Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-08
Reconciliation.

Reconciliation.
The strength, such as it is, of Greeley's claim
/ upon the support of anybody who has ever sym.
pathized with the republican party, is that, in
accepting him as their candidate, the democrats
north and south formally and sincerely express
/ their acceptance of the results ACCOMPLISHED by
| the war and the recent amendments to the con.
| stitution. Greeley is the democratic candidate;
republicans are urged to vote for him on the
preteuce that he is the candidate of a converted
and reformed democracy; if the party to be
| placed in power by his election were known
TO be the old democracy, unchanged, with sub
stantially its old purposes, aims and preju-
dices, of course no conscientious republicans
| could be seduced into voting for him. The
democratic leaders who support Greeley make,
| pIofusely enough, vague declarations that they
accept everything, and the party has adopted a
| platform which is claimed to be a good enough
statement of republican principles. When adj
| dressing themselves directly to the business of
making votes for their party, their declarations
seem sometimes to be unexceptionable. They
| have no fear of alternating democratic votes, for
the members of that party who will consent at
any price TO bemustered into the coalition ranks,
| either blindly obey orders or themselves under
stand the game, and trust the previous charac-
ter of their leaders instead of their present pro-
fessons.
But we are not without some sure indications
| of tine real opinions and purposes of the demo-
cratic party in regard to matters which all agree
have an important bearing on the future of the
nation; The matter of negro suffrage for in
stance, secured by an amendment of the consti-
| tuition and formerly acquiesced in for campaign
purposes by the Greeley party, is one of these.
All who haye been republicans, whether they
| still adhere to that party name, or prefer il
with the prefix "lberal, will agree that this
| question should be regarded as settled finally
and in the only right and wise way. The dem
ocratic followers of Greeley profess TO accept
this settlement, but on the question whether they
are sincere or not, some light is thrown by
a document just issued from the congressional
printing office with the signatures of severa
leading democrats in congress. 1t is the report
of the minority of the kuklux committee pre-
scented to congress after the nomination oil
Greeley, and containing the deliberate and Off
cially expressed opinions of such democrats as
Senators Bayard and Blair, and Representatives
Cox, Beck, Van Trump, Waddell, Robinson and
Hanks, all of whom were members of that com.
mttee and signers of the report. They call the
possession Of the elective franchise by negroes
an abnormal" and unnatural" state of things
| thar must end before very long, either by rup
ture of the government or by other means
when the condition of the negro will become
| ~ "a. .I,,
become extinct. The following extract from
the report is given as a specimen of its DECLARE
tons OF this subject
But while the negroes of the south have posi-
ton and power in the administration of public
affairs now, who can say-who can look into the
future so clearly as TO enable him to say-how
long this unnatural state of things will exist
No one is so president as TO be able TO fix the
period of its duration, but that it must end
somehow, and at some time not in the distant
future no philOsophc thinker will doubt 1t is
altogether too abnormal, too much opposed Il
the instructive ieeng-some will say preiudiceS
of the white race to endure beyond a peculiar
| condition of popular opinion brought about by
a war prosecuted in the end for the freedom
if not the reimbursement of the negro
| Gradually in time and under a change oil
circumstances this exceptional state of the pop
ulaT mind will wear OUT and pass away and
public opinion will yibrate back to its old condi-
ton as it existed prior to the disturbing inhu-
ences of the war. This will be brought about
by one of two things, either by rupture Of the
government itself or the springng up of some
new and all powerful party out OF the ruins oil
| existing political organizations. When either
of these two things shall occur-and God grant
it may not be the frst-it will be the political
death of the negro on this continent. So far as
it relates to his future solidity as a race commin
| ged with whites within the Union, he will bt
| in worse condition than he was in a state o
slavery, for the inevitable tendency will be tC
segregate him from the white race, and, if no
transported TO some other country, he viii
slowly but surely pass away like the aborgnes
and his place among us, like that OF the Indian
will be known no more forever.