The Portland daily press., 1868-10-21

-- Since the October elections three very re-
markable things have happened.
Tho Damocratic Executive Committees of
c,soroia and South Carolina, at the instigation
of Northern politicians, have issued nantes
toes declaring that they will uphold the negro
in the exercise of the right of suffrage
1t has been proposed by the leading Demo-
cratic journal of the country, with the appro-
baton of large number of minor Journals,
that Seymour and Blair, candidates represent
Ing those who are hostile to negro suffrage,
should be withdrawn and others be put for
ward in their place who favor negro suffrage
and the reconstruction by which it is secured.
The Southerners who happen TO DE III
Washington have issued an address TO the De-
mocracy imploring them to bend before the
Radical hurricane and withdraw the revolu-
tionary ticket.
These three things are evidently of the same
origin Neither could by any possibility
have happened before the 18th of October
They are all suggested by the same considera-
lion that moved Wade Hampton to consent
to suppress the plain and unequivocal declara-
tons chat he wished to insert in the New York
platform policy.
ton from any quarter to change the Demo-
cratic platform. Whoever was to be placed in
nomination was to be pledged bw
the very act of accepting the NOM
ipstion to the payment of the nation
q debt In greenbacks and to the overthrow Of
the demonstrations, revolutionary and void y
reconstruction acts. Remember here what
Hampton said in his speech after the adjourn
ment of the New York Convention of the
bsartiness with which Northern men in the
Convention, contending for "policy" and re-
serve In the language of the platform, pledged
themselves to do what was required of them in
behalf OF the late Confederates after election.-
Junge from this how sincere would be the
change of heart indicated by change of can
didates. Finding that their candidates nomi-
the platfor are unpopular they propose to
make an ostensble change by putting up new
men on the same platform.
How far, for instance, can the sincerity of
the Georgia Democrats be trusted when they
expelled from the House the negro members
to whose magnanimity the most of them owed
their own seats?
How far can the sincerity of the authors of
the manifesto which has just been issued from
Washington be trusted, remembering that
/, they are representatives of the class who have
been constantly filling the South with san
culinary threats of what they would do to both
q negroes and carpet-baggers after election?
John Quincy Adams was right when he told
the people of South Carolina that the North
ern people are profoundly d istrastful of their
honesty. They have every reason to be so dis
trustful. The elections for the last three
years have been evidences of this distrust
There is one satisfactory inference to be
drawn, however, from the penitential attitude
ofthe Southern Democracy. 1t foreshadows
the prompt acquiescence which they will be
constrained to show in the election of Grant
The Devil is sick now and would be monk;
If Seymour were elected he would immediate
. lyresume his diaboicai form; if Grant is cleo
ted be will remain a monk for the rest of his
days. The election of Grant will be the sig
nal for the disappearance of the last XII lux
squad. Negro shooting will give place to
more legitimate branches of industry, and the
reign of peace will extend even to Texas
Meanwhile 1t is good to have vice apologize
to virtue in the manner it has been compelled
to do by the exigencies of the political situa-
ton