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THE VARDAMAN IDEA.
In the Saturday Evening Post
ippears a very interesting and un
nswerable article from Governor
lardatnan, of Mississippi, on the
egro question. Here is the Var
Janian idea in a nut shell :
The tu-gro should nevei have
Keen trusted with the ballot. He
different from the white man.
e is congeniality unqualified
iHxercise the responsible duty of
itizenship. He is physically,
Dentally, morally, racially, add
[ernally the white man’s inle
lor. There is nothing in the his
by of his race, nothing in his
[dividual character, nothing in
Is achievements of the past nor
is promise for the future which
ptitles him to stand side by side
6th the white man at the bnllot
bx.
“This interesting privilege was I
Irust upon the negro, snatching
[in out o f his twenty thousand
irbaric years, and placing him
r ulder to shoulder with the
irs of all ages. Thi3 is a stu
ndous blunder, worse than any
I me, and the sober second
[ought of the nation should cor
f it.
“We must repeal the Fifteenth
Id modify the Fourteenth
jienduients to the constitution,
leu we shall be able to legislate
I recognize the negro’s racial,
fcuharities, and make laws to fit
|m. This would leave the mat
I exactly as it was intended by
I fathers of the republic, 1 J
phis is what Vardanian says,
P a number of patriotic citizens
I standing face to face with the
lid problem who thinks practi
ly the same thing.
3he statement made is not more
1° an echo of Abraham Lin
In’s words, with a change of the
| se - In his speech delivered at
Pdeston, Illinois, on Sept. 15,
Bd, Lincoln said:
jl have will say that 1 am not, nor
v been, in favor of bring
■ about, in any way, the social
V political equality of the white
■ black races.
lam not, nor ever have been,
r vor °f making voters or jurors
kgoes, nor qualifying them to
I office nor of intermarriage
1 white people; and will say
Edition to this, that there is a
si al difference between the
i< ’ and black races which I
[ Ve forever forbids the two
s 1 i v ’-ng together on terms of
and political equality. In-
3Cu as they cannot so live,
l b e V remain together there
f be a position of euperior
Inferior, and I, as much as
Pther wan, am in favor of
b? tlie superior position a 9
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P t0 the white race.”
c Years before the ballot
was
p aa ff in the negro’s hand
Marvelous man from Illinois
, f by 1 ‘urately the position
Southern whites in the
irt y years’ experience
n egro voters, He spoke in
lit of prophecy, pointiug out
a pittall into which he hoped the
nation would never tumble.
Can it be doubted if Lincoln
were alive today he would be big
enough, brave enough and gen¬
erous enough to undo the wrong
against which he had lifted his
mighty voice in vain? Would
mere political expediency pre¬
vent? And what a spectucle that
would present—the rail-splitter
of Illinois and the fire-eater of
Mississippi making common cause
upon a common platform ! Would
it then be called Lincoln’s ne
grophobia?”
Was the idea original with Lin
coin? Indeed, no. Toombs said
exactly the same thing in Boston
two years before<
I maintain that so long as the
African and Caucasian races co
exist in the same society, the sub
ordination of the African is h s
normal, lieccessary and
condition and that suchsubordina
tiou is the condition best ealcula
ted to promote the highest interest
and the greatest happiness of both
faces, and consequently, of the
whole society—that the white is
the superior and the black the in
ferior, and that subordination, with
or without law, will be the status
of the African in this mixed socie
t.y. Therefore, it is to the interest
of both, and especially of the black
race, that this status should be
fixed, controlled and protected by
j aw >’
The negro’s greatest saiety and
greatest happiness requires that he
should be spared a battle which
gives a quarter. Should that com¬
petition come into trades, it means
that the white man, because of
superior competency and intelli¬
gence, will demand of the best
places and wages; in commerce the
white man will outwit him, in poli¬
tics control him, in war annihilate
him. This is the world-old lesson
of the dominating Anglo-Saxon.
Mr. Toombs simply means that the
negro couldnot survive in such a
contest of competency, and for his
own best interest should be spared
it. Matthew Arnold, the great En¬
glishman, speaks of Anglo-Saxon
stock as “the most moral races of
men that the world has yet seen,
with the soundest laws, the least
violent passions, the fairest domes¬
tic and civil virtues.” Again he
wrote: “Science has now made vis
ible to everybody the great and
pregnant elements of difference
which he in the race.”
Louis Agassiz, the intimate
friend ot Charles Sumner, realized
this keenly. In 1SG3 he wrote:
“Social equality, I deem at all
times impracticable—-a natural im¬
possibility from the very character
of the negro race. * * I >r0 ‘
fessor Agassiz held earnestly to
the opinion that the negro was ut
terly unfit for political equality
with the whites; he considered the
experiment as dangerous, if not
ultimately destructive of free in¬
stitutions.
