The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-11-15
A Oopperhead somersault.

as one OF Lne DOLLle-HOluSIS VI 1EeSluent
johnson, and in a double loaded editorial
this morning proceeds to define its position.
The copperhead organ "looks fate in the
face" and declares that ''the Democratic
marty never encountered events so seriously |
affecting its future vitality as now" and
nronoses two rernedies-first, to cut loose
from President Johnson, and next, TO GdgO- !
cate aeayo Suffrage? Following is the COM
plant and the remedy of the ISmss
'.In the first place, must we not cut loose
from the Administration of Andrew johnson
and leave that hybrid concern to float on
the sea of public contempt into which 1t
some time since entered, aud from which
no power can rescue it? Is not the late
defeat attributable more largely to this Adj
ADMINISTRATION than all other causes combined
What is there in its composition to com
mand popular conf fence? Who, belonging
to It. is entitled by reason OF his antece'
dents or of his craftsmanship. to the comb
depce or respect Of the Democratic party?
Certainly it is not Andrew Johnson,nor Will |
liam II Seward nor Edwin M. Stanton -
True this Administration had right poll
CIV. and the democratic party, IN overlook
ING the chief men comprising it, and think |
ing only of the rightfulness of the policy |
displayed patriotism whose purity was
never excelled; but the policy having failed |
and having failed, too, through the feeble |
ness and folly and otfenses against public |
oroprietv of the Administrations why |
should not the Democratic party abandon |
the dead body, longer adherence to which |
is death also to itself?
s'What next? Can the Democratic party |
succeed until the negro question shall be
gotten out of the way2 1t cannot: What |
next? Ia not negro suffrage inevitable, and
is not tie quickest way to get the negro
question out of the way to at once cOnoede
the suffrage, making issue only on the de-
gree to which it shall be conceded? We
know that many Democrats have not reach
ed this advanced yie,v Of the case, and that
such still feel greatly inclined to revolt at
the proposition of negro suffrage in any de-
gree; but let US tell them that it is always
wise to accept the inevitable when the inev
liable comes Negro suffrage, we say. IS
inevitable, and whether it shall be qualified
or universal depends upon the proInptness
or otherwise with which the democratic
party shall move with reference to it. The
South will speedily yield qualified negro
suffrage upon the motion of the Democratic
party; because il for no other reason, she
will soon see, if she does not already see,
that, if she do not yield it, she will ulti-
mately be compelled to accept universal
suffrage.
'Qualiied negro. suffrage yielded by the
Southland by this we mean IMPARTIAL SUI
FRAGE or suffrage dependent upon the in
tellIgence OF the man, irrespective of color,
as rs non The rule Ia M0ssGchUSettS-TH
NEGRO QUESTION WILL HAVE BEEN DISPOSED OF
AND THE OCCUPATION OF THE NORTHERN RE-
PUBLICAN RADICAL PARTY WILL BE GONE FOR
EVER. Not one inch of ground will it have
to stand upon; and the country can once
more turn to those material questions of
public policy the right disposition of which
is so essential to the public prosperity 1t
will be upon these questions that the Dem
ocratic party will triumph, and it will be
by this triumph that constitutional govern
ment and our federal system will be preser-
we'd.
'lf the South be wise, it will not wait, on
this suffrage question, even for the motion
Of the Democratic party. If it be wise it |
will lose no time in putting in motion the |
necessary machinery by which it will at the |
same time save itself from humiliation, pre-
serve its own self respect, rid the country |
of the most vexatious question that ever dis |
tracted any country, kill the worst political |
party that ever existed on the globe. and |
put the Union in the way Of speedy restora-
ton. This machinery consists of course, III |
conventions 20 revise the State Consttu- |
tons"
Now all this is very pretty, as a specimen
Of death bed repentance, were it not post
m0rtent. When the life breath is gone, it |
is consolation to surviving friends to spec.
ulate on the cause Of the disease, and the |
Times therefore does very well in laying the |
defeat of the Democratic party at the doors
Of President Johnson though ne had about
as little to do with il as the man in the
moon. The Democratic party died from pu-
trefaction. It's corruptions liberated and
destroyed it, and the President simply came
in at the death in time to join the funeral
procession.
But the idea of the Times going at one
bound from the copper conservative rebel
camp over to negro suffrage, aud demand
ing that the Democracy should follow the
example of massachusetts, @ after it has
fairly grown hoarse and hoary in it's denun-
Citations of all men who were suspected even
Of entertaining the idea that negroes had
any rights which white men were bound to
respect, is simply ridiculous. Neither the
Times nor its party can help or hinder negro
suffrage, or assist or prevent justice being
done to the freedmen 1t has simply rowed
up stream as long as its strength lasted,
and now turns the other way to drift with
the scum upon the surface, laying down the
rules OF navigation aud issuing orders the
while, as thoug its conductor were the
most efficient uavigators in the world
Chic. Journal.
GOING BACK ON ITS FRIENDS-Ihe Mil
waukee Meas in trying to account for the
late Waterloo Defeat of the Copper-J Johnson
Democracy saws;