He would find it in public opinion, which is the vital force in every law in a free government.

This is a subject that our Constitution failed to regulate, because it was not contemplated by its authors.

It is a question that will settle itself, without serious difficulty.

The equality in the suffrage, thus guaranteed to the negro race, alone--for it was not intended to include other colored races--creates a new phase of political conditions that M.De Tocqueville could not foresee.
Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our political organization which, in the end, will render harmless this wide departure from the original plan and purpose of American Democracy.

"Local Self-Government," independent of general control, except for general purposes, is the root and origin of all free republican government, and is the antagonist of all great political combinations that threaten the rights of minorities.