New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-09
POLITICAL AFFINITTES.

The World refuses to be comforted in view
of the probable establishment of Impartial
Suffrage throughout the Union. Here is its
latest exhibition of dolor:
1.-THE negroes II united In a compact party voting al
unit will control the politics or the country by
holding the balance Of power between the other parties
The eight States In which they have the ascendency
will be able in any ordinary Presidential election 10 de
termine the result. The party with which the negroes
act feeling its dependence upon them for success viii
pander TO their feelings and abet their preteDsons and
thus virtually allow them 10 dictate Its policy. As be-
with the negro vote and defeat without It,
the party that them will not be slow to make any
concessions which the negroes may demand. II united
and resoute, they will always be able 10 dictate con
ditiOns"
The World seems to ignore the fact that
"vOting as a unit" is the dictate of a common
peril. When great party was organized TO
"Put none but Americans on guard" Adopted
Citizens voted as phalanx against it. That the
Blacks now vote with the Republicans is based
on the fact that the Republicans have eman-
cipated and enfranchised them, while the
Democrats, after keeping them in Slavery so
long as they could, are still doing their wicked
worst to degrade them so far below the COM
mon level of Humanity as they possibly can.
Were the XVIII Constitutional Amendment
this hour the law of the land, all would be
changed Seeing that the Blacks were bound
to vote any how, The World would tack sheet,
and insist on getting them to vote the Democratic
ticket, and the bulk Of the party would follow
this advice. Democratic hatred of the negro,
and hostility to his enfranchsement, would be
disclaimed and repressed by the party managers,
and the rank and file would obey orders. 1t
might take some time to realize in mainly
White communities like this, a friends con-
fident prediction that "Were the Blacks every
"where enfranchised, we should soon have the
Democratic leaders Boosting that they had
"negro blood in their veins" but the Dutch
mans rule "All is fish that comes to my net"
would operate here as everywhere else We
never yet heard of class too low or too OdiOus
to be an object of Democratic sOlicitude and
solicitation, provided they had votes.
-"Ah yes, of course but they would Mt get
any"
Yes they would. At first, they would be dis
trusted and their advances repealed by the
great majority; but in time-the antagonism of
race being disclaimed-mutual interests and af-
finities would assert their natural sway. Many
negroes are naturally loafers and suckers;
and these would vote as other loafers and
suckers generally do. Many of them would
prefer keeping grogshops and gambling-dens
to honest work and these would inevitably
vote with the party that is most tolerant OF
their favorite pursuits Some negroes are
prone to theft and burglary; and these would
naturally want to keep on the sunny side OF
Recorders and District Attorneys. In short,
those Blacks whose natural afiinities are with
the Democracy would vote and work for the
Democratic ticket, just as such Whites do.
And then the questions of Tariffs, Revenues,
Railroads, &C., &C., would divide the Blacks
exactly as they do Whites.
We advocate Impartial Suffrage as we do
Universal Amnesty-not because it will favor
this or that party, but because it will tran
quize and strengthen the Republic, and be-
cause We shall neverihave true, enduring peace
without BOTH So long as there is disfran-
chised class among us, whether of Blacks OF
ex-Rebels, agitation in its behalf is certain
to be kept up. All intelligent persons must
realize that the Brahminical system of caste is
unsuited to the genius of our people-that
political equality is, in the long run, inevitable.
linen why not establish it at once, and save
years Of fruitless, mischievous heart-burning
ana strfeT We appeal from prejudice and
hate TO reason and good sense