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 SOLUTION 
 
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 J. A. CUNNINGHAM. 
 
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 F. A. Crimp, Printer axd Hinder. 
 
 
SOLUTION 
 
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 ^NOV 6 1889 <; ^ '' 
 
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 Copyright, 1889. 
 
 — BY— 
 J. A. CUXNINGHAM, 
 
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 SOLUTION OP THE MRO PROBLEM. 
 
 In building structures of the thought as 
 well as temples of stone, it is absolutely 
 necessary to secure stability, and therefore 
 to look well after the foundation ; hence in 
 attempting a solution of the dificult Negro 
 ■problem^ now disturbing the minds of the 
 intelligent people of both North and South 
 America, I wish to particularly call the at- 
 tention of the reader, to a great and glorious 
 fact^ known to many, yet thought of, by 
 but few, upon which as an invulnerable basis, 
 I shall build my solution of one of the most 
 difficult questions of modern times. This 
 great fact is, that God exercises an over- 
 ruling providence over the affairs of men 
 and nations ; notwithstanding the granted 
 prerogative of freedom of action, given to 
 all created intelligent beings. Now while 
 this is a known fact, it seems to be very 
 generally overlooked by human creatures, 
 whose conduct indicates that they think 
 they are running the affairs of this old earth 
 to suit themselves, without guidance or con- 
 
4 Solution of the Negro Problem. 
 
 stniint. But there is no questioning the 
 fact, by those well acquainted with the 
 Scriptures, that God exercises a providence 
 over the affairs of men and nations ; not how- 
 ever to that extent, that w^ould destroy yr^r^ 
 moral agency^ and cancel the generalh^ 
 acknowledged condition of accountability ; 
 nevertheless, an undeniable, over-ruling, 
 providence; that is possibly accomplished 
 by placing guiding influences in advance of 
 our understandings, as his unlimited wisdom 
 certainly enables Flim to do ; since He evi- 
 dently sees and knows beforehand ; at least 
 the trend of individuals and nations, and 
 He can therefore turn us hither and tither, 
 by circumstances, and use us as his instru- 
 mentalities, without destroying our choice 
 of action. Just as human beings, knowing 
 the nature and disposition of the lower ani- 
 mals, and seeing their movements from a 
 distance, can turn them one v/ay or the 
 other, without taking from them their liber- 
 ty of action, by placing in their, course ob- 
 stacles calculated to influence their move- 
 ments. For with all our boasted freedom 
 of action, w^c cannot possibly be above, nor 
 b'^yond cur surrounding circumstances, and 
 
Solution of the Negro Problem. 5 
 
 conditions of life ; which are certainly in the 
 keeping of Ah-nighty God. Many passages 
 of the Holy Bible, might be called into ser- 
 vice, to establish the great fact of the over- 
 ruling providence and government of the 
 God-head ; and to demonstrate the conclu- 
 sion, that this old earth oi ours, with its 
 millions of diversified inhabitants, is not 
 going helter skelter^ like a ship upon the 
 ocean without pilot or rudder ; but upon the 
 contrary, that the Lord God is at the helm^ 
 of even the affairs of men and nations, as 
 well as that of the entire universe ; and that 
 while under his long suffering, and wonder- 
 ful loving-kindness, He necessarily permits 
 evil, in harmony with the granted prerogative 
 of liberty of action, nevertheless, his grand 
 and glorious purposes in creation and govern- 
 ment, shall m the consummation of ages, be- 
 come wholly established. We should the 
 more readily come to this conclusion, since 
 to reason othervv^ise, would be to acknow- 
 ledge that the gigantic rebellion of Satan 
 and his followers, against the sovereign 
 authority of Almighty God, will be more or 
 less successful in the distant future ; while 
 the Scriptures indicate that it will prove the 
 
6 Solution of the Negro Problem. 
 
 grandest failure, of all failures, and the most 
 deplorable mistake, of all mistakes. Every 
 intelligent human being, who will carefully 
 read the wonderful book of the Prophet 
 Daniel, must necessarily be most thoroughly 
 convinced of the philosoply of the fact that 
 God exercises a providence over the affairs 
 of men and nations ; since the prophecies 
 therein made known, will not admit of any 
 other hypothesis, than that God rules, and 
 will certainly carry out his purposes. 
 
