The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-09-19
Is our Government a Failure
From The NASHVILLE Union and Ameritahl

From :hc NASHVILLE Union and Ameritah]
The Cincinnati Gazette, one Of the
ablcst Republican journals in the
country, tells its readers in plain
terms, that "No people in the world
have so little respect for their gov
ernments as the people of the United
States" Is not this II fact of much
portent? Either the government, as
conducted since 1861. when it was
declared to he the best in the world,
has been debased by insane, and pos
sibly incurablc changes Of the Federal
constitution, or the people themselves
are mad not to respect their self-gov-
eminent. The Gazette has too much
sense not to SEQ the mistake its party
has committed by ''eonferring the
governing power on near million of
men of q race degraded in their ma
tive country, and here by ages of
Slavery But in what way does the
party which controls both Houses of
Congress and the Administration aim
to correct its obvious. and generally
acknowledged errors The Gazette
thus answers the question
"Our politicians said they would
know enough to vote for their own
friends. Here was the party gain
that is always uppermost in these
strokes Of State. They said, also,
they were as capable Of voting us
large class Of the foreigners We had
made voters. This was true enough,
aud it shows how one step degrade
ton furnishes the level for another.
No one thinks it worth while to stop
at anything. In fact, n" one thinks
we have anything in the Government
worth preserving, save the chances
Of party in it. At the last session.
the House passed a. bill to erect New
Mexico into a State, with u voice in
the Senate, to neutlalize that of Ohio.
Yet it has not 10000 English speak.
ing inhabitants, and is q mixture Of
Mexicans, Indians and negroes, with
scarcely any of the conditions of civ
ilization. The House said the same
with the wild Territory Of Colorado.
These are the doings Of a people who
have lost all respect for their govern
ment. It is much worse in local gov
eminent, for there the scalawag, the
hummer, the adventurer, whose trade
is to degrade, is preferred for public
trusts to the best citizens. Govern.
ment in America is a thing Of public
contempt"
If "Government in America is Il
thing Of public contempt" there is
an adequate cause for it, which
every voter should ponder and UNDER
stand. 1t is false, if not calumnious,
to affirm that "nearly u million vo-
tors" of the African race are as ca.
pable of voting as the European race,
whether the latter have come to this
country within five years or are de-
scendants of immigrants who came
before the revolution. This radical
idea of negro equality is alike false
and degrading. 1t is incapable of ad-
ding either wit or wisdom to the ne
gro elector. Legislator, judge, juror or
governor, while it is all-powerfnl to
bring tho white mans abridged and
divided right Of republican govern
ment into incurable contempt. Negro
equality means amalgamation and the
downfall Of the government, to be
followed by alternate anarchy and
despotism. There must be more pu-
rity and higher intelligence in legis-
lation, more truth and profound re-
gard for right, less sham and counter
felt patriotism, before our political
system can recover the public esteem.
Even negroes will not respect q n.y.
brid government.