The Washington bee., 1891-02-21
Justice.

Extract from the speech of Hon. Ger
F. Hoar in the senate of the W
States on the elections bill, Decent
and 80, 1890; Alr
The senator from Indiana sa pit
two races cannot live together e
the terms that one shall comm "A
the other obey. That propositiq by !,
They can i've f6Tetfer, 1e-tre.-- a
commanding, neither, as race
They can live together obeyina
but the law framed by lawmake
every citizen shall have his equ
in choosing.
1t would be something if pc
who ask u, TO refrain from u4
powers the constitution has plaCe
our hands to protect the suffrage, an,
leave to them and to their states to n
this evil in their own way, could poi1
a single act or utterance of their 81
or to a single law of their states, IN
these years, designed to end this vi I
and to secure justice to these All
lean citizens. They expend &
their ingenuity to find constitu on
objections to any remedy we proOs
They enact in their state legislature cur
ming devices to prevent the lawful epres
sion of the will of the majority. F.
retain the increased representation
the p, pulatiOn whose votes they sur
| gives them. They cast the votes IS
they get by these unlawful practi
| opposition to our dearest INTEREST
| vet they expect US to remain quiee
| affect to dread the rule Of negro
ism, but they expect us tamely tot =
that a power gained by worse batf
| shall rule us.
The error, the fundamental errorts
| democratic party of the south. in GsS
with this problem, is in their assn
that race hatred is the dominant lc
of the human sOul-that it is sk,a
than love of country, stronger Il
principle of equality, strongda
christianity, stronger than justice.
passion, and to that only, do thet
their appeal. They make it, not 50
my Judgment for the sake of race "a
acy as for the sake of party supktt
Out of that appeal came the blade
of the period which followed war! os.
that came the Mississippi plan 1T
From that came the thousands of e1i1
crimes and the overthrow of the 4
the majority in many states, andPns I
other house of congress- From IL
come the Mississippi constitutio63is -
If the democratic party of thnt T
had shown one-tenth of the ef w..
raising up and fitting for citizenshs :.
colorpd fellow-citiZens, in imprOs IC !.
condition. in guiding him in honetta -
in gaining his confidence, in securl'io
Justice, that they have put into re.aT :,
or into wrestling their states from tnIaa
of the majority, or into contrlvan'' - -
the new Mississippi const tnilt a 70
two races would to-day o. 80 20
: tnpathpr under the fla Vy ~
dom and in honor, IN pe''' -
5 perity, and in mutual regar EE.no-
: tried everything else, tIy 81. ~
: have exhausted in vain eEe'i ~,
: nolicv. Yet this terrible questloi ="
/ down. Your people have lis ~
, easily to the evil counselOrs Whe :,
n them into rebellion, into 80
O novertv. into crime. Let them nat
g IN tine counsel of the greatest We,
e antiquity. and the greatest pol gl ear
Iosonher of modern times-c0u ~
o Sir James Macintosh, at the 70 he
r noble discourse, declares, stat .;oS
IS stance, the oDIect, anu 'n "a I yIysi
q morallty' anu P oiIsa0 ;i,.t;ti1 RI $ life
g geri nulo modO posse" rac,
I "Justice is itself the greg msr
y policy of civil society, and ~ MD
# departure from it, under
+ stances, lies under the susPiclp
# no po.icy tall