The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-26

pleas Tor peace as these would be heard at any
court in Europe high above all passionate or
popular olamors of war. But the temple gates
have been opened the world has passed from
a cycle of diplomacy and of argument into a
cycle of popular impulse and of arms: and the
chances to-day assuredly are that the year
1867 will close upon one of the bloodiest
dramas even Of this strange and troublous and
turbulent age in which we live.
Votes versus Victuals (which VIII Win!
from The Times
There are two classes of negroes at the
South which just now attract attention. One
class is composed Of the "smart" men, who
have glib tongues and quick wits; men who
pray almost without ceasing and talk with
fervid eloquence from the hotel steps and
radical platforms. This class is not particu-
larly in need. Their personal expenses are
readily met by the demagogues who use their
presence and their utterances for their own
purposes. The other class is composed of men
with families-men who need food, shelter,
and raiment twenty-four hours seven days in
every week. These and their little ones ask
for bread and receive the ballot; they desire
work and are invited to the hustings. The
first class will be abundantly represented at
the North this spring. Fat and sleek, clad in
irreproachable alpaca sacks and shiny trou-
sers, they will circulate about the anniver-
saries, sit ON the platforms, make impassioned
appeals, indorse the Knoxville Wing, and
kindly receive any donations for the colored
people of the South that the charitable people
of the North may wish to make. The other
class will brood over their sorrow, grow sullen
with discomfort, turn childishly from the
boons of suffrage and equal rights, and long
for the tlesh-pots of the Olden time.
The observation of our correspondents the
records of the Southern press, the official
statements of army people and the Freed
mems Bureau, confirm the assertion of unpre-
cedented destitution among the people of both
colors at the South, and the growing dissatis-
faction among large proportion of the idle
and famine-pressed freedmen. Unfortunately
for the radical element, the issue has been
clearly made between them and the best mean
ing of the Southern leaders, the freedmen
being given to understand that the present
and the future are beyond the control of their
late masters, the neU element being the re-
sponsible power. Quick as children to note
the facts of the hour the negroes will not be
slow to see that the spectators who occupied
plantations during the absence of the owners,
and after several seasons of improbable work,
abandoned not only the plantations, but
omitted to pay the men, are not the ones to
whom they are to look for sympathy or aid of
| any kind.
The law protects the freedmen in their
newly acquired rights but to whom shall
they look for employment In this view of
! the matter, the ultimate direction of the
negro vote becomes practically question of
moment.
1t is claimed by the radicals, and loudly
affirmed by the oontented orators of African
descent, that the vote will be cast with the
radicals rather than with the conservatives;
and in the class conservative they place every
body who does not adopt the extreme theory.
The last census, after deducting ten per cent.
for casualties in war and acknowledgements
under the Sherman bill, shows the pOpula-
ton and inferential vote, white and black, to
/ 1,o o,,,rOxy;,,, taly fn11ows,