The Democratic advocate., 1870-10-27

DC assured, rclleI VIII come from no
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The Recent Elections & their Teachings.
The recent elections in other States
present certain facts which cannot fail
to attract attention. They deserve con.
sideration because of the influence they
are likely to have upon the future we'll.
being of the country. They show, in
the FIRST place, that the power of the
Radical party is on the wane. 1t has
to lament the loss of many members of
Congress, aud to deplorc the detection
Of one entire State. Its triumphs have
been achieved by majorities so
diminished, as to indicate the breaking
up of its organization at no very dis
tant future.
In the second place these facts demon.
strate that, without the negro vote, the
Radicals would be unable to resist the
popular condemnation of their principles
and their measures of public policy
The Radical party has no hold on the
Intelligence Of the country aud therefore
seeks to perpetuate its power by antago.
nizing races, socially and politically.
In this effort, it feels the utter impos,
sibility Of elevating the negro to the
level of the white race and, therefore,
seeks to drag the latter down to the
low standard of the former. Thus. for
the next generation to come at least,
we are to have ignorance substituted
for Intelligence the arrogance of i'm.
bruted instincts and Habits for the re.
iuemeuts of cultivated intercourse; aud
the retrogression Of semi barbarism for
the advancing movements of modern
civilization. Such results are the logi.
cal sequence of Radical policy. We do
not assert that these results are advo-
Gated By the wiser aud better men of
the Radical party We believe, on the
contrary. that many of that party would
at once stop in their movements if they
could lorsee that such results are the
inevitable consequence of them. Nor
do We pretend to assert that these
results will follow as an inyincbIe ne.
ccssity. We have brighter view of
the future. We are more hopeful even
Of the present. We expect that, both
in the present and future, there may
be found enough of intelligence and
patriotism to avert consequences that
would be so disastrous Our expecta-
tions, however, are not based upon the
success Of the Radical party, but upon
the triumph Of the Democracy. What
we do assert is, that, if the Radicals
succeed in making their principles the
basis of our polity, there is no escape
from the consequences VIC have already
indicated. The reasoning by which
such conclusion is maintained is not
of the Gemonstrative kind; but il is not
the less cogeat and impressive. Two
races exist in the country. A few
years ago one Of these was in a eondi-
tion of seryitude. They were slaves.
They were ignorant, brutal, savage
The other was the dominant race---in-
telligent, cultivated, christian. By the
accidents of war, but chiefly through
the instrumentality Of faction raised
to temporary power, the slave passed at
a bound from slavery to freedom. The
transition was sudden. lie had not
changed, in his moral and intellectual
condition, whit more than he had
changed in the color Of his skin, or in
the composition OF his features. He
was simply negro, aud with all the
grossness, morally and intellectually Of
his race. The party through whom this
revolution was effected, needed this
emancipated negro for the purpose Of
securing permanent power in the gov
erumcut. They affiliated with him as
sured for him capacity which he did
not possess; granted TO him consid-
GRAFTON and care they did not vouchsnfe
to white freemen; lavished the public
treasures TO supply the needs Of his
improvidence; and finally clothed him
with the ballot in order to give force
aad effectiveness 10 him as a political
entity, This assiduous husbandry has
secured the anticipated harvest. At
the late elections the negroes we're
marched in herds ike cattle to the
polls. They we're led By their white
allies, and exercised no more intelligence
in casting their votes, than does i nail