The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-06-14

/ our actl0n is ClrculnScflOeu w
bonds imposed on you by those
who for three-quarters of a centu'
rv ago refused to impose them or
themselves because those bonds,
in their judgment, would bind
them to do what was incompatible
with safe government. These
bonds require you to prescribe the
same rule for suffrage for the most
capable race of mankind as for the
most incapable. Those bonds or
dain that the race which produced
the unlettered barons who extorted
Magma Charta from King John;
which gave to mankind Washing.
/ ton, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison.
Adams, Webster, Calhoun, Jack
son, Grant, Lee. Newton. Shakes
peare, Burke, Nelson and Glad
stone; which created and main
tanned free institutions for more
than millennium should be held
in practice as no more fit for free
government than the race of trans
ported slaves who were III their
native land without IA history other
than the tradition of immemorial
servitude, and even without a Ian
guage other than would suffice for
the mere expression OF animal
needs, the longings Of,the grossest
sensualism and the dogmas and
rites of a debasing superstition.
This indisscluble union by the
fundamental law of the most enno-
bling mortality, the most progres-
sive civilization with the lowest
capacity and the least advancing
of all mankind; of wide and rich
experience in the successful exer-
else of the art of tree government,
with the stagnation of satisfied and
unreplenlshing slavery; this forced
equality between inherited virtue
and hereditary vice; of str myth
and weakness; of high aspiration
and contented inferioritv; this Join
ing together what God has put as
sunder, presents the condition
which contronts the people of Lou
isiana, as it does, in fact, the peo-
pie of all the Southern States.
If the trouble were only ignor-
ance however dense and incapaci-
ty however great; if instead of
two races, our population was in
fact one people-homogeneous in
all respects, with only a part,
though it be the greater part, from
mere want of education and oppor-
tunity of enlightenment, unfit for
self-government, this unfiness
could be removed.
But we are not one people but
two with marked 1itIerer.ce. physi-
cal. mental ana moral. These diff
erences prevent social intercourse,
prevent intermingling of blood BY
marriage and even cause separa.
ton of the two into distinct congre-
cations and churches for the wor.
ship Of God. Can two races etli-
GENTLY cooperate in carrying on
government when the one regards
tn" intermingling Of the two as a
degradation to itself and when tie
offspring Of Illicit and forbid len
commerce between the two TO an.
propriate a thought Of Mr.. frcudp)
despise the blood of one of their
parents and hate that of the other?
am not stating what ought to
be the relations between the two
races, but what those relations act.
ually are. Whether they be right
or wrong is immat3rial to the PIES
ent inquiry. The fact that they
exist as | hav- described them
and are likel Y to- so continue for
many years, if not forever, is the
matter Of our consideration. Nor
is it amy part OF design to cast re-
proach upon the negro for incapac-
tiles and racial ppculiarities for
which he is in no wise responsible
The cold facts are as | have stated
them to be, whether we would
have them so or not. To ignore
them and refuse to recognize their
potency Is wrong to both races.
At this point 1t is needful to re-
call what las been said of the edu-
eating and elevating influence of
the thoughtful and highly educated
class on the great mass of the PEG.
pie end the reciprocal influence
exerted by the former, in giving
a fairer and ,juster tone to their
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