New-York tribune., 1867-06-24
II lBgaTH A. DOG MONEY!

ufactured the souibs for The National Iatelli-
gencer during the recent voting campaign. in
the Capital, sometimes turns the pages OF ms
Shakespeare, and will remember under what
circumstances the above query was advanced
by the Venetian brOker-the misbelieyer, the
cut throat dog, with Christian spittle not yet
dry upon his Jewish gaberdine! But the
Washington word -monger is no SignOr AntO-
MO, who, to co him justice, was not i'm the
least abashed by the railing Of Shylock. )
"I am as like to call thee again,
To spit on thee again. to spurn thee, 100
. The magnifcO was consistent in his con-
temptuOus hatred even in the sore strait of
borrowing money, which crooks the knee
hinges of general mankind. Votes are differ
ent affair. If lost in one place, they are by no
means so easily picked up in another. IL has
been suddenly discovered that there is such a
thing as q Conservative Negro, and that it is
the part Of prudence to make much of him.
1t is IA if Antonio had said My dear Shy
clock, you must be mistaken / may possibly
"have spoken in that way of some of the more
"disreputable of your brethren the rascals with
"fewcr ducats in their purses than fieas in their
"cloaks; but everybody knows that you are an
exceedingly good fellow And one of the
"warmest men on the RialtO." So The Inteiii-
gencer on the Sd inst, hoping no longer to rope
in the cOlored masses, became nice in its dis
tnctions. The "nggers" are still "niggers,"
but some of them are nobler than the others
ourang -outangs of intelligence, gorillas who
understand a thing or two, or chimpan-
zees who have seen life, and are not
to he bamboozled. Black who is Rad
ical is q God-forsaken wretch, the spawn of
the Bureau, the contemplate cOntraband,
ignorant and poor, "the plant tool of selfish
"tricksters,' and "just emerging from Slavery"
He must not be cOnfounded with the highly
respectable person of color who is the White
mans friend and natural ally. The Washing
ton journal is gishngly aifcctionate in its
groupings. Conservative citizens, White AND
"Colored,- are the indiscriminate objects of its
appeal. The virtues of an "and will here
after be regarded as quite equal to the virtues
of an "ifr 1t is new coupling of Beauty
"and the Beast
One thing in the spirit of all these hortatory
paragraphs, il of valuable import, and will not
be forgotten with the occasion which called
them TO light. II is the virtual admission,
never heretofore made, that the Black is quite
equal to the White provided he behaves him
self, and behaving himself means voting against
the Radicals. The curse Of Canaan has been
removed from all Conservative eolored folk
hut still rests in its original ponderosity upon
the souls of the sable Radical citizens. He who
votes with The National Tnieliigencer shall no
longer be knocked down by text from the
Old Testamcnt-the Lord looks over the yot
ing lists and mercifully regenerates those per-
sons of African descent who sustain the Demo
cratic ticket, but n for the other fellows, he
renews his malcdictions through the mouths OF
his prophets the Washington printers-the typo
graphical Ezckels and journalist Jeremiahs /.
The time o. day is altered and the day OF the
week Ii is no longer "Wednesday last
These concessions to the spirit of the
hour are like the parting Of soul and
body, but needs must when the devil of
party drives. Any Black can now walk
int, the affections of the Conservative
White by voting the Conservative ticket; but
declining 10 do that, he must take his clancc
Of abuse and Pronunciation with Whites who are
similarly misguided. The Ethiopian eau change
his skin, and obstinatcly refusing to be re-
cuticled. lac must bear the penalty But he
shares this shame with millions of White men.
He is no better and no worse than they.
Here. then, is n final and complete, though
involuntary, acknowledgment of Human Equal
- "slins may differ hat the suffrage ..fF
Dwclls In White and Black the same
Here j., or should be- the end of great deal
of troublesome and obsolete controversy. The
chromatic game il played completely out
There is still distinction of character in
voters, but no distinction OF color. This Is ali
for which we have ever contendcd, and even IN
the strongholds of prejudice, and cruelty, and
injustice, this is freely conceded at last. There
is logically a termination OF the dispute. We
have never doubtcd-how could We with our
long and varied experience of human nature 7
| that, If Blacks were 10 vote, some of them
would vote foolishly, and some of them corrupty.
How could we, who have seen White men so
often misbehave themselves, sell themselves
foi filthy money and fthier whisky, turn their
coats, for n consideration, inside ont and out
side back again. write wheedling letters, make
mendacious speeches, smrk, and fawn, and
fatter, and promise, bow, aud scrape, and
cringe. and kiss, and 20, nothing 10th, through
all the shames and crimes and folies which,
with bitter irony, are called the humors of an
electioni We believe in Democracy. And we
take the risk for the sake of the great result
but the so-called Conservative, in the first
place, refuses to run his chance, and cries out
for skin suffrage, and when events are stronger
than his fears, lis hatreds, and his exclusive
ness, he begins TO hedge, TO concede a little, to
back down as gracefully as possible, and to
offer half when the whole is no longer tenable.
But principles are stronger than the whums OF
man. and Justice is superior to all his narrow
sefshness Give the 8lack Man his chance,