New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-11-14
More Compliments TO COlOred
Men.

The Sun, of this city, has the following:
1.-THE Epaomist is troubled, because, in the
light of the Sun, Fortcn, Douglass, and other
mulatto blatherskites, appear in their true
character. The Epdomid says FOrten is zone
of the best educated orators" among the
nigs. That may be so, but it looks as though
the EpitOmia even believed that nearly all
the darkey orators arc uncducated. The fact
is thick skull and tough brain are not easily
educated, and the Radical pets possess both
blessings abundantly. That is why they all
vote for thieves and scalawags"
The hero of Fishing Creek adhercs to his
consistency. He clings to the old plank of
the Democratic platform, which was, accord
ing to Greeley, "hatc niggers." OF the
other plank we will not speak now. After
such Il salutatiOn as that we presume our
colorcd citizens will have no greater refer
ence for the Greeleyites than before. "Darkey
orators" " thick skulls" "tough BRAIN"
That is the genuine Democratic opinion of
negroes. We freely confess that the mass
of negroes of this country arc ignorant Two
hundred years of Democratic bondage, in
which Democrats forbade the victims to learn
to read, forbade them the right to assemble
for mutual improvement, made it death to
defend themselves against assaults by white
men, and in which Democrats bought and
sold the labOrers instead of paying them
wages, has compelled them to remain in ig-
nOrance until the Democratic revolt to flsten
perpetual bondage on them resulted in their
liberation. Now they are merging from ig-
norance and barbarism more rapidly than
any people on earth ever emerged from such
a condition, and in acquiring education are
proving themselves more apt than the white
working class of the South. Epdomia, Will
liams port, Penn.
SPEAKER BLAINE has the reputation of
being a sagaciOus and flr-seeing politician,
thoroughly understanding the art of having
his plans and organizing his forces so rs to
gain his end. BE this as il may, his speech
last week, at the Cooper Institute, in this
city, explaining the Fourteenth Amendment,
and showing the rights and powers of the
General Government under the amended
Constitution, went to the very root of the
matter in respect to tie Democratic cry
about Capitalization" We quote single
passage:
"But cannot make myself comprehend
how it is that n government that has an arm
long enough and strong enough to reach to
the Mediterranean and snatch Martin Costa
from the hands of the Austrian power, or
take DR.. Houard from the hands of the
Spanish Government, shall yet be told that,
if you and L have our rights interfered with,
our persons wrOnged, our property imperiled,
on the soil of South Carolina or Alabama, the
Federal Government must not be asked to
interfere, because that would be destroying
the great Democratic doctrine of sell-g0yern-
ment."
We confess ourselves to be in the same
predicament. The truth is, the democratic
doctrine of local selfgovernment," which is
simply Calhounism modernized, flies right in
the face and eyes of the Constitution of the
United States. 1t denies to the General Gov
eminent powers which are bestowed upon it
by the express words of this Constitution. 1t
theoretically dispossesses the nation of all
right on its own soil to protect the guaranteed
rights of its own citizens. The General Gov
ernment may do so everywhere else; but the
moment it comes to act within the limits of
its own jurisdiction then "local self-govern-
ment'' palsies its arm and turns it into le-
gal sham. Here the respective States have
all the power, and the National Government
has no power. This Democratic doctrine of
State rights has no basis in the Cons titution
and none in common sense.--IndYendea.
"A Paris writer is authority for the fol-
lowing illustration of the ranidity with which