North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-12-18

take part in it..."Ole Bull, the world
renowned Norwegian violinist, arrived i,
New York last week, en- route for Chicago
where he is expected to arrive some time
this week.. commissioner of pen
sions, in his report, announces the deatl
of the last Revolutionary soldier.
The shoes of Weston. the walker, are
| on exhibition in shoe-dealer's window
in New London, Conn.,. 1.-THE House Of
| Representatives has affirmed the recon
struction measures oflast season., by vote
of ] to ...Spain is said to be DESTROYS
of selling the island of Cuba to the United
States, asking $3.50, OpO,ooO for it.
The Work for White Men.
The resolutions adopted by the Virginia
white mems convention, sound the key
note Of the great popular reaction that is
even now uphcaving the political surface
in this country. 1t is the uprising of the
sentiment of constitutional liberty against
governmental tyranny. 1t is the protes.
OF nature, springing up in the bloud of
whte~men, against the political domina-
ton of an inferior race of semi barbara
ans. just emerged from the degradation Of
slavery.
Scof at the idea rs some may. the pro-
position that . This is white mans gov
ernment," is a statement of historic truth.
1t is not necessary to argue the matter
The instinct Of every decent white man,
no matter to what political party he may
belong, tells him that the Creator did not
place the broad mark of distinction be-
tween the black and the white races with.
out purpose. 1t tells him that these ra-
ces were not intended to mingle or misce-
ginate. And it recoils with adherence
from the thought that white men should
be compelled to submit to he governed by
the black race of Africa.
The whole truth was well and forcibly
stated by General Thomas Ewing. Jr.. in
his recent letter to some personal and po-
litical friends in Kansas. Concerning the
reconstruction measure, he says:
regard them as misunderstanding
OF revenge, misdirected philanthropy, and
lust of power. l would as soon expect a
house to stand on the crater of living
volcano as State where. whites and blacks
being nearly equal in numbers, the
whites are prescribed and the blacks made
rulers. Such government cannot long
have the heartfelt ss mpathy of any large
body OF white men anywhere. Blood is
thicker than water, and northern whites
will sympathize with southern whites in
their struggle to shake off the incubus of
negro rule. IL there were no prejudice OF
race to affect their action, the northern
people would still refuse to reproduce in
the States of the Union, Hayti or Domingo,
or any other government and civilization
the negro race has established since the
food
When such sentiments arc held by one
who filled prominent place in the history
of events during the ~ar.-who acted
throughout with the dominant political
party.-who enjoys the prestige Of being
the son of one of the most iilustrious oil
| American statesmen,-and who. moreover
| is recognized as a man of superior talents
and the greatest sobriety i'm Judgment
they carry a weight greater than would at
tach to the utterance of any professional
| politician.
The simple fact underlying and giving
| soul, form and body to the RECONSTRUCTED
business, lie the elevation of negroes to thu
| place of white men, and the degradation O
white men to the place Of negroes. 1t j.
against this that nature protests, and vii
not cease to protest. The whole work o
| political reconstruction that proceeds from
this basis, or ends in this result, must anG
will be undonc. As surely as ''Blcod i.
thicker than water" the white race which
founded this government of white mel
for themselves and posterity" will un
do it.
The Virginia white mems convention
adopted resolution authorizing its cen
trail committee to take measures to test tn,
constitutionality OF the reconstruction act
in the supreme court. In this action tn
white men Of Virginia will receive the cor
dial sympathy of honest white men every
where. If the reconstruction acts be un
constitutional,-as all conservative whit
men believe them to bean official decla
ration of that fact will materially assist il
the work Of their undoing. Ii they he no
unconstitutional, no advocate Of those en-
actments can reasonably object to the pro
posed test.
Let the Virginia committee proceed t
bring the case alluded to by Mr.. Imboden
into the supreme court. 1t will be a ste
gained in the great work which the whit
race in America has before 1.-THE vndi
cation OF its superior right and authorit
in the government over the race of Africa
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