The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-12
change of Front.

| 0fncfS. Although CHe pIIHclpdI
ingredient of the new preparation is
n, gro suffrage, the editors of the
party organs demurely stand with
closed eyes, open mouth and folded
hands prepared to swallow as soon as
the dose is ready to be administered.
President JOHNSON says it is just tie
thing to cure all the national ills
and restore the Democratic party.
Distinguished Southerners" affirm
that, however much they have con
demned the medicine, heretofore, as
villainous compound of Yankee origin
and suggestion, they are now satisfied
fthatitis the only chance and that the
South had better take it. A little
dilutionmis all they ask.d IfFnegro
suffrage is only, diluted with rebel
suffrage; if Congress will only. strike
out that clause Of the Constitutional
Amendment forever disqualifying
rebel officers from holding office,
negro suffrage will not aonlysbe endur-
able, they say, but desirable. le5 d
It was only necessary that !" distin-
guished Southerners should signify
their Willingness to accept negro suf-
frage oconvert the entire Democrat
ic press of the Northern States into
most enthusiastic advocates of the
hitherto odiops principle. Almost
every paper Of that party is engaged,
just now, in preparing the minds of
its readers for the great chahge! We
dare say athatu by the time the onext
National Democratic Convention as
sembles the. attire party will be SO
well educated on this point that they
will approve a plank in favor of negro
suffrage in their platform. ThePres-
ident has already been indorsed and
when the Democracy indorse Presi-
dent it means great deal. 1t signi-
fes that whatever political creed he
may establish, that is the creed of
their party. Whatever principle he
opposes - although it may have
been one of the most prominent de-
Tended by the party in years gone by
it is cast out as evil and repudiated by
the entire organization. Thus, in
JEFFERsoN's time, the Sup reme Court
was looked upon by the party with
suspicion and hate; in BUcHANAN's
time it was the bulwark of the or
ganization. During MADIsoN's ad-
ministration, high protective tariff
and a National Bank were the pillars
upon which the party rested. But
when JAoKsoN.came in. both princi-
pies were discarded as unjust, Cypress
i've and un-democratic. The same
disposition to turn summer-saults is
still manifested, and negro suffrage,
against which it has concentrated all
of its power during the past ten or
fifteen years, now promises to become
the maidstone Of the corner, and
win be brought forward with much
shouting and rejoicing as an original
Democratic idea. 4C f9NA
1t affords US pleasure to see how
carefully the New Albany Ledger
breaks ground in favor of the new
principle fit finds that its readers
do not scare easily. it will become
more bold, aud in a few months wes
may expect to haye4it reading us lee
lures as to- our duties to American
citizens of African Descent We
warn the Ledger In advance that we
shall not be taken by surprise. We
are already prepared for any extrava-e
gance that its party maScommit. THE
boy in the thunderstorm was not
more thoroughly con7incedtha some
thing had to be done, than are the
leaders of that party. If, therefore.
negro suffrage seems to open the only,
or the most certain, door to the offices
of the country, negro suffrage, will
be pushed at us with vehemence
and persistence that will be very hard
to resist. The negro vote will be
looked after with shrewdness
and zeal that can hardly fail to bring
forth fruit. The peculiar adaptability
of the party to 8 men of low estate"
will be used with skilfandieffect, and
we very readily anticipate that
but few years will pass away
before democrats of African descent
will be found in abundance in all por-
lions of our country, in our halls of
legislation as well as at our election
precincts. 1t is a peculiarly of the