The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
THE WHITE RACE WILL RULE.
As True in Massachusetts as m
south Carolina.
So No Part of the Country can
Again ever be Controlled
by the Negro Race.,,

No allowance is made by gentle
men upon the other side for the
great disparity between the colored
and white races i'll intelligence and
all of the elements which constitute
power and capacity TO manage, con-
troll and govern. In these latter
particulars the Anglo-Saxon race is
pre-eminently and infinitely the su-
perior of the colored race. There is
also the other great fact that does
not seem to have been taken into
consideration by the Republican
party as a reason why thousands of
colored men should vote with The
Democrats or affiliate with the Dem
ocratic party, and that is the fact
that almost the entire property of
the southern states is owned by the
white men, who are Democrats. This
is an element of great power
and is always used and every
where for purposes of advantage
and control, i'll political as we'll as in
other matters, against the weaker
class. None of these facts are taken
into consideration, and they are
sufficient to account for the natural
growth Of the Democratic party in
the south from the ranks of the COL
ored people.
Now, with these great advantages
on the side of the white man, is it
strange or unreasonable or wonder
full that, living in the same section
with the colored men, who consti-
tute a very large percentage of the
voting population, that the intelli-
gent white man of the south should
use his power over the colored man
by argument, by persuasion, by po-
sition, by superior intelligence, by
appeals to his own sense of good
government, to take sides with them
in political questions? Or, being
owners of the property, and having
the capacity to control and govern,
it is entirely natural that he should
induce the colored man to vote and
act with him for his own as well as
the white mans interest.
L ask If there is anything strange
or unnatural in such a course AS
this? l ask if it is not entirely rea-
sonable and proper that such course
should be pursued? Why, it is the
universal law that governs every
where throughout the world; why
should il not operate in South Car
olina? The weaker leans upon the
stronger-the stronger controls the
weaker; and if it is for the interest
of the stronger man to control the
weaker man by using his vote or his
muscle, it is done. 1t is done in
Massachusetts, it is done in Illinois,
it is done in South Carolina.
My proposition, then, is that the
white race of this country in no
state in this Union, whatever the
disparity of numbers may be, will
ever submit to the domination OF
the inferior race; and that the col
Ored race, the ratio of numbers
beng the same, would have no
greater chance for political success
in Massachusetts than it has IN South
Carolina, or IN Illinois than in Mis-.
sissippi. The superior race never
has submitted in the history
of the world and never will SUBJ
nit to the domination or con.
troll of the weaker or inferior race
This is the great universal law oi
nature. We see it exhibited every
where. 1t is practiced every day. Ii
is practiced in every community, in
every country, in all climates, and
there is no. exception to the rule. II
is then principle governing human.
ity that may be accepted as without
exception that the strong will take
advantage of his strength and use
his influence and power for the
interest of himself, and whether ply
sical or political.
And this, Mr.. Speaker, is the
teaching of all history. 1t Is the ln-
evitable law of the survival of the
fittest. The superior race will con
troll the inferior, not necessarily or
usually by force or by fraud, but by
the power of superior intelligence
and the power resulting from that
intelligence. The weak everywhere
yield to the strong, by persuasion or
by argument, or by appeals to self
interest, and it is these circumstances
that surround the colored man OF
the south and control his subor-
dination. 1t is this which en-
ables the man with superior in
telligence, or the man with prop
erty, with position, with power, to
control the weaker party not only
physically but practically; and 1t is
the merest hypocrisy, the merest
platitude, for any one to pretend the
contrary. My friend from Michi-
gan uses that power in his own
state; it is done everywhere. tits a
principle of power that springs from
the advantages of intelligence,
wealth, or capacity to govern and
control.
Mr.. Speaker, the principle OF
power from superior advantages oi
intelligence, wealth, capacity to gov
ern and control obtains everywhere
in the middle states and in the New
England states. The weaker every
where are driven to the wall. The
Republican party to-day alone main.
tains its power by the circumstance
of it's possession of the offices, by the
circumstance of its possession of the
elements of power, its unlimited con-
troll over one hundred thousand OF
more officeholders.
| may illustrate one phase of the
power OF the Republican party by
the fact that they have just assessed
and are now collecting, $1,000,00t
from their employees for political
purposes and to perpetuate theil
power.
This is claimed to be legitimate
aud yet when the white man of the
south uses his legitimate power from
the circumstances that surround him
to induce the colored man to vote
the Democratic ticket and against
the Republican party, in Republican
eyes it is infamous and all wrong.
Why, Mr.. speaker, in my judg
ment the possession of the govern
ment by the Republican party is due
to this very principle of power o.
circumstance, the circumstance Of
possession, the circumstance OF IN
limited wealth Your possession o.
the army, of the navy, ofthe supreme
court, of all the offices of this gov
ernment-it is this power that gives
you the control, and you use it un
scrupulously you use it to the full
extent you assess your operatives
J raise your millions and you fiooC
with it the states where there il
doubt of losing control. The tenure
of your Offices to-day if held by
this principle, which you claim Ii
: self preservation. But want to say
J those southern men cling to tina
same principle down there the righ
4 of self-preservation, the right II
govern themselves in their own wa,
and for their best interests. Th,
power held by the Republican part!
is being used to-day to perpetuatl