The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-11-19
From the New York World:]
The Negro I'm the Elections.

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The African idol of the Radical party
played very important part in the elec-
tions held on Tuesday. It's effect upon
the result has been far different from that
counted upon by the managers of the Re-
publican party. They relied upon valu-
able assistance through their appeals il
behalf of the blacks, but have not only
been disappointed, but everywhere repu-
dated.
In New Jersey, the Republicans in the
Legislature voted in favor of establishing
negro suffrage in the State. The party
subsequently met in Convention at Tren-
ton, ana decreed that henceforth they
would labor for suffrage for the blacks
until it was established, not only in their
State, but in the South. E
In the State of Kansas, the hot-bed of
Radicalism, the State which has been
properly termed the child of the Repub.
lican party, they submitted two amend
ments to the Constitution, one providing
for negro suffrage, and one for female suf-
frage. The returns received from that
State show an overwhelming reputation
of both of those propositions by the peo-
pie. Or all the defeats which the Radi-
Gals have experienced this fall, this of
Kansas is the seyerest. The slavery agi-
tatioa in thai section, when Kansas was
Territory, gave birth to the Republican
party, under the excitement which atten-
ded that agitation, and through the assis-
tance Of the New England aid societies
the Territory was settled by the most Bit
i ter stamp of Puritans. It's population
was thus made up of the very class Of
men who we're supposed would be most
persistent on all, Radical issues. But
when asked to record their approval Of
the cardinal plank of the party, and thus
-atify the action of Congress in enforcing
negro suffrage on the South, they revolt,
and refuse to bow their knee to the Af-
rlcan race.
In Minnesota, colored suffrage was al
SO submitted to the people as an amend
ment to their Constitution. There, as in
New Jersey, Ohio and Kansas, the peo-
pie came forward and pronounced their
] condemnation of the proposition by ma
ljority against it sufficiently large to leave
no mistake as to their meaning.
| In Wisconsin, the Republican party
adopted, as one of the planks in its plat.
form, the same negro suffrage policy
The result is that the people have risen
in their might, and the indications are
that they have repudiated the party and
wheeled that State into line in the Demo
cratic column-a State which has been
considered as sure for the Radicals as
Vermont. s
u Here in New York, this late dominant
party decreed in the Constitutional Con-
vention that the negroes should be placed
on equality at the polls and in the jury
box with the whites. Their nominating
4 Conventions pledged the party to carry
out that decree and also to insist upon it,
establishment in all other sections of the
| State. The election has been held, and
the people called upon to give their yer
dict upon that question. The result il
now seen by the Republican majority O
thirteen thousand of last year bein!
swept away, and a Democratic majority o
forty thousand substituted. Thus it j
Z in every section of the country where thi
question has been made an issue, ant
: Radicals insisted upon the people doibI
= homage to their ebony idol, defeat an
disaster have followed. SOC
e Nor can it be possible that the peepl
who have SO Significantly repudiated ne
y gro suffrage at home, where the colore
class forms such small number in th
# population, will be willing to approve Q
its enforcement upon the South, whel
. the colored population is SO large as
control the elections. In fact, the actio
:. of the Radicals in forcing universal NJ
: gro suffrage upon the South and placln
that section Of the country under tt
rule of negro barbarism, called the publ
attention more directly to the evils OF th'
policy. The developments which too
- place under the system Of registration
o os the FIVE Radical monarchies, and in Il
- = elections which followed, served to di
p gust the people, and aided in brineir
:. :, about the results which the election T
" turns from Ohio, Kansas, Minnesota, Wi
cousiu, New Jersey and New York
70 significantly record.