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Editorial June 6, 1955

The Augusta Courier

Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia

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This editorial opposes racial integration and miscegenation, arguing that Christianity does not require it and that it would destroy the creative genius of the American people. It cites Dr. W.C. George's paper, historical failures in Liberia and Haiti, quotes from Abraham Lincoln favoring separation, and defends segregation on natural, biblical, and practical grounds.

Merged-components note: Multi-part editorial on Christianity, segregation, and race relations; merged fragmented sections on page 4 based on textual continuity

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Christianity
Does Not
Require
Mongrelization
Of
Races

Genius
Of
American
People
Be
Destroyed
By
Miscegenation,
Doctor
Declares

"Let us rid ourselves of the delusion that Christianity requires us to sacrifice our children and our children's children to the cause of integration," says Dr. W. C. George, Professor of Anatomy at the Medical College of the University of North Carolina.

This is the way he winds up his recent paper in which he attempts to prove that integration will destroy the creative genius of the American people.

And to the above quoted statement, he adds:

"There was a time when Abraham thought that his religion required him to sacrifice his son Isaac on the altar. But an angel of God stayed his hand."

This is the time for the American people to stay the hand which is being used to integrate the races in order to save your child and his child.

Doctor George says that the history of the negro race where left by themselves shows that they have developed no civilization whatsoever and in every instance have deteriorated.

Therefore, he adds:

"Do not these facts suggest the fate possibly in store for America if we adopt policies to mongrelization of our people?"

And, in this connection, Dr. George further said:

"Would Negroes do better in the modern world if they were removed from the supposed hampering influence of the white man? Let us examine cases. The Republic of Liberia was started in 1820 with the encouragement and support of citizens and the government of the United States. It occupies an area about the size of the state of Ohio. It is hilly, has forests and grasslands and other resources. It has a mild tropical climate. Nights are cool and pleasant. By law officials must be of Negro blood. What have they accomplished? After more than 100 years as an independent state, a commission in 1931 found that Liberia, although founded for freedom of the blacks, had itself become a slave state. Whatever development of resources there has been in 135 years seem to have been largely by Firestone and other American companies and by the United States Government agencies.

"The Republic of Haiti is another independent Negro country with a long history. Located on the island of Hispaniola, it had fine forests and agricultural conditions. In the days when it was a French colony, it was the most productive colony in the Caribbean. According to J. G. Leyburn (1941), in a scholarly book, The Haitian People published by Yale University Press, 'Its combined exports and imports in 1789 were valued at more than $140,000,000. Its sugar, coffee, indigo, and cotton supplied the home market and employed in prosperous years more than 700 ocean going vessels, with as many as 80,000 seamen.

"In 1791 the blacks slaughtered the whites except for some that managed to escape. What have the Negroes in Haiti done in 150 years of freedom? Their only outstanding achievement has been an eight times increase in the population. Materially and culturally there was rapid deterioration of the country. Haiti of the 1780's was one of the exciting parts of the world to traders; Haiti 50 years later was little more than a vague name . . . . In French days the coffee trees had been pruned, fertilized, grafted; the new Haitian farmer simply let nature take its course . . . . After freedom there were fewer doctors than ever, less sanitation and a worse diet . . . . Another good reason for the failure of democratic education is the demonstrated apathy of the masses.' Ultimately, in 1915, due to a condition of economic and political collapse and anarchy, it became necessary for the United States marines to occupy the country and restore some stability.

"Quoting Leyburn again, Visitors disembark from their ships or planes, see the poverty, the backwardness, the pathetic smallness of human effort which matches so ill with what nature originally provided, and come away with a feeling of disappointment. Not even the little things of Haiti are immediately attractive: the peasants are not quaint, their costumes are not picturesque, their towns are not colorful; even the souvenirs to take back to the tourist ship have likely as not been made in New York and imported by the shops."

approach to this problem; let us not evade the issue, nor close our eyes to the stark reality, but face it frankly and courageously; here in America, if we believe that the welfare of both the white and the negro races would be promoted by preserving the integrity of each race, then we must maintain some effective and equitable form of segregation; if we believe that the welfare and happiness of both races would be promoted by intermarriage and the development of a hybrid race, then all we need to do is to let down the bars of segregation in the homes, the schools, the churches and in all areas of community life, and let nature take its course.

"But before we commit ourselves and our nation finally and irrevocably to this fateful choice, let us recall and weigh carefully some pertinent considerations which may be offered in defense of the principle of segregation."

Then in his speech, Dr. Gillespie developed these points:

1. Segregation is not the child of race prejudice.

2. Segregation is one of nature's universal laws.

3. Segregation tends to promote progress.

4. Segregation does not necessarily involve discrimination.

5. The principle of segregation may be defended on Biblical Grounds and is not "Unchristian."

6. Segregation is a well-considered and time-tested American policy.

Anglo-Saxon people always have thought and believed as does Dr. Gillespie.

Thinking Anglo-Saxon people today believe the same.

Even Abraham Lincoln, the "Great Emancipator" and devoted friend of the negro was convinced of the necessity of the physical separation of the two races.

