The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-09-04
3s.J .i91t a. From the N z. Herald.
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Kentucky has doubled her democratic me
jority in one year, and that is revolution
airy fact. Majorities do not vary at such
rate ordinarily. Hitherto the home of Hen
ny Clay has given democratic majoritiec
but not such as are given this year. Othe
parties have had very respectable hearin
in that State. She was one of the tw
Southern States that gave Lincoln vot
in 1860, and in the same year only Virgini
and Tennessee of the Southern States out
| voted heron the Bell and Everett ticket
Even in 1864 McClellan'smajority was onl
| thirty-six thousand. Nothing like so in
tensely democratic in the past as Souther,
States generally, she gives the democratic
candidate this year majority of ninet.
thousand vote that indicates move
ment of the people scarcely less than
stampede. Negro suffrage is held respon
sible for this change by the local chronicler
! and the chroniclers are in all probabilit.
right. Negro suffrage, SO avowedly tn
policy of the republican, party that its ora
tors,can no longer make any denial, has ap
piled a tremendous process of "attrition" t.,
the republican vote in Kentucky and work
ed 1T down to iayworthless quantity.
/ 1t will do the same elsewhere. Through
out the South we shah see this one definite.
result OF negro Suffrage that there will Nc
longer be any practicable division of tn
white vote, but the people that have hith
erto given d respectable vote to each oftw,
parties will now all go together by instinc
tive agg1omeration against the negro suff
rage party. In Kentucky the result i,
clearly seen, because there is no negro vot
to give respectable proportion to the othe
side; but the democratic majority is 80 grea
that even the natural negro vote of tina
State-whicb would be about twenty-fiv
thousand-could not have changed the re
suit feast. In those States therefore, If
which negro suffrage is in force the vote
the negro will not come as balance
power between parties it will not swell tn.
weaker side as that side appeared in tn
former political divisions of the people:
but if cast for the radicals it will stanG
alone against the whole white vote. HUI
man nature can never be reduced to math
ematics exactly; hut if there is point ir
its history very nearly capable of positiv
1 demonstration it is the force with which
the various otherwise hostile elements Off
a people combine in presence of a commo!
danger. There is no point of difference be
tween the people that will not dwindle t.
1 insigniicance by comparison with the diff
erenee between black and white The con
sequence in the south will be that the dem
ocrats will carry every Southern State ex
cept South Carolina. Regarding the sta
tistics of elections up to 1860 as well as tn
recent registration we should have excep
ted Mississippi also, but the recent vote on
the constitution indicates that the democra
cy rule there also.
i In 1860 II Southern States gave five hun
bred and eighty-three thousand votes 70
the democratic candidate and four hundre,
and seven Thousand for the Bell and Everett
ticket Doubtless the Bell and Everett
, vote represents the proportion of Southern
sentiment that might have favored the pol
icy ofa lreconstructing party of patriot
purposes and holding rational views O.
pollClcs ana OF human nature; but agains
party 70 whose policy negro suffrage j
only the preface the whole white Southerl
vote OF 1850 is sure to go together, and will
make total sufficient to neutralize the mel
gro vote, and, in addition, balance the rel
publican majority OF 1854 on the populay
vote OF the whole country.
In the North the vote against the repubt
Leans will be very heavy. Men know hoJ
tar democratic misrule would go, and whaI
direction it would take, and they do mol
know the limit OF radical madness. JudS
ing 1t by the past they find it difficult t.
CONCEIVE that the republican fury has ant
definite limit, Hitherto it has hesitated a.
nothing, has pushed recklessly on whereves
!; bounded by ambitious leaders, and rather
than be dragged where such party wouly
go the people will take the chance of revo.