The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-09

law and has included in her new consti-
tntion restrictions upon the qualifications
of voters
These new restrictions are condemned
in the resolution now under discussion
as being III violation of the fifteenth
amendment of the Constitution Of the
United States. which forbids any State
from denying to any citizen of the Uni
red States the right 10 vote because of
rage. color or previous condition of
scrvindc.
The great body of the voters in Louis
iaun who have ordained this constitution
are men under 20 years of age and were
never Shareholders. They are not affect
cd bv the relations that existed between
former slaves and their masters, hui
are confronted with race question that
i maintained by both races with con
stantly increasing vigor and is already
n settled aversion. attended with ill-con
ccaIed bitterness, jealousy and hatred.
THE AVERSION OF BLOOD.
There is no possible relief from this
condition except TO draw the lines OF
political separation as clear and as deer
as is the line of racial distinction be
tween them. 1t is the blood of the races
that can not lawfully mix. and no mar
rage tie is possible to create Lawful
or tolcrable union between them.
The separation is for the good of botl
races and is irrcvocable. Being Tho
work of divine wisdom, it is right and i
not discrcditable 10 either race
In physical, mental, social. inventive
religious. and ruling power the African
race holds the lowest place. rs IT has
since the world has had history. ant
il is no idle boast that the white rae,
holds the highest place. To force this
lowest stratum into position of poirca
equality with the highest Is only t.
clog the progress of All mankind III Its
march, ever strenuous and in proper or
der. toward the highest places of human
aspiration.
4 INDUSTRIOUS INVERSION.
Whoever has supposed or has endeavor
ed to realize that free Republican, gov
eminent has for its task the undoing o
what the Creator has done in classifying
and grading the races according TO Hi
will overestimates both the powers ant
the duties of its grand mission.
1t is vain effort and is fatal to thu
spirit and success Of free government (,
attempt to use its true principles as ;
means of disturbance of the natural con
ditions Of the races of the human faml!
and to re-establsh them on the merely
theoretical basis. which is not true, that
in political power, all men must be equa
in order to secure the creates
happiness to the greatest number
The true, distinctive feature of Repub
lican government, based ON the sovereign
ty of the people as the source of oowe
is that lit is in every feature representa-
tive. In this it differs essentially from
every form of government that looks ~
to some alleged superior power as hay
ing the right to govern the people.
The representative. when chosen, EN-
bodies the will of the people. and thu
majority rules i'll Il republic
If the Republic includes two distinc
races-the highest and the lowest in ths
scale of intelligence and capacity fo
wise and good government-their respec
tive representatives can not he equal IL
ability and influence. and this fact de
stroys the possibility of equality in politl
cal power. One class of representative
will dominate the other so completed,
that the idea of free and equal govern
ment will be banished, and the result
viii establish the race that Is dominan
over the other as a subordinate, Thereof.
cony ertng the republic into a practical
autoTacy.
If the races are nearly equally divided
| in numbers. continual warfare Win be th
result.
THE INEVITABLE FINALE.
The history of the Republic of SAINT
Domingo. where the contest is betweel
the negro and the mIrlatto, will becom'
the history of our Southern States II tn
| basis of voting remains as it is, and tn
finale will be the expulsion of the negr'
or his determination.
In our Republic State and Federal, al
arbitrary rule of law Dis adopted for tn
first organization and for all subsequen
steps in government which excludes fou
persons in each group of five from an,
right to a voice in government
This selection relates only to age ant
sex. 1T excludes all who are not owe
II years old and selects the fifth persol
"A male-as the representative or hIm
| self and the four other persons, withou
| reference to race, except as To Indians
| who are entirely excluded. In a mikes
community of whites and negroes th'
negro representative selected under thi
unnatural and purely arbitrary rule rep
resents, in fact, the nonvoters of botl
races, while in his actions and votes h
| represents the clannish, exclusive, ant
| embittered prejudices Of the negro race
or else the personal influence of SOM
white political master, who uses him t
multiply his power. This rs not an &C
| cidental or temporary condition that cal
| he changed. 1t is permanent and fixe'
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