The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-06-14

a. to decide between the implanted and the
sr;st;ur State Governments The fact that
The former Governments were wrongtuily
suppl.nted makes no difference, any more
than the fact that man was Wrongfnily pull
to death enables the physician TO restore nim !
to life After the expiration Of the nrms VI
oil their officers, the supplansed o.sse . uos.
ernmepts will be incapAbie of resave., tnefs
b.ing no longer any machinery LOT the ere
alton Of officers 10 administer them.
nIf. then. The new Southern Constitutions
arc ever amended, it can be only under the
,nsn;ces OF the newly created State oovern-
merts which are about to 70 into operation
| Negro Suffrage can be amended out OF them
only BY m election III which all the negroes
vii vote We will not dispute the possibility
az this be;ne done bat it is probable isis
40 feasible and 80 promising as 70 make u nm
oct OF duty and prudence for the democrats
ic National Convention to advise the Sontn>
eru whites to attempt il? Why should We
assume TO advise them at all on a matter OF
purely flomeaiic concernf Since We car rem
der Them no aid, shy should va giyethen ad-
yiee7 Even if we could elect Democrahc
Senate within the next four years Tnicn We
| cannot.l We could neither revive the expapg-
/ cd State Governments nor canse the South
! arm negroes to vote for their own dislrancbise-
ment. So long as the negroes did not vote,
| there was sense and reason 10 our constant
orv Of non-interference. But when they DO
| vote, consistency may indeed require Us 70
hold the same doctrine but does Consistency
require US to proclaim it? Formerly, non
! interference meant opposition to Negro su',
frage; at present, nonsinterference Souia !
| leave things as tley are. TO let bad rue q
| suffrage stand is doubtless what We shall nave
tn do but is il so pleasant that we must keep
= startling to repeat III Why shuold the nation
Al platform say anything on the SUBJECT
WHY hang light at the stern OF the ship 70
throw back its glare upon the hideons pain
~ have gone over, when there are other
wreckinQ dangers ahead which require all our
| yiqiIepce? Since we can do nothing about
| Negro Suffrage, why not practice the aigh'y
of silence and say nothing?
| aWhether the Southern Whites should Of
tempt to eject negroes from the suffrage IS
thu II own business, Of which they ate the best
indpes. But, before they can make the at
temnt with bopes of success, they must f1rss
have gained control of the new Governments
Would an anti Negro Suffrage declaration IN
the Democratic platform aid them IN getting
such controle Hcnld the negroes be more
likely to vote with them. il asked to vote for
their own disfranchisement -
Sach are the opinions and advice OF the
World to its party. But the policy Of The
World will not be accepted; the fools are not
all dead, but survive still in sufficient force
to control the action Of the Democratic par
w., and 10 dash ont the little remnant Of
brains and life that yet remains TO it against
the improbable battlements Of equal sui
feage. The party has bought the negro FOL
, years past, till III is reduced from powerful
Overwhelming organization in fonr-hf'h'
j of the States of the Union, to a miserab!s
faction. struggling by indrection to maintain
footing here and there, in half dozen OIL
half score Of States North, South, East
and Vest all told