The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-11

political degradation. Both are disappointed,
and both are eager TO destroy the great politi-
cal organization that once nurtured them and
conferred upon them positions of honor and
distinction. In view of these facts, Colonel
Thomas should forever refrain from alluding
to the records of his political antagonists.
Judge Kelley has worked himself up from
a poor boy-a' hard-working mechanic-to
the proud and honorable position he now oc-
cupies. He has ever been favorite speaker
in Chester county because he has always
been regarded as a representative of the labor
ing class, and steadfast friend of the rights
of the poor and oppressed
THE KENTU CKY DEMOCRACY - THE
NEGRO QUESTION.
From the " Y. World
In an era of transition q great political
party bears some resemblance to o marching
army. When an army breaks up its encamp-
ment and moves forward to an advanced po-
sition, the whole body is not set in simulta-
neous motion. The alert regiments which are
to lead the van are first on their feet, and,
with beating drums and flying colors they
may be far on their march before their faith
full comrades appointed to bring up the rear
have gathered up their camp equipage.
Every part of great army cannot be in the
front. Military discipline has no seventies
for the hindmost msvely because they are be-
doned by an indulgent commander, If the
loiterers we're in other respects good soldiers,
and did not seem disposed to hang back and
separate themselves from the army in its for
ward movement. When an army breaks up
its camp to advance against the enemy in q
new position, it frequently has to abandon
some part of the heavy baggage and camp
equipage which would cucumber and impede
it's march. If, when the great body had
i'll Er,hf ord a,n
or two regiments tagging in the rear should
attempt to gather up all the abandoned
whiskey-casks and camp-kettles, refusing to
proceed without mass of luggage which
they were unable to carry, their comrades
would not consider them as very enlightened
soldiers.
In the forward movement of the great
Democratic army, 1t seems to us that the
! Democracy of New York are in the van, and
that the patriotic Democracy of Kentucky
! linger in the extreme rear and refuse to
march without a great burden of camp
kettles strung upon their shouldered muskets
or inverted upon the points of their flag
staffs. When the fifteenth amendment was
declared adopted, the Democracy of New
York at once concluded that the negro ques-
ton was, for any effective political purpose,
at an end. Our Democratic Legislature, then
in session, Immediately passed an act repeal
ing all the State laws that Disseminated
| against persons of color; and we carried the
State election which soon followed by an
unprecedented majority. We felt some
doubt whether the Democracy of other
States would Immediately approve our course;
| but there was no dissent among ourselves,
and we were willing to trust to results for our
vindication elsewhere. We have since watched
| Democratic movements in other States with
much interest and some solicitude, to see how
far they were likely to follow our lead
Except in Kentucky we have found nothing
but encouragement. The Democratic party
of Ohio has since held a..State convention,
and adopted platform in which further
opposition to negro voting was silently with
drawn. What is more important and signif-
cant, the Democratic Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress have recently held O
consultation and issued an address in which
not q word is said on the negro question, and
the party is counselled to waste no effort on
dead issues. The great body of the party is
marching up to the position taken by the
Democracy of New York, who lead the
advance, with the single exception of Ken
lucky.
Even in Kentucky the Democracy are by
no means unanimous as to the expediency Of
rebaptizing themselves as a ''white mans
party" and protracting q bootless fight
against the negro. BY far the ablest Demo
cratic paper in that State and one of the
ablest in the country, the Courier Journal of
Louisville, has steadily protested against a
hide-bound, short-sighted policy, which, if
the whole party adopted it, could result in
nothing but continued defeat and disaster.
A journal so enlightened and vigorous as our
respected Louisville contemporary cannot
fail to exert great influence, especially when
its forcible reasoning is backed up and rein
forced by the prevailing Democratic senti-
ment Of the whole country. The Courier
Journal understands its epoch. Clearly dis
cerning what opinions the Kentucky Demo.
cracy must have three or five years hence, it
takes time by the forelock and gives advice
on which we do not bestow excessive praise
when we call it statesmanlike. Its course is
already endorsed in other States, and will YET
be universally approved in Kentucky itself.
The people of the Border States give them
selves unnecessary trouble in their demon
strations of hostility to the newly-made negro
citizens. Negro voting is an evil which mus
be borne for the present, whether they like il
or not; and they may safely leave the future
to take care of itself. 1t will probably turr
out that the white inhabitants of the Border
States have no greater permanent interest il
this question, so far as it affects their loca
prosperity, than the white people DWELLING
north of the Ohio and of Mason and Dixont
line. 1t is almost certain that the great bull
of the negro population will, in the course o.
the ensuing ten or twenty years, make
great exodus from the Border to the Gull
States. The negro is a child of the sun
which has supplied the pigment which black
ems his skin. His native country is scorchei
with tropical heat and hot climates are coz
! genial to his constitution. A great part OF
the negroes living in the Northern States anG
Canada are fuRitives, or the descendants Of
fugitives, from Southern slavery; and with