American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-10-18
AWAY With Him !

Colorphohia dies hard, and it must be ad-
mitted that its ultimate spasms are little
laughable, as ii stiiTens into the rigidiiy of
REDuGTIo AID ABsuRDuM. Glass hatred
seems to find death itself sweet in compare
son with CONCESSION or even compromise. -
The Cherokee Indian, turning up his nose
contemptuously between two high cheek
bones, g objects to the incorporation of the
| freedmen in his tribe. - The State of Con-
neticut, still enamored Of blue legislation,
thinks the Black good enough for battles, but
not good enough for the ballot-box, The
Rev. Governor Brownlow is fJr instantly
kicking every emnncipated man, women and
child out of Tennessee So it seems that
wherever these dark foot. balls may land
they will be unpleasant to somebody; and
as t. ere are several millions Of them a
good, solld, constituent part oil the national
populat on, under positive necessity, while
they live at all, of living somewhere, it occurs
to us that the readest way Of solving this
impertinent problem is to put all these in>
truders upon the face of Gods earth to the
sword. Does any chickenb hearted humans
tartan protest that this expedient would be
Bah who is talking of benesolence at all {?
We are considering something better-bread
and butter, the peace of society, ancient
and respectable prejndices, the delicate feel
ings of the Cherokee Indians and Of the
inhabitants of Connecticut, the sacred dig
nifty of the Caucasian demi,gods, the puri-
ty Of the pews and theater boxes and of
railway carriages, and Of schools and col
leges, the nice nobility of the well born be-
cause they are, waitc.born, the traditional
limitations of fastidious Democracy the ex-
quisite tasc of porter-hotIses and primary
meetings, the weak knees Of nervous Repub.
licans, the susceptibility Of the whole tribe
of the HoIier than-Thou'si None Of these
are the men to find fault with our proposi>
ton upon the score ofcruclty. Why should
they be tender of lives which they arc so
ready to make wretched2 The Black is els
ther man or a beast If the former, he
has a right to live where he pleases it the
latter, he is mere vermin, and no more to
be tolerated upon the political than loath-
some insects upon the physical body. We
have nothing but scorn for the logic which
faints at its own conclusions. We have
nothing but contempt for theories which the
holders shrink from reducing to practice.
We shoot wolves, We trap weasels, we hunt
foxes, we kill pole cats, we shoot crows, we
wage war of determination upon rats and
cockroaches, and who calls our persistent
and neral hostility cruely Itis not against
the existence but the neighborhood of these
nuisances that we protest practically and
and remorselesslY. Now, though the far>
mer in Maine may care nothing for the
wolves in Minnesota, and the householder
in New York nothing for tho reaches in
Philadelphia, it is evident that while the
wolves and reaches remain, they must live
somewhere and trouble somebody. So it is
with these horrible Blacksl If Brownlow
had purse plethoric euongh, and power
adequate to transport all these troublesome
creatures somewhere, it is certain that he
could net carry them beyond toe ultimate
reach Of advancing White civilization. lie
merely temporizes. lie merely rids his day
and generation Of a trouble. and bequeaths
it 10 posterity. lie merely relieves one lo<
calty at the expense Of another. Our plan
is more consistently humane. If we cut
the throats of all the Blacks, weksever at
the same time the gordian knot We put
the animsl outof his misery. and put our
selves out Of our misery, and all win be se-
rene. We do not pretend to be more pitiful
than our neighbors. but we believe the
Sour pc GRACE to be better and kinder than