New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-20

on tbs subject Is Inchanged but matters of dogma
are outside the realm of practical politics Inc ud
but seeing that s prevention is impossible, tley Tccoh
nize the facts of the situation ana tnrn HnS
obloots they have some hope OF accomplishing
So far, well if negroes choose to vote 1or
a marty which plants itself openly on this
ground. it is primarily their own affair, and to
them we leave it, But The World proceeds TO
hedge as usual; and this is the way it does 1t:
"As 10 the proper OF the Democratic party on
tbs subject i'm such Of the Free States have Demo
cratic majority not that there is auy uer
York for example the question OF Negro Suffrage Is to
I've submitted to the people. this Fall In connection VIII
Tie New Constitution. 1t Will be submitted rs sGp1ao
ii,b eItrs ,InGujy1ify The New.Y0rk Democrats are
content have the negroes vote on properly qudiId
tiou as they do under the present state C9hsuttloh
formed under Democratic auspices and raieu py eiho
cratic vOcs but they will never voluntarily consent nhJ
Negro Suffrage shall be made universal iny arc GnGn
more srenu0usy opposed to having inc n az yus
ment state this subject oyeTruleu by feuelal
authority Accordingly the DenocIalc lng,' a;
did not rAtify the proposed XVIII Amendment 10 Ue
Federal Constitution it will be ratified by no state in
which the Democrats are in the asGeIdency. IN Ienu
syyana il the Democrats carry the state IN inc October
election the ratification Of the tate Republican Legislature
,oH be rpedied Opposition TO Negro suffrage winch taxes
any these fOrms-OppostiOn to universal Negro suffrage
Inv state action on State Constitution, or opposition TO
tie ratification of tho proposed XVIII Amendment or
discrimination TO rcscnd such notifications where they
can DO rescpded i'm seasonany OF these forms OF OPPOSE
ton Negro Suffrage is within tue province Oh pIac.
maxns of political prudence. In States like Massa
chusets where universal Negro Suffrage already pre-
walls under the local constitution and where the Dc'O-
Gratis can have no rational hope Of repeating the rtc
ton already given TO the proposed XVIII Amendment,
further resistance is futile ana INC mos ohnBhchou
Democrats are opposed TO its continuance
We have no reason to doubt that this is
fair exposition of the views of the Democratic
managers in the States which have few Col
Ored voters and, if so, we know beforehand
that they are rushing straight on another sig
nal and assured defeat. A great party which
has one creed for New-York and another for
Virginia-which assents to Negro Suffrage in
Massachusetts, and Tennessee, but makes fight
against it in Connecticut and Pennsylyania-ls
sure to go under. It's position is like that OF
the riuce-BishOp of one of those RhenIsh
municipalities which, three or four centuries
ago, were regularly ruled by their highest pre-
late, and who, being Tebuked by his curate tor'
profane swearing while in command of his
forces, explained that he swOre, not as a
Bishop, but as a Prince. Yes Monsignor,'
persisted the simple priest; "but, when the
"devil comes after the Prince, who will take
"care of the Bishopf'
The Republican party at the South has been
placed in false position by the action OF I'M
wise leaders who, in Virginia and two or three
other States, insisted on cngratting wholesale
prescriptions and acknowledgements of prOmi-
nent Rebels upon their new Free Constitutions.
Remonstrance, warning, entreaty, were of no
avail: they ,could go their own way, and 1t has
landed them in the ditch, as was to be ex-
pected. We trust the lesson is sufficient, and
that henceforth Rcpublicausm in every State
will mean All Rights for All, as it should. After
| Stokes in Tennessee shall have caught the
| hoggng he is aching Cor, and which he might
| by common sense, have avoided, we presume
there will be no further effort to place the
party on q proscrptiye platform, where its
defeat is inevitable. Next, the Democratic
party will have to be taught that it cannot have
one platform at the North and another mt the
! South-cannot triumph in Virginia by accept
! ing Negro Suffrage and in New-iork by re-
ssting and denOuncng it. 1t takes the aver
age politician rather longer than most people
to get tho inexpcdiency of crooked ways thor
oughly beaten into him; but even his skull Is
not impenetrable, as Judge Abbott clearly at
tests Despite all manner of peryerseness and
faulty, we are steadily nearing the end
Universal Amnesty with Impartial Suffrage.