The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-21

clHrcd Inevitable, aud the % Party
| Warned That Now Is Their Opportu.
nity.--A Third RIchmonu in the
Field. .i ~
The candle recently litby the Chicago
Times, the organ of the Democracy OF
the Northwest, has not been put out,
Tho Boston Post, the New England
Democratic organ, has come out on the
same side of the question. We pub.
lished its leader on the subject in yes
terday's paper. We notice that the
Rochester Union, the Democratic organ
of Western New York, has reinforced
these two papers, and likewise declared
for negro suffrage. Thus we see the
disease spreading in the Democratic
camp, and there is no telling where it
will end. Very few of the party organs
venture to denounce the ground taken
by the Chicago Times as either hereti-
cal or anti-Democratic. In fact, since
the elections, the leaders have granted
sort OF dispensationt on. this yexed
question, and agreed that it is not one
of the essentials in their church. In
other words, that a man can be a good
Democrat and believe or not believe in
negro suffrage, just as he chooses. All
this is very liberal, and shows what a
patent, self-adjusting, and very flexible
thing is modern democracy. Before
the election, only few weeks ago, the
organ here was harping day by day on
the negro suffrage proclivities of Bore
man & Co. Negro suffrage was the tar
get of its denunciations throughout the
canvass. Now see how ngently
as sucking dove," it roars
on the subject. You look in vain any
longer for those denunciations. In a
very short time we expect to see the
editor showing that there is not, and
never was, anything in Democracy in
compatible with Negro suffrage. We
shall most likely be referred to the
Declaration of Independence, written
by Thomas Jefferson, founder of the
Democratic party, in which Negro suf-
frage, and everything of the sort, was
provided for in that sentence which
teaches that "alI men were created free
and equal" We may depend upon it,
that we have seen the last general can
vass in this country against Negro
suffrage. The issue will be hereafter
whether it shall be universal or quail
flied; whether all blacks shall vote, or
only such as can read and write, and,
perhaps, own property. We doubt
even il any serious division takes place
ON these differences. The Democracy
win want to go full tilt to the mile post
as soon us their heads are fully turned
in that direction, and it may yet keep
the Republicans busy to hold an even
race with them.
The Chicago Times is following up
its first leader, day by day, and seems
to have checked its baggage and taken
through ticket on the question. Its
third article is as follows:-
Several Democratic papers which do
not aRree,With the Times, in respect to
its views ofthe shortest road, to the re-
ascendancy of the Democratic party
and The pacificationr of the country,
treat the matter of negro suffrage as a
question yet to be determined, and as
sumo that the Democratic party may
determine it adversely to suffrage by
mainta ining its former position toward
it. 1t isaright here thatiour cotempora-
ries make most serious mistake. The
determination to be sure, by direct
vote oftGhe country on the question, but
6y eUeittS tDIticlt are as certain and con-
cLtLSiVe as such CI UOte I0OltLd be; and he
who does not comprehend this fact-he
who does not see In the signs of the
times the ineVitability of that result, is
lamentably and inexcusably blind.
We have not a doubt that If the ques-
ton were submitted directly to the
voters Of illinois tomorrow, impartial
suffrage would prevail va very large
majority, and that thousands of Demo-
Gratis would contribute to that conclu-
sion. And as in Illinois, 30 in every
other Northwestern State. WeS1o not
ask our Democratic contemporaries to
make themselves happy over this fact
the fact of the inevitRbihtY of negro
suffrage-but we do ask them, however
dfstastef1l the fact ITSELF not to ignore
| 1t; not, Bourbon-lfke, to disregard it;
but to accept Il, and treat It as q is the
duty of enlightened E0u6ticistS 20 treat
eUeTy question with t0Itich lttey haze to
| deal.
What ought this treatment to be?
What should be done with coming ne
| gro suffraga2 AS a practical common
sense proposition, should not the DEM
ocratic party, ceasing unavailing oppo-
sition to 1t, take the Gppl plieatiots and con
| troll of the 9IeiO suffrage from The RGdi-
Gals, 4RlIO LtHRCtkes tho tpofSt PoSSt6Le use
Of Il, and itself apply aud control It and
~ axe 1t SltbSe1.Ue the best possible use?
The Democratiep party thrQu ghthe con-
fidence which the South reposes In 1t,
has now the power to make this appli-
cation and ,exereise this control: In
other words, the Southern States may
now themselves grant impartial suf-
frage, and by 80 doing preserve an
identity of interest and sympathy be-
tween the two races dwelling together
and this they will do on the motion OF
| the Democratic party. BY and by this
opportunity will be gone. By and by
| the sweeping Radical Congressional
majority, overriding all barriers and
reducing the South TO the condition Of
4 conquered provinces, viii Impose upon
her . partial, unjnsts offensive degrad-
ing suffrage, and creating an anta&o-
nism between the races control the ne
\ uro vote against the whites and for
4 Radical uses. Impartial suffrage speed
| lily adopted by the South, the Radical
l Congressional majority cannot proceed
4 to extremities against her, TOR Northern
I popular sentiment will have been salts.
iied and will not sustain extreme meas
| uFes In short, the Radicals VIII have
| been c6mplateiy fIanked, and can. find
| no tenable axcuse-no excuse that Will
satisfy Northern public sentiment-foI
4 DENYING representation in Congress tc
the South. The negro question VIII
have been practically disposed qt and
disposed of by the action Of the South
1 And who will tellus that the Radical
party can survive a year the dtspOst'
L ito nor the negro question
Il tits the Radical purpose now, as II
4 has all along been, to 0PFOtoTg tbs 4aeg
fiou. The question never viii be set.
i Sis- 81 Iorce asl Raficalisin can prevent