The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

MAN, AND THE NEGRO. 285
were found only in the Negro
in his free state. The
freed negro in America is certainly not more free than his
wild brother in the jungles of Africa; yet we never heard
that * 'self-respect, veracity and gentle manners" were
characteristic of the Negro of Africa. We are opposed
to the views of the editor of the Sunny South that these
characteristics, especially those of "self-respect and
veracity," ever exsted in the Negro at all. But if they
did they were engrafted upon the nature of
the Negro by
his master and mispress of former time. Certainly these
*'most necessary ingredients of a gentleman*' have not
been developed by emancipation.
an ape;
The Negro is merely
hence, the more he is relieved by man of the restraints
which God imposed upon him in
the more vicious, unreliable and brutal
the Creation,
he becomes.
If it be true, as stated by the editor of the Sunny
South, that they are now producing ''Negro gentlemen"
in Atlanta, Georgia, we feel free to confess that he has
clearly demonstrated the correctness of his assertion that
"gentleman is a loose and comprehensive word," since
it
'
'applies" equally well to man, to the ape, and to his
amalgamated progeny," with full and correct force."
From this editor's standpoint, "gentleman" is certainly
a very latitudinous term, to say the least of
it.
When the atheistic theory of natural development
has been discarded by man, and the scriptural teaching
of Divtne Creation is accepted in its stead, expert observers
will promptly decide that * 'the most necessary
ingredients of a gentleman" are that he be bom in the