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My up-town ifriends occasion
ally pass on bits about Lord
Macauley; Lord Macauley said
this or Lord Macauley said that.
And, unlettered scrub that I am,
I accept such references as wis
dom personified. I do because
Macauley — what I have seen
of his stuff — makes sense to
me. '
For instance, a doctor friend
— as his contribution towards
the polishing of a rube — re
cently gave me a copy of a letter
Macauley (1800-1859) wrote two
years before his death. It was
to a New Yorker named H. E.
Randell. And I was glad to get
it.
Mr. Randell, it seems, accept
ed Thomas Jefferson’s liberal
dogma as Holy Writ, and, in an
earner letter, had faulted
Macauley for not doing the same
Macauley told him.
“You are surprised to learn,’
His Nibs wrote, “that I have noi
a high opinion of Mr. Jefferson
and I am surprised at your sur
prise. I am certain that I neve:
wrote a line . . . indicating ai
opinion (such as Jefferson hel<
— Ed.) that the supreme author
ity of a state ought to be intrusl
ed to the majority of citizens.
(I)n other words, to the-poor
est and most ignorant part o
society.
“(Rather), I have long beei
convinced that institutions pure
ly democratic must, sooner o
later, destroy liberty or civilizi
tion, or both.”
What if England were ever s
foolish as to adopt the demc
cracy, one-man-one-vote?
“I have not the slightest doufc
either the poor would plunde
the rich and civilization woul
perish, oj order and prosperit
would be seved by a strong mi
( itary government — and libert
would perish.
y “You may think that you
.......
?
country enjoys an exemption
from these evils. I will frankly
own to you that I am of a very
different opinion. Your fate I
believe to be settled,'though
it is deferred by a physical
cause.
“As long as you have a bound
less extent of fertile and unoc
cupied land your laboring pop
ulation will be far more at ease
than the laboring population of
the Old World and while that
is the case the Jefferson politics
may continue to exist without
causing any fatal calamity.
“But the time will come when
New York will be as thickly
populated as Old England . . .
Then your institutions will be
fairly brought to test . . . (That
test) will come when multitudes
of (your) people choose a legis
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by Honry E. Garrett, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR EMERITUS
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PAST PRESIDENT
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOBICAL ASSOCIATION
Q: Dr. Garrett, my sociology
professor keeps bugging me with
two statements. He says we
must integrate in order to know
the Negro. That's one and the
other is a twist of the same. He
*ays we must learn to live with
Negroes, now that we have em
braced the one-big-happy-family
idea. What do you say to that?
A: What you might suppose.
I say both statements are equal
itarian propaganda and are
specious as arguments for racial
integration. Few people have,
or ever will have, other than
slight contact with Negroes.
Respect and courtesy are all
that can be expected of us, all
that we should aspire to. “Bro
therhood,” to paraphrase A1
Smith, is baloney.
lature . . .
“Is it possible to doubt what
sort of legislature will be chos
en? On one side (will be) a
statesman teaching patience, re
spect for vested rights, strict
observance of public faith. On
the other (will be) a demogogue
ranting about the tyranny of
capitalists and usurists, and
asking why anybody should be
permitted ... to ride in a car
riage while thousands of hon
est folks are in want of neces
saries.
“Which of the two candidates
is the likely to be preferred...?
Mind you, this was written in
1857
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. . (W)hen society has en
tered on this downward prog
ress,” Macanley concluded, “ei
ther civilization or liberty must
iperish. Either some Caesar or
Napoleon will sieze the reins of
government... or your republic
will be fearfully plundered by
barbarians in the Twentieth Cen
tury as the Roman Empire was
in the Fifth, with this differ
ence:: The Huns and vandals
who ravaged the Roman Empire
came from without, and that
your Huns and vandals will have
been engendered within your
own country by your own institu
tions. Thinking thus, of course,
I cajinot reckon Jefferson among
the benefactors of mankind.”
Nor me either. No liberty or
no civilization, that’s our choice.
Some future, this — thanks to
iyou one-man-one-vote liberals,
you and your lop-headed carp
ing of democracy.
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