 The vision of king Nebuchadnezzar, of 
 the great image, representing according to 
 the interpretation of Daniel, the four great 
 universal empires of the civilized world ; 
 namely, the Babylonian empire, or the gold ; 
 the Medo-Persian empire, or the silver ; the 
 Grecian empire, or the brass ; and the 
 Roman empire, or the iron ; together with 
 Daniel's vision of ihe/oiLr beasts, mentioned 
 in chapter seventh, standing for the same four 
 great powers ; leave no possible foundation 
 for a doubt, as to the reliability of the posi- 
 tion, that God exercises a providence over 
 the affairs of men and nations. Scholars 
 differ, as to whether the stone k.ngdom, or 
 the fifth universal empire in the vision of 
 
Solution of the Negro Problem. 7 
 
 king Nebuchadnezzar, has reference to the 
 spiritual kingdom of Christ upon earth, or 
 to a poHtical government in the hands of 
 God's people, founded upon the principles of 
 liberty, equality before law, and universal 
 justice ; or such a government as our great 
 North American Republic would be, if it 
 covered the entire world as one power, or in 
 principle, under a brother-hood of Repub- 
 lics ; yet there are insurmountable reasons 
 for concluding that the latter hypothesis is 
 the correct one ; as for instance, the kingdom 
 of Christ, being a spiritual kingdom, can 
 never destroy and supplant political govern- 
 ments, as the stone kingdom is to do accord- 
 ing to the vision, and its interpretation ; and 
 furthermore, the kingdom of Christ was es- 
 tablished on earth during the glory of the 
 Roanm empire, or the iron kingdom, and 
 not during "the days of these kings," or the 
 ten kingdoms into which the Roman empire 
 was to be divided, according to the vision, 
 and into which it was divided, according to 
 history. 
 
 Now the great government of the United 
 States of America was established by the 
 help, and under the providence of Almighty 
 
8 Solution cf the Negro Problem. 
 
 God, during *' the days of these kings," as 
 required by the vision ; and therefore, it is 
 certainly very reasonable to conclude, that 
 our great republican form government in 
 the hands of God's people, and founded 
 upon the principles of liberty, equality be- 
 fore law, and universal justice, is the be- 
 ginnmg of the stone kingdom in the vision ; 
 and hence destined to grow and expand un- 
 til all other forms of government fall before 
 it, and the entire world passes into the 
 glorious embrace of a grand brotherhood of 
 Republics, with a national congress of arbi- 
 tration, for the adjustment of all possible 
 questions of difference, instead of resorting 
 to arms, and the power of might, regard- 
 less of the dictates of justice ; as has often 
 been the case in past ages. That there is 
 to be such a universal empire as the stone 
 kingdom interpreted politically, there is no 
 question ; for we learn from Isaiah, that after 
 the Mesiah shall have established his king- 
 dom upon earth ; that " out of Zion shall go 
 forth instruction, and the word of the Lord 
 from Jerusalem. And He shall judge be- 
 tween the nations, and shall reprove many 
 peoples ; and they shall beat their swords 
 
Solution of the Negro Problem. 9 
 
 into plowshears, and their spears into prun- 
 ing hooks ; nation shall not lift up sword 
 against nation, neither shall they learn war 
 any more." 
 
 All this most clearly refers to the glorious 
 reign of Christ upon earth a thousand pro- 
 phetic years, through the spirituality of his 
 people, which is mentioned in the visions of 
 the beloved Apostle Saint John. Wherefore, 
 the position that God exercises a providence 
 over the affairs of men and nations, may be 
 taken as an undeniable fact ; and I there- 
 fore proceed to build my solution of the 
 difficult Negro problem upon this glorious 
 fact, as a foundation invulnerable, and wor- 
 thy of a more magnificent temple of reason- 
 ing than I can possibly erect. Surely it is 
 unquestionably philosophical, that since 
 there is to be a fifth universal political em- 
 pire, and a general reign of peace among 
 the nations a thousand years, or three hun- 
 dred and sixty thousand Hebraic years ; and 
 since it is written in the sacred Scriptures 
 that " every knee shall bow to me, and every 
 tongue shall confess to God ;"(Rom.xiv.ll) ; 
 and again, in speaking of Christ, it is de- 
 clared that, *' there is none other name un- 
 
