The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-08-22
COMMENTS
on
CURRENT TOPICS
by DR.. W. Alexander Cox

baSt from the South. Imbecilic
ranting is helpful rather than
harmful to our cause. 1t ex-
poses to the world what an in
ferno the south is to a colored
citizen.
AS Paradoncal as it may
seem, it was Thomas Jefferson,
the drafter of that sacred do
cument, the Declaration of
Independence" who set the
stage against Race Rights, and
Race equality before the law.
Since, every generation has had
its troop of marionettS, per-
forming their antics Of race
hatred, dangling on the strings
Of "JefferSonian Democracy"
There have been, Martin Van
Buren,, James Buchanan, An
drew johnson, Woodrow Will
son, Jefferson Davis, John c.
Calhoun, Ben Tillman, Tom
Vardsman, Cole Blease, Hoke
Smith, Henry Grady, Pat EIar-
rison, John Bankhead and
many others who styled them
selves JefferSonian Democrats,
self appointed ambassadors of
Divinity, commissioned to find
a place in this world for the
colored man, Subordinated TO
his inherent irnmunities. All
had the race prejudice "Tet-
ter: and as Voltaire Said:-
"All Sentient things, born by
the same stern law, suffer like
me, and like me also die"
The sun sets and rises every
twenty-four hours on a new
day. Sensible people in the
south rejoice In the beauty and
joy Of advancing civilization:
the colored man, the world
slave of yesterday, the free man
of today, contending for his
rights and privileges which will
be his tomorrow. The liberty
bell will again proclaim lib
erty throughout the land, unto
all the inhabitants thereof"
Madame Roland, an heroic
character, at the dawn Of the
French Revolution contended
for the rights of the prosecuted
people under Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette. She said
1.-THE Bill of Rights had become
a political gospel, and the
French Constitution a religion
for which the people were pre-
pared to perish" This is the
Doctrine today of all loyal Am
erican Citizens.
Madame Roland was charged
with treason, convicted and
died on the guillotine. Little did
her prosecutors dream that
they were so soon to follow. 1t
is said of her, ''She laid down
her life, good and pure, as a
sacrifice to her country'S good. F"
She said: Minds that have any
claim to greatness are capable
Of divesttng themselves of self
iSh considerations: they feel
thatt hey belong to the whole
human race and their views are
directed to posterity alone"
In the south the Federal
Constitution is annulled. Col
ored people are disfranchised,
and deprived of every immun-
ity german to citizenship. A
Draconian Code of criminal law
permits legal lynching of color
ed people. BY sanction of law
reckless mobs have their can
nibal lynchings. With all the
sinister devices calculated to
terrorize colored people the
spirit of liberty and freedom
still rides on.
It was said, at the impeach-
ment trial of Andrew Johnson:
1.-THE president has committed
high crimes and misdemeanorS
the safety of the Republic re-
quireS his removal from Office.
The world in after times will
read the history of the admin
istration Of Andrew Johnson as
an illustration CT the depth to
which political and official per-
fidy can descend. His great
aim and purpose was to Subvert
law, usurp authority, insult an
outraged Congress, reconstruct
the Rebel States in interest Of
treason, and insult the memory
and resting places Of our heroic
dead"
Volumes have been written
on: "Jeffersonian Democracy"
but it's aims and purposes have
never been better defined.
It is not ranters Of the south
with whom We should be SO
much concerned. They are thin
as tissue paper. We see through
and understand their designs.
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