| Show the peril in afria if abe alaci s should rise Is a sen tence which has not infrequently been uttered an 1 nervously ettere 1 in africa says the new york mall and express the whites in trat conti nent even in dutch and english south africa are in an absi rd cal m nor t in cape colony itself the oldest and best settled european province thare are but whites to 2 blacks no such drar ity as this exists in any part of our american black belt in rhodesia the wiltes are but a handful among upward of warl ke alaci s of the stronger sort including the fierce matabele in natal there are 73 whites to zulu kaffits in most of german africa and of course the whole of the continent northward to algeria the disbar ty is greater still in the warmbad district of ger man southwest west africa there were at last accounts 1 white persons mostly boers who have trel 1 ed there to 10 blad s the other day we had news of the massacre masacre ma sacre of a white missionary and his comman ty of e converts in the hinterland of liberia the scene of this deed is s if the news is true for if the black ava larche is ever let loose in africa it will undoubtedly be by the hand of some alaci who has been inspired by lu of black rule and in depend nee such as those blat prevail in li beria 0 o such native avalanche ever hung over the heads of even the few white settlers in the amer can colo nies in the early day for the american wilderness was nver i peopled by such hosts of savages as fill the african beldt and jungle for the attempt at least nothing Is wanting but the toussaint 1 ture the determined and able black leader who can organize the dherde ind m ritually fore so nations and tr bes and re them w th a corn mon mothe of no such leader is in sight yet a cearo king phil p a negro pontiac a negro tecumseh the stamp of whose toot upon the earth may ome day be heard in the earthquake is ne ther nor impossible we may understand the uneasiness of south aar can whites over this hot insurrection the hottentots are a widespread nation A general alaci insurrection m result in hor massacres yet there could be but one final result for it as there was b it one possible result for the general ind an wars in america the thousands of whites with their re sources and organization would pre va 1 and more stanly than ever against the millions of blacks |
