The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-13
VauX's Views.

The Hon. Richard VauX, of Philadelphia,
couldn't come here on the 5th instant to ad-
dress "the Democrats and conservatives" but
he did the next best thing, for he wrote
letter in which he cross-examined the country
in general, aud "the Hon. Douglas Taylor
in particular, with the utmost force and
solemnity. Each of Mr.. Vaux's sentences
begins after this fashion:-'T would ask the
honest conservatives" ''Let me ask civilian
and soldier;'' 81 would ask the poor white
laborer;" 81 would ask the reflective men,
and so the Hon. Richard goes on asking, and
never answering, which leads us to suppose
that he is of a curious disposition, and must
be marked with an interrogation point upon
some part of his person. This letter was
written on the Both ultimo, has been for
some days in print, and thus far nobody has
taken the trouble to respond to Mr.. Vaux's
he is a distinguished public character,
it is painful to mark him plaintively
calling for information and not getting it. Nor
is the Hon. Mr.. Richard always exactly fair in
his queries; e. g., he would 'tlike to ask
why" negro should be made "an elector
because he is black ?'' To which we might
respond by asking why "the Hon. Richard
Vaux should be made an elector because he is
white ?'' In the second place, Mr.. Vaux knows
as well as we do that no person has "been
made an elector because he is black" or blue,
or green, or yellow. In the third place. Mr..
Vaux's particular friends of the Blair and Sey-
mour persuasion of the South are moving
heaven and earth, and we may perhaps
add the other place, to secure the black
vote for their candidates. Mr.. Blair, in
his Cincinnati speech, spoke of these
semi-barbaous;" but that is not the
way in which they are spoken to or spoken of
by Blair's Southern champions. Why, here is
that newly -fedged Massachusetts Democrat,
Master John Quincy Adams, Junior, who has
just turned up at Goldsborough, N. c. What
says the telegram Why, that he "was met
at the depot by the citizens of both races, en-
mdSSe," including Mr.. Blair's ignorant, be-
sotted, semi barbarous' blacks; and the young
gentleman addressed them ALL without dis
tinction of color, and Expressed his surprise
and pleasure at finding that no animosity ex-
listed between the whites and the blacks" Mr.
Adams, Jr., has frst-rate aristocratc blood in
his veins, which should make him first-rate
Democrat; he is quite as well born as the
Hon. Richard Vaux, and he doesn't 90 about
wanting to know why negro should be made
an elector "because he is black" He doesn't
pick out ''the poor white laborer, the white
mechanic, or artisan" Gas Mr.. Vaux doss) for
special sympathy and consolation. Young as
John Junior is, he knows too much for that:
and if he should be guilty of any such polti-
cal folly, both his grandfathers on the paternal
side would come out from the basement of the
Quincy Meeting House, where they are buried,
and haunt him.
We think that Mr.. Vaux's next "Let me
ask" deserves to be quoted entire:-
LET me ask civilian and soldierif the e nam
ctpation Proclamation, rs "a military neces-
sity,' was not declared only to enable the loyal
radicals to stay at home and get. negroes,
black to fill upsthe quotas of the loyal States
and save the necks of the wEtle negroes who
We're establishing loyal leagues at home. where
they could comfortably enjoy themselves dur
ing the fighting at the fronI?"
This is not only free country, but a
Yankee country, in which Mr.. Vaux has a
right to ask all the questions which may hap
pen to come into his head; but, in doing so,
he has no right to insinuate falsehoods. It
seems to be almost impossible for "a Demo-
crat' to speak of our soldiers without utter
ing sneer or calumny, although he must
know that by doing so he damages his party
much more than he helps it. The Emancipa-
tion Proclamation was not declared to
enable the loyal radicals "to stay at home"
and if it had been it would have signally
failed in its purpose, for the loyal radicals did
not stay at home. Only the other day the
Hon. Richard Vaux, if he had put on his
spectacles, might have seen marching
in the streets of Philadelphia quite
number of "loyal radicals" !" who did not "stay
at home comfortably to enjoy themselves
during the fighting at the 'front.'" The
strongest demonstration in favor of "staying
at home" which we remember to have oc.
Cured during the war was made by the par
tieular friends of Mr.. Horatio Seymour in this
city, when they mobbed the draft-offices and
committed sundry other outrages and crimes,
including an occasional murder; when they
were not to be appeased without promise
from Mr.. Seymour that the draft should be
stopped if he could effect it, and when they
behaved generally in an Ignorant besotted,
and semi -barbarous' manner. These rampant
creatu ures were 'citizens" then and are "cit-
zens" now; but Mr.. Vaux has not the slightest
objection to their voting, and to their voting
for Seymour, and to their voting three or four
times for Seymour on the same day 1t is no
matter how Ignorant, besotted, and semi
barbarous" voter may be if he is only white,
and proves his conservatism" by "d-g the
niiggers." Then he becomes a model citizen
after Mr.. Vaux's own heart, no matter how
severely he may have ''staid at home" or
however comfortably he may have enjoyed
himself during the fighting at the 'front.'
Inc Hon. Richard Vaux is himself in favor
OF peace OF particular kind. II must, to
please his remarkably fastidious taste. be Ga
peace without swords, bonds. greenbaoks
taxes, bayonets, negroes, despotism, usurpa,
tion, and repudiation." Nothing less than
this will satisfy Mr.. Vaux, and very pretty
kind of peace we admit that it would be- We
had something like II before Mr.. Vaux's
Southern friends inaugurated the Rebellion;
we may have something like 1t again when the
same exoitable gentry will be self-denying
enough to give up the luxury of flynchiDg and
the bad habit which they have of referring
little MISUNDERSTANDING to the judicial decision
OF the mob. Until then we fear that there will
be an occasional use for those ''swords and