The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-20

ing the existence OF the KukIu&
KIans, and the horrible outrager
against them, thes fiber
al statesmen and devoted disei.
pies Of Horace Greeley indirectl,
justify them by, the following Ian.
guage: 80
We have just remarked We d..
not propose to discuss at large tn
question of negro government il
these pages; but we feel that /
would be direlection of duty or
our part after what we have Wit
messed in South Caroline, we did
rot admonish the American peo
pie that the present condition o.
things in the South can not last
1t was an oft-quotsd political
apothegm, long prior 10 the war
that no government could exis
half slave and half free.' Th
paraphrase Of that proposition i
equally true, that no governmen
can long exist half white and hal
black.
There can be neither sympath
nor harmony in any polity Nher.
such antagonism is attempted t.
be overcome by Law. Gods Law
is higher than. mans law. Man
puny statutes can not repeal o
nulify the immutablc ordinance
Of The Almighty. Those whom
God has separated let no man joi,
together. There con be no perma
nent partition Of power, nor an,
peaceable joint exercise OF powe
among such discordent bodies
mcl. One or the other must have al
or none. 1t is the very acme of foil.
and faDiticism to suppose, in this
day Of en!ightment and its conse-
quent pride Of feeling among th.
superior race, that there can be
reproduction of the ancient fablu
of tying the living and the dead
together without causing death to
both. Who would have dreamed
fifteen years ago. what highest and
most far-seeing intellect among
the great men who established this
Government upon the bassis of
homogenity Of race aud color,
could have imagined that In the
first century Of its existance Az
ricsn freedmen, of the lowest type
Of ignorance and brutality, would
rule sovereign State of the Union
and be the true arbiters of tie
rights and property of q race who
have ruled the destinies of nations
ever since government was known
among me1? Such state O..
things may last SO long as the
, party shall last which had the pow
er and audacity to inaugurate it,
, and no longer. But whenever that
party shall 60 down, as 60 down
it will at some time not long in
t the future, that will be the end O
the political power of the negro
among white men in this CONT
nent.
These are the words OF an earncs
l report, the honest convictions o
, every Democratic member of tn
8 committee. The policy fore
0 shadowed in this extract is tn
n policy of the Liberal party Th,
c eight Liberalites who signed thi
e report are not extremists. but fai
II representatives of the party t
y which they belong. We desire t
It be fair to utter nothing in malic
n against this desperate comb:natio
n to defeat President Grant, but de
,e clarations Of our opponents fore
s, US to believe that this liberal NOV
10 ment. ii successful, will inaugural
n a reign ofterror throughout th
i South, such ~ the world nevt
oi before witnessed. When cigl
M conservative men who claim to
loyal, and whom We know to
er intelligent, come to the conclusio
th that the rightof citizenship, COZ
i, ferrcd by the Constitution on ID
10 freedmen of the South. is nothir
ne more than a rarty right, to be to
as Grated while cera,in party is
J. power, and no longer, what can v
e. expect of the thousands Of igns
to rant and disloyal men who live {
y violence, who believe the KILN
lis of negro to be divine rigl
n who are restrained 10 their acts {
he cruelty by the strong arm of IL
,k law, and who see in the defeat
of President Grant their opportuni'
,d to plunder, scourge, and murd
of the unoffending fseedmen. of Il
he South ? II the conclusions reacl
A. ed by the minority aud publish'
he to the world, after q careful il
Al vestigation. after months Of delil
A. Grafton. is not an inyatation TO b,
as gin the work Of extermiuation
u subjugation, - soon as the Dem
of cratic party, comes into power, '
Is arc no Judge Of language It
he the latest echo Of the old slav
,rt holders ery, "A negro has 4
rights wbicha white man is bou
ee to respect" The nation can o