Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-08-11

right in Louisiana; but 1t is a creature OF
statute in Connecticut, 1t is q natural right
in the Southern portion of the family; but,
as the old lady said of the measles, there
sswasnt enough of it to go round through all
the children" The northern white may deny
votes to the negro, the Southern white may
not. This is equality One law here another
there. Equality Little retail negro suffrage
here, where it can do little harm, is denied;
wholesale negro suffrage there, where 1t Is
supreme! What means this discrimination
IfCongrcss can overturn white suffrage South,
can it not overturn black suffrage South
hereafter? Or can it not establish black sut-
frage North, and withhold it from whites!
If the States South have not the sovereign
power in this regard, have the States North
If so, what then ? What will be the yetoes
of General Grant on these new issues! SO
that at last.after all their schemes for equality
and suffrage, this Radical party is driven to
the necessity of making compacts with States
not cognizable by the Constitution, of holding
out the open hand to the negroes South while
shaking its clenched fss at the more intelligent
negroes North.
This, is, at least, after so many weary years
Of national unrest, the anodyne tor our fever
ish body polite This is the balm for the
wounds Of war This is the craftsmanship
of party who seek to strengthen the nation
by emasticulating its voting strength and kill
ing its material and industrial interests.
PRACTICAL RESULTS.
Can you wonder that, as consequence, in
dustry fails to be stimulated; that crops are
not planted, because there is no surety OF
their harvest? Can you wonder that the lit
tle8white pod which once gave billion OF
spindles to the land, aud the trident OF com-
merce to the sea, sckens and dies, furnlsh-
ing only one-half of its old produce as the
media Of exchange? Can you wonder that
we export fifty millions in gold to supply the
nation with sugar, all Of which might have
been raised at home? Can you wonder that
the alligator has usurped the sugar lands as
Congress has slimed over the sweet and bless
ed amenities Of political concord? Can you
wonder that the North is weaker for its con-
nection with the South-pay its taxes and
being drained for its terrible excesses? Can
YOU wouder that discomfort continues-in>
creascs, threatens to destroy? Can you Won
der that disutfection is qecoming as chronic
with us as in Ireland toward England
1t might be OF interest to white persons in
the North, where we have repudiated negro
suffrage, TO look at the results Of these con-
ventions Go to South Carolina. There the
negro is dominant Whites are DISTINGUISHED
and negroes arc not. There negroes who own
not an acre, and who cannot command dol
lar propose to tax property and people. 1t is
a tax levied by Incidence and poverty on in
dustry and property, The negro who has
nothing proposes to tax the white who has all.
Very well. Let. arrogant ignorance rule -
Will it placate? They make the schools to
all-compel the white to send his children
against all his tastes aud nature, and to mln~
Gle in their black aud tan school, and tax him
for its existence. Will this last? They pro-
pose to raise two millions out of an impover
ished State; which in its best days could not
raise more than 100000 OF course under
such burdens, labor is dislocated and govern
meut becomes crucifxion. Will it last?
Go to Mississippi, What a Convention ?
1t is well called chain gang. 1t numbers
one hundred Out Of that number there are
seventy>ive whites; among them five Missis-
sippians There are ten outside negroes
They proceed to work, and their work will
stand will it?
DEMOCRACY THE REMEDY.
Where is the relief? 1 answer, as Presi-
dent johnson said when he came to washing
ton, ''The only salvation is in the Democratic
party !" Its history is co-eval with the Cons
stitutiou, and will be co-eternal with the Gov
ernment. In all that gives stability to indus
try, freedom to trade, standards to currency,
equality in taxation, economy in administra-
tion, self-eovernment to States, peace to the
Union at home peace-abroad, peace and
glory-ln all that makes up law abiding
and Constiuution-revering party-the Dem
ocracy will stand in the next seventy years,
as it has in the seventy years before The war,
as wall Of adamant against the waves OF rad
ical!sm 1t is this party that has made our
land great and our Government strong, not
by the collisions of civil war, but by the cul-
tivation of concord. Under the control of
Democracy, we should, before now have had
this whole continent banded under federal
head, holding half our hemisphere, as gravity
holds the stars, by the system demonstrations
al law.
Before the war tho Democracy strove to
save the nation with earnest, patriotic, and
peaceful endeavorS. During the war it COM
manded its sons TO the field with melancholy
pride aud it gave its sweetest blood to the
cause, as it had given its kindest counsels.-
Horatio Seymour. by his speeches and his ad
ministration in New York. is a fair type and
noble illustration Of Democratic patriotism
His record is crvstaue. In vain SANDER as
saults it. He, like the party whose expo
nent he is. accepted the results of the war as
they were declared, as in honor bound, and
in the spirit of christian amnesty, with NAL
lice to none, charity to all to bind up the
nations wounds to do all that may achieve
and cherish just and lasting peace among
ourselves aud with all nations" in this spi
rit the Democracy intends to contend. If
they fall, then the stars in their courses are
against them. II they succeed, the spirit of
Christ will temper the people, and all that is
forgiving and good will encompass the Con-
stitution as sentinels for its guard and sweet
honor! Then, over and out OF the cataract,
seething and foamiug with the passions en-
gendered by eur civil strive, there will spring