The Kentucky Gazette

POLITICS.

Politics is defined to be the "science of government," but this meaning was given by old Webster in those primitive times when the first edition of his dictionary was published, and when there were statesmen in the land who studied the science of government and endeavored to administer it accordingly. In our day, politics has become to signify the art of getting power under the forms of the Constitution, and retaining it in defiance of either the forms or letter of the law. What matters it to the desperadoes who have control of Congress, that they are acting in violation of the Constitution? They care no more for the instrument they have sworn to support than they do for the decalogue which they violate. It is the lust of power which controls them, and for this they are willing to barter their soul's salvation, and incur infamy, present and forever.

The politician is not a creature new to this age. Shakespeare described him three hundred years ago as a "scurvy fellow," having "glass eyes," "to see things he doth not." But contemptible as he showed himself in Elizabeth's time, if the great bard had lived in our day he would have been compelled to have drawn darker shades than any his age furnished. The lick-spittles who kneeled in the dirt at the approach of the tyrannical old hag, the virgin queen, were respectable gentlemen in comparison to the miserable demagogues who pander to and fawn upon the fetid negro, and who seek to rise in triumphant tyranny over their own race through his instrumentality. Diligent search through the annals of all the ages of corruption, darkness and misery, through which the world has passed in six thousand years, has failed to reveal anything so base, contemptible, and mean as this political affiliation between Radical white men and the semi-civilized negro. If shame had not lost its blush, and if hardness of heart and obduracy of conscience had not reached a degree never dreamed of by even old Saul of Tarsus, men, white men would have drawn back from this infamous consummation. Yet, grave men and grave white men, and men pretending to fear God and regard man, have given in their adhesion to this infinite wickedness. Old Cato's course upon the wicked men who "slew the liberties of Rome," would be a light punishment for the exceeding wickedness of those who are perpetrating these things. We can imagine nothing which caused God to destroy the world and all the inhabitants thereof, more deserving of swift and condign punishment. It makes men's hearts sick and sink within them to see to what a depth of degradation these political monsters are bringing the civilization of one of the fairest portions of this earth. The time spoken of by Daniel, the Prophet, when the "abomination of desolations" shall cover the land, seems to be approaching, for nothing more "abominable" has ever transpired since creation than the threatened extinguishment of the civilization of this Caucasian race under African barbarism.

Oh! men with sisters dear;
Oh! men with mothers and wives!
But it is folly to expect to influence men of this character by considerations of humanity; for the accursed lust of power has fastened itself upon them, and they are not to be bought off or persuaded to let go any advantage they have, but can only be driven off, like hyenas, whose hunger is only less strong than the fear of harm.

This one question of negro supremacy absorbs all other political issues, and to prevent the advocates of this most foul iniquity to make any side issues, is to give them an advantage, and to cover up for them a festering ulcer, which ought to make all white men loathe them. Keep them close to this, and the people of this country will spew them out of their mouths, for they are practicing abominations hateful in the sight of gods and men.