He, like Thomas Jefferson, believed that the solution of the problem was to colonize the negroes in Africa or the West Indies.

In a speech made by Lincoln at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858, he said:

"I will say then, that I am not now, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races .. . . that I am not now, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say, in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."

Then again, while addressing a group of free negroes at the White House on August 14, 1862, Lincoln said:

"You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think . . . . If this is admitted, it affords a reason, at least, why we should be separated."

We have been running a series of articles in this paper written by Dr. W. C. George, an eminent professor of anatomy at the Medical College at the University of North Carolina, who has developed the idea that the mixing of the races will destroy the creative genius of the Anglo-Saxon people of America.

These political sociologists and psychologists and the Russian Communists have sold the Supreme Court of the United States and a lot of un-thinking men this foul scheme to destroy the Anglo-Saxon race in America.

The destruction of the Anglo-Saxon in America will result in the destruction of the nation itself.

The conclusion is inevitable and every red-blooded Southerner ought to be willing to resist the Supreme Court and every other agency seeking to integrate the races to his very last breath.

Do not these facts suggest the fate possibly in store for America if we adopt policies leading to mongrelization of our people?

There has been a disposition of recent years among 'liberals' and short sighted 'humanitarians' to sweep such data under the rug, and to advocate the adoption of foolish policies on the basis of virtuous sounding slogans, and depend on God to take care of the consequences.

Some of us, however, can not bring ourselves to have faith in delivery from biological sin. We know that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children.

"I hope you will not make the mistake of thinking that I speak as a prejudiced, die-hard southerner. I strive to avoid any prejudice other than prejudice for the truth. I speak as one who has spent his life trying to understand the laws of God as revealed in nature. Through the years I have attempted to examine and evaluate every kind of evidence that bears on the race problem. That evidence leads me to conclusions that I think are inescapable, conclusions that we can disregard only at peril to our posterity.

"May I reinforce my position with some quotations from a well known scientist who is not a Southerner. Ernest Hooten, born in Wisconsin, formerly head of the department of anthropology at Harvard, has said, True intelligence is inbred . . . . Man imagines that his behavior bears no essential relationship to his organic constitution. This is the prime article of faith among all morons in high places, and is the gospel of demagogery, not of democracy.

"The errors of humanitarianism are based on the assumption that it is underprivilege that makes the underdog, and that the potentialities for intellectual and cultural development are essentially equal in all men in short upon the delusion that mind and social capacity in man are independent of the organism and that an equalization of opportunity will bring the millennium.

"It is time to bring this discourse to an end. I have given you some of the reasons why I am convinced that integration and amalgamation of the races is not the way to insure having a breed of people ten generations from now capable of continuing American civilization. Adopting social policies with the expectation that the laws of heredity will not operate is like jumping off a cliff in defiance of the laws of gravity.

You will remember that Satan invited Christ to do just that sort of thing when he took Him up to a pinnacle to the temple and suggested that He cast Himself down - with the assurance that the angels of God would bear Him up. Christ declined the suggestion. We will be wise to follow His example and refuse to bring about destruction of our posterity through defiance of the laws of Nature.

"By all means let us be kind, generous and helpful to Negroes and all men, but let us rid ourselves of the delusion that Christianity requires us to sacrifice our children and our children's children to the cause of integration. There was a time when Abraham thought that his religion required him to sacrifice his son Isaac on the altar. But an angel of God stayed his hand."

do just that sort of thing when he took Him up to a pinnacle to the temple and suggested that He cast Himself down - with the assurance that the angels of God would bear Him up. Christ declined the suggestion. We will be wise to follow His example and refuse to bring about destruction of our posterity through defiance of the laws of Nature.

"By all means let us be kind, generous and helpful to Negroes and all men, but let us rid ourselves of the delusion that Christianity requires us to sacrifice our children and our children's children to the cause of integration. There was a time when Abraham thought that his religion required him to sacrifice his son Isaac on the altar. But an angel of God stayed his hand."

What sub-type of article is it?

Moral Or Religious Social Reform

What keywords are associated?

Racial Integration Miscegenation Segregation Christianity Race Liberia Haiti Abraham Lincoln

What entities or persons were involved?

Dr. W. C. George Dr. Gillespie Abraham Lincoln Ernest Hooten Republic Of Liberia Republic Of Haiti

Editorial Details

Primary Topic

Opposition To Racial Integration And Miscegenation

Stance / Tone

Strongly Pro Segregation And Anti Integration

Key Figures

Dr. W. C. George Dr. Gillespie Abraham Lincoln Ernest Hooten Republic Of Liberia Republic Of Haiti

Key Arguments

Christianity Does Not Require Racial Integration Or Sacrifice Of Future Generations Integration Will Destroy The Creative Genius Of The American People Through Miscegenation Historical Examples Of Negro Civilizations In Liberia And Haiti Show Deterioration Without White Influence Segregation Is A Natural Law, Promotes Progress, And Is Biblically Defensible Abraham Lincoln Supported Physical Separation Of Races Humanitarian Delusions Ignore Biological Laws Of Heredity

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