The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-05-08

49, The Democratic party will not dis
band, beseech, reason with or COM
mand it as we may. As good pur-
pose may be served. we think, by al,
lowing parties in the North to re-
main as they are, and consolidating
the opinion and power of the South
into compact mass, to be used, when
the opportunity comes, as the balance
of power in the Government Our
present duty is plainly to solidify
TVoI Southern sentiment, and to that end
it is necessary to have a platform
upon which the, man of color can
step as easily and stand as firmly as
the white man. But it iseobvIous
that no platform will avail, and no
-7sg.lt canvass can accomplish anything, that
do not accept, as foundation fact,
as the political equality of all races and
-. s. classes under the law. es 80 n
(rrom the Charlottesville tva.) Chronicle,
l3sze . eaerr April 26l
Both of the great parties at the
North are going. to contend for the
occupation of the Southern field.
Each sees approaching the day of
political restoration for the South,
and each wants to recruit itself with
chat support it may be able to secure
IA this quarter in the great national
conflicts.
We are quite satisfied from what we
have seen and heard very recently
that it will be impossible to rally the
colored people to the support of any
Northern Democratic party They
.allege that the Democratic party was
pro-slavery party, that it is now op-
posed to giving them the elective
= franchise, and that they regard it as
as enemy. In astand-up fight between
the Republican party and the Demo
? - cratic party the coiored people
will not be controlled by the South
- ern whites in favor of the Dem
alsEs ocratic party-we are not sure that
We shall control them any way. There
fore the reorganization of the Domo-
5ii cratic party at the South implies nec-
essarily the drawing of the line be-
tween the whites and the blacks
That reorganization settles at once
the. question as to how the colored
vote will be cast. 1t arrays the two
races against each other at the start.
What then? Must we go to the
Republicans. No; we must keep
aloof from Federal politics, or, when
represented in Congress, act as an in
dependent body. They will all want
our votes.
The first thing for the pacifcation
of the country is for the Democratic
party to dissolve; new parties will
then FORM There are thousands of
conservative men In the Republican
ranks who are weary of revolutionary
Government, who long for real peace
between the sections, who viii fall in
their proper place when they can do
so-without going to the Democratic
party. They will not act with the
Democratic party. No matter why
no matter whether right or wrong
wise or unwise-they will not do it.
From the Lynchburg virginian, April q
seth We deprecate all action tending
to the establishment of parties here.
The old Democracyis dead and bu-s
ried, thank heaven, and we, for one.
trust that it will never have resur-
rection. 1t was very close corpora
ton while it lived, and cared only for
s'the things of its own It trampled
rudely on the rights of the minority,
and virtually disfranchised by an in
famous system of gerryma nder. some
- the best citizens of this State. Itex-
excluded from Office many OF the
most enlightened and patriotic men
of the Commonwealth, and proc a med
always that ito the victors belong the
spoils.n 1t was the embod m ant of
tyranny, and the synonym OF pro-
scription and intolerance. Let it
sleep in its dishonored sepulchre
with all the record of its misdeeds.
We would not revive it in any shape.
From the New orleans Crescentl
sees = 4 1t is curious how fast ideas travel
in revolutions. A few months since