Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-07-14
NE Ro SUFFRAGE!
The New York "World," the National
Democratic Organ Assents to ii.
1t Pronounces the Delaware Demo-
Gratis Hide-Bound Border
State Politicians"

tFrom the NY. World National Democratic organ,)
July 81
THE KENTUCKY DEMocRAcY-riE NEGRO
QUESTION.
In the forward movement of the great Demo-
cratic army, it seems to liz that tho Democracy
of New York in the van, and that the patriotic
Democracy OF Kentucky linger in the extreme
rear and refuse to march without great burden
OF complexities strung upon their shouldered
mnskets or inverted upon the points of their
fag-staffs. When the fifteenth amendment was
declared adopted, the Democracy of New York
at once concluded that the negro question was,
for any effective political purpose, at an end.
Our Democratic Legislature then in session,
Immediately passed an act repeating 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; bnt there was no dissent among our
selves, and we were willing to trust to results
for our yindicaton elsewhere. We have since
watched Democratic movements in other States
with much interest and some solicitnde to zee
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 State Convention, and adopted
a platform in which further opposition to negro
voting was silently withdrawn. What il more
important and significant, the Democratic Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress have re-
Gently held consultation and issued an address
in which not word is said on the negro qucs
ton, and the party is counsolled to waste M
effort on dead issues The great body of the
party IL marching up to the position taken b,
the Democracy of New York, who lead the adj
vance, with the single exception of Kentucky.
Evan II, Kaptnnlfx- tla nnrnoara,.v mr. I,t,
means unanimous as to the expediency OF re
baptising themselves as u "whte mans party,
and protracting bootess fight against the ne
gro by far the ablest Democratic paper in that
State, and one of the ablcst in the country Tia,
GOuier-.jOui1idi, of Louisville, has steadily pro
tested against hdc-bound, short-s sighted policy
which, if the whole party adopted it, could result
in nothing but continued defeat and disaster
A Journal no enlightened and vigorous as our re-
spected Louisville contemporary cannot fail /,
exert great influence, especially when iii
forcbc reasoning il backed up and reinforced
by the prevailing Democratic sentiment of tho
whole county. The COui'ier-,iourndi understand,
its epoch. Clearly discerning what opinions the
kentucky Democrats must have three or five
years hence, it takes time by the forelock, aiit
gives advice on which we do not bcstow excess
Two praise when we call il statesmanke. Its
course is already endorsed in other States aiic
will yet he universally approved in Kentuck,
itself.
The people of The Border States give them
selves unnecessary trouble in their temonstra
lions of hostility to the newly-made negro cit
aeis. Negro voting IL an evil which must be
horne for the present. whether they like it OF
not, and they may safely leave the future tC
take care of itself.
The hde-bound border State politicians do moi
seem to appreciate the great changes in the dis
tribution of population which must result from
the extinction of slavery and the freedom of the
negroes to go where their labor is in greatest