The Evening Argus

ALL AFRICANS ARE NOT NEGROES.
The New Orleans Picayune, alluding to the silly offer of Thad. Stevens to match Fred. Douglas, a half-breed, against any white man, in debate, says there is much confusion running through a great deal of the debating on these subjects, from the vague use of the word "Africa," and continues as follows :
There are races in Africa, known there for many centuries, that are not negroes, even though some of them are highly "colored" or positively black. There are the Egyptians, Abyssinians and Moors, not to mention inferior tribes, among whom the negro has been a servile race from time immemorial. There were the ancient Carthagenians and Moors, who founded empires and struggled for mastery with Rome. Hannibal, who thundered at the gates of the Imperial City, when Rome was at her highest, was in this sense an African, and so were the Pharaohs and Ptolemies, the chiefs of a people who preserved the treasures of science in Africa, when the whole western world was in mental darkness, and reared architecture wonders, at the grandeur of which posterity stands amazed.
To talk of members of congress, one might suppose that the development made by these members of the Semitic family, whose seat was in Africa, are proofs of an equal capacity of development for indigenous negro races, of whose physiological and anatomical peculiarities of structure science has made such minute analysis; races that never, since their origin, have risen above the rudest forms of barbarism; who discovered nothing and invented nothing in the simplest elements of science, for more than the barest needs of a precarious subsistence, until they had been reached and taught by the white man.