The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-14
FRIDAY, AUGUST ID, 1868.
The Democracy and Negro Suffrage.

and especially of the extension Of the right of
suffrage to freedmen, the Rebels Of the South
are attempting in good earnest to deceive the
negroes, and to convince them that the De-
mocracy are better and more reliable friends
of the colored race than the Republicans. The
spectacle is curious one, and the
tactics adopted worthy of the genius
of unscrupulous and desperate polit-
clans. The programme is to carry the
North by professions of intense hatred of the
negro and the South by the most earnest pro-
testations that he has suddenly become an
object Of the intense affection and admiration
OF his old oppressors. 1t is unnecessary to
direct the attention Of the citizens of the
Northern States to the frequency and persist
ency of the appeals of Democratic orators and
journals to the popular prejudice against the
negre. In many counties they constitute the
staple argument against the election of the
Republican candidates, and the allegation that
Grant and Colfax oppose the destruction of the
existing political system of the South is con-
sidered an ample reason for their defeat in
November.
In the South widely different policy has
been adopted. The prediction of a sarcastic
and witty politician that if ever colored men
were allowed to vote, the extreme partisaus of
the Democracy would not scruple to boast as
an eleotioneering trick, that they had black
blood in their veins, is being substantially
realized. The warmth of this new affection is
really astonishing, and as an Offset to the
many awkward antecedents which 60 far to
prove, even to the most obtuse minds, its insin-
oerity, there is not wanting an endless profu-
sion of professions OF ardent friendship and
love.
In Texas the Rio Grande Courier admon-
ishes its readers that eve must show them zoe
are their true friends. We must treat them
with leniency. We must win them by justice
and kindness" This task will be difficult
enough to hardened slave-drivers of the Le-
gree stamp, but their extreme devotion to the
interests OF the Democratic party will incite
earnest efforts to accomplish it.
The Democracy Of Mississippi, at a recent
meeting held at Yazoo City, pledged them
selves in the most solemn terms not only to
''oonfer impartial suffrage upon all men, ire
spective of color" but to respect, sustain, and
protect all the newly acquired legal rights of
the negroes in every emergency. These pro-
fessions Of approval ofnegro suffrage were ac-
compsnied by the compliment, that the
negroes who voted with the Democracy
at the recent election "deserve well of their
country, and their services will ever be CRATE
fully appreciated by all men who have a due
regard for equal rights and constitutional gov
ernment," and as clincher to these promises
and protestations, an irrefragable ''evidence
and testimonial of esteem and good will" was
offered by rendering, on the part of the white
Democracy of Yazoo city to the oolored De-
mocracy of that vicinity, "a public barbecue
on the fourth Saturday Of August, 1868 !''
Not content with fattering the neophytes,
they are to be feasted by their loving Demo-
cratic brethren, and preparations are being
made for such a flow Of congenial white and
black souls as would astonish the benighted
Northern followers of the party. who are sim
ultaneously taught that Democracy is always
and everywhere the same, and that the corner
stone Of the organization, being no longer
slavery, is now undying hatred of the colored
race.
In Louisiana the Democratic party treats its
oolored allies with equal affection and respect.
The Alexandria (Rspids) Democrats boasts
they have recently had barbecue at that
place also, and that the Democratic proprietor
of hotel placed at the disposal of the colored
Democracy fine and large ballroom, where
the new alliance was duly celebrated by ap-
propriate terpsichorean festivities. The Thi-
bodeaux Sentinel commences political article
designed to swell the ranks of Sey-
mour and Blair with this stirring
appeal: "Colored Democracy of
Lafourche ! Wake up, organize your clubs,
and with the aid of our good citizens go to
work and secure the exercise of your rights -
The Iberville Oa.) South announces that ga
colored Democratic club" is about to be orga-
nized at that place, under the auspices of the
leading Democratic white citizens. A syste-
matized effort is being made by the Seymour
and Blair leaders to organize Democratic freed
men clubs at various points throughout the
State, and the Democratic journals boastingly
allude to the success which is crowning this
scheme.
In Alabama several colored Democratic
clubs have already been formed, and Joseph
L. Williams, the cOlored Democratic delegate
from Tennessee to the Tammany Hall Ma
tiOnal Convention, is stumping the State for
Seymour and Blair. Other colored Demo-
cratic orators who are speaking in Alabama
have awakened the intense admiration of