The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-20
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cratic majority in one year, and that
is revolutionary fact. Majorities
do not vary at such q rate, ordinari-
ly. Hitherto, the home of Henry
Clay has given Democratic mniori-s
ties, but not such as are given this
year. Other parties have had a very
respectable hearing in that State.
She was one of the two Southern
States that gave Lincoln n vote, in
1850, and, in the some year, only
Virginia and Tennessee, of the
Southern States, out-voted her on
the Bell and Everett ticket. Even
in 1864, McClellan's majority was
only 36, 900. Nothing like so in
tensely Democratic, in the past, as
Southern States, generally, she gives
the Democratic candidate this wear a
majority of 90,OO0-a vote that indi-
Gates a movement of the people
scarcely less than stampede. Ne
gro suffrage is held responsible for
this change, by the local chroniclers,
and the chroniclers are, in all proba-
bility, right. Negro suffrage, so
avowedly the policy of the Republi-
can party that its orators can no
longer make any denial, has applied
tremendous process of "attrition"
to the Republican vote in Kentucky.
and worked it down to a worthless
quantity.
It will do the same, elsewhere.
Throughout the South, we shall see
this one definite result of negro suf-
frage-that there will no longer be
any practicable division of the white
vote, but the people that have hith-
erto given respectable vote to each
OF two parties, will now all go to-
gether, by instructive agglomeration,
against the negro suffrage party. In
Kentucky, the result is clearly seen,
because there is no negro vote to
give respectable proportions to the
other side; but the Democratic ma
iority is SO great that even the natu-
raj negro vote of that State-which
would be about 25, ,OOO-could not
have changed the result, if cast. In
those States, therefore, in which
negro suffrage is in force, the vote of
the negro will not come as balance
of power between parties-it will not
swell the weaker side, as that side
appeared in the former political divi-
sions of the people; but, if cast for
the radicals, it will stand alone
against the whole white vote. HUI
man nature can never be reduced to
mathematics, exactly; but, if there is
a point in its history very nearly
capable of positive demonstration, it
Is the force with which the various
otherwise hostile elements of q peo-
pie combine in presence of q COM
mon danger. There is no point of
difference between the people that
will not dwindle to insigni6cance, by
comparison with the difference be-
tween black and white. The conse-
quence in the South will be that the
Democrats will carry every Southern
State except South Carolina. Re-
garding the statistics of elections up
to 1860, rs well as the recent regis
tration, we should have excepted
Mississippi, also, but the recent vote
on the Constitution indicates that
the Democracy rule there also. In
1860, eleven Southern States gave
5S3, 1000 votes for the Democratic
candidate and 100000 for the Bell
and Everett ticket. Doubtless, the
Bell and Everett vote represents the
proportion of Southern sentiment
that might have favored the policy
of reconstructing party of patriotic
purposes and holding rational views
of politics and of human nature; but
against party to whose policy negro
suffrage is only the preface, the
whole white Southern vote of 1860 is
sure to go together, and will make a
total sufficient to neutralize the
negro vote, and, in addition, balance
the Republican majority of 1864, on
the popular vote of the whole coun-
try.
In the North, the vote against the
Republicans will be very heavy. Men
know how far Democratic misrule
would go, and what direction it would
take, and they do not know The limit
of radical madness. Judging it by
the past, they find it difficult to con-
ceive that the Republican fury has
any definite limit. Hitherto, it has
hesitated at nothing, has pushed
recklessly on wherever bounded by
ambitious leaders, and rather than
be dragged where such party would
go, the people will take the chance
of revolution with the Democrats.
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