The result proved that government still existed, potentially, and was only changing its shape and adapting itself to the circumstances of the people.

If a man or body of men assert that things among them are ready for such new evolutions, and so undertake to bring them about, they do it at their peril, and failing, they are indictable for treason; they may be true patriots, they may be conscientious men; the sympathies of many good people may be with them, but they have sinned against the great law which protects mankind from anarchy.
"'To apply this,' said the Judge, 'to our subject,--When the time comes that the blacks can truly say, "We are now your equals in all that is necessary to constitute a civil state, and we propose to take the government of this part of the country into our hands," we should still make several objections, which would be valid.

The Constitutions of the States and of the United States must be changed before that can be done, and we will presume that this would involve a revolution.

Moreover, this country belongs to the Anglo-Saxon race, with which foreigners of kindred stocks have intermingled, and they and we object to the presence of a black race as possessors of some of the states of the Union, even if it were constitutional.

We do not propose to abandon our right and title to the soil, without a civil war, which would probably result in the extermination of one or the other party.