The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-30
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WEIGHT Of those ten States? We SUBJ
nit that they are deciding it in quite
too summary manner; that it is bet
ter to recognize the new governments
and get control of them than to stand
aloof and permit them to be used as
engines of further oppression.
We have merely contended, in our
former articles, that this is not ques-
ton for the Democratic National Con-
yeEtion, but for the white citizens of
the Southern States. Seeing that they
cannot choose Presidential electors at
all, nor members of Congress at all,
nor even their own domestic rulers,
except through the machinery pro-
vided by the new governments, we
think that, as choice Of eviIs, they had
better take the test-oath and vote
But we conceive that it would be out
Of place for the Democratic National
| Convention to tell them that they
ought to do it, or that they ought not.
If they do not vote, Radical electors
will certainly be chosen by the negroes,
and their votes will certainly be count
ed by the present Radical Congress.
| If it shall turn out that Radical Pres
| ident is chosen in consequence of the
inaction of the Southern whites, they
will have themselves to thank for the
result.
| The Southern journals reason and
protest as if the Democratic party of
the North were already in SO large a
majority that it can elect the next
President with the opposite scale
weighted by the electoral votes of the
South, and in spite of any platform
the party might think fit to adopt
We wish we could take the same san
guine view But, at the last cleo
tons, the Democratic party of the
| Northern States was a minority; a
minority rapidly growing indeed to-
wards majority, but, as the election
returns showed, not having yet reached
it. By discretion and vigor we can
easily wipe out the narrow margin
which separates US from success,
but the contest is to be too
close to justify much vaporing or gas
condo. The ugly circumstance which
scasts ominious conjecture" on the re-
suit, is the certainty that the Southern
States are to vote, and to vote under
the new rule of negro suffrage. To
shut our eyes to this unwelcome fact,
or TO belittle its Importance, or to as
sumo that Democratic victory is Ger
tain in spite of it, would be an exhibit
ton of blind folly and presumptuous
self-confidence 1.-THE ten Africanized
States are carried by the Repub-
licans they will neutralize the
Democratic States Of New York, Penn
sylvania, and Kentucky. Mon cal
culate like novices who think the Dem
ocratic prospects bright if the result
depends upon our securing a majority
of the electors in the other States.
We shall make a strenuous effort to do
even that, if the Southern whites scorn
to vote with the negros, and to try to
bring some Of them over; but it would
he more satisfactory to see the South
put it's own shoulder 20 the wheel in
stead of star > ,tlll and merely call
ms nor 1ng s If relief is to come
solely fro.'u Snee North, the South must
not isaslst on platform calculated for
a. different latitude, from that where
the contest is to be fought. If the
South will not be prevailed on to con-
vert some of the negroes, it must per
nit us to convert some of the North
ern Republicans. To proselyte either,
we must recognize the existing state
of facts