10 Solution of the Negro Problem. 
 
 fler heaven given among men, v/hereby v/e 
 must be saved;" (Acts iv. 12); it certainly 
 follows, that under the providence of Al- 
 mighty God, there will not only be formed 
 a fifth universal political government, but 
 that God will gradually civilize, enlighten, 
 and Christianize the heathen nations^ includ- 
 ing the black inhabitants of benig^hted Af- 
 rica, and make them ready for the great 
 change of elevation and glorification des- 
 tined to overtake the multitudes of old 
 mother earth in future years, possibly not 
 very far distant. For notwithstanding there 
 are some scriptures which certainly indicate 
 that the period of human probation probably 
 extends to the day of judgment — as maybe 
 inferred from the teaching of Matt. xii. 32, 
 and I. Peter iii. 19 — yet there is no ques- 
 tioning the conclusion, that it is the will and 
 purpose of Almighty God, that the entire 
 human race shall become civilized, enlight- 
 ened and Christianized in this bodily life ; 
 since the commission of Jesus Christ says, 
 ^' Go ye into all the world and preach the gos- 
 pel to the whole creation." (Mark xvi. 15). 
 And now, since God in his providence and 
 loving kindness, has under his charge the 
 
Solution of the Negro Problem. 11 
 
 civilization, enlightenment and Christiani- 
 jzation of the world, it certainly becomes ex- 
 ceedingly interesting to discover the means 
 l)y which he will redeem the benighted Af- 
 rican race from its deplorable state of bar- 
 barity, beastiality and cannibalism. It is 
 unquestionably well known that God works 
 through means ; and where human agency 
 under his all-wise guidance is adequate to 
 accomplish the ends to be attained, no 
 higher agency, such as angelic, is called 
 to the work, to a greater extent than possibly 
 to guide the human means. This fact being 
 undeniable, it philosophically follows, that 
 God will use human agenc}' in the redemp- 
 tion of the heathen nations of the world, in- 
 cluding the black people, from their lament- 
 able ignorance, superstition and barbarism. 
 And, therefore, it is certainly not an un- 
 reasonable h^^pothesis, that God, seeing the 
 deplorable condition of the Hamitic tribes 
 of Africa, and knowing the improbability, if 
 not impossibilit}^ that members of the white 
 race will ever locate permanently in the 
 heart of this dark continent, and become 
 the means of civilizing, enlightening and 
 Christianizing its inhabitants, owing to the 
 
lli Soruiion of the Negro Problem. 
 
 intolerableness of the climate of Central 
 Africa for Europeans ; saw, that in order 
 to prepare a suitable means for the emanci- 
 pation of this vast continent from the bonds 
 of ignorance, beastiality and cannibalism, 
 it was necessary that a portion of the black 
 race should be carried from the dark conti- 
 nent to other countries, and particularly to 
 the United States of North America, so that 
 the descendants of these transported blacks 
 might in the course of centuries become a 
 special means under Almighty God's ben- 
 evolent providence, of civilizing, enlight- 
 ening and Christianizing the inhabitants of 
 the mother country ; and thereby preparing 
 it for the coming reign of the Christian re- 
 ligion, a thousand prophetic years. Upon 
 this sublime hypothesis, as a foundation, we 
 must necessarily conclude that the African 
 slave trade of past years, constituted the first 
 step under the providence of God toward 
 the final and future elevation and Christian- 
 ization of the black race at large ; for God 
 often uses the wickedness of the wicked, 
 and the ambition of the worldly, as in the 
 case of Pharaoh of Egypt, to accomplish 
 his glorious purposes of benevolence, and 
 
Solution of the Negro Problem. 13 
 
 to vindicate his holy name upon the face of 
 mother earth. 
 
