The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-10

due it by the lawful exercise of authority as
members of the police White men may have
instieated these riots; but, if so, they did it
as friends and fellow-partisans of the negroes,
setting them on in the interest of the Repub-
lican party. The object of the riot was to
frighten and coerce the whole negro popula-
ton of the city into voting the radical ticket.
The system of terrorism and coercion which
has been begun in Washington will probably
be extended through the Southern cities The
suffrage was conferred on the negroes from
sheer partisan motives the object was not TO
protect them, but TO benefit the Republican
party. 1t was foreseen that without universal
negro suffrage every Southern State would be
almost unanimously Democratic and that as
soon as the two political parties should become
tolerably equal in the North, the power of the
Republican party would be extinguished for
ever. 1t was assumed by the Republicans that
they would always be able to control the negro
vote and WELD it as a solid mass. If this ex-
pectation should be disappointed, if the negro
vote should be divided and considerable
portion of it be given to the Democrats,
the Republicans would lose all the ex-
pected fruits of their conspiracy against
the rights of the States. To prevent
their conspiracy from recoiling against its
authors, unscrupulous politicians, like Forney,
have set the negroes on to regard every negro
who does not vote the Republican ticket as a
traitor to his race, whom they may hang or
shoot with as little compunction as they would
a mad dog The Washington negroes have
been educated by their white radical patrons
to tolerate no negro voting except on their
side and the bloodthirsty vengeance with
which they sought, on Monday to take the
life of colored men who intended to vote the
other ticket shows what kind of influences
have been at work in moulding their feelings.
The future ascendancy of the Republican
party is staked on its ability to keep the
negro phalanx unbroken; and when they can
no longer control it by the Freedmens
Bureau and the army, their last desperate re-
source consists in inspiring the bodest and
most unscrupulous of the negroes with a feel
ing of bloody intolerance, which will make it
unsafe for any negro to act with the Demo-
cratic party
In Washington, which is the focus of Re-
publican intrigues, where a Republican Con
gress and a Republican administration are so
overshadowing and powerful, they have sue
ceeded in imbuing ma iority of the negroes
with a spirit of brutal domineering and muir
derous intolerance which thirsts for the blood
of every black man who refuses to vote in
accordance with Republican diotation. But
in the greater part of the South, the negroes
will be less exposed to Republican influence
than they are in Washington. If, even in
Washington, they can be kept in the Republi-
can traces only 10y threats of violence
and attempts on their lives, it is pro-
bable that large numbers of negroes in Demo-
cratic neighborhoods will incline to act
with the Democratic party. In the cities
and large towns, where the Republicans can
get access to them, the negroes will be in
spired with the same diabolical feelings which
broke out in bloody riots at the Federal capital
but throughout the rural portions of the South
black men will be able to vote as they please
without exposing themselves to instant death
at the hands of infuriated radical negroes and
| large numbers of them will be found acting
with the Democratic party. After the Repub-
| hcans have conferred universal suffrage on the
negroes for partisan object, Democrats will
vindicate their right to use the elective fran
chise in the spirit Of freemen, in defiance of
the dictation of negro mobs insdgated and
set on by reckless radical politicians.