Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-03-24
THE ADAPTATION OF RACES

free to pursue our happiness, as We
will.
THE ADAPTATION OF RACES.
Governmental structures and socia
adaptations of any group of men
as civilized as we must vary with
their location on the earth's surface.
To secure that end and aim, govern
ment help too often entails govern
ment compulsion, and implies a lower
stage of growth, or less felicity OF
circumstances than ours. (Applause.)
Every intermixture of men less civil
lied than we complicates the adapta-
ton. Any difference in environ
ments, whether differences of men
or regions of the earth, implies
changes in adaptation. Fancy little
Rhode Island, lifted up, carried half
way round the globe and dropped
down in Mongolia with Russia to
the Westward and all China to the
Eastward. Would Roger Williams
patent, King Charles charter, Gov
ernor DORIS constitution or her pres
ent constitution do at ali? | sup
pose that neither James Madison
nor Abraham Lincoln would think
the constitution of the United States
perfect fit for the new republic OF
the Island of Madagascar compris-
ing just the present white popula-
ton OF Vermont, and the present col
ored population Of Louisiana. What
disturbance did the immigration OF a
few thousand Chinese cause to our
Pacific coast States? What treaties
and laws have we not yielded to
their special solicitude: So that
our policy, with that most ancient
and populous empire, may depend
on taking back our own Christian
missionaries in exchange for those
disciples OF Confucius. All the
Pacific States may have their right
full will as to propinquity with GER
tain Asiatics, whose type of civiliza-
ton went through monetary meas
ures like ours thousands of years
ago, and also created marts still past
all competition by Western races.
THE coLoREp QUESTION.
The South, in her proFinq1lcy
with the Africans, whose type OF
civilization awaits the historic record,
has caused the only alteration thus
far made in our governmental struc-
ture. For the compromises at first
embodied or inserted in its frame,
there are now substitutes in the last
three amendments. The substance
of these amendments is that neither
color nor color status is visible to the
eve OF ti1e Federal law or ever should
be visible. Now, do not come here
to discuss this one change in our
governmental structure. What |
shall seek to fix your attention upon
is the absence OF any other lawful
change, a standing marvel of con-
temporary history. Here is the con-
stitution OF the United States gov
ernmental structure, contrived in
unity and in peace by what has been
lately called a group of cooperative
land companies along the Atlantic
border which had been assisted to
obtain separation from the parent
empire by war. Here, now, after a
century OF storm and stress, rs that
same fabric almost seamless, wholly
unruptured. 1t has suficed, with
out important change, to house the
industries and liberties of the teem-
ing, tnronging millions on millions
who here have lived, or who here
survive and constitute to-day our
stupendous continental republic of
republics between the Atlantic and
Pacific seas. (Applause.) | say it
is a standing marvel in the history
of civilized man.
Now, concerning that structure
and constitution of government, I
wish to recite three testimonies, one
from a great Judge gone, one from a
great politician and one from a great
philosopher. spoke of the marvel
of its endurance. Its endurance is
defined in that decision of the
Supreme Court, spoken Of in the
case concerning Texas, since the
war, by Chief Justice Chase. These
are the words:
'sNot only can there be no loss of
separate and independent autonomy
to the State, through their union,
under the constitution, but it may
not be unreasonably said that the
preservation of the States and the
maintenance of their governments
are as much within the design and
care of the constitution as the pre-
seryation of the Union. The national
government, constitutional in all its
provisions, looks to an inseparable
union of indestructible States"
The greatest politician of Great
Britain, Mr.. Gladstone, lately said
that our constitution was among the
most wonderful works of civilized
men, and that the group of states
men who framed it were unmatched