Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-02-27
TT NIGHT BE WORSE.

small statesmen in the South for 'em-
migration" There has been expendi-
ture Of money by several common
wealths to bring in ship-loads of for
eigners. With the average political So
Ion population is prosperity and pros
perity is his ideal Of successful state
craft
Ex-Goy Vance, Of North Carolina, in
a recent address in his native State, ut
tered wise words when he said the peo-
pie OF that commonwealth wanted only
the amount Of immigration they could
thoroughly assimiate. That is sound
doctrine.
10 add a swarm of hornets to bee
hive increases the population in the gum.
but not the social order. There are
ominous signs in the sections Of our
country where the annual millions of
steerage passengers form an eddy. The
western cities are overloaded with the
decayed driftwood of Europe. The
restless. Goddess and dangerous class on
that Continent held in subjection by the
police and bayonet, seek our shores.
where they become potent factors in
our civil government The demagogue
Of the day is made in their image and
breathes their breath. The codes of
cities are interlined with their influence.
The Continental Sabbath" turns the
day of rest into bacchanalian festival.
American ideas are mocked. And what
do these serf and criminal vandals
know or care for the great principles of
constitutional government? These
'soyereigns, bred in mortal rottenness.
kept in subsection by fear, fostering
with lust for riot and rapine, find vent
for diabolism in the crowded centres of
our country where manhood suffrage"
gives the ballot at once to the vilest
brute that is transported hither, while it
forces the native to live twenty-one
years before he can cast vote.
Year by year the refuse of the under
stratum of European civilization is
emptied into American politics. How
long can our system endure this acrid
and disturbing element? It is a cumu-
latiye poison in the body polite. The
blinking eyes Of an owl can see the dis
order, chaos, and hideous confusions
coming in the evil days Of our children
and children's children Already the
tension is strained Men of patriotism
and forethought shudder at the horrors
ahead. Is there soundness enough in
The tree to expel the venom working its
way into the sap? A rebellion of
States, geographically defined, may be
put down with guns What ayaila wea-
Dons Of steel against invisible ideas of
evil contending with ballots?
The South need not be anxious for an
influx of moneyless, ignorant and vic
ous emigrants and regretfal that the
Northwest is attracting the mass of
foreigners who come over as human
ballast. The old emigrant of Guinea,
ong used to our customs and climate, is
The forcible and confscating freedom
f the slave and his hostile attitude in
,olitics towards his former masters has
ed to the undertaking him as citizen.
IS peasant population, he is unequal
ed He is doeile, stout and fairly in
ustrious His habits and character,
ormed by contact with superior race,
re superior to the same grade in Eu-
ope. His behavior during the war, in
property and households in
he absense of the white men, ranks
i'm far above that Caucasian importa-
riotous robber who in peace
Tould plunder and murder. The negro
J the antipode of an atheist in religion
nd nihilist in assassination.
The white and black citizens of the
outh know each other Let them
fork out their destiny together. They
lay not have a miracle of prosper
y, neither will they witness a pande-
lonium of horrors from jealousy, bes-
ality and atheism -Richaaond Chris
an AdUoeate.