 And following up the theory herein ad- 
 vanced, we must conclude that the emanci- 
 pation of the Africans of the two Americas 
 from the bonds of slavery, certainly consti- 
 tuted the second step under the providence 
 of God, toward the preparation of the special 
 means being prepared before our eyes, and 
 by our assistance, for the elevation and glo- 
 rification of even benighted Africa. This 
 step in the grand purpose of God could not, 
 however, be accomplished in the United 
 States without great tribulation and blood- 
 shed ; because the people of the South, 
 where slavery was found to be profitable, 
 had taught themselves to believe that the 
 servitude of Canaan, predicted by father 
 Noah, should be understood, metonymically, 
 as applicable to the entire Hamitic race. 
 This idea they had learned by reading 
 Preist's Bible Defense of Slavery, and books 
 of like character — all based upon the falla- 
 cious hypothesis that Noah used the name 
 Canaan metonymically for Ham, when he 
 said, *' Cursed be Canaan : a servant of ser- 
 A-ants shall he be unto his brethren." This 
 
14 Solution of the Negro Problem. 
 
 theory for the interpretation of father 
 Noah's curse and prophecy, relative to Ca- 
 naan, is certainly without philosophical foun- 
 dation ; for the name Ham could have been 
 used metonymically for his descendants, 
 with some propriety ; but there is not a 
 particle of philosophy in concluding that 
 the name Canaan was so used. The hy- 
 pothesis was utterly absurd — manufactured 
 to attempt to bolster up the great iniquity 
 of African slavery. This curse and prophecy 
 of the patriarch Noah, was fulfilled in the 
 land of Palestine, the Canaanites having 
 been there held in bondage by their breth- 
 ren, the Jews. And the second step, under 
 the providence of God, having been brought 
 to consummation through great tribulation — ■ 
 the third step, or the preparation of the 
 blacks of the two Americas for the work 
 God intends them to accomplish, is progress- 
 ing rapidly, even wonderfully, taking into 
 careful consideration the deplorable condi- 
 tion of the multitudes of emancipated slaves. 
 This preparation of the separated blacks, is 
 to become civilized, enlightened and Chris- 
 tianized themselves, and capable of self- 
 government and advancement — ready as a 
 
Solution of the Negro Froble?n. 15 
 
 specially prepared host, under the provi- 
 dence of Almighty God, to lay hold of the 
 mother country, wrench it from the bonds of 
 superstition, ignorance and cannibalism; and 
 cause it to blossom in the near future with 
 cultivated fields and orchards, flourishing 
 cities and colleges, and a net work of rail- 
 roads, with their thundering locomotives, 
 drawing the commodities of commerce from 
 ocean to ocean ; accompanied by the light- 
 ning of heaven, bearing the news of the 
 world from land to land, and zone. to zone, 
 filling old mother earth with joy and glad- 
 ness, never before to mortals known. For if 
 the emancipated blacks had been sent to the 
 mother country, at the time of their libera- 
 tion, they would certainly have become en- 
 gulfed into all the lam.entable barbarism now 
 enshrouding the dark continent, like a pall 
 of condemnation and death. They must first 
 become elevated, and, in a measure, regen- 
 erated; with their faces turned tovvard heaven 
 and better things, and their backs towa'rd 
 hell, with all its diabolical darkness aod woe, 
 before they can be considered a ready means 
 under the providence of God, of wresting 
 their own native land from the grasp of 
 
IG Solution rf the Negro Problem. 
 
 previously unknown ignorance and super- 
 stition, that now hold it in an anacondara] 
 embrace of death. 
 
