, 1866-11-13
mpoRrANTClIANGE OF BASE.
THE democratic Party Destroyed
by the I" Niger"
ruP CHICAGO TIMES m FAVOR OF
" NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
Last Kick at Andrew Johnson

From ,ha Chicago Times (ed:.odal). Nov. Y.
BHALL THE DEpooRATlC PARTi p!E VI ..i.
The present Is crisis ln the 1emoesatle 3 9a
party which has no precedent p rs Us nantry
which Is also without precedent. Never %,
fore has the Democratic party encountered
events 50 seslonaly affecting It's future Vitanty
u now. Not that 1t beholds itself diminish
cd In the magnitude Of rs numbers-for IT ls
numerically stronger than It has ever been be.
lore, but that, having been beaten on great
national Issue, as to which It believed Itself
to be wholly right and the opposition holly
wrong, and still so believes. It must never
thelcss abandon that issue-for the decision
of II is flaal-and either sill down. In helpless
and dccnying inactivity, OF strike boldly out
uIou new line, selected with peculiar ref
efepce. not TO things as VIC Enold have them,
but to things as they actually arc, ana ID
rursuing hich line II shall cease 10 ne
Eold-back or ''conserva.ire" party, and oe-
grcssiye and ali aggressive party. These arc
| the alternatives.
| Ing activity. a..
What, then, shalt the new line be! In TIC
| FIRST place. must we not cut loose rom ths dl'
| n,iuhfratfon Of dndreta JohRsoa, and tearr
that hybrid concern 10 toat ~ the sea o. pubtie
| coptf,npt into trhith son,e time since entered,
and from trhich no potrer can Ttscue " tsnot
! the late defeat attributable more largely 10
| this numlnlslf1llon tuau ~ NJ JILL sauoeS ~
combined! What is there In Its eotnpo.
| sitiou to command popular confidence !
Who, belonging to 1t, Is entitled. By reason
| Of his aptccedents or Of his craftsmanship tG
| the confidence or the respect Of the Demo
| cratic p2rtyg Certainly Is not Andrew John
Stanton. True, this administration had
1 right l olicy, and tho Democratic party, It
overlooking the chief men comprising II, and
thinking only OF the rtyhtfulncss OF tht
policy, displayed patriotism whose purity
wns never cxcelled but the policy having
fceblcness md folly and offences asains'
public proprfcty Of the administrations
why should not the Democratic party aban
don the dead body. longer adherence to tchie"
dtuh also to hstlff .-..-...
surcsci nntii the negro question shall be got
ten ont of the ways IT cdnEof. why not
II net negro xu6rage inerifablt, and is not ths
quickest way TO get the negro question ou
OF the way to al once coneedt ne sntra9f
making Issue only on II the degree t 70 which ~ u
Democrats have not reached this advanced
view OF tho case, and that such still feel great
}y fcnlined to revolt at the proposition OF ne
gro suffrage In my degree hnt LET Us tel
them that i Il ditcays sctse TO decepf the taerad
We say, is fneri'aole, and whether It shal
be qualified or universal depends npon th
promptpess or otherwise with which tn
democratic party shall move with retercnc
to 1t. The South ,ciu speedily yield qid'lTe
ntqro suffrage upon The motion Of the De'ae
! cratic party because, If for no other reasor
! she viii soon see, If she does not already sex
that if she do not yield It, she will ultimate
| Il he compelled to accept universal uegr
suffrage.
| Southland by this we mean IMPARTIAL SUI
{ rRAGE, or suffrage dependent npon the inte
i | lisence Of the man, irrespective OF colo
. as il nouc he rule in observation-disclosures NJ
= GRO QUESTION WILL HAVE BEEN DISPOSE
OF, AND THE OCCUPATION OF LHE NoRrHER
RgrrB rBL1cAS RADICAL PARTY WILL NE GOS
: FOREVER. Not one inch Of ground will
+. have to stand upon; and the country ca
r once more turn TO those material question
e Of public policy the right disposition
= | which Ia so essential to the public prospe
l ity. It will be upon these questions th'
l. the Democratic party will triumph. and
:. will be by this triumph that constitution
!. government and our federal syetcm will
8 preserved.
y If the South be wise, 1t will not wait, {
t this suffrage question, even for the motit
!, OF the Democratic party, If 1t be wise,
t will lose no time In putting In motion q
b necessary machinery BY which It will ut Il
!, same time save itself from humiliation, pr
= serve lis own selEretpect. rid the country
d the most yexAtious question that ever d
tracted any country, kill the worst polite
Is party TINT ever existed on the globe. and p
+ The Union In the way Of speedy restoratto
d This machinery consists, OF conrse+ In CO
: yentions to revise the Statc Constitutions.