The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-09


they are not likely to accept what tbev con
slider its evils without trying to make the most
of its opportunities.
The experiment will be first made i'm Ten
nessee which holds an election for Governor
and Congressman August l. The Franchise
law passed at the late session of the Republi-
can Legislature gave the right of voting to
the colored men, and deprived of it those per
sons who fought in the Rebel armies In
1865 the total vote in the State for members of
Congress was 81, ,7S3, Of which 80 5O9 illegal
votes were thrown out. The rigid exclusion
of Rebels by the present electoral laws should
secure Republican majority of white voters
and the only hope of the Democratic party is
in the 30, 600 colored voters the State is sup-
posed to contain. The hope is poor one. but
the most is made of it. The Democrats thus
estimate its sdivision-radicalnegr vote, 2S, 900;
conservative negro vote, %, 600; and. claiming
a conservative white majority of $4,000. am,
nounce that they can carry the State by 6OOO
majority. On the other hand the radi-
Gals affirm that all the efforts of the
Democrats will not obtain more than one-third
of the colored vote. As no general election
has been held in Tennessee since 1865, and
new issues have since arisen, there is no basis
for more exact calculation. The Democrats
expect to get their negro votes from the
country, where the farm hands are employed
from the influence of itinerant Yankees
They are already begging votes of the men
Whomnot three months ago they declared unfit
to be citizens "There is really no difference
III interest between the blacks and whites
respecting good government" says the
Nashville Despatch of the I'd, adding with
astonishing GOODNESS, that "those who op-
posed negro suffrage did not do so to oppress
him, but to secure to him, as well as to them
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ministered." They have found a dozen colored
men stupid enough to forgive such an insult,
and colored meeting was called at Nash
vile on Saturday to elect delegates to the
Conservative Convention of April 16. At
Chattanooga five hundred blacks and whites,
1t is said, held a conservative meeting aud
denounced Brownlow. 1t may be so, but
colored Democrats are still the rarest of all
political curiosties At the same time that
some of the Democrats are busy in the gigantic
work of convincing the negroes that their best
friends are the men who fought to the last
against the franchise law other Democrats are
proclaiming that slavery still exists. A Mr..
Peden, of Giles county, has returned to the
assessor, in the list of his property, two negro
men, claiming that he owns them and that all
laws to the contrary are unconstitutional and
void. But the party leaders are shrewder,
and though we don't believe the story that
Iuey luIeuu 10 nOnludIe q COlOT6u man lot
Governor, against Mr.. Brownlow they have
already sought to undermine his popularity
with the negroes, by dragging up his pro-
slavery speeches before the war.
In South Carolina, Governor Orr declares
that Congress made a mistake when it gave
the ballot to the colored man, yet wants the
colored man to vote against Congress and
with Governor Orr. He bids them remember
that New Jersey, Ohio, and Michigan have re-
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States shall not vote. But what of that The
party who believe with Governor Orr that inn
partial suffrage is mistake defeated it, and
we hope that in his speech he will honestly
tell the colored men that the Republicans
of Ohio have at last triumped, and that
their Legislature has passed a bill for
manhood suffrage in the State. The
inconsistencies of the North are not the
fault of our party but of his. Colonel
held in Savannah last week, patronized the
negroes, and told them ''to suspect those
whites who tell you that you are their equals -
This kind of electioneering begins with bully
ing and cOntempt it will end in abject syco-
phancy. James Simms, who spoke for the
colored men, politely informed the whites
represented by Colonel Fitch that they knew
nothing of his race. The colored men would
vote only for tried and true Union men, and
W
would not elect a Rebel Mayor, nor have any
more brutal policemen They would elect
white and colored men to Offices" 1t is evil
dent that the negroes will not be easily
convinced that their enemies are in the
North; that the Republican party is not to
be trusted. In North Carolina the whites
propose to call another Convention, to which
colored delegates will be invited. 1t will call
the new party "Union, in opposition to the
Republican party organized at Raleigh, but
the name will have new meaning. A cor
respondent at Beaufort informs us that ''the
| leading colored men of the State, some of
whom have great ability, are devoted to Re-
! publican principles, and will thoroughly
! stump every county in their defense' Thus
far we have seen little encouragement for the
men who hope to form an anti-Republcan,
anti-Northern cOlored party in the South; the
freedmen have shown themselves shrewdel
politicians than their masters and may b(
trusted to take care of their own interests.
Influence of the Telegraph Upon the Ex.
changes and Financial Operations o.
the World.
! From the Herald.
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in New York, to make some purchase or T.
| enter into some business transaction prOmisin
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