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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER Is. 1876.
CHANGE OF BASE.
The Chicago TRlrrSE, Immediately upon
tho close Of tue war, proposed as q measure
incritahlc for the peaceful and satlfactory
adjustment Of the country, the adoption OF
manhood suffrage as the universal rule.
Since that .ime the measure has been gradu-
ally growing in popular favor. Though not
expressly embodied In tue Constitutional
Amendment proposed BY the last Congress,
II wae, nevertheless, inc1tricably interviewer
with the campaign, partly by the action Of
State Conventions, and partly By the omls- |
sion Of Congress to declare that tue adoption .!
OF the amendment should he analitY in the |
work OF reconstruction, which omission WAS
known to be Intentional. Hence the qucs-
ton Of impartial suffrage was q vital issue In
the camcaign which has just closed, and 80
far IS the people have had an opportunity TO
vote upon it, they have emphaucally en-
dorsed and approved 1t.
We print this morning, the solemn and de-
Nbesate confession By the Chicago Ttmea,
that the measure TO which the TRIBUNE first
gaze prominence, and which has since been
adopted ty the Republican party, and rati-
fed by the people. Is the only measure which
can give peace to Distracted country, and
q measure which is 70 inevitably certain to
become The national policy, that 1t Is the
duty Of the people North and South. Demo
Gratis AGd Republicans, loyal and rcbcllious,
to accept it now, accept 1t without delny,
md accept 1t In good faith. The Ch1cago
Times Is no willing witness to the Inevitable
truth. 1t bears no willing tes-
timony to the great mornl and
pres1. ssiye action Of the people Of free
country in striking down class legislation
and class distinctions. It ouly secs the tri-
umph Of the right rs the criminal sees the
triumph Of Justice and rec o:$.uizts 1t as the
inevitable end Of all his attempts TO Grade
arrest. The Times rroclaims itself hence
forth an advocate Of negro suffrage, thereby
eonceding the grand point Of the rnan-
hood, citizenship and civil equality ofall men.
II now proposes to add to these political
cqualitv. 1t declares itself in favor Of this
measure Of equal and exact Justice bccaHse
the Democratic party having too long denied
and opposed that measure finds itself repudi-
atcd by the people.
II makes negro suffrage henceforth part Of
the Democratic policy, because unless that
party abandons its opposition to +he meas
ure the Democratic party must yield the lit
tic vitality Left in 1t, aud must perish By the
side Of that useless torylsm which has 60
long crippled its action and debauched Its
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