The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-31


and are not without respect for the kind
of self-est bred by political isolation aud
the habit of independence; but those feelings,
though they would induce us to spare after
subiugation, would not induce us to avoid
subduing. The British Parliament and the
immense majority of persons in British
America have agreed to found there grand
State; and any group of individuals who
cannot approve the plan must either endure
it patiently or depart. They cannot be
allowed to stand in the way either of the i'm
perial career, or of the destiny which the
whole empire deems the most fortunate for
the vast territory in which their settlement
is but q pretentious village.
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT-ITs
EFFECT ON PARTIES AND POLITI-
CLANS.
From the N. Y. SuN
The undoubting prophecies of the Sun for
the last six months being about to be fulfilled
by the ratification of the fifteenth amend
ment, it is we'll for party leaders to inquire
what will be its effect upon the politics of the
country.
That the amendment will ever be rescinded
is but the dream of simpletons. 1t belongs to
that class of movements that tread no steps
backwards. 1t will stand, and its provisions
will be enforced. It's adoption having closed
resist its operations will be frowned down by
the people. The politician who does not re-
cognise and respect this fact may be allowed
to count one at the polls on the day of cleo
ton, but will be taught that he is unfit to lead
great party
The amendment confers the ballot upon
about 100000 negroes, 800, 600 of whom re-
side in the old slaveholding States. 1t gives
the suffrage to $4,000 in three Southern
Stota rub oh tha fio ~, holl
tenaciously, namely: in Kentucky, $4,000; in
Maryland, "a, 500 in Delaware, 4500-a force
which may prove sufficient to revolutionize
their politics if it should all be thrown
against that party.
The old leaders of public opinion in the
late insurgent States intend to faithfully per-
form the conditions of their restoration to the
Union, negro suffrage included. 1t is to these
leaders and their followers that the Demo-
cracy of the North must look for their allies
in the South. If these Southern Democrats
ALLEVIATE from their party the mass of the
800, 600 colored voters, all the old slavehold-
ing States will cast their electoral votes
against the next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. viii the Southern Democracy
be guilty of such infatuation? BY no means;
on the contrary, they will seek to revolution
ize the politics of their several States by cul-
| tivating the negro vote. And this fact will
cratic candidates for the Presidency in
1872 every Northern Democrat who has
| made himself conspicuous in his hostility to
| uhe fifteenth amendment and has avowed his
| intention to resist its provisions. Unless we
| are to witness conversions as marvellous as
that of Saul of Tarsus this will dispose of all
such aspirants as Pendleton, Hendricks,
Packer, and Hoffman, as effectually as if they
| had already shut1ed off their mortal coil The
| taSt tn ha m pirat in
ton would not sacrifice success in their own
| States by ministering to the fruitless ambition
| of such candidates.
The higher probability is, that because of
| radical differences between Southern and
Northern Democrats, and the deep-seated
chagrin, not to say anger, which the former
feel toward the latter for accompanying them
through SO many years toward the precipice
of 1861, and then refusing to take the plunge
with them-nay, more, stretching out their
arms to push them over into its abyss-we
say, the higher probability is, that the Demo
Gratis of each section of the Union will present
a candidate of their own. The rapidly de-
veloping tendency to break up existing parties
because of the disappearance from the arena
of the issues upon which they were founded
will powerfully contribute toward this result.
Party chiefs, whose convictions do not
strike beneath the skin, may try to avert this
catastrophe by casting about in search of q
candidate upon whom they can compromise
their differences. Nor would the search be
wholly in vain. The imposing figure of Chief
Justice Chase would Immediately arrest the
eye He is genuine Democrat and tho
roughly orthodox on negro suffrage. In the
FreeSoi struggle of 1048 he presided ove1
the convention which nominated Van Buren,
and was then a favorite of the New Yorl
Barnburners. He is highly esteemed at the
North, is popular at the South, and is very
Talleyrand for forming successful coalitions
Then, there is young John Quincy Adams
who believes in the fifteenth amendment
combines an extraordinary degree of talent
and tact with rare courage and audacity
springs from famous old stock, and woult
give animation to the canvass by reviving the
Revolutionary ode of ''Adams and Liberty.
Nor need the sticklers for an ingrainet
Democratic candidate, one dyed in the wool
despair Governor Seymour has been yer,
reticent of late about the fifteenth amend
ment, not unwilling, perhaps, to see his rival
and opponents in this State break their neck
. over stumbling block which he preferred t.
| avoid. Even during the campaign of 1868
while he was on his stumping tour in tn
West, he was wary enough to talk a grea
, deal about finances, and very little abou
negroes. And though he could not find tim
, to attend the last Democratic State Conven
} ton, he has since found ample leisure t.
attend State conventions about the canal
: and about cheeses, and we think he woul
) not object to running for the Presidency one
? more And there is long-headed Sanford /
/ Church, for whom New York cast her thirty
three votes so many times in the last Nations
Conventions; he is a Democrat of the old an