The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-11


draw them. Such fire department
is mot in keeping with Interpolation
Of Evansville. Its a heavy weight
on the " shirt tail Of progress. % Let
it be removed. MARK TAPLEY. (
The Democratic Party on Negro
60 - Suffrage. "a.
The Importance of the Negro Vote
Sdmebo Can't be +" Shut Out of Poll
tics The Democracy must Outbid
the Radicals, -.--r !,
from the New York World, A pril eth.1 !.
Senator Wilson's stumping tour in
Virginia is one of the many symptoms
ofthe sleepless activity OF the Radicals
in counting the negroes with a view
to control their vote In the two
Carolinas and Georgia, the planters
are riralaag the actioity of TIE Raids
Gals IN appeals toTshe negro mind !;
but in Virginia our friends manifest,
as yet, supineness which is discredl
table to their political forecast
Democrats in the North, as well as
the South, should be fully alive to
the Importance Of the new element
thrust into the politics of the coun-
try. 10 is 0ery possible that the meet
Presidential election maggie decided
By the negro Uote.s We suppose it to
be morally certain that the new Con-
stitution of the State of New York, to
be framed this year, will confer
the elective franchise upon all adult
male negroes. We estimate their
number at six or seven thousand
which, in a close contest, may turn
the scale in the election next year,
should the solid negro vote be- cast
for the Republican candidates. In
many of the Southern States, there is
SO near an approach to equality be-
tween the two races, that, unless
the negro vote is divided, there is im-l
minent danger that the political con-
troll of those States will pass into the
hands of the Republican party We
hare no faith IN the success Of any
efforts to shat the negro element out of
politics. 1t is the part of aoisdoma
frankly to accept the situation, and get
beforehand actth the Radicals sas gain
ing an ascendency ouer the negro mini
IF the Radicals had that friendship;
for the negroes which they falsely
pretend, if they sought their welfare
instead of merely their votes, they
would perceive that no greater ca
lamnity could befall the Southern ne
groes than their consolidation into
one political party in opposition to
the white inhabitants. The only way
to ward off dangerous hostility be-
tween the two races. is by. creating an
rdny, frfxy nf o-A 4no1Sr,r "<f
have the fullest faith, which we find
confirmed by the judgment Of intelli-
gent Southerners, that the negro vote.
can be, in great measure, controlled
by those having the greatest stake In
Southern prosperity. With the ma
jority of the negroes voting with
majority of the whites, all danger oe
a conflict between the two races: wonld
be removed. Every motive of phi
lanthropy,e as well as Of patriotism,
should incite our Southern fellow
citizens to court and control the negro
vote, with such skill and promptitudeE
as to rescue it from: the Radicals The
black stream IS. will long con-
tinue to flow in the cham
neIJ which GisIl first opened for,
it. Gen. Wade Hampton land other
enninent and enlightened Soatherners,
seem fully aware of this; and we.
should be unwilling 10 think they will
not receive the full cooperation of
the Southern Democracy.
Even in The State of New York, we
can divide the negro vote in the cleo
ton next year, if we do mol. in the
meantime make any missteps. aIn
1916, the Constitutional Convention,
aohsch, aoas. str6agly Democratic, SUBJ
mitted the question of universal negro
suffrage to the people, and it was
that the Republicans haze. as. get, es-
tdbtished no CLAIM, to the .tyrotitude of
the Weeo. York negroes. d If
what both parties refused in
1916 - shall s be conferred . with
the CONCURRENCE of both in 1867. net
Their will appeal to the negroes with
any ad vantage derived from itsq ante
cedent history The negro population