The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-09
Organization at the south.

FrOft Gte ~ Y. Tribune
The Republican party in the South is a fixed
fact Il is composed of those Southern whites
who were loyal while Rebellion was rampan
and dominant all around them of the bulk
of those whites who migrated southwark
during or since the war of many thousands
Of thoroughly reconstructed, freedom loving
Union-loving ex-Rebels; and of the great
body of the Southern blacks. These classes
form together a majority of the Southern
people, and we regret that any pretext has
been given to the unreconstructed by Congress-
for refusing to vote. If every citizen of everv
Southern State were enfranchised we should
still elect two-thirds of their members of Con
gress and give most of their Electoral votes to
the Republican candidate for next President.
Enfranchisement, not Acknowledgement, has
made the South Republican.
Yet the party is not yet fully organized and
badly needs to be. Its enemies are minority
but an active, intelligent, powerful minority
They own most of the land and other material
wealth; they prosecute the trade and direct
the labor of the South they sell the crops
and are valued customers to merchants, fac
tors, mechanics etc. The newspapers are
nearly all in their interest; they can oonoen-
trate and call out their votes easily and surely;
while the great mass of the Republicans,
having been reared in slavery, and still tillng
their old masters lands on shares or for wages
are poor, ignorant, scattered on plantations,
having little intercourse with each other, and
largely subject to their employers or land
lords power, require to be visited, enlight-
ened, and prompted to exercise their right of
suffrage surely and effectively. - - ---,, -..S
The Republicans of the South are generally
very poor. Social influence and caste preju-
dice operate strongly against them. 1t is at
once the duty and the interest of the North
ern Republicans to help them to organize
their forces so as to be sure of bringing out
their full strength at each of the important
elections to be held throughout the next four
teen months.
We have discountenanced, and shall con-
tinue to discourage, every attempt to raise
money in the North in aid of local or partial
efforts to republicanize the South. Those who
seek to raise money here to start newspaper,
to sustain or to buy one, or to organize this
State or district, have learned to give us
wide berth. We encourage no man to come
hither from the South in quest of cOntribu-
tions to build a church, to support school,
or to achieve any local political end.
The North can't afford to pay the fare of all
who would like to be sent, or send themselves
hither on such errands. But we are willing to
pay our part, as we trust others are, towards
the maintenance of general effort to organize
the Southern Republicans and bring out their
last vote. Such effort is now under charge of
the committee of Congress, whereof General
Robert G. Schenck is chairman, and Thomas
L. Tullock Secretary, with Thomas w. Conway
travelling agent. We urge every Republican
who can afford it to send a contribution to
Thomas L. Tullock, Secretary Republican
Committee of Congress, Washington, D. c., or
to respond to the personal appeals of Mr.. Con-
way, who is now traversing the North in the
| prosecution OF his appointed work.