The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-04

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We select these States as those in which
the negro vote may prove most important
political balance of power should the Demo-
Gratis concerned persist in their foolish policy
of rejecting the blacks as political allies. We
will give few examples. Connecticut is a
closely divided State-two thousand as the
popular majority on either side being con-
sidered handsome victory. Now, allowing,
on the universal male suffrage system, one
voter to every six persons, the negro vote in
Connecticut will be near fifteen hundred-a
vote which, in close fight, may carry the
State. In New York there are, perhaps, now
sixty thousand citizens of African descent, or,
say ten thousand negro votes, which may
prove the balance of power. The same may
be said, but more emphatlcally, of the six
thousand negro voters who doubtless can
now be mustered in New Jersey. The ten
thousand negro voters of Pennsylvania may
turn the scale in that great State, while, if the
Republicans are given the five thousand negro
votes of Delaware, they will carry everything
in that quarter. So, in Maryland, the thirty
thousand negro voters going en- masse with
the Republicans, as they are likely to go,
from present appearances, may revolutionize
that State. Even in Kentucky, with her forty
thousand Democratic maj jority, the party will
not long be able to hold out in its policy of
hostility to the black race against forty thou
sand black votes
The sharpest political fight ever made in
Indiana was that ofsOctober, 1868, when the
Republicans won it by less than two thousand
majority. There are, we have no doubt, at
least three thousand, probably four thousand
negro voters in Indiana to-day, and if they are
with the Republicans they have the State safe
against all possible contingencies. We present
these considerations of the negro vote in the
States especially referred to in view of the
Importance of this vote in these States in the
elections of next October and November for
new Congress, to say nothing of Kentucky
in August. Briefly, the negro vote in half-a-
dozen of the otherwise closely contested
Northern States may establish the majority
in the next House of Representatives.
What, then, is the course which common
sense would suggest to the Northern and the
Southern border State Democracy. 1t is the
common-sense policy adopted by the old-line
Democrats and conservatives of Virginia last
summer, whereby they carried the State
and secured two United States Sena-
tors and a majority in the delegation in the
lower house of Congress-the simple policy
of cultivating the negro vote. In the cotton
States the planters, by combined action in
behalf of the negro political element, may
readily gain the most of it, In the Northern
and the late border slave States the Demo
cracy will find the task of negro Cancellation
more difficult, but still they may break the
force of the colored vote by cultivating it.
1t is morally certain that if the Democrats as
national party desire to make the reelection
of General Grant comparatively easy matter
they have only to continue in the old Demo
cratic ruts of hostility to the Constitution as
1T is and demand for the Constitution as il
was, including "the almighty Niger" Wha
say the old purblind astrologers of the party
Surely they can't expect to make much b!
persisting in the back track of "the time
honored principles of the party, which is a
dead as julius Caesar.