Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-14
The sOmersauIs Of the Chicago
Times.

selled the Democratic party to becoms-the
champion Of Negro Suffrage. 1t tclaims that
the late defeat of the Democratic party Is
attributable more largely to this Admins
tration than to all other causes combined"
and that, therefore, 1--WE must cut loose
from the Administration of ANDREW JOHN
SON, and leave that hybrid concern to float
on the sea of public contempt Into which
1t some time since entered, and from which
no power can rescue It," a- tr4
If the advocacy of the policy of the Ad-
ministration touching restoration contrib
uted largely to the defeat of the Democrat
) ic party In the late contest, Of course the
Democratic party should Instantly aban-
don further advocacy of that policy, pro-
uted, always, that that policy is sOrong. Ifthe
policy is right, and If it was righc to give
1t support in the past, the result Of the
election by no means changed the rightful-
ness Of It. 1t is as much right now as 1t
was right before the election. If it was
. right to insist before the election that the
Southern States are co-equal members OF
the Union, and that by reason of that CO.
equality are entitled to their representa-
tion In both Houses Of Congress, the right
to insist so now is as absolute and as i'm
perative. 1t don't matter whether the YER
! dict ofthe Northern voters was pronounced
against 1t at the late election "through the
feebleness and folly and offenses against
public propriety of the Administration" I"
or whether it was through some other
cause. Defeat is attributed to defective
advocacy and not to inherent demerit OF the
policy advocated. Let's have another trial
before the people. A man goes into Court
with what he is satisfied is a just cause; !;
does he abandon that cause il the jury be-
fore whom 1t Is tried returns verdict
against him In consequence of the stupidity
on the part of the advocate to whose man
agement he intrusted his cause? Certainly
not. He applies for new trial.
But the Times tells the public, the Demo-
cratic party cannot " succeed until the Ne
gro question shall be gotten out of the
way" This he holds to be the not to be
overcome obstacle in the way to Democrat
ic success. tmust be removed out of the
way. How? By Democratic help. That
is, the Democratic party must assist in
making voters out OF the Negroes. If the
Democratic party shall do this, the Times
feels confident that the Democratic party
will thereafter encounter little difficulty 10
achieving success. No effort is made to
show that by culture the Negro race is ca
pable of being made the equal of the white
race, and that hence there should be no
further opposition interposed to making
voters out ofthem. 1t is, however, alleged
that ''Negro suffrage is inevitable, and
whether it shall be qualified or universal
depends upon the promptness or otherwise
with which the Democratic party shall |
move with reference to it,"
Well, If Negro Suffrage is inevitable,
whether the Democratic party will it or
not, how much political capital is the party
likely to make by working itself into
condition of perspiation in helping to
consummate the inevitable? Not a par
ticle. If the matter were not inevitable.
Ind If it were unquestionably right, the
Democratic party might put into its cap a
1ery handsome plume, by assisting to make
'oters out of the Negroes; but if they were
o assist in doing this thing now, when it is
ooked upon as "inevitable" without them,
hey would be laughed at for their pains.
The South will reject the pending Consti-
utional Amendment. The Radicals want
hem to do it, so that they may have
eeming pretext for undertaking to
make the South confer the privilege
( voting on the Negroes, thing they
Intended to do whether the South adopted
he Amendment or not. Let them have
II the honor that is likely to accrue from
his. Until the Negro is shown to be the
quail Of the White race touching Govern
nent, it would be wrong to receive him into
ither full or qualified political association,
ven though it should be the means of put
ing the Democratic party on its etagsin.
success gained by such measures would be
hort lived, as was the success the Demo-
ratio party secured by members: of the
arty assisting to repeal the Black laws of
)hio.