The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-09-30
Accepting tic siiua1Ion.

We fear that the State Register and 9TH
er Democratic irrepressIbIes will have to
EHdisband" lin the language of the Regis
Eter), or "accept the dogmas of radical mig
gers and nigger radicals" Even such
Bourbons as the Savannah (Ga.) RepubIi-
can commend Democratic John O. Adams
for accepting the situation, and fighting
the Republicans as he finds them:
Speaking Of Mr.. Adams, the Republican
says: ..rr
"The philosophy of Mr.. Adams Is simply
a recognition of the facts as they actually
exist. He does not see the wisdom of
lighting battles over again which have
once been fought and cOnclusively decided.
To any longer combat the results of the
late war, including reconstruction and ne
gro suffrage, he knows to be as bootIess a
struggle as it would have been for Gen.
Lee to have resisted the Union armies af-
ter they had hemmed him in on all sides
at AppOmattox Court House. Mr. Adams
does not require Democrats to yield up
any of their opinions as 10 how, in their
Judgment, these controversies ought to
have ended; but only to acknowledge the
undeniable fact that they have ended in. a
particular way, and then like men of com
mon sense, to govern themselves accord
ingly.
''Mr. Adams is the first Northern DEM
ocratic candidate for a high position to
break ground in favor of the Southern
view Of party policy. We shall see how it
works in the election, and we predict that
if radicalism in Massachusetts is not put
Ito rout It's grand army will be so badly
crippled that it will not be able to stand
another campaign"
The Republican, as will be seen, calls
the position of Mr.. Adams "tbe Southern
Uie'0 Of party policy" Can the Register
and other old fogies hope that the Demo-
cratic party of the North can do without
their Southern con1reres? 1t is none of
our funeral, but we should like 10 see the
Democratic procession move on harmonl-
ously. The time was when opposition to
negroes could be made available in catch
ing votes; but what viii the Northern
Democracy do when a large proportion of
the rank and file of the party in the South
are negroes? VIII they fight their own
friends? The party used to pride itself on
being national, and having none but ma
tionaI issues. But the negro question is
no longer national: It is not even sectional,
except in a few localities. And the ques-
tion is: What are Northern Democrats go
ing to do about it7
Tennessee has restored suffrage to thous-
ands of white Democrats by the assistance
Of negro votes: are Northern Democrats
to go back on their colored friends in Ten
nessee2 Virginia has just been recon-
structed in a manner to delight Northern
Defnocrats, aud by the aid of negro votes
arc those inchoate black Democrats to be
ignored by their Northern White brethren
We trust not.
Mr.. Adams, according to the Savannah !
assumes 'simply a recogni-
5ion of the facts as they actually exist
Is 1t contrary to Democratic ethics to adj
init existing facts, and to conform to them?
And if yes, then what in the name of all .
the Bourbons does the party hope TO ac-
At present the Democrats of,the North .
appear to be party without purpose.
What is their policy? So far as we can
nothing but opposition to the /
And even their opposition
IS now past all hope Of success; for recon
struction, negro suffrage, the honest pay
ment of the public debt, aud all leading
measures are nearly accom-
pIshed, or on the high road to early ac-
Now when it is remembered that the
policy of Mr.. AdaHs is. merely ga recogni-
ion of the facts rs they actually exist"
would it not be a sensible thing to accept
he situation? 1t is that or "disband-
nent. - Bloomington (nl.) Pantagraph.