
more to the ethnologist and lover of mankind than is apparent on the
surface. The various nations, such as the English, French, German,
Irish, Scotch, Spaniard, etc., are rapidly losing their identity of race
or descent, and becoming American with new facial traits, as well as
mental attributes. All these nations or tribes, will lose their identity
and be merged into another and different stock distinctly American,
perhaps revert to the parent Aryan stock. Thus we shall witness, the
four primitive divisions of mankind, the Aryan, rehabilitated; the Jew
or Semitic, with renewed wisdom; the Ethiopian, or Hamitic, still a
distinct race, and the Turanian, or Chinese, working together to
accomplish a unity of nations, one in thought and high purpose.
Everything is apparently working in that direction, and there is no
single nation, or union of nations of diverse civilization that will be
able to stay the movement.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE RACE IN THE UNITED STATES
The Result of a Great Civilized Ancestry—Some of our Colored Americans,
Their Doings and Their Personality
The Colored Americans, as one of the great divisions of the human
family, with as proud an ancestry and as high a civilization as the
Jews, and co-eval with them in the point of cultured antiquity, are
proving themselves as progressive and, with the additions of modern
culture, civilization and progress, are building their race up to a high
point of excellence.
They have bridged the ages, so to speak, and are showing themselves
penetrated with the spirit of a civilizing evangelization, which began
in the Far East, nearly four thousand years ago.
They are carrying down to date, without losing by an intermission, the
great aims and purposes of the Ethiopian Candace and Sheba dynasties,
under which were introduced the arts and sciences, sculpture and
painting into Egypt and Europe, refinement, literature, and wise
government.
They are demonstrating every day, that they are moving with the great
divisions of the human race, toward that high goal of unity that is the
evident purpose of God in creating man.
Under an enlightened political system, the few aggravations in the local
laws of which will soon disappear beneath the mighty onward tread of the
peoples of the earth, our Colored Americans are beginning to realize
their destiny, and are seizing the opportunities that present themselves
for their benefit, as for the benefit of a common destiny of all men.
They are beginning to understand, and they are acting upon the
understanding that education is the chief factor in the solution and
proper attainment of their destiny.
This “education” has always been the essential element in the rise and
progress of every nation on the earth, the educated have forced their
way upward toward the light, and become factors in the world’s progress
toward enlightenment. Those who have ignored education have fallen and
lie buried beneath the sands of the deserts of Europe and Asia, without
descendants or successors, and known only to the excavator of ruins.
Their very races have disappeared without a trace.