Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-07-16
PROGRESSIVE.


The principles enunciated by the great
progressive mOral-idea party of the country,
are having a rapid development, and will
dyabti6ss reach elimination in the election
for President next year, when the party in
power will discover that they have indeed
drawn the elephant in their eager desire for
the elevation of the unbleachsd." We
copy from the Baltimore Sun of Friday last,
the following article in reference to the po-
Etical mOvementsnOw going on in the country:
The ARti- .Sarery Standard has a commu-
nicatiOn from Charles f. Moss insisting that
the Vice Presidency shall be filed by negro.
1t says that the negro vote next year in eleven
States will number 65O.OOO, and that there
are also about 100000 votes in the North
that would join in supporting such a nOmi-
nation, and that this vote is so located as to
turn the elections into whatever direction
they choose in eight or nine other States. 1t
would ike to see Wendell Phillips President,
and John NJ. LangstOn, cOlored, of Ohio,
Vice President, and adds: ''Thc republican
party would not dare to refuse the nomination
Of the ticket if resOlutely pressed"
The New York Tribune republishes the
communication of Moss, and discerning at
once that it BODIES no good to republican
harmony, opposes it at the jump. 1t says
that the republican party triumphed at the
two last presidential elections, and in the
State contests of '65 and 'G6, by white votes
almost exclusively, and does not see why it
may not succeed in '6S as it did then. 1t
denies at there is any proof but naked
assert that the blacks want one of their
numb placed on the national republican
ticket ind that the indications in various
SOutEAP.cities are that the blacks prefer
whites for Office, as more experienced and
better STaliaed. In fine, the blacks will do
well h to vote. but not to hold Office.
ri6uac is mistaken when it supposes
aat b lacks take that view of the subject.
In the city of Richmond, for example, they
exhibit an appreciation of the sweets of office
which would do honor to experienced" white
men. Nay, they seem disposed to take the
&c altogether into their own hands, having
Pcus, in which they claimed the
yOr and a majority of the council In a
pity 9 Richmond colored man is a
q ~the State Convention who cannot
sEd At political meeting of the colored
Yin Albemarle, county, Va, on the I'd
Mt, Rev. Lewis Lindsay, colored, of Rich
made speech, demanding fair
division of all Offices and social equality. He
said the negroes meant to elect the Governor
and the members of Congress and portion
of the Legislature. He added that whenever
twelve men where appointed to do any BUSH
ness, six of them must be black, and that if
the white people sent fifty delegates to the
Richmond Convention, they must send sew
enty. These indications point to very differ
ent conclusions from those the Tribune
arrives at. The blacks will have the power
to elect all the Governors and majority of
Senators and Representatives in Congress in
the Southern States. If they have the right
t. vote, why not the right to hold Office, and
wherever they have the power to get into
Office, they are shrewd and aspiring enough to
do it. The white ultras Of Congress can of
course feel no repugnance to legislative
association with these representatives OF a race
which has enlisted SO much of their philan-
trOpic sympathy.
Nor has the Tribune any better reason for
the idea that the party is independent of
black votes, since it triumphed without them
in the last two Presidential elections. There
will be republican national convention next
year, and then will occur distressing dilenl-
ma. If eleven States should send colored
delegates to that convention and demand the
nomination of colored man for Vice Presi-
dent, the party must either accede to the
demand, as Dir. Moss declares, or, by refusing
it, run the risk Of losing the support of the
$4,000 cOlOred voters aforesaid, and their
ultra white and coiored associates in the North
numbering, according to 0IOss, 600,O more
If, on the other hand, they concede the nomi-
nation to the colored man, their ticket would
be spewed out of the popular throat, and their
party consigned to political perdition Still,
1t Is not entirely certain that the pill. bitter
as it is, will not have to be taken. There is
plenty of time for Phillips, Moss & Co., to
organize and consolidate the public sentiment
of the cOlored voters by the meeting of the
convention, and We shall then see whether
the proposition of Mr.. Moss will be rejected.
" that furnishing votes must be reciprocated
by receiving just share of the Offices"
OPINIONS OF GREAT MEN
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