The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-06-30
The Negro Question:

what creed the \JNDlcAToE
breaches. as we'll as practlccs'
Some men, and they are not gen :.
cral thinkers, class us as "l'oVr'
Unconstitutional knowing what
that term means; others, ano
they arc dcmagoyucs, charge us
with being "erratic" and "prr:Iu
diccd"-thcy do it for II p''r-
pose, the purpose of personal pre-
itrmcnt or personal gain.
Leading thinkers, and we beg
TO disclaim eYotism in CHASING
orrself as thinker, are ponder
inc over the great problem which
now effects our country; and
which, unless speedily settled,
will result in the destruction OF the
autonomy Of or society, and III
the debascmcnt of our morals be
yond the hope Of a cure.
Man in all ages has shown Inn
self a creature Of passion, ana
exhibits spectacle Of an extreme
in virtue or vice, always. Thc era
Of 'Gl-'7G, was one OF those
spasmodic dcluges Of tanatlcal
legislation which is marked in his
tory by the wreck of more gov
crnments than one. In fact, but
few have ever recovered when
once submerged by that awful sea
of passion, which drowned reason
and honor in this country during
the last fifteen years. Happily
for mankind, the virtue of Amer
ca is adamant, and has withstood
not without personal as well az
constitutional sacmhccs, the rudt
shock of the pillows of tanaticisn
and communism, and to-day he
people find themselves face II
face with the same question whlc|
seemed to unseat reason, and dl'
so in a measure, ten years since.
We hear OF men, who every Ola
Ilopelessly imagine that ''pcac
has conc'-that the ''great que:
tion'-tho political and Socl;
standing of the inferior race i
the United States, has been SOLVED
when the fact exists, that til
question has just presented Itse
to the real thinking mind OF tt
couptrx. for snlatiAA.--I
81 those supposed rights of ma
kind upon which the demaSosl
played so successfully in the pas
The negro, to our mind, do
not now, nor did he ever posses
in his brain or bosom the hiudt
spring Of 'man's capabilities
govern man." nor do we belle
him a person of total depravit
but looking at the question in t
light of cold, stern Justice to civj
cation we are panied to say til
the negro as a mass, has Sho\
himself the true son of his RAJ
Born of parents by nature infer
in every respect to all of CO.
SOu!-creations, he has, when eliot
ed with power, striven with
that power to pull down the civ
zation of the mighty Caucasian
Il level with the degrading bari
risn of his OWN ancestry. TIL
best educated are but initiate
while their supremacy in the Sol
tor ten years past, will mark
era in history the success of VIII
would have been horrible to G.
template.
Meeting this negro question,
ter ten years abstract tanati
g warfare, face to face, and meetin
this time to solve it finally :
forever, we must assume the I
thtmental proposition, which
been made fixed one by rec
events, that it is impossible to Il
tie races IN human government.
other wopas,' no two races sta
ing ut extremes on the 81
of civilization, as the Caucas
and African races do, can eve
successfully clothed with the S;
civil and political power wit
the same government. One
or the other must completely d
mate Or else the struggle goes
This is the question, the
ton of which weighs down
minds of our best thinkers,