The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, that
negroes are not citizens, seems to have produced a paroxysm of desperation
among the treasonable fanatics who have no thought or higher aspiration
than that of an equality with a nigger.
The followers of Wm. H. Seward, Thurlow Weed
and Horace Greeley, are overwhelmed with vexation at this
gigantic blow at their favorite dogma, that a negro is of more consequence
than a white man. Their oracle, the New York Tribune, has no
language bitter and ferocious enough, says the Philadelphia Argus,
to express the violence of its impotent rage at the decision which has
been made. In the same porportion as it is
objectionable to the Abolition fanatics and disunionists, it will commend
itself to the warm approval of the Democracy.
This is the most fatal blow which the fanatical Abolitionists have ever
received, and their malignity and venom are proportioned to their
desperation. The decision of the Supreme Court, and the previous decision
of the Secretary of State, that niggers are not citizens, overwhelms the
mischief makers with confusion. It blasts their nefarious schemes as with
a lightning stroke. No marvel, is it then, that they manifest such
unseemly opposition to the august tribunal which has visited them with
such a crushing overthrow.
We regard the decision of the Judges of the Supreme Court in this case
with the highest satisfaction. It meets with our hearty, cordial,
unqualified approval. The highest judicial tribunal in the land has
decided that the blackamoors, called, by the extreme of public courtesy,
the colored population, are not citizens of the United States. This
decision must be followed by other decisions and regulations in the
individual States themselves. Negro suffrage must, of course, be abolished
everywhere.
Negro nuisances, in the shape of occupying promiscuous seats in our
rail cars and churches with those who are citizens, must be abated. Negro
insolence and domineering arrogance must be rebuked; the whole tribe must
be taught to fall back into their legitimate position in human society --
the position that Divine Providence intended they should occupy. Not being
citizens, they can claim none of the rights or privileges belonging to a
citizen -- they can neither vote, hold office, or occupy any other
position in society than an inferior and subordinate one -- the only one
for which they are fitted, the only one for which they have the natural
qualifications which entitle them to enjoy or possess.
We trust that the decision of the Supreme Court will have a tendency to
cure the unrestrained impudence of our black population. The mischevious
fanatics whose nefarious intermeddling with what is none of their business
have impressed upon the negroes generally an idea of their paramount
consequence and importance in society, and they have grown overbearing and
insolent accordingly. Their impertinent and insulting behavior is daily
becoming more and more repulsive, odious, and disgusting. It has already
reached its culminating point, and must be sternly rebuked into something
like decency and propriety on the part of those who live among us on
sufferance. They must be taught that there is a point where long
forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
[South Side
Democrat.]