Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-05-09
The Folly of the Times.

The Folly of the Times.
 Nothing like the kind ofgovernment the Radical party are now trying to make this is described in history or ever entered the minds of men before. The idea of government, one-half controlled by intelligence and en- lightenment and a superior race, and the other half by ignorance and the most inferior of all races, could only have originated in frenzied fanaticism It is both impracticHblc and abhorent to all the prejudices of our race, and is the old story over again of a corpse lashed to Q living body. The dead man cannot move therefore the living man must perish. The corruption and pteffch of The one inevitably destroys the other.
 There is q natural and instinct repug- nance against close association of equality with the negro implsnted in the white man by God himself, which he cannot overcome if he would. He cannot admire the color, the peculiar conformation or the odor which exudes through the negro's evey pore. He cannot admire the ignorance of the ne- gro or become reconciled to his brutal habits and propensitics. He may be kind to him, and 1t is his inclination to be so but he is kind to him because It affords him no pleasure and he feels that he has no right to do otherwise. But when it comes to admitting him to a position of social equality the naturel repugnance manifcsts itself and the white man recoils from the disgusting proposition and when it is proposed to put him h position of political eaualFty, both public and private interests exclaim against it. Common sense and the experience of fnankind demonstrate that no government can absorb any considerable amount of | ignorance in the management of its l affairs, and escape serious and perhaps | irreparabfe Injury thefefrom. An | ignorant population will be more than likely to select ignorant representa- tives, and thus inexperience and stupid ity is injected into every department, there generating blunders and irregu- | laritics which must sooner or later de. stroy the nation.
 Itis not pretended even by the most | intense Radicals, that the establishment of negro governments in the South will be of any advantage to the nation at large, except as fxrnishing guerantee against future rebellion, and that is a shameless pretext. The arguments is that it is absolutely essential to the security of the negro that he shall be armed with the ballot, that he may by its use restrain the great body of the white population of the South, who are supposed to be his mortal enemies and who, it is argued, are seeking hit destruction.
 How tAc ballot will protect him per sonally, if it is true that the white popu lation are resolved upon his extermina' I ton, is not explained. How it will protect him politically, unless he is put in control of the governments of tho States, is equally mysterious. It cer tainly cannot secure him against vio lence in the one case, or enable him tt frame the laws in the other. It can on ly be of service by making the negroes the ruling class and placing the whites under their feet. This is precisely what the extreme Radicals are working for. Not that they have any love, ad miration or sympathy for the negroes for they have not, but simply and sole ly because they believe that they car uSe tDein TUT tHtit OW U 0uNuus1SCt ouS through the political power which the! will wield under their manipulations enable them to retain the reins of gov ernraent. The interests of the whit, race, the general prosperity, the goot name of the nation, and the perpetuit. ofrepublican institutions arc considera tions of minor importance. They ar ready to adopt any expedient, no mat ter how corrupt and ruinous, whicl will give them promise of success il the Presidential election. Their pcliti v,.i philosophy extends no further thn,
 that. They have lived in lawless de .tiance of the Constitution and the law for the last six gears, and they imagin
 that they are law unto themselves Their chief idea is to tyranRiUc owe the people and plunder the treasury So long as they can do this they are con tent that the Government shall drif
 toward anarchy. Whether they wil be checked in their interruptions vii
 lainy by the great popular verdict ren dered in the last elections agains them remains to be secn.-[ Louisvill
 Courier.