Smyrna times., 1870-07-20

justice and the laws are against HIM ia short
everything is against him, yet he comes and is
Fecelved-finds employment and makes money
John? And everyone seems more interested
in the question than John himself.
! If there is any thing that excites the DHt-
'cdreHN ire it is for us to quote some promi
hent Democratic authority in favor of negro
suffrage, or show how the Democratic party
accepts the issues of the Republicans Every
such quotation shows the 0imSiucss of the as
sertions of that paper that the Democratic party
Of the country will keep aloof from the negro
vote, and that it will attempt to swing into
power by appealing to the preiudiceq of race.
The leaders know that they cannot carry great
national ISSUES upon such prctext, and they
are accordingly taking the border State poIiti
clans to task for iniuring the prospects of the
party by their " hide-bound" course in crying
white mans party" The New York World,
the National Democratic organ, reads them the
following lecture for their shOrtsightedness:
In the forward ovcment the great Democratic army it
seems to us that the Democracy New are in tho van
and that the patriotic Democracy Of Krnucky nSer in the
eVtree" 9rar and refuse without great burden 81
cemrettrs strung their srucrcd muskpts or nvrrt
ed uPoh the points OF their tag stats Hhrn the fifteenth
am'rFeh was declared adopted the Democracy oil Ncw York
az once concluded that the question vas euy cic
tive political purpose. end Democratic reeyature
then ii session. immctcy passed an act repeating all the
at, TS that Disseminated persons OF color md we
carried TIE state election winch by an unprece-
ecd majority We felt doubt whether the Democracy
OF other States would Immediately approve our course but
as n digSpu on1op
trSt to results for vincation elsewhere We have since
watched Democratic movements other with much in
te?2Hf and some socude, to how they were likely to
follow our lead Except Kentucky we have found
out encoura%ement The Democratic party has Since
held state Convention and adopted a platform in which
iurther opposition to negro voting silently withdrawn
what more important and significant the Democratic Sen-
tors and Representatives in have recently held con-
sultaon and ISSUED an address in which void is said on
the negro question: and the party counsci 70 waste o
effort on dead issues The great body of the party
up to the position taken by tire Democracy Of New York who
lead the advance, With the single except of Krnturkv
EYenfn Kentucky the Democracy are 10y no mrsrs ubau
nous as to the eNpedency OF rebaptisng themselves
"whltrmans party and prbracng ho7tess fight against
the negro BY tar the Sbest Democratic paper in tint state
ana one O TIC ahest IN the country the Courier uurna
louisville has steadily protested hide bound short
sighted policy which If the whole party adopted it, could re-
suit III nothing but continued defeat and Als7.tpr journal
so enlightened and vigorous respected Louisville con
temporary cannot fail TO exert influence especially
when ITS orcbc reasoning backed up reinforced by the
prevailing Democratic sentiment of the whole country The
CoGrr-JournU underestimate epoch Clearly Discerning
what opinions the Kentucky Democrats must have three
hve years hence takes time by the f0reoc gives advice
which do bcstow excessive prais, when we call il
satesmanke Its is alresy endorsed other States
and viii yet re universally approved in Kentucky itself
The people he Border States give themselves
trouble in their demonstrations OF hostility the made
negro Citizens Negro +otng Is evil which must be horne
Tor the present whether they like it or net and they NAV
! safely leave the future o take care Of Itself
The hdebound border politicians do not seem to ap
prccate the great changes in the distribution population
which must result from the extinction slavery and the free
dom Of the to where their labor is in de-
mgnd and best