The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1869-09-11


Where peAocratic principles are en-
forced. the poor man is citizen and
through his vote has his influence on the
councils of the nation. Whilst in q
land of. despotism, he is either a serf, a
4 peon, or slave True. Democratic lib
Il erty ls giving a man all the liberty he is
4 capable of enjoying, and depriving him
4 Of suffrage where he is so ignorant and
/ degraded that he will use it to destroy
liberty and establish despotism. Igno-
rance has no right TO ensldre intelligence.
There Isl none in the boDdhoIders, nor
the extremely wealthy, for they would
be the nobility, and they want imperial
EsHeo prevent reputation and protect
hh ~ their wealth. History has pro-
sst>heF&is none in the great masses of
fe peo@ The middle classes the
/ feat body of the land holders, is the
YnIy power in America that can be relied
~ make any opposition to change
= VuR form of government, and their
esierce~ is doubtfu They will have to
choose between two horns of dilemma. :"
iAskarianism on one side and Imperial
In ouSfhe other Agrarianism is not
HsttA Ain the history of republics It
- been and will be again. We saw
t.r ss,s5 H<...st-sass. ,,rss...s
f7sed each negro $50 acres or fauu slsu :.
mule If the land holders oppose i'm
peridiSm. the bondholders, wealthy mer-
chants and manufacturers, might form a
coalition with those who have no land
but do have votes, and enforce subdi-
vision of lands until each man should
have forty acres We should remem
Der that iu 1850, there were only $50, 900
shareholders in the United States and
nearly B ZOO, 900 of vcters. No wonder
slavery fell If slaves had been distrib-
uted throughout the United States like
horses, slavery would not have been,
1.-The great crime of the age" and the
God and Humanity Party, would have
exercised itself on something else
Whipping women. prosecuting Quakers,
or driving Roger Williams from Rhode
Island to Texas, because he was Bap
tist.) The Southern landholders having
fought the battle once and lost their
slaves, will not be apt to fight it again
aud perhaps lose their lands When the
Northern landholders voted for Grant,
they voted for Imperialism and knew it
when they voted
The people of Kentucky have in sew
eral instances proven themselves capable
of self government, and her politics has
always been controlled by native suffrage,
not enough foreigners in the State to
control local election outside of some
river towns In 1925 6, the celebrated
contest between the ''Old Court and New
Court came off In this case the Gov
ernor. Legislature, and new court were
all opposed to the old court, endcavor-
ing TO enforce an unconstitutional law
on the people, for the relief of the peo-
pie, in the teeth of the old Supreme
Court, which had decided it to be uncon-
and had been set aside itself
on that account, and new Supreme
Court established in its stead. The peo-
pie Of Kentucky sustained the Old Court
and the constitution of the State. The
result was hailed throughout the civil
lied world as the most splendid example
!. my Issssssss... - ever SsTp 6ee4 seen. seen
The people or Kentucky have again pro
ven themselves in giving 5000 majori-
ty for Stevenson, and again in rolling up
the same majority for Seymour. Ali this
goes to show tlekt.saiversal suffrage is
not a repubsS ssAple, but the hand
maid of Ihfp@S&sfn This ''loas"
white man goyeri56eat, made by white
men, for white men, and should only be
by white men.