The New York herald., 1868-09-21

Captain Graham of the Tenth coOred cavalry re-
| ports having had severe skirmish with a band o
aDout one hundred Indians ON the 10th instant, IN
Colorado. ne.r the smoky Hill route, defeating them
aud Killing eleven. His own force numbered only
fifty. ,'-->~ ssss --'.~s~.
The Presidential C0ntest-Wendell Phillips
md the Women's Rights Women.
Some twelve months ago, among the repub-
lican party leaders and managers, appreben-
sions were entertained that Wendell Phillips,
with his radical abolition faction on negroes
rights and Miss Susan B. Anthony and Company
on womens rights, including the right of suf
frage, would be apt to make some mischief in
this Presidential campaign in third party
movement against the republican candidate,
and especially in the event of General Grants
nomination.
The platform of Phillips on negroes rights
embraced, first, the proposition of ''Old Thad
| Stevens of some mild measure" of Southern
confiscations, whereby the freedmen might be
provided each with homestead of forty acres
of land and mule to work it and secondly,
universal negro suffrage, North and South by
act of Congress. He had no hope of these
things from the Fortieth Congress, and but
little hope in the republican party. He had no
faith whatever in General Grant, and subse-
quently the developments of the impeachment
trial excited his especial wrath and vengeance
against Chief Justice Chase Since the Chi
cago Convention Phillips has become less vo-
lent R his philippics, and is much less con-
spicuously before the public than he was last
winter. In fact, in almost disappearing from
the public eye he has been almost entirely
overlooked in the excitements of this canvass.
We had anticipated third party in this fight,
on an Independent negroes rights and women's
rights platform, under the direction of Phillips
as chief engineer, and it is somewhat remarka-
BILE that no such party ticket or platform is in
the field.
The republican party at Chicago made
regular back down on negroes rights in de-
ciaring that while compulsory universal negro
suffrage by act of Congress was good thing
in the South, it was best to leave this matter in
the North to the discretion of the several
States. Next, in regard to women's rights not
delegate or volunteer appeared in the Chi
cago Convention, and not word was said
upon the subject. Moreover the constitutional
amendment article fourteen, the work of the
republican party, provides that suffrage
throughout the United States may be extended
to all races and cOlors on the universal prin-
ciple, but that it shall be limited to males
above the age of twenty-one years. Thus on
negroes rights, as advocated by Phillips and
his radical abolition faction, and on women's
rights, as advocated by Miss Susan B. An
the republican party has utterly failed in the
nomination of General Grant to come up to
the mark.
And how is it with the democracy? In their
nominating Convention at Tammany Hall they
gave our fellow citizens of African descent
mental idea of the democratic party is that
this is ''the white mans government" while
ON women's rights they laughed and shouted,
and yelled and screamed in their uproarious
mirth over Miss Ant6onys petition, as if they
thought it the funniest thing in the world and
the richest joke of the season. What would
have happened had Wendell Phillips, in be-
half of the black man, and Miss Anthony, in
behalf of the white woman appeared in the
Tammany Convention, arm in arm, there is no
telling. In all probability Horatio Seymour
would have swooned in food of tears under
Wade Hampton's denunciations Of the radical
outrage. At all events there is but little
comfort to be found for Phillips or Miss An
thony, the women or the negroes in the demo-
cratic ticket or platform.
How is it, then, that the radical abolition or
negroes rights party Of Phillips, combined with
their own in this contest? Is the philanthropic
proposition Of forty acres of land and mule
to every freedman in the South given up? Is
the grand idea of universal female suf-
frage abandoned? We think not. Had
the democrats boldly taken up the advo-
az safeguard against universal negro
suffrage the whole face of things in this
canvass might have been changed. But the
failure of the democrats to seize their golden
opportunity does not end the agitation. As
neither Phillips nor Miss Anthony, however,
have anything in their peculiar line Of business
promised from either of the two great parties
of the day, and as it would be waste of labor
to attempt now to get up third Presidential
party of any account, We dare say that Phillips
and his political guerilas and Miss Anthony
and her womens rights women have agreed to
let this Presidential contest go by default but
campaign of 1872. They doubtless expect that
General Grant will be elected, that under his
administration the whole business Of Southern
reconstruction and restoration will be definitely
settled, together with the money question, and
that then will be the time for tremendous po-