Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — TRUE WORDS. [ARTICLE]

TRUE WORDS.

Truer words were never uttered than the following by Judge Tourgee, in ‘'Bystander’s Notes,” published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean of July 13. They appear in a long article in which the Judge annihilates a Professor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, University, who had written to him advocating the disfranchisement and deportation of the negroes of the South. The article should be read by every Republican in the land. The portion we quote is a true exposition of the heart of the Republican creed. It reads as follows: “Man is not a mere brute. There are laws of life that are not written in flesh and blood. Over and above all scieutiflc principles, mightier than the law of physics, is that principle of Divine justice which punishes the oppressor through the very instrument he he has chosen for bis own aggrandizement and perpetuation. There is one law and one alone that can save a nation or a people from degradation and decay-—jus-tice to all those subject to its power! This is not a law of meie matter —it is an immutable principle of mind. The race which enslaves the weak becomes enfeebled and debased by their weakness and depravity; the nation that protects the weak and lifts up the down-trodden becomes strong with unexpected strength. Every impulse of justice and self-respect demands that the colored race of America be lifted up and protected in the rights of full citizenship. The safety and the prosperity of the nation largely depends upon it,” Animated by this principle the Republican party must be invincible because it will be light. A lower standard of r acffbh wßlihvfte defeat. By this sign we conquor.