New-York tribune., 1868-10-12
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ter in which he cross-examined the country in
general, and "the Hon. Douglas Taylor"
in particular, with the utmost force and sOlem-
nifty Each of Mr.. Vaux's sentences begins af-
ter this fashion: II would ask tho honest
Conservative :" Let me ask civilian and sol
"der :" II would ask the poor white abOrer :"
81 would ask the reflective men" and so the
Hon. Richard goes on asking, 'and never an
swering, which leads us to suppose that he IL
Of curious disposition, and must be marked
with an interrogation point upon some part OF
his person. This letter was written on the 3Oth
ultmo, has been for some days in print and
thus far nobody has taken the trouble to re-
spOnd to Mr.. Vaux's momentous and forInda-
BILE queries. As he is distinguished public
character it is painful to mark him plaintively
calling for information and not getting it. Nor
is the Hon. Mr.. Richard always exactly fair In
his queries. l.. E., he would " like to ask why
| a negro should be made an elect0r because
"he is blackw To which we might respond by
asking why the Hon. Richard Vaux should
"be made an elector because he is whiteT' In
! the second place Mr.. Vaux knows az well as we
do that no person has been made an electOr be
"cause he is black" or blue, or green. or yellow
In the third place, Mr.. Vaux's particular
friends of the Blair and Seymour persuasion at
the South are moving heaven and earth,
and we may perhaps add the other
place, to secure the Black vote for their can
didates. Mr. Blair, in his Cincinnati speech,
spoke of these Black voters as ignorant, be-
sotted, semi -barbarous..;n but that is not the
way in which they are spoken to OF spoken OF
by Blairs Southern champions Why, here Is
that newly -Aedged Massachusetts, Democrat,
Master John Quincy Adams, Junior, who has
lust turned up at Goldsborough, n. C.. What
says the telcgramf Why, that he was met
" at the depot by the citizens of both races en-
masse," including Mr. Bair's ignorant, be-
" sotted. semi-barbarousr Blacks; and the
young gentleman addressed them ALL without
distinction of color, and expressed his surprise
and pleasure at finding that no animoslty
existed between the Whites and The Blacks"
Mr.. Adams, jr., has frst-rate aristocratlc blood
| in his veins, which should make him a first
rate Democrat he is quite as well-born as the
| Hon. Richard Yanx, and he does MT go about
wanting TO know why negro should be made
| an elector because he is black" he does MT
pick out " the poor White laborer the White
mechanic. or artisan" Gas Mr. Vaux does) for
special sympathy aud consolation. Young as
John Junior is, he knows too much for that
and if he should be guilty of any such politi-
! cal foHy, both his grandfathers on the paternal
side would come out from the basement ot the
| Quincy Meeting House, where they are buried,
and haunt him.
We think that Mr.. Vaux's next " Let me ask
deserves to be quoted entire:
"Iet me ask civilian and soldier II the Emancipation
prOcAmd military necessity, was noi
only enable tho loyal Radicals 10 stay at home and
negroes. thus made better citizens because they
were black 20 MI up The quotas OF t1e loyal state ana
INK Loyal Leagues at home. where they could comfort
ably enjoy Themselves during the hghIng at the frontf
This is not only free country but Yam
kee country, in which Mr.. Naux has a right to
| ask all the questions which may happen to
| come into his head but, in doing so, he has
| no right to insnuate fasehoods 1t seems to
be almost impossible for "a Democrat to
| speak of our soldiers without utteTing sneer
| or o calumny, although he must know that by
doing so he damages his party much more than
| he helps il. The Emancipation Proclamation
was not declared to enable the Loyal Radi
calls "to stay at home" and if it bad been it
would have signally failed in its purpose, for
the LOYAL Radicals did not stay mt home Only
the other day the Hon. Richard Vaux, if he
had put on his spectacles, might have seen
marching in the streets of Philadelphia quite a
number of Loyal Radicals" who did not
stay at home comfortably to enjoy themselves
during the fighting at the front" The strong
est demonstration in favor of staying at
"homep which we remember to have occurred
during the war was made by the partic-
| ular friends Of Mr.. Horatio Seymour, In this
city, when they mobbed the draft offices and
committed sundry other outrages and crimes,
including IN occasional murder; when they
were not to be appeased without promise
from Mr.. Seymour that the draft should be
stopped il he could effect it, and when they
behaved generally in an Ignorant, besotted,
"and semi barbarous' manner These rampant
creatures were citizens then and are
citizens now but Mr.. Vaux has not the
slightest objection to their voting, and to their
voting for Seymour, and to their voting three
or four times for Seymour on the same day
1t is no matter how Ignorant, besotted, and
"semi -barbarous' voter may be if he is only
white and proves his Conservatism by
"d-g the niggers.' Then he becomes model
| citizen after Mr. Vaux's own heart, no matter
how severely he may have staid at home"
OF however Comfortably he may have enjoyed
himself during the fighting at the front"
| The Hon. Richard Yaux is himself in favor
of peace" of a particular kind. II must, to
| please his remarkably fastidous taste, be "a
"peace without swords, bonds, greenbacks,
taxes, bayonets, negroes, despOtsm, usurpa-
" ton, and reputation" Nothing less than
this will satisfy Mr.. Vaux, and very pretty kind
of peace we admit that it would be. We had
something like it before Mr.. Vaux's Southern
friends inaugurated the Rebellion we may