The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-07
Current of Political Sentiment and the Pre-.
sidential Election in the South.

From the ~. Y. Herald.
An extraordinary and quite unexpected re-
volutiOn is taking place in the political pros
poets of parties in the South. The radical
leaders spread themselves over the Sou thern
States, after reconstructing those States on the
negro basis, to secure the votes of the new
born citizens of African descent. The first ora
tors in Congress- both Senators and Represen-
tatives, left their seats and homes to stump
the South and to control the negro vote. A
vast exodus of radical carpet-baggers left the
North, and principally the Eastern States,
spreading themselves over the whole Soath
like locusts, to secure the suffrages of the
blacks, as well as the offices and the property
OF the whites. In fact, the Northern radicals
had it pretty much all their own way. The
South was their political elysium. They had
no doubt about controlling the votes of the
negroes, not only for their own elevation but
in the Presidential election also. All the
trouble between Congress and the President
arose from the struggle to gain the negro vote
structiOn acts of Congress were framed ex-
pressly for this purpose. In truth, nothing
was left undone that could be done by all
the means that an all-powerful party could
use, and scarcely radical in or out of Con-
gress had any doubt of the result.
But what do We see nowf Precisely what
the Herald said long ago and all through
would be the case-that in the end the negroes
would go with their masters and the Demo-
Gratis. From every quarter of the Southern
States the fact comes to us that this is the
case. A most thorough reaction ia taking
place. The press and almost all the CORES
pondence from the South show this. Our
private and most reliable correspondence in
form us that "every one of the ex-Rebel
States will be carried by the Democrats; that
the negroes are leaving the radical party by
hundreds; that they are organizing colored
conservative clubs, and that they are attend
ing Democratic barbacues by thousands. {"
Never was there more striking example of
the old saying that the best laid plans may be
defeated.
And why are the negroes abandoning the
radicals and going with their old masters and
| the Democrats Because they believe their
| interests lie that way, and because the South
| ern whites know how to treat and control them
| better than the Northerners. In their brief
| experience with Northern adventurers-pro-
| perly called carpet-baggers, because the
| greater part OF them were needy speculators,
| without any property but the carpet bags
| they carried in their hands-the negroes have
seen that these men had really no sympathy
| with them, and only wanted to use them for
their own selfish purposes. They see that
their best friends are their old masters, and
the white people among whom they were born
| and with whom their best interests are
| orators have cheated and deceived them under
the pretense of sympathizing with them and
being their friends, and, as natural conse-
| quence, they turn to the people who employ
them and with whom their destiny is cast.
| What more natural All this only shows how
short sighted the radicals in Congress and the
radicals generally have been. Independent of
| party considerations and the immediate effect
| this reaction may have on the Presidential
| election, it must be regarded as happy cir
cumstance; for if the negroes and whites Of
the South act together, all fear of war of
races hereafter will be at an end. The
employer and the employed will work together
| for their mutual interests and the interests of
their common section of country. One thing
| is certain, and that is that the radicals must
change their tactics, cease their efforts to
array one portion of the Southern population
| against the other, and consider the interests
| of the whites and blacks of the South as
| identical, or they will have the whole of that
section combined against them, both now and
| for all time to come. They have deceived
! themselves up to this time. We shall see
| whether they can retrace their steps or COM
| prehend this most interesting political pro-
blem of the day.
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