The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-12
Threats of Southern Democrats.

From the N. y. Evening Post.
The Alabama Legislature has just passed an
act removing all dsfranchisement FOR roUoi-
lion. The Georgia Legislature is about to do
the same thing. The Tennessee Legislature
will doubtless follow the example when it
meets i'll regular session. We hope all the
other Southern Legislatures will in like man
ner make the suffrage impartial. We have
constantly advised this as the true policy for
peace.
But it must be confessed that the men now
disfrapchised do not offer many temptations to
the present voters to be liberal. Everywhere
they deal only in threats; they declare openly
that if they regain the vote, they will use their
political power first and foremost to disfran-
chise men who now possess votes. Under the
circumstances, the men who now possess the
political power in those States cannot be
blamed, if they hesitate before repeating the
disabilities of those who thus threaten the m.
1t is pity that the Southern Democratic
leaders have not a little more common sense.
They are now what Western man would call
''the under dog" they desire to regain the
political citizenship which they flung away
some years ago. But they make their wishes
known only by threats against the men who
now vote. Not only do the Democratic leaders
confess that if they can get the power they
will disfranchise the greater part of the Repub-
lican voters, but they even 60 further. Wade
Hampton, in South Carolina, says:-
-, .Those who are not for us are against us, and
II they cast their destiny with the radicals, to
them and mol to US must they look for support.
OF course, all present contracts should be kept
In good faith, but let us not employ In the
future any one, white or black, who gives his
ala To the Republican party. If we pursue this
policy firmly; II we devote ourselves TO the
carry South Carolina for Seymour and Blair"
This is the way he urges the Employers the
capitalists of the State, to coerce the working
men, and force them TO vote against their own
interests, on penalty of starving their fami-
lies. The Mobile Tribune, Democratic organ,
says
I'VE must break up the loyal leagues, and to
do that IL is only necessary that The negroes
should be properly insu uoted. Point out to the
negroes the way they sh yaiO go. Tell them that
the carpet baggers ia the Legislature are the
Verlest scum throw II up 10y the boiling cauldron
of the Iate revolutionary war; that they are
gang of political VasaOoncs ON the prowl for
plunder and they viii surely aid you In driving
the unprlncipleo wretches from the STATE" -
This kind of language is heard all over the
Southern States; and these are the persuasive
means employed by Southern Democratic lead
ers to prove to the present voters the perfect
safety and adVisability of removing all restric-
tions and penalties for rebellion.
The Radicals and the Peeple-PrOspects
for the Presidency.
FTonr the N. Y. Herald.
Oregon is normally Republican State, but
Democrats. In the previous election it had
about its usual Republican majority, giving
that decision on political Issues thai is natural
with population supplied in great degree
from regions having the most active sympathy
with the radical spirit yet this year it gives
an unmistakably definite majority to the
other side This is a very significant fact in
an election in such a State, coming imme-
diatelYefter the party with which it usually
acts has put its Presidential candidates in the
field. Kentucky is another State whose people
have recently given formal expression to their
political predictions. The election in this
State has taken place since the naming of the
Presidential candidates ON both sides, and Ken
tucky not only goes for the Democrats-we
should expect that-but it goes their way by
such an overwhelming majority as indicates
that other political opinions have hardly force
enough there 10 keep themselves alive. Here,
thep, are two States that have gone to the
DsHioorats after these people have been able to