New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-01
TIE RNGLE.CALL TO ACTION.

TIE BUGLECALL TO ACTION
We have labOred, since the last Presidential
Election, to soften partisan asperlties and
moderate party antipathies. "For everything
" there is q time and season." says the wise
king: and it has seemed to us that the time
has arrived for closing the fierce strifes and
tempestuous agitations of the last fifteen years
in an era of mutual charity, fOrgetfulness, and
peace.
But this is not to be allowed. The warfare
which has been fairly fought out is to be re-
newed ana the country cOnvulsed afresh, to no
conceivable end save the qualification of par
tsa1 hatreds and the renewal of q now boot
less contention. The World fOresbadows a
State canvass this Fall of unusual bitterness,
tearing open wounds that had nearly healed,
| and invoking the widest rage of the fures.
In forecastng the State Convention of its
| party and announcing that the State Officers
| chosen in 1867 for two years are to be renom-
| mated it sees fit to say:
with regard TO the Platform suppose there Will
be more difficulty IN reaching unanmiiy than 10 the
Suffrage will for this have to be again considered
but this question. the Democracy OF the Empire
forces itself upon attention OF the party in this cleo
| ton, connection withl the proposed new state Con-
called Fifteenth Amendment on which the state OF New
York mas not yet US G me baIS
feeling toward the negroes resident III the State We are
| in this State since ISM on a moderate property
qualification; but all Democrats Will vote against
universal Negro Suffrage. The reasons are still
Amendment which, beside making Negro suffrage uni.
takes the decision OF the question away from the
States and gives it TO the Federal Government 1t is
1ent ' bnt tat made no PROVISION for transmtnS the T
hcation Wasington and If the next Legislature should
G6ed and cannot be counted. The last Legislature did
not represent the people, It had moral right 10 speak
Amendment. The Democratic party carried tho state
last Fall by $1,000 majority but the Republicans have
ceeded in eecng the Legislature notwithstanding that
they were so badly beaten IN the state II me Amendhent
been rejected by 10000 majority and we can carry The
Stubborn. The possibility OF defeating the Fifteenth
Amendment supplies fresh incentive To great and sue
cessful effort to elect Democratic Legislature The de-
feat Of the Amendment will not TO be sure upset Negro
Suffrage in the South but IL will keep the subject within
State control and enable the South at some future e
! to retreat from a rash experiment when the po
| ltcal complexion Of Congress shall have been
| strate that Negro Suffrage is not consistent
with public tTanquiy limo great practical evils should
in any quarter to take away privilege which has been
satisfied without the amendment IL Negro Suffrage
works we'll nobody viii disturb it, II IL works Ill, IL
would be calamity to have the door barred against
peaceful retreat
The present signs of the times indicate that the FIT
number Of States The Republican zeal In It's favor has
perceptiby slackened under growing apprehension
least divided and nullned by the Democratic party.
Consistency compes the Republicans 10 keep up show
Of supporting it: but, il the elections in Mississippi and
Texas shall resemble that In Virginia and exhibit large
numbers OF negroes voting for Conservative candidates.
e a' WI" Dc content TO let the Fifteenth
Comments By The Tribune.
Our last Legislature embodied many good
and true men, but, as a whole, it was neither
good nor true. It's failure to direct its pre-
siding officers to certify the ratification of the
XVIII Amendment to the State Department at
Washington, was Of piece with its general
incapacity and recreancy. 1t should have passed
bill making the miscOuntng of votes, or any
tampering with balot-boxes, a felony; it should
have passed another afiixing appropriate penal
ties to registering and voting, or offering to
register or to vote, on fraudulent GER
tifcates of Naturalization, whereof not
less than Sixty Thousand were fabri-
Gated last year in this State-all of them
being ready for use this Fall, including those
which were in timid hands last Fall These
two bills would have saved us from at least
Twenty Thousand illegal votes next Novem-
Der; and, had the Tammany tool who was
made Governor by the gigantic frauds of last
year seen fit to veto them-as is probable
that would have helped lis nearly as much.
If we should be beaten this Fall, it will be
the fault of that last miserable, worthless
Legislature.
But, though we shall he enormously swindled
in the vote, and probably in the count also,
we must not be beaten. The seasonable avowal
of The World that if the Democrats succeed
next November our States ratification of the
XVIII Amendment is to be nullifed, the poor
Blacks of this State perpetually DISTINGUISHED,
and the subject of Negro Suffrage made
football of party contention throughout an
indefinite future, will arouse tue Republicans
to vigorous action. We were beaten no fifty
thousand last Fall-GIant and Colfax
not even ten thousand-and there were not
less than Thirty Thousand illegal votes
cast against us. "hc Legal Vote was about
Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand; and
! of that Grant had a large and Griswold
small majority. With full mud honest vote
we can carry the State handsomely on such an
| Issue as The World now makes up. The re-