These are some of the men who
THE ENTERPRISE COVINGTON Ga
advanced the Vardanian ideas be
fore Vardamau was born. Lincoln
did not originate it, nor Toombs,
nor Agassiz, nor Arnold. The idea
developed in the very cradle o
human existence; it was an infant
disease of mankind, the earliest j
unsolved riddle that the sun ever
shone upon. The ancient Egyp
tians were seeking an answer to it, [
writing of it on their scrolls and
carving it on their monuments
from seven to eighteen thousand
years before America was discover
ed. Their learned men were even
then teaching the Vardanian idea
how to shoot,
Humau history begins m the
valley of the Nile. Equatorial
Africa, occupied by negroes, has
been vaguely known to Europeans
f° r about four centuries; that por-1
; ti° n occupied by Egyptians has a
recorded history variously esti
mated at from five thousand to
seventeen thousand years before
Christ. Throughout the stagger
in S antiquity we catch an occasion
al glimpse of the negro, described
in the writing or sculptured on the
Egyptian monuments, always as a
savage, always as a slave.
The negro started neck-and-neck
with the Egyptian in the valley of
fhe Nile. He helped to build the
Temples of Ramoses, he polished
the columns of Karnak, he toiled
at the hundred gates of Thebes,
But he gained no more conception
of those colossal works then did
the donkeys which helped him
drag the stones.
The negro’s jungle was still a
jungle. He had uo government,
no cities, no learning ; he had no
clothing, no arts, no aspirations.
He had dreamed no dreams, hoped
jio hopes, indulged no visions. He
has desired nothing, planned noth¬
ing, executed nothing in any wise
more intellectual than the accom¬
plishments of the got ilia—except
his crude superstition, a form of
serpent worship which no white
intelligence has ever yet been able
to understand.
With him there has been no
voluntary transaction. Left to
himself, he has never done any¬
thing for himself—has never shown
the slightest inclination to better
his condition. Ridpath says:
“The black people of Nigritiau
stock do not choose to exert them¬
selves beyond the range of purely
natural wants.'’
When French restraint in Hayti
and San Domingo was removed
tbe negro returned to barbarism at
once. His rapid reversion in Li
beria is as natural as the return of
the sow that is washed to her wal¬
lowing in the mire,” to quote Pro¬
fessor Barringer.
The Congo native has not ad¬
vanced an inch in civilization from
contact with the Portugese; in
Senegal he has gained nothing
from the French; Cecil Rhodes
built an Empire at the Cape—and
the naked negro is still the
of them all. There must be a rea
son for this. In no p;ace upon
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the broad globe has he met a more
kindly protection, better teaching >
and a more tolerant charity for his
invincible limitations than in the
Southern States of America. These
people have taught him all he
knows,
It is very clear that by himself
and of himself the negro has no as
pirations. Where all of his neigh¬
bors live in mud huts and feed
upon human flesh, huts and fat
friends are good enough for him.
He is imitative, but his imitation
does not reach the basic virtues of
his model.
The negro is not immoral, he is
simply unmoral. As Froude says
of him, “He never felt the guilt of
sin.”
None of these delinqnences draws
upon the negroes the disapproval
of their own people. There is no
punishment of any kind, no loss
of social prestige, no frown no in
convenience. Serving a term in
the penitentiary is often regarded
as a badge of aristocracy. One ne
gro will say of another: t i Better
let dat nigger alone; dat’s a bad
nigger; be’s been in the pemtenti
ary seben times.” He who wins
the homage wears it.
All of this being true, unques
tionably, undeniably true, is, or is
not, the negro different from the
white man? The Egyptian thought
so; Lincoln said so; Varuaman
maintains it. *'
The fathers of the present gene¬
ration were better men than their
sons—healthier, more reliable,
more industrious. There were bet
ter artisans and mechanics among
the slaves than among free men
today. Young negroes are idler,
more vicious, and have been edu¬
cated into six hundred per cent
more criminality.
Left to his own devices, the ne¬
gro produces only twenty-seven
per cent of the cotton crop, despite
the popular idea that he makes it
all.
Tbe fc.outh has had its bitter
dose ot negro voters. We took it
not in a sugar-coated pill, nor in a
capsule, but straight. Negroes
governed the country for eight
years after the war, and increased
the war debts fivefold. Four years
of unparalleled war left the South¬
ern States wdth an average debt
of seven millions; negro rule in
eight years of profound peace and
abject poverty multiplied these
debts to an average of thirty-four
millions. War is less expensive
than peace uiuhr negro domina¬
tion.
The negro cannot be remodeled
by beginning at the ballot, the
highest duty of citizenship, and
then working downward, The
cleansing process must begin at
hon)9, in his private character, at
the elemental duties, and work up¬
ward. Schooling may sharpen his
intellect, but it does not make
' character.
Lnable as he is to control liirn
self, * hH ne g ro ia singularly tract¬
able and amendabie to control by
his well recognized superiors. For
this reason the Egyptians, Romans
and Turks paid higher prices for
them than for other slaves. They
never fretted in captivity; it was
their natural stue.— Athens South
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