Nevada County picayune., 1889-05-01
Our Political and Social Condition.

Referring to what is lately going
 on before the Federal court here, we
 would suggest that hereafter white
 men of both parties be selected if possible to hold the elections; and
 would further suggest that the poiti-
 cal party that can not command sui
 iicient white material to do this.
 should disband and no longer seek to present tickets before the country :;
 fo: it might as well be understood,
 once for all, that the white man is
 going to rule in this country, "peace-
 ably if he can, or forcibly if he must" No man can question our proper l fidelity to the negro, in the past, present, or future. and as such we
 have always suggested, as we do now, that it is best for himself and the
 whole country that he take back seat in politics and governmental
 affairs. Too much negro to the front is what is the matter with the Political Hannah of the South; has
 been the bottom-rock of all our po- litical woe in the South since the war; is what assassinated John NJ. Clayton and is what is now sending white men to the pententiary by the
 Federal court here to-day the linau- eial result of which will be more political and social strife, and the
 murdering of more negroes-with an occasional white man taken off una
 wares. The human element finger ing in the Federal court yard here the past week or more would not seem favorable to safe and perma- nent form of free government and then to note the testimony before the court is not at all encouraging. Of course the white man is to blame also, but would be far less so if not crowded by the negro; and with the negro out of politics, or even less to the front, we would absolutely have none of this strfe-we would have had no ballot-boX robbery and no assassination. And for speaking thus plainly we know we may be re- buked by some of our own party with the charge that we rub the sore when we should bring the plaster" But we do not care; some sores are too foul to be healed with a plaster, until the rotten core is squeezed out and the cause of putrfaction thus re- moved. We know what is good and safe and honorable to the country, and have never failed to tell it. And. l whereas, we were ever in the past opposed to the slavery of the black man, We are now quite as much op- posed to the humiliation and subor- dination of the white race before the emancipated slave element of the country; nor will it ever in peace be tolerated in our Southern Land, or in 1 any other portion of this Great | Country. Courts may patch up such policy for time-for an hour or a day--but it will soon break through i with crash.
 But while qualified under the law, the negro should be allowed to vote unmolested, and hold office, too. if he can be fairly elected and proves qualified; still it holds good that the more prominently he shall mingle | and oiliciate in politics and govern mental affairs, and the more solidly | he may vote for any one party, the more strife and confusion and blood ! shed we shall have in the land. and 1 the nearer to that open war of races shall we come which Thos. Jefferson predicted would sooner or later fol- | low the forcible emancipation of the negro and an effort to place him upon an equality with the white race; and Abraham Lincoln predicted about the same to the negro under like cir cumstances-greatly feared the emanclpation which he himself finally ordered, declaring long before it happened that the white and black races could never dwell in harmony together under an equality before the law. - Little Rock Republican,
 Many people habitually endure n feeling of lassitude, because they think they have to. If they would t.I- IgI