New-York tribune., 1871-04-07

Homer A. Nelson, Marshall b. Champln,
James Brooks, William Cassidy, &c, &c.
They uouM make record which must compel
every colorod voter to detest them and their
party evermore.
The World-which habitually magnifies its
own sagacity and prescience-now asserts that
it has
for the last three or four years trying to impress
upon the Democratic party the wisdom Of hanging Its
lights tho bow of the ship to disclose tho rocks and
qucksands be shnnnod in its instead or hang
ing them on tho stern TO back useless glare on the
| tumultuous waters through which IL has passed"
The facts do not justify this boast. The
W0rld-to say nothing of matters ike the
Connecticut Election. which The World would
fain outlaw-never demonstrated against the
stupid malignity wherewith it's party opposed
Impartial Suffrage in our constitutional Con-
vention less than four years ago. 1t uttered
no warning against the vchemence wherewith
that party voted against Equal Rights when
that question was specially submitted in
voting upon the Constitution OF 1877 at
the election of 1862 1t was standing by
and consentngn when all the Demo
Gratis but two or three in the Legislature
of 1869 voted against the XVIII Amendment to
the Federal Constitution, and again in 1870
when the assent which Republican Legisla-
turc had given to that Amendment was re-
tracted by its Democratic successor. An earnest,
manly word in season might have saved the
! Democrats from one or more of these blunders;
but The World did not speak that word. Was
it stone blind then, or is it forgetful nowf
The World pivots itself upon Mr.. Fernando
Wood, who is reported as having recently said
in the House,
"The Democratic party has no desire 10 interfere uh
those amendments to NE Constitution which gire free and
equol suffrage all The people Of he United States The
Democratic pGrly ,ooid gire tD he oOoTed all the
political aud eirrights vhich hey cOudg give any other
class Of the people, bat we do object that they shall DO
made political engine for the accomplishment OF wicked
purposes We do object that nlammatory speeches,
such as were made yesterday by the gentleman nom
Pennsylvania, should be made to them to excite them
against the Democracy and their former masters, 80 as
to get up in the Southern States Of and per
pctuae tho political dOminancy OF the party now IN
power. That is what object to. The day is speedig
COMING aud hope has already come Uhen Ae cotoreo
race Of he United Siaies iH their position IN he
country free aud Independent voters; that they maybe
aoped 10 judge Of men and parties and principles Jor
! hemseses; that they may find among their own class
able and patriotic ieadeTs Dho uW saV 10 hem BE no
longer The Instruments Of demogogueS beiiepe hat
among the coored found those oho are patriotic,
| honest, and rational"
Comments by the Tribune
! The Blacks, so lately rescued from Slavery
and armed with the Ballot are absolutely
obliged, for the present, to heed the monitlon,
Be good to yourself ~ Many of them are
ignorant some are vicious and degraded but
there is not negro in the land so
benighted as not to know that the Demo-
Gratis have fought against their Enfran
Il, llty
they had previously resisted their Emancipa-
ton. So long as there was chance of keep
ing them enslaved or non voters, the Demo-
Gratis clung to that chance like shipwrccked
mariner TO his plank. But Slavery is dead, and
Enfranchisement not only achieved but fOrti-
fled by constitutional provision which rem
ders it imperative and universal, and which
there is no rational hope of repeating. But
for this no one imagnes that Fernando Wood
or The World would raise the flag which in
dicatos surrender
We shall be very glad to learn that the
Democratic party is at length convinced that
it is suicidal longer to fight against the stars
Gin their courses" That party can never dis
franchise the Blacks but it may drive them
from the polls or compel them to vote a ticket
they abhor, as it did in Georgia and Louisiana
in 1868, or it may kill them as it has done, is
doing, in several States, on the assumption
that dead men cast no votes. Averse to both
these Democratic expedients we shall rejoice
when assured that they are henceforth to be
given up.
But confidence is plant Of slow growth
Hitherto, n cOlored man who voted the Demo-
cratic ticket voted in effect that his race ought
to have no Right of Suffrage. He voted
against his own manhood, and so that self
respecting negro could with difficulty restrain
the natural, human desire to take him by the
throat. If the Democratic party shall explicit
ly, cOnclusively renounce the policy of enslave-
ment and prescription, it may gradually win to
its standard such negroes as prefer whisky to
self-respcct. But it must not expect to reap
until some time after it shall have sOwn. 1t
must be resigned to win confidence before it
can hope to profit by it. Let it rebuke and
disband its Ku-Klux bands, whose sworn pur-
pose it is to restore "White Mans Govern
"ment," with the Constitution it was be-
fore the XIVth and XVth Amendments were
adopted. In short let it take the back track
openly, squarey with reasonable unanimty,
and it may in time win its way back to
power. But let it undertake to carry water
"On both shoulders" and it will inevitably go
to the wall.
FALSE SYMPATHY WITH FRENCH REBELS.
A "SOcal Democrat" complains that we have
never conceded the right of the Parisians to
II ~, al &c L.