The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-08


From the ~ Y. World.
The Republicans, in conducting their side of
the present canvass, act the part of alarmists
predicting anarchy and bloodshed as the GER
tain consequence Of the election of the Demo-
cratic candidates. Such predictions can be
fulhlled only by the refusal of the beaten
party to submit to the verdict OF the country.
The issue is 80 clearly presented that it can
not be lodged or evaded. II is an issue on
which the people of the United States have
never yet had an opportunity to vote. If the
radical policy is voted down, do the defeated
minority intend to acquiesce in that result or
to resist it And If they resist, do they mean
arms -.... .s
Let us consider the consequences of the
three courses open to the Republican party
after its defeat in November. -
First. We will suppose that they submit
with prompt and honorable frankness to the
declared will of the majority; that is, they
consent that the right of suffrage shall here
after be left to State regulation without Fsde-
raj interference. In that case, there will GER
tanly be no disturbance. The negroes will
readily submit to whatever State regulations
may be made, unless the Republican party
shall stir them up to mutiny. They could
have no hope Of successfully asserting their
claims to the ballot with the whole white race
acquiescing in their exclusion, and their own
race divided. In most of the Southern States.
the white population preponderate, in num-
bers, and monopOlzes the advantages which
attend the possession Of property, education,
and social influence. It required the disfran-
chisement of large portion of the whites and
the presence of armies, to confer the ballot
upon the negroes-a proof, which the negro
intellect is capable Of appreciating, that they
are unequal to cope with the white race unas-
sisted. The negroes, in view of the fact that
they have been crutched up by the army and
FTeedmen's Buseau and by white disfranchise-
ment, understand their own weakness too well
to resist change in the basis of suffrage,
unless they are instigated and set on by par
ties outside the Southern States IT. therefore,
the Republicans shall recognize the right of
the majority to determine the great issue now
pending, there can be no disturbance
Secondly, We will inquire what will be
likely to eDsue, If the Republican party, after
being beaten in November, shall keep up
political agitation for forcing negro suffrage
on the South by Federal authority. They
could no doubt fill the negro mind with dis
content; bat so long as that discomfort
stopped short of overt acts, it would be little
regarded. The Repu bloans after the election
will be deprived of their present machinery
for acting on the negroes. The Freedmen's
Bureau, supported by the army, is a vast poll
tical machine through which radical influence
is brought to bear Immediately on tbs negro
radicals get into close contact with the ne
groes after the presidential election, it must
be by emissaries paid out of their private
pockets, and no longer out of the public
treasury. The consequence will be that, ex-
cept in the large towns, the negroes will be
surrendered to the influence of their white
neighbOrs. Moreover, it will be found that
the very Senators who have been elected
by the radical Legislatures will go over to the
other side when they see that the radical game
Is played out. They are all adventurers and
place hunters, and the prospect of white as
cendancy will lead them to court the favor
OF the white race. A man important
enough to be Senator naturally covets social
standing in his own community. The first
Republican members of the Senate who will
be found to acquiesce in the election OF De-
mocratic President will be those who have
been sent to Washington by the reconstructed
governments. Other Republican Senators will
have some remains OF party at home; those
carpet-bag Senators will have none. To hold
any relation with the States they pretend to
represent, they will have to change their
politics; and being mere adventurers, they
will change them without scruple or shame
when they find it to be for their interest We
conclude, therefore, that no disturbance in the
South will result from the election of Seymour
if the Republicans shall thereafter resist the
Democratic policy only by political opposition.
Thirdly, We are to inquire what will be the
consequences if the Republicans shall attempt
to stir up the negroes to violence and insur-
rtctioD. 1t is supposable enough that they
might do this if they had anything to gain by
it; for they are utterly unscrupulous. But it
would damage more than it would help them,
and they will not try it. If forcing negro
suffrage on the States by Federal authority is
not sanctioned by the people in this Presiden-
tial election: 1t must be manifest to all COM
petent judges that 1t never will be; and a party
wishing to regain its lost power will not take
30 unlikely method as stimulating negro in
surrections of which the blame would be
charged upon itself. Politicians will have no
motive, and the real friends of the negro no
wish, to push this controversy any further,
after majority of the people have decided
against the radical policy. The success of the
Democratic candidates will therefore be the
sure harbinger of lasting tranquility. Negro
suffrage will be regarded as question for the
States; and If every Southern State should de-
eide 1t in a different way, no outside parties
will attempt to revise its decision.
Hypocrisy.