The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-07-17
From the Phila. Press of Friday, July 0. ]
OccasiOnars Letter.

The Democratic flag has been formally
lowered all over the South, and if r. T.
Daniels despatch to the President is not a
huge joke, Virginia is henceforward to be
set down as one of the leaders in favor of
universal suffrage, under the fifteenth
amendment, including full support of all
the rights of the colored people under the
laws. There is no Democratic party in
Texas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. In the
two former States the Democrats are sup
porting Radical candidates for Governor,
and in the latter they are advertising their
readiness to go for any Republican who
will run against the Radical ticket on a
platform. Accepting the fiat of the war as
well as of the laws, and finding it impossi-
bic to make head against the fifteenth
amendment, they are Republicanizing them
selves SO rapidly that before the meeting of
Congress there will hardly be a State South
in which the main ideas of the Republican
creed will not be supported by the Demo
cratic party. If Col. Walker, the new
Governor of Virginia, is bound by the pied
ges of his friends, he will be a Republican
in office; and Senter in Tennessee and
Hamilton In Texas are both loud in their
determination to take the same course in
the event of their election. On the adop-
ton of the fifteenth amendment, which it
is now morally certain will become part
of the National Constitution before the
nd nd no1o-
ware will in all probability cease to be DEM
ocratic like the other Southern States.
And while the Democrats of the South
are thus accepting the inevitable, what is
the attitude of the Democrats of the North
and West? The answer is found in their
violent opposition to the fifteenth amend
ment, in their abuse of the colored people,
and in their persistent antagonism to the
administration of President Grant and to
everything progressive. Even as they are
rejoicing over the election of Walker, they
do not see that they are rejoicing at the
election of man committed to the fifteenth
amendment, who ran on the same ticket
with colored men, some of whom are elect
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lature.
Thus it stands: To secure success the
Democrats of the South have embraced
Republican doctrines, and to be equally
fortunate the Democrats of the North must
follow their example.
And what is to become of the Democrats
of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio, next
October, when they attempt to make capi-
tai out of the fifteenth amendment, sup
ported by their friends in the South when
they howl against negroes in office, while
negroes are elected by their friends in the
South to the best positions, and when they
traduce Grants Administration, which is
now earnestly championed by many Of the
leading Democrats Of the South?
The eccentricities of the modern Demo-
crazy, in the face of the steady progress of
Radical ideas, would be ridiculous if they
were not explicit tributes to the truth
Last year that party at New York, in nom-
mating Seymour and Blair, declared for a
just protection of home labor. This year
the Democracy of New Hampshire resolve
in favor OF free trade, and are followed by
other Northern conventions of the same
party Oh the same side and all this in face
of the efforts of the South to establish
manufactures, which can only be MAIN
tanned by protection. Last year the Ma
tional Democratic Convention proclaimed
loudly against reputation. This year that
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number of Democratic papers and leaders.
Last year the National Democratic plat
form ignored secession. This year the
Democracy of Maine take emphatic ground
in favor of State rights, and look forward
to the day when it shall become great
war-cry.
In view of these concessions and incon-
sistencies the duty of the Republicans is
plain. Let them adhere to their organiza-
ton and their platform. Even if their old
enemies win elections by assuming their
uniform and adopting their doctrines, these
are only so many Acknowledgements of the
Justice of our cause. Honest Democrats uiH
prefer to support Republican doctrines in tie
Republican party, and conscientious Repub-
licans will not at such moment, to
strengthen their glorious cause, seek affilia-
ton with the Democracy. With the latter
surrendering to our progressive creed, the
day is not far distant when no party on this
continent will be found bold enough to
stand forth against the Republican organi-
cation.