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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 29: fair women. (search)
hakespeare says, the curse of God. Among the evils which impede White growth in America, that poverty in the female sex, which is caused ity of women. Women are the other halves of men. The absence of White women at San Diego and San Carlos, was the chief, if not the only, bins with five or six squaws a piece, provoking Shoshones to attack White ranches and Cheyennes to steal White women from the emigrant trainsWhite women from the emigrant trains. If America stood in her natural order as regards the sexes, there would be an end of buying and selling Indian girls, and the irruption ofths. The White people in America follow the same laws of growth as White people in Europe. Take the case of Prussia, as a country in whicthe moral and social aspects of a region in which there is only one White woman to four White men? Physical loss appears to follow closelyWhite men? Physical loss appears to follow closely in the wake of this moral loss. For many years, nobody paid attention to such facts; but since the publication of New America, an enquirer
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 31: the Workman's Paradise. (search)
ite nook in the Neckar valley, we push into a gorge of singular beauty; a reach of the Connecticut River, lying under high and wooded hills, of various form and more than metallic brightness. Oak and chestnut, pine and maple, clothe the slopes. White houses lie about you; some in secret places, utterly alone with Nature; others again, in groups and villages, with gardens, fruit trees, and patches of maize, among which the great red gourds lie ripening in the sun. At times the hills roll back poor. In two days wandering up and down I have not seen one child in rags, one woman looking like a slut. The men are at work, the boys and girls at school. Each cottage stands apart, with grass and space; each painted either white or brown. White, the costlier and more cheery colour, is the test of order and prosperity. Few of the cottages are brown. I see no broken panes of glass, no shingles hanging from the roof. No yard is left in an untidy state. The men who live in these cotta
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 33: illiteracy in America. (search)
groes are now citizens, with political rights. They count two millions and three-fourths. Red men and Yellow men add a little to the dark totals; yet, when all the Red, Yellow, and Black ignorance is deducted, there remain, as representing pure White ignorance, gross and pagan ignorance, no less than two million eight hundred thousand souls. Of this army of White barbarians in America, the census shows that more than two millions are American-born! Such figures stun the mind. On looking White barbarians in America, the census shows that more than two millions are American-born! Such figures stun the mind. On looking into details, the enquirer is staggered to perceive that the older and richer States are no better educated than the rest. Nobody would expect to find a shining literary light in Texas or New Mexico; but almost everyone would fancy that New York and Pennsylvania would in point of common schools hold their heads extremely high. Yet New York and Pennsylvania rank among the lowest of the pure White States. In New York there are nearly two hundred and forty thousand persons who cannot read and
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 34: America at school. (search)
Chapter 34: America at school. some measures have been taken to check an evil which is threatening to reduce White settlers to the level of Creeks and Cherokees, and to convert the Potomac and Savannah into American Nigers and Senegals. These measures are partly general, partly local; partly inquisitorial, partly remedial; but in every case they have improvement as their aim and end. Four years ago, Americans were living in a dream. They knew that here and there a blotch defiled thchers of the higher grades found welcome in Virginia, and the science of pedagogy was abandoned to the Thwackums and Squeers. A private school, the lowest type of boarding-school, was the only school thought good enough for the girls and boys of White citizens in Richmond. But for the higher culture found in the domestic circle, where the men were mostly gentlemen, the women mostly ladies, the state of learning in Virginia would have fallen to the level of Italy and Spain. Four years ago t
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 36: Outlook. (search)
White Conquest is, the warning on the wall is brief and stern. The end is not yet come. The peril of the fight is not yet past, and the White successors of the Creeks and Cherokees are unhappily still wasting some of their best strength and noblest passion on internal feuds. Disaster in the past, menace in the future, warn us to stand by our common race; our blood, law, language, science. We are strong, but we are not immortal. A house divided against itself must fall. If we desire to see our free institutions perish, it is right that we should take the part of Red men, Black men, and Yellow men against our White brethren. If we wish to see order and freedom, science and civilization preserved, we shall give our first thought to what improves the White man's growth and increases the White man's strength. So many foes are still afield that every White man's cry should be Close ranks! and when the ranks are closed, but not till then- Right in front --march! the end.
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