Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-06-26
THENEwyO WORLD ON NEGRO
HUFFEAGE

The New York World of June
10 is still engaged i'm the work of
mahuiacturlng platform for the
Democratic National Convention
Ii thinks that because the Democracy
acqulesce in the war, and in some of
Its results, such as the division of
Virginia and the emission of legal
tenders as liquidation of debts, that
we should also accept negro suffrage
as practical fact in the same catego-
ry. There is no comparison between
the case cited. The war has been
fought, slavery has been abolished,
ilegal-tenders have discharged debts,
and nothing now remains but to ac-
commodate the country as best we
can to this state of facts. But negro
suffrage does not stand i'm that posi-
ton. There is not State in the I'm
ion, North or South, that is for it,
There is not a State in which, by a
majority of thousands, it would not
be rejected. There Is not q Southern
State in which it legally exists to-
day, or has any other foundation save
that of brute force and military pres
sure applied from without. Does the
World suppose ii is possible that u
measure thus odious to every one of
the States Will ever be acquiesced i'm
by them, or by the Democratic party
"a the exponent of State rights? All
that we have to do il to withdraw
this military pressure, this outside
force, now applied to the South by the
Federal Government i'm order to make
them adopt institutions which we
nf ~ nt Ia. l. Il
which are abhorent to them, and the
whole thing will fall at once to the
ground. In the mean time, it is in
cumbent upon the Democracy to ex-
press an opinion upon the old subject
which they have always expressed
which they always will express while
they are faithful to their principles
and traditions, namely that "this is
a white mans government" made
by white men exclusively, to be ad-
ministered by white men exclusively,
for the benefit of all who may make
u residence in 1t.
The Democracy do not contend that
the Federal Government has the
power to regulate suffrage i'm the
States. On the contrary, they repu-
diate and denounce it. But the Rad
icals have been using the Federal
Government to that end. 1t is in
cumbent upon the Democracy to de-
clare that interference is Illegal, rev.
olutionary and outrageous, and must
be stopped. Nay, further, it is their
duty to insist that all the efforts
which have been made by the Federal
authorities toestablish negro suffrage
in the South, are really void and pos
sess no binding force. We are aston
ished, therefore, that the World
should recommend the following:
1--WE therefore conclude that decent
selfrespect requires that our national plat.
form shall say nothing on the subject. II
nounce q fundamental principle of the
| Constitution If we proclaim non-inter.
! ference, we shall set our seal to what we alb
hor. II will be wiser 10 do neither"
There is not one Democrat in ten
thousand who is in favor of negro suf.
frage, or who Is prepared to acquiesce
In 1t, North or South, any longer thar
1t can be stopped-there is not one
who does not know that all the negro
elections In the South have been q
criminal mockery and a shameful
farce, outside of the Constitution, and
yet the World would have us all
dumb on this great question. II
would have us abandon ali our ante.
cedents. 1t would have us do injus-
tice to our strongest convictions. II
would have us be false to the people
of the South, who are now trodden
under foot by negro insolence, backcd
up by military power. 1t would have
us dishoner ourselves and degrade the
organization. Itwould have us throw
away every chance of success i'm the
election. The Democracy silent on
the question of negro suffrage in the
South as is now presented to us !
Better would it be to play the tragedy
of Hamlet, omiting the ''Prince OF
Denmark" himself, than for the De
mocracy to the dumb and voiceless on
this villianOus attempt 10 hand over
ten States, against the unanimous
protest of their white inhabitants, to
the rule of negro barbarians. The
! WOfd'S suggestion Will not be heed
ed. The Democracy will speak on
negro suffrage in the New York Con-
vention. They will speak very loud.
They will speak so loud that the
World can hear them, both the news
paper of that name and the planet
from which it takes its cognomen.
! From the Macon (Ga) journal and Mes
senger June 8.
a ScRlawag senator Invites IA DarISey
| to hhts IHOuSe-EHe Seats Himself by
the Daughter, Who knocks Hin
| Down.