The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-24

temptations, and trickeries Of every soulless
wretch of politician who would use them to
attain political position which he has no
Just, native, or Christian right to possess.
The negro thereupon conceives hi mself to be-
allowed to run wild in his career of riot aud
ncentiOusness, to defy the laws, insult white
people, and be shielded in his crimes and inso
lenoe by the whole power OF the nation.
This Is not only true OF South Carolina, but
OF every other Southern State where the radi-
Gals have been using their influence to retain
their grasp upon the reins of government, with
its fat money bags and untold stores of
plunder, rather than to restore peace and
order and to establish new, a substantial,
and well-adjusted system of local authority.
Georgia has got herself into a curious muddle.
IL appears that the radicals have been expel-
ling negroes from the Legislature, whereat the
colored population have become indignant
and are about holding State convention to
deliberate upon what they shall next do. If
the Democratic leaders in Georgia manage
rightly-and they are sharp and audacous
enough to do anything-they can turn this
negro expulsion business to their account,
and, by dividing the negro vote, defeat the
radicals and easily carry the State for the
Democracy. The latest reports from Georgia
represent horrible and bloody muddle of
whites and blacks, in which it is difficult to
ascertain at present who are the wrong
made by the radicals in the Legislature to call
upon the President for United States troops to
preserve the peace was voted down, making
another muddle precisely the opposite of that
which prevails in South Carolina on the same
point. Alabama will always be in a muddle
so long as her Democracy are led by the light
of the tirebrands now at their head; but thew
are gradually becoming toned down and are
not half so ferocious, but yet, perhaps, more
willy than they were three weeks after their
return home from the Tammany Convention
The negro vote seems to be inclining Demo
cratic-ward in Alabama, while in Arkansas the
latest report is that Intelligent negroes are
going against the carpet-baggers This is a
good sign. In Louisiana the Democrats are
making superhuman exertions, and may be
assisted by the Yarmouth muddle, about
negro professions, negro outrages, negro MUIR
ders, white prosecutions, and the like, which
is disturbing the radicals. Florida seems to
be luxuriating quietly among her orange
groves, now and then excited by some local
muddle about offices and carpet baggers
Poor old Virginia. with Mississippi and Texas,
are in muddle because they are left out in
the cold. In the case of Virginia, however,
there appears to be muddle among portion
of the blacks, who have held a convention
and passed resolutions declaring a want of
confidence in the radical Executive Commit
tee muddle which may prove serviceable to
the Democrats when the proper time arrives.
On the WHOLE we have reason to still think
that our prophecy that a majority of the
Southern States can be carried for the Demo-
cratic candidates will be fulfilled. But it will
not affect the general result. The North and
West will settle that. Nothing at this mo-
ment visible in the canvass can prevent the
election of General Grant. But by working
zealously in the South the Democrats can
secure and organize number Of States there
which will form splendid nucleus around
which they can rally in the grand struggle for
the restoration of their party tolpower in 1872.