The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-11-24
ADVNIIRTIa-iNlG RATEs.
Negro Suffrage and Ilquality.

to say, Is adv coated by some professcdly
Democratic papers of the North--we have
no where seen more plainly and eonylnc-
ingly stated than In the following excel
lent article from the baltimore Gdzette
We therefore reproduce It entire, and in
vite for II II candid and impartial perusai
by every friend of the country and our
long cherished political Institutions;
A number of leading Democratic jour
nails OF the North Unite with their Radical
contemporaries in advising the Southern
people to place the negroes on II political
equality with the whites. These Journals
are, it seems to us, doing now just what
they did mt the beginning of the war, aud
that Is abandoning their own convictions
aud principles, in Difference to the clamOr
of majority Of their people. We have
seen no argument advanced either by Judge
Reagan IN the South, or by Wendell Phil
lips Ia the North In favor of negro suffrage
which has even the merit of plausibllity.
The latter has an immense deal to say
about progress loyalty, justice, manhood
and brotherhood, but these sounding words
prove nothing and might Just as well be
used as an argume.t in favor of pro
tectivc tariff and national bOunties to fish-
ing smacks. Judge Reagan, on the other
hand. ignores the sentimental view OF
the subject lie urges the South to
consent to qualified negro suffrage on the
8lOullN lllNt TIE NOItii - NfNfTlllhth W ihl
the black race on political equality with
the white, and will, If the South declines to
make any concessions on this point force
upon her the most stringent aud ruinous
conditions. II Is In this same strain that
the Democratic journals referred to discuss
the matter. They do not trouble them
selves with considering the ultimate ci.rcb
of such Il policy, but simply say that by
conferring the elective franchise upon the
blacks the South will be enabled to send
| representatives to Congress and to assist in
electing Il successor to Mr. johnson. This
| programme is very good one for the DEM
ocratic party of the North, and will, doubt
| less, be accepted by numbers of profession
al politicians in the South, who sniff afar
off the reeking and polluted atmosphere OF
Washington. But the Southern people
| look beyond the immediate present. They
expect their children aud their children'-
children to possess thcrl land long after the
present generation shall have passed away.
| They know what the result of political
euuality between the two races will he. An
archy and war will be the lot of the people.
aud desOlatiOn the fate OF that section Of the
country. They are willing to accord the
blacks not merely the fullest protection Tor
their rights. their persons and their ''-
erty, but will aid them in their struggle to
better and to elevate themselves. But the
right of suffrage they are unutterably. ard
we think rightly opposed to conceding to
the negro. 1t has pleased that same Proyi-
dence which created such diversitics of
soil, climate and race, TO implant certain
lcardinal instincts In the human heart which
have been constant In their operations FROM
the beginning. and which will continLr to
control men as long as earth shall endure.
Among the feelings or emotions which in
/ tiuence men most strongly must be clarScd
those which link together people of ine
same country and of the same race. So
naturally are men drawn towards those
who are as il were Of their own household
that he must he Il fanatic or an imbecilc
who would reject this element Of human
mature In considering plan of govern
Nnent for diverse races inhabiting the same
cOuntry. History teaches that Ia all times
land IN ages, whenever two or more races
have lived together. unless they anialga-
mated, the one or the other always mon"P-
Olized the political power of the State. II i
even difficult to blend into harmonious
whole people of the same or Kindred
races who have been long divided into
different nations. The lrishman naturally
prefers a brother irishman to the Saxon.
the Venetian rejoices that Italy Is
no longer united with Austria, and the
Pole still dreams of the possibility of lN-
ing to see his people exalted, and the power
of Russia overthrOwn. So when the elec
tive franchise qualified or unqualified, Is
conlerred upon the blacks and whites
in the South then will begin the. struggle
! for supremacy. 1t may not assume to-day
or to- morrow such proportions as TO excite
the fears OF the people, but it will. never
I theless, begin Negroes who might, now
4 vote for their former masters Will, in the
a course of time, vote for none hut black
7 men. DemagOgucs Viii NOT he wanting t.
: stimulate n natural feeling into an mtrp-s
! passion. aud II the negro is A. quick and in-
dustrious as We are told he is, the number
! who would vote under qualified right Of
: suffrage would rapidly multiply. Then .n
many sections of the South, rs in Jamaica,
negro judges and representatives would rule
over the whites, and bitter animoSity would
, gradually spring mp between the rac.--
which would sOOuer nr later end in ANARCHY
E, aud war. We cannot pretend. in the com
pass 0f an editorial articlc,to even refer to tie
q iacts andnTguncntS by which We think We
B. can support these conclusions, We merely
D wish to say that it j. TO these results the
. southern people are looking when they
Q lrcsiSt the effort now making 60 place The
blacks on the same footing With the white.
; Il Is the hupc ot Aycrting the evils we have
] lalludCd to that we have urged the SOitl ,u
/, pursue tha cOurse she has. We ar. far
= nom haIipI any anllpathy towards the
I negro, or any disposition To see iniu-iigc
T. done him in any shape On the contrary.
we have the kindest fraling towards hin,
! and sincerely wish that his future may be
a happier one than We can say we expect
II tobe. But we are convinced tllat one
race or the other must r7llo in the South,
: and that If n struggle is 60 be inauguralrd
\ in which the claim Of supremacy is tn br
( tested IL viii end IN blood We want Hc
I such contest. Therefore Is II that we stand
11 By the white race to-day, and II the North
RI forces The issue we viii still continue tu
. uphold the cause of those who are OF our
] own bioad
> A MINiSrIB on ruE GosPEL.--james e.
: Provost, who claims 10 be a minister ct thc
q Gospel and Who resides in Brooklyn, has
p oeen arrested, charged with distilline wine
: land brahdy without paying the internal
revenue tax, lie admitted having distilled
\ the liquor, but said il was only for sacra-
@ mental purposes Some years ago. he said.
lhe came to the conclusion that the wine
used for sacramentai purposes was not the
. liuice of the grape, and having "a large
p lquantity of grapes he thought he would
D distill the pure article aud sell IL to the
[ churches. He also Acknowledges having
G. distilled brandy foI sickness, but had not
- done so since the revenue law WAS in ope-
= ration, The easewill be tried next week.
[ n " ErBTeSs.