Year: 1868

New 1Ofk Lhere Is m0cn Anxiety ~
played by the file leaders Of the party con-
cerning the declaration which the conven-
ton will be expected to make concerning
the two great issues on which the NoVem-
ber Campaign is to be fought-the payment
or Reputation of the national debt, and
universal suffrage. One wing of the party
is in favor Of dodging both Of these ques-
tioHs, and taking the ground that tney are
subjects with which the election OF q Presi-
dent has nothing to do. 1t is Congress,
saw thew. which will have the settlement Of
these questions in its hands, and not the
President, and it will be best for the
national convention to recommend to the
party in each State to place in nomination
candidates fer Congress who will repre-
sent the views of their own localities, while
candidate for the Presidency may be
supported without requiring him to be
pledged to any definite policy, and only
asking Of him promise to support the
Democratic majority in the Congress in
whatever course they may adopt.


In this way the reputation Democrats Of
the Western States can elect candidates
who will advocate in Congress the open
repudiation of the debt, and the bondhold-
ing Democrats Of the East can elect mem
bers who will strive to maintain the good
faith Of the government toward its credit
ors. while the Democrats of both sections
can unite upon a Presidential candidate
committed to ne policy, and willing to sign
any bill that the family hoped for Demo-
cratic majority in Congress can agree upon
In the same way, it is urged, can the ques-
ton of universal suffrage be lodged, and
the Democrats who believe that no man
who is not white has any civil or polit-
ical rights, and those who assert that sut-
frage should be based upon the principle
that while all white men, however igno-
rant or poor, have the inalienable right of
voting, the same right should be extended
only to such colored men as possess certain
educational or property qualifications, need
not quarrel with each other, but each, in their
own way, can seek to elect men who will
represent their own principles in Congress
while they unite their votes upon Presi-
dental candidate who is not committed to
one side or the other. This tricky way Of
lodging difficult and delicate questions is
very strongly advocated by some OF the
most subtle and adroit of the Democratic
leaders, but it is as strongly opposed by
others, who assert that there is no hope for
the party unless it comes out boldly and
plants itself squarely upon the platform Of
IA whites mans government" and green
backs for the bondholders." The chances
are that the eounsels of these will prevail,
and that Down with the niger" and
Down with the bondholderr' p will be the
war cries of the Democratic party.


But it is said it is one thing to deny the
suffrage to class of people who have
never enjoyed it, and quite another thing
to take it away from them after they have
once tasted Of its sweetness; and although
it may be within the limits of possibility
that the Democrats can carry majority of
the Representatives in the next Congress,
the Republican majority in the Senate will
still remain, and no bill taking the right
of suffrage from the colored people of the
South could become law, although there
might be a Democratic House Of Repre-
tatives to pass it, and a Democratic Presi-
dent to sign it. For while no Democratic
oracle was found able to explain away
this difficulty; but at length they have hit
upon the idea that the Supreme Court is
their right-hand bower. "True, the recon
struction acts can not be repealed without
the consent of the Senate SAYS the New
York World, Jt unconstitutional la,rs
need no repeal. They are completely alb
rogated from the moment that the Supreme
Court adjudges them repugnant to the Con-
stitution. 1t is well known that the Su-
preme Court regards the reconstructions
acts as unconstitutional, and would have
pronounced them 50 in the McArdle case if
the decision had not been postponed until
the next term Of the court. If the Demo-
Gratis elect the new President in
November a,sNj,Sdges uM haze courage
enough to meet Hie question in December.
The same remark will apply 20 the tenure
Of Office law, and the law which diyests the
President ofthe command Of the army. Both
are certain to be declared ooid as soon as
they can BE brought 10 the Judicial notice of
the Supreme Court" This is the programme
| Of the Democracy. Elect Democratic
House Of Representatives and Democrat
10 President; stifIen up the backbone, and
the 2ro-slayery ideas Of the Supreme Court
80 that it viii declare void the legislation
Of the thirty-ninth and fortieth Congresses;
take from the newly enfrancbised citