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

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altruistic spirit can exist only in a
homogeneous people.
/ Wherever free institutions or in
situations freer than the capacities
of a people have been by the poll
cy of rulers or otherwise granted to
or forced on them, the result has
been that they were not retained.
/ They died or We're lost because the
people entrusted with their opera
ton lacked the political energy and
capacity necessary for successful
free government.
Another lesson taught by history
and very necessary to be noted in
this connection is that however
progressive and enlightened the
speculative and thinking classes of
a people may be there will be no
lifting into higherlife no enlarge
ment of the capacities nor elevation
of the aspirations of the masses,
for free institutions if it be that
Il; there is no communion nor associ-
alton between the enlightened few
and the incapable masses. Such
association and communion are es-
sential to free government in that
they elevate and instruct the mas
ses and inspire the enlightened
with sympathy for the others. In
that way the whole community is
fused into that compact and homo
geneous body wherein the senti-
ments, ideas and aspirations of the
best and most enlightened and the
needs and desires of the less fortu-
nate animate and direct the acts
and aspirations of the whole.
Among people in which this asso-
citation and communion exist the
best thoughts OF the most enlight-
ened become common property,
tempered and fitted for use in gov
eminent by respect for the rights,
interests and happiness of all. To
the operation-though not perfect
of these forces is due, in great
measure, the success of free insti-
tutions is monarchical England. A
great English historian has said of
his countrymen that their nobility
was the most democratic and their
commons the most aristocratic of
all peoples.
In the United States prior to re-
construction, there being no arts
tocracy by birth, the body Of citi-
zenshlp in whom was vested polit-
lCal power, was so similar in orr
gin and aspirations so animated
with oneness Of purpose and unity
of rishts-so tempered and mould
ed in sympathy by that constant
mutation in worldly affairs which
causes the rich and the poor to
change places at short intervals,
and gives the opportunity of adj
vancement and power to the most
humble, that we had a homogen-
eous society in the highest and best
sense-sympathctlc association and
communion in ideas, in aspirations
and in political and social efforts
for the common good. Superadded
was the most important factor in
successful free government; the
people Of the United States were
in the main of that race which for
more than a thousand years had
been educated in the principles of
free institutions and had partici-
pated in the actual operations of
government. These institutions
did not come to them perfected,
but by slow and natural growth,
as the people had developed
higher and higher civilization and
more enlarged capacity and
greater aptitude in the exercise of
civic duties imposed by free gov
eminent The small infusion of
other Caucasian races into their
citizenship had been gradual, so
that by contact and association
they had become equally fitted for
governmental duties. Vastly diff
terent IS the present situation in
Louisiana and in the other South
ern States. In fact their situation
is unparalleled in human history.
Instead of the homogeneous citizen
ship | have described the people
are divided nearly equally into two
races, the most diverse in all re-
spects; differing in. their natural
mental powers, and what is more
disastrous, differing in their train
mo moral and mental .,rJ 80, +b~eo