The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-22

managers, that bysthus bringing the question
before the people, mixed mp with party issues
in an eleotion the people generally would vote
with their party and not discriminate between
one question and another. Mr.. Chase went
home 20 vote for negrosuffrage, and to give an
example to the Republican voters Other radi-
cal leaders were equally as earnest in their
efforts to carry the State on this issue. But
the people did discriminate in a very remark
able manner, for a vast number who voted for
The party ticket voted at the same time against
negro suffrage.
Taking the Republican majority in the cleo
tious last year aud the majority now against
negro suffrage, there is a change of at least a
hundred thousand Republican votes, and pro
badly a change of hundred aud thirty thou
sand. Nor was there any apathy or inditter
ence on the question, for the vote Of the State
was larger than ever before. The people
TUNED out, as they never did before, purposely
to express their disapprobation of negro sut-
frage, Just as Mr.. Chase went home expressly
to vote for it. Never was the policy OF party
leaders in and out of Congress so signally
denounced as this has been by the mass OF the
party itself. But this is more surprising still
when we look at the status and insignificant
number of the negroes in Ohio. Civil rights
are not denied to them there, nov is there
any disposition to refuse them all the pro-
lection afforded by the laws to the whites.
Giving them the privilege of voting would
have had little or no effect upon the
political issues in the State, because they
are comparatively few in number. There was
no fear of negro supremacy or a negro balance
of power in Ohio as in the South. The white
vote would always be overwhelming there.
What, then, is the meaning of such an en-
phatic refusal to give the negroes sulfragei 1t
means that the superior white race--the
Anglo-American and all the other branches OF
the European race which constitute the body
ng "a nil ~ do 41a
country and Government by admitting an in
| ferior race to equality with themselves. That,
and that alone is the meaning of the vote in
| Ohio.
In California the people refused to give the
| MOngolian race (the Chinese) the privilege OF
| voting, from the same repugnance to putting
| an inferior race on an equality with them
selves. Yet the Mongolian is far superior to
! the negro. Is it surprising, then that the
| American people should be disgusted with the
| efforts to make the negroes-the lowest race
| OF mankind-their equals The conscious
ness of superiority and the sentiments and
| pride spripging from it have determined une
| quivocally the relative position of these races
| to each other But the negro question has
assumed just now the greatest proportions in
another point of view. 1t is not merely
whether few negroes scattered throughout
the populous States of the North shall be
| placed on an equality with the whites, where
they must always remain comparatively
harmless as political element, but it is the
effort of the radicals to make them power in
the republic through their votes in the
Southern States that gives the greatest inn
portance to the question They form large
portion of the population of the South, aud in
some States the largest.
Under the operation of the reconstruction
acts of Congress, which dsfranchise great
many whites, they actually hold the political
Sc aI,I aakfg Of
our country. But that is not all. Our politi-
cal system is such that they would probably
hold the balance O. power in the republic. The
| President and members of Congress-enough IN
to give a balance of power-may be elected by
the negro vote of the South. The President,
probably, would owe his election to that when=
ever parties were pretty equally divided. The
| organs of the radicals unblushingly confess
they are now aiming at this object. They
have the hardhood to avow this infamous
purpose. This great republic to be under
negro government What a spectacle to con-
template Ignorance and brutality to rule
thirty millions of white American citizens
We must recollect that it is the balance Of
power that governs here, though it may be
secured only by few thousand votes The
Southern States in the hands OF the negroes,
| as they will be If the reconstruction acts o
Congress be carried out, will surely give these
benighted people of the lowest race that
power.
What, then, is to prevent them, incapable
as they are, from reaching the highest offices
And would not the politicians pander to the
prejudices and demands of these people for the
sake of party and the Offices of Government
A war of races, a ruined South, vast mill
tary establishment, and, perhaps, consoli
dated despotism over the whole country, would
follow. We should sink into the condition o.
the South and Central American republics, ol
a worse one. Such is the alarming prospect
which the infamous legislation of a radical
Congress has brought before us. And it il
this, together with an inherent repugnance tC
negro equality, that has caused the revulsioI
of public opinion in Ohio. Since the signif
cant vote in that State, we are not withou
hope that the evils of negro supremacy and
negro balance of power in the republic may
be averted, We may expect the same result
+ throughout the North as in Ohio whenever TIN
issue comes, and reckless as Congress may be
it win hardly venture to defy public opinion
when expressed so emphatically.
Reconstruction.
From the ". Y. World.
Instead Of advising compliance with tn
law, the WOTLf Vehemently urges the Southern
whites to stand aloof from the work of recon