The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-17
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makes his oomrade hero; but marshal these
same men into political party, lead them into
battle for an idea, and, nine times out of ten,
they will demoralize each other into towards.
The Republican Notwithstanding its
boasted high mettle, and Notwithstanding its
still more boasted high principle-even yet
quakes at meeting negro by day as at seeing
ghost by night.
For instance: when negro suffrage is pro-
posed for South Carolina-a Southern State
the Republican party uplifts lions paw,
and magnifoently enforces obedience; but
when negro suffrage is at issue in Ohio-a
Northern State-the Republican party bor-
rows hare's legs, andru away from its own
principles.
Of all the bayonets which Ohio pointed at
Southern Rebels, none were borne more vic
toriously than by her black troops. When
the war was over, these troops took home their
battle-fags, Haunted them gayly under green
arches through applauding streets, and, dur
ing the first flush of few brief generous
days, were actually made to fancy themselves
welcomed by their fellow-citzens. But now,
before the echoes of the war have yet ceased
to ring in mems ears, these same negroes OF
Ohio, after having Justly asked-by the double
claim of citizens and soldiers-fOr that elective
franchise which other men enjoy, are suddenly
answered by 10000 Republican voices utter
ing verdict of Nay
Are republics not ungrateful2 If ever
republic owed gratitude to anybody, this re-
public owes gratitude to the negro. The pro-
posed new Constitution of Ohio undertook to
enfranchise the negro and disfranchise the
draft sneak; but 100000 Republicans decided
that the white coward should receive the
ballot, and the black hero should be denied it
"Where the offense is, let the great axe
fall" The disaster in Ohio was the direct
work of the Republican party; the Democratic
was altogether too impotent to achieve the
crime. The party that had the power to pass
the Suffrage amendment, but refused to do it,
must take the undivided responsibility for the
defeat Indeed, the Republicans ostentatiously
confess their guilt by the very fact that they
elected their Governor by 5000 majority,
and at the same time threw overheard
negro suffrage by 100000 minority. They
have proved themselves content to give the
negro a musket for the protection of white
men, and 10 deny him ballot for the protection
of himself. 1t is idle to say that the Demo
cratic party overthrew the amendment. OF
course, they cast their whole weight against
it, but it was the blow of the Republicans
that sent it tottering to its fall The chief
mischiefmaker was the party which could
consent to use both its hands to lift a
| white man into governorship, and to use
only one of its hands to lift the negro out of
| the dust.
The plain deduction is, the Republican party
though it has shown much friendliness to
the negro, and has professed much more
cannot yet look him in the face without re-
membering his color and forgetting his rights.
That party cannot yet be trusted to perform a
true knight-errant's championship of the
| oppressed. That party has betrayed its
client as Andrew Johnson has betrayed
his country. That party's Copperhead enc
mies-ohary enough of hring guns against
! just been firing a hundred jublant guns
against the negro-every gun loaded
and wadded with Republican votes Undeni-
able is the fact that a sufficient mass of the
Republican party to hold the balance of power
within its ranks not only dislike the negro,
but are more willing to tread him under foot
than to give him helping hand. Both in and
out of Ohio, by such Republicans, a negro is
| less respected man than Rebel. And, if the
| Ohio election were to be held over again to-
morrow, this same section of the Republican
party would prefer to vote for Mr.. Vallandig-
ham himself rather than invite the negro to
elect better man.
People who have supposed that American
slavery ended with the decree of emancipation,
or ended with the prohibitory Constitutional
amendment, or ended with the Civil Rights
bill, or ended with the Congressional plan of
reconstruction, may now open their eyes to
see that 'the end is not yet" The negro,
freed in the South, is still bond-slave to the
Republican party of Ohio. How many other
Northern States mean to be slave-masters
But let us gratefully say that the Ohio Re-
publican leaders-the men who projected suf-
frage as the chief and unavoidable issue the
men who framed an honorable platform of i'm
partial justice, on which they pledged them
| selves either to stand or fall-did manly
work, and are entitled to noble praise. They
were willing to lose the conservative vote
rather than to sacrifice the negro. They vol
unfairly put their party to the hazard of
defeat rather than suffer its leading principle
to go without witness. The end has justified
the means. 1t is a thousand times better to
have been defeated on the square issue of
negro suffrage than to have been victorious on
some mere platitude of patriotism. The
defeats of such men are Victories In the
hands of those who never falter, the banner
never fallsl
THE Sun SPoTs.--The spots which appeared
in September on the SUMS disk were carefully
examined by NJ. Chaoornac, who has just laid
the results of his observations before the
French Academy. He thinks that these Spots
result from certain planetary influences on the
solar phOtosphere, and that they are, to a GER
tain extent, periodical phenomena. The spot
now seen indicates the position of group Of
volcanoes in the nucleus. The largest of these
solar spots is situated towards the eastern ex-
tremity of the suns visible hemisphere, and
may be seen with the naked eye.
NEW COMPOUND OF GELATME.-It has been
found, says the English Mechanic, that the
addition of glycerine to gelatine imparts to it
new curious, and useful properties. Mixed
with glycerine, gelatine sOlidifes on cooling,