Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-27
NATIONAL DANGERS.

HnncftcS ~ Sinu 10 rec0Bnl2O 10
the article OF the Hon. Seth Low,
Of Brooklyn, on "Amcrican Patri.
otism," something akin to the
broad philosophy and patriotic
spirit thnt so distinguished and
elevated the political discussions
of the founders of the Republic. 1t
rises clear and beyond the narrow
and sectional point of view from
which tho public is accustomed to
hear pending issues treated. Mr..
Low seemingly looks across the
whole stretch of American polii.
Ties. and with the eye Of "a states
man singles ont the great 1ucs.
tlons for tho solution of which the
patriot of our day is responsible.
In the horizon of near future Of the
kepublic, resting as it does ul,On
tho wise intelligence Of it's whole
people, he sees two clouds Of ignor.
ance and one Of educated selfish.
ness. At the South the cniran
chised negroes constitute the
threatening element. A quarter
of century OF manumission from
slavery has scarcely sulliccd to
give them any independents per
ccption of their privileges AMI re.
sponsibilitics under tho law. Much
less has it brought to them the in.
tcliiGcncc and knowledge necessary
to fit them for the exercise and en-
forccmrnt Of their rights. To-day,
i'llcncss and poverty, among the
cmanclpatcd slaves aud their de-
sccndauts, c0nspirc with ignor.
ance to prevent the colored voters
from having their rightiul share
Ill the government of The Sont hern
States AMI of the nation. They
are unwavering adhcrcnts of one
party, not through intelligent in.
dlvidual choice, but because they
accept their politics from North.
ern Republicans with u blind con.
iidcnce that is az honorable as if
Is pltltul. And SO it happens that
every time 81 Northern orator, like
Senator Ingalls,, gives tongue To
The sectional CRY Of the 'bloody
shirt he drives the negro voters
of the South covering into one
flock and solitiiiics the ranks of
the Southern whites through the
Instinct Of Self-prcscrvatiou. When
Northern sympathy for the wrongs
of the blacks at the South takes
the form of school books instead of
"bloody shirt" appeals, tho color
line will fade from Southern poll
tics.
The cloud OF ignorance that
threatens us at the North comes
from Europe. 1t dcscenls upon
ny like the plague of locusts upon
the land of the Pharoahs. During
the last ten years the immigra.
ton across the Atlantic has been
at the rate Of nearly half - million
year, These eInigrants are not
all unlcttercd. But i'll the lack OF
comprehension of the duties of
American citizenship, and OF the
spirit of our life and institutions.
what advantage have the lS.UOO
Italians who landed ut Castle Gar.
den last year over the ignorance
oil the blacks at the South They
have none. For while the negro
ciicriShes - grateful and uudi-
vided allegiance to the American
Constitution, az amended TO free
him from bondage, tho Italian
lmniigrnnt only comes hithcr to
sell his labor and his vote, when
he gets one, cherishing the hope
that one day he may return to
live i'll idleness and die under the
hronzing sun of his beloved Italy.
Other immigrants come to Aincri.
CO in search Of new home, but
how few Of them in the first gen.
Grafton pass ont from the thral.
dom Of transatlantic prejudices
and associations into our clear in.
tclligcnce of American individual.
ism.
As for the danger to the people
arising in the selfishness of in.
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