Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-11-15
EFFECT oF.UNroN VICTORIES.
The Chicago Times Abandons
JOhns0n--It PronounCes for
Negro suHrage--UnparaIIeIed
Political summerset.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Garetts.
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Special Dispatch TO the Cincinnati Gazetts.
CHICAGO, November 12.
The whole of Chicago is on tho broad
grin to-day at the sudden and unsntcipated
summerset Of the Chicago Times. The
Times looks fate ia the face, and declares
that the Democratic party never encounter.
ed events 80 seriously affecting its future as
now, and proposes two remedies, first, TO
cut loose from President johnson, and next,
to advocate negro suffrage.
The following is the complaint and the
remedy of the Times: In the first place,
we must cut loose from the administration
of Andrew johnson, and leave that hybrid
concern to float on the sea of public con-
tempt 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 combined2 What is there in it's
composition to command popular confidence?
Who belongs to it that is entitled, by reason
Of his sntecedents, or of his statesmauship, TO
the confidence or the respect OF the Dem.
ocratic party? Certainly It is not Andrew
johnson: nor William 81. Seward. nor
Edwin NJ. Stanton. True, this administra-
ing failed. and having failed, too, through
public propriety Of the Administration, why
should not the Democratic party abandon
adherence to which is death2
"What next? Can the Democratic par.
ty succeed until the negro question shall be
gotten out of the way2 1t cannot. What
next? Is not negro suffrage inevitable
and is it not the quickest way to get the
negro question out of the way. to at once
conoede the suffrage, making issue only to
the degree to which it shall be conceded ?
We know that many Democrats have not
reached this advanced view of the case, and
that such still feel greatly inclined to revolt
at the proposition of negro suffrage in any
degree but let us tell them it is always
wise to accept the inevitable when the in
evitable comes. Negro suffrage we say, is
inevitable; and whether it shall be quilted
or universal. depends upon the promptness
or otherwise with which the Democratic
party shall move with reference to it. The
South will speedily yield qualified negro suf
frage upon the motion Of the Democratic
party, because if COR no other reason she
will soon see. if she does not already see,
tha, if she do not yield she ultimately will
he compelled to accept universal suffrage. -
Qualified negro suffrage yielded by the
South, and by this we mean impartial suf
fraee. or suffrage dependent upon the in
tellgepce of the man. irrespective of color,
as is now the rule in Massachusetts, the
negro question will have been disposed of,
and the occupation of the Northern Re-
publican party will not wait on this suffrage
question even for the motion of the Demo
cratic party. 1t 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 the humiliation; pre-.
serve its ewn self respect; rid the couRtry 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 in
conventions to revive the State Constitu
tions."