Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-03-27

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,he Democratic reins again we will he
in some ther party.
AN AMERICAN MACIAvELLl.
Roosevelt has foisted on Charles
ton, s. c., non resident postmaster
and a negro collector of customs.
This is the city where he was treated
with great consideration by the eople
when he went to their exposition, and
this is the gratitude be has displayed
in return for their kindness.
This exactly portrays and exactly
fits our estimate of the man. There
never has been the like of him in such
high place in this country. This man
is an anomaly to many, he is not I'M
derstood by the masses, he has decelv-
ed and is deceiving his own party fol-
lowers, be, as Mathew Arnold says OF
| words, makes this way and that
way.'' He has the ambition of an AL
exander or Napoleon, the vanity OF
Louis XIV or George Ill, the charac-
tier of neither Brutally rough and
| coarse III manner and thought, schem-
| ing and stealthy-he may fifty be des-
cribed in politics as Macaiavellian. The
Incarnation of ambition and revenge.
the discoverer of new methods of ty
ranny the hypocrite, the low flung thug
/ tho hQnOmQn If
were, are writ in his every political
action. A little brief authority hath
made him mad, and he is trying to
ride the people of the South as he rides
a bronco with teeth set and spurs
ldriven into its sides as deep as the
rowels will go.
It was said of Macaiavelll that Maui
rice of Saxony learned fraud from him,
that the Sultans after reading bis ex-
!ecrable works became more and more
addicted to strangling their 'brothers.
!, the treasons of the House of Guise,
the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and
the Gun Powder Plot, are traceable
to bis door. Such may not come from
Roosevelt's actions, though who car
predict that he may not hurl us into
the horrors of a race war, who can gay
whittier his teachings in that direc
. ton are leading, nor the boundlessnes'
} of their extent. His dogs are not al
yet un leashed. The Church nor State
may pronounce his name accursed, hi
: teachings may not generally be regarded
with horror or amazement as wer'
Machiavelli s, but for naked ant
, sha me less effrOntery, for cool, Judlc
: ious and scientific social depravity
7 for hardened and refined rutfianism
.. for deep, occult methods for self az
). grandisement, those who have bee
i brought in close contact with hin
y asseverate that his equal does not exis
: unless in the darkest recesses OF To
t Colorado canyon, or on the wind sWep
plains of the ''wo0lly" west. He
y said to be brave, in fact fearless, ye
# be has covered before the trusts as
y craven. He is said to be honest, an
/ yet be has avOwed his determinatio
IS to do one thing, and another has TO
lie lowed. He is said to be lofty in though
re and generous in nature, yet he is
1t known blasphemer, and if generOu
80 his impulse is yet unborn. He neve
N had close and intimate friend. he VIZ
j. never known to do purely unselfis
ID act, he has not the remotest idea {
~ how to treat ladies, and as for the n
We gro to whom his only impulse generol
We or ungenerous. has ever gone out, /
" cares for him not for his races SAX
o. but to crafty his personal ambition
ry and as weapon to deal blow. II
We negro, as negro, is no more to hl
" than the worm beneath his heel.
ks the jungles of Africa the negro stan'
W upon the same plane as the jackal;
q New York or Ohio the negro is as al
I'd other creature. But in the South wit
IN Roosevelt he Is everything, he is Il
al salt of the earth, the one altogeth
re lovely. He siezes and draws to hi
n. the Southern negro for two we'll know
Sc reasons. One is that he means to u
t. him in aid of his political ambition, t
es other that he may deal blow to II
Southern people, whom he hates vii
Ii lindescribable intensity. This dee
a dire, Unborn hated burns in this mai
ed breast with the fury of He'll. He b
oy clenched his fist, be has set his teet
RS he has sworn within him that he W
lis humiliate hem, and his elevation
IS the negro is the means. because he sc
We in this, as he thinks, the Iefineme
to of punishment. Did he know it he
De only purifying them, he is drawing t.
We line more sharply, and while negro
II may marry Roosevelts and the Mort
It may amalgamate, as did the low
order of Spanish with the Moors, tt
n South, as did the higher born Castili;
It, race, will remain as pure, when worn
a are devouring his body, as before
Mt began his Macaivellian career.
of Criticism is made of Gov. Montagl
in because he allowed the act placi1
al Gen. Lees statue in the capitol
Wash inpton To become a law Witho,