The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-11-29
DEMOCRACY. DEMANDING
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.


NEGRO SUFFRAGE
From the Chicago Times.
Shall the Democratic Party Die
or Live?
The present is the crisis of the DcfI1o-
cratic party, which has no precedent in
it's history, as it is crisis in the pro
gress of the country, which is also
without precedent Never before has
the Democratic party encountered
events so seriously affecting it's future
validity as now. Not that it beholds
itself diminished in the magnitude of
it's number-for it is numerically stron
ger than it has ever been before-but
that, having been beaten on a great ma
tional issue as to which it believed it
self to be wholly right and the oppo-
sition wholly Wong, and still SO believe,
it must nevertheless abandon that issue
for the decision Of it is final--and
either sit down in he1pless and decay
ing inactivity or strike boldly out upon
a new line, selected with peculiar re-
ference, not to things as we would have
them, but to things as they actually
are, and in pursuing which line it shall
cease to be hold-back or s'conserva-
tive" party, and become, what it was in
it's palmy days, progressive and an
aggressive party. These are the al
ternatives.
It will not sit down in helplesshess
and decaying inactivity.
What, then, shall the new line be ?
In the first place, must we. cut loose
from the administration of Andrew
Johnson, and leave that hybrid concern
to float on the sea Of public contempt
into which it some time since entered,
and from which no power can rescue
it? Is not the late defeat attributable
more largely to this Administration
than to all other causes combined p
What is there in its composition to
command popular confidence? Who,
belonging to it, is entitled, by reason
of his antecedents or Of his statesman
ship, to the confidence OF respect of the
Democratic party? Certainly it is not
Andrew j Johnson, nor William H. Sew
ard, nor Edwin M. Stanton. True,
this Administration had right policy,
and the Democratic party, in over
looking the chief men comprising it
and thinking 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 feeblehess aid
folly and offenses against public pro
priety of the Administration = why
should not the Democratic party
abandon the dead body, longer ad
herence to which is death also to it.
self?
What next? Can the Democratic
party succeed until the negro questions
shall be gotten out of the wak? L
can not. What next? Is not ne
gro suffrage inevitable, afd is not The
quickest way to get the negro question
out of the way to at once concede thu
suffrage, making issue only an the de
gree to which it shall be conceded 2
We know that many Democra have
not reached this advanced view Of th,
case, and that such still feel greatly in
clined to revolt at ihe proposition o
negro suffrage in any degree; but le
us tell them that it is always wise t.
accept the inevitable when the inevita
BILE, and whether 1t shall be qualified o
universal depends upon the promptnes
or otherwise with which the Dem ocrat
PAL ty shall move with reference to it
The South will speedily yield qualitie'
negro suffrage upon the motion of th
Democratic party; because, if she doe
not already see, that if she does no
yield it, she will ultimately be compel
ed to accept universal negro suffrage.
Qualified negro suffrage yielded b
; the South -and by this wemean impair
tial suffrage, or suffrage dependent UP
on the intelligence Of the man, irres
pective of color, as is now the rule i
9 Massachusetts-the negro questio
s will have been difposed of, and the OF
e cupation Of the Northern Republica
+ Radical party will be gone forever
Not one inch Of ground will it have t
stand upon and the country can ono
n more turt1 to those material question
k of public policy, the right dispositio
j. Of which is so essential to the publ
y prosperity It will be Upon these que
tiois that. the Democratic party wi
triumph, and it will be by this TRUMP
that constitutional government and OIL
i federal system will be preserved.
If the South be wise it will not wal
u on this suffrage question, even for tt
) motion OF the Democratic party. If
d were wise, it will lose no time in pu
O ting in motion the necessary machi
i cry by which it will at the tame say
itself from humiliation, preserve i
o own self respect, rid the tountry of Il
le most vexatious questions that ever di
j. tracted any country. kill the worst p
# litical party that ever existd on tt
globe, and put the Union in the way
,, speedy restoration. This machines
"a consists, Of course, in Conventions
revise the State Constitutions