 Surely there are no grounds for conclud- 
 ing that the third step toward the solution oi 
 the great problem under consideration, ac- 
 cording to our theory, will not soon become 
 consummated ; w^hen events will certainly 
 happen under the providence of God, that 
 will necessitate the fourth step, that is, the re- 
 turn of the blacks of the two Americas to the 
 mother country ; not of their own accord as a 
 people, but at the dictation and expense of the 
 white population. For since by amendment ol 
 the constitution of the United States, the 
 blacks have been made equal to the whites 
 before the law of the land, and given the 
 elective franchise ; and since many of the 
 blacks bewildered by this glory, are trying 
 to force social equality upon the whites ; 
 race wars are inevitable. And in the course 
 of a few years; when the blacks in all the 
 extreme southern states shall so out number 
 the whites, as to be able to fill all state, 
 county, and city offices from their own peo- 
 ple, these wars will assume such vast pro- 
 portions, that both races will become con- 
 
Solution of the Negro Problem. 17 
 
 vinced, that it is not best, nor the will of God, 
 that^ they shall try to live together as one 
 people : when the fourth step according to 
 our theory will become a reality ; and the 
 accumulation of millions of surplus treasury 
 in the vaults of the United States govern- 
 ment, may under the providence of God ; be 
 building up for this very benevolent purpose. 
 Even waiving the hypothesis that Almighty 
 God is preparing the emancipated blacks 
 of the two Americas, as a special means to 
 be used by Him in the elevation and glori- 
 fication of benighted Africa ; it nevertheless 
 becomes the imperative duty of the liberated 
 blacks of these two countries as soon as they 
 become educated and capable of self-govern- 
 ment and advacem.ent, to return to their own 
 native land and take charge of it ; to form a 
 great African Republic, patterned after the 
 United States of America ; to introduce 
 civilization into the very heart of the dark 
 continent; to clear up its jungles, destroy 
 its wild beasts and huge serpents, drain its 
 low lands, irrigate its deserts ; and in short, 
 to make it flourish with all the glorious 
 works of modern civilization; and become 
 ready for the beginning of the millenial 
 
18 Solution of the Negro Problem. 
 
 reign of Christ on earth a thousand pro- 
 phetic years through the spirituahty of his 
 people, who will govern the enlightened 
 nations of the earth during this glorious era 
 of time. Such is undoubtedly the duty of 
 the blacks of the two Americas, regardless 
 of the probability that return to Aferica 
 may become a necessity to insure their own 
 preservation. For there is no use to attempt 
 to hide the fact, that neither social equality 
 between the whites and the blacks, nor 
 amalgamation will be tolerated in this coun- 
 try ; and it is the consummation of stupidity 
 for the blacks to dream of anything tending 
 to these ends. Neither should they regard 
 the two American continents as their home, 
 since they have a grand continent of their 
 own, allotted to their forefathers in ancient 
 times, by the division of the world among 
 the descendants of father Noah. Surely 
 there is no foundation for a doubt that un- 
 der the over-ruling providence and benevo- 
 lence of Almighty God, the blacks of the two 
 Americas are to return, and to be returned 
 to their own native land. And since the 
 forefathers of the whites, are to blame for 
 the forcible transportation of the forefathers 
 
Solution of the Negro Problem. 19 
 
 of the blacks, to these two contries as slaves; 
 it is certainly nothing short of justice, that 
 the children of the former, should bear the 
 burden of returningf the children of the 
 latter, to their own universally acknowledged 
 country. And regardless of whether the 
 idea already advanced, is correct or other- 
 wise, that the accumulation of the millions 
 of surplus treasury in the vaults of the 
 United States government, is possibly one 
 of the providences of Almighty God, to 
 enable the white people of this country to 
 transport the blacks to Africa, when they 
 see that to do so is a necessity; we are cer- 
 tainly safe in saying that even to day the 
 last dollar of this money would be voted to 
 this benevolent purpose, if the proposition 
 was legally put before the country. And 
 looking at this profound solution of the in- 
 teresting Neorro -problem from all stand- 
 points, it can not be denied that the solution, 
 is certainly philosophical ; and since it would 
 be greatly to the advantage of the black 
 race at large, as well as beneficial to the 
 entire world ; and since it is evidently in 
 harmony with the grand purposes of Al- 
 mighty God, it is certainly to be most fondly 
 hoped that the hypothesis may speedily 
 prove to be wholly correct. 
 
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 Postage Prepaid. Address the author, 850 Sixth 
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 Price, 10 cents. Address the author, 850 Sixth Street, 
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