The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25

and filing" among the Democracy during
the past week in regard to the Chase
NOV ement, which looks as though this
particular Salmon was hatcbed from too
bad an egg to suit the party. What then
looked as fixed thing, begins to look
now as though piscaculture would not be
an experiment of the party this fall. But
there is no telling yet what may come OF
it. 1t is certain that the retrograde Isl
not intended to operate against his prin-
ciples if it does initiate against the
chances of Mr.. Chase personally; and it
is barely possible that the origin of the
Chase movement was but the hope that
it might serve as stepping stone, to ena
bic the Democracy to reach position in
the affections of negrodom for service in
the campaigns of this fall.
The New-York " World" we believe,
was the original mover Chasewards; and
it backed the movement with arguments
so impregnable, that a little more per
sistence would have had Chase and De-
mocracy = Abolitionism and its uncom-
promising opponent = mounted IN the
same saddle for the Presidential race.
The followers of the World took the
matter so much in earnest, that it was an
easy matter to tell who read and sub
scribed to the doctrines of that delectablc
organ of Democracy, pure and simple, by
the vehemences with which every Demo.
crat you met denounced or advocated the
nomination Of Salmon. The " "Wo-ld," "
however, appears to have been only in
fun in the matter. 1t thought it had
discovered a chestnut in the fire and it
only used Salmon's paws to stir the chest
nut out; at least so it says, in substance,
if not in language. We think, however,
the World " is only in fun now, and
that is was terribly in earnest when it
desired Democracy to overslaugh its pa
triots, statesmen and heroes for the pur-
pose of claiming the way for one whose
life for quarter of a century had been a
life Of open antagonsm to the men and
measures Of the Democratic party.
The course of the +" World" since its
veering around again as regards the man.
has not been consistently sustained by a
corresponding veering around as regards
his principles. The fact is that the
q" World" with its political roguishness
laid to one side, would be a sensible
sheet. Its editors are not fools, and they
see as plain as day, that the party which
ignores the negro element, in the present
struggle, is the party sure to go under
and to stay under for very long time in
the great, progressive future. The
World" therefore, felt Salmon, and
through him, the pulse of Conservatism
only that it might learn whether any
thing could really be made by union ol
forces, to secure the one common object o
present success; and the " w World discov
cred right speedily that Salmon's strength
and Conservative strength combined wa:
without power to stay the public torrent
which is rushing like the maddcned wa
ters towards the election of Grant and
Colfax. Even though added to Democ
racy it was too week for the labor requir
ed. The World" therefore, drops
Salmon and drops Conservatism as pre-,
sent element, and takes up the negro un
trammeled by either; not with hope oi
success at this time, but with hope fol
success in the future. 1t don't pretend
that negro suffrage is right, just now
that would have been too powerful 8
dose at first; bat it asseverates that ne
gro suffrage is thing so fixed that the
labors of decade, however herculean
cannot wipe it out. And it argues BY
inference, that all the gain which could
have been made by taking Salmon and
the negro, with half the spoils of Offices
can, in another campaign, if not in this
be made just as easily by swallowing the
negro alone, with all the spoils.
1t was fast and loose game the World
was playing with Salmon and Conserva
tives, aud with its own readers also; bu,
it has quit playing now, and has become
as fast anchored to the men of its own
kidney as it was before the game began
But it don't yield the "nigger," and il
we may judge from the following ex
tract, taken from its columns, it don't
intend to very soon:-
i There Is every reason to expect that tho
Southern negroes will vote i'm the next Presi
Dental election and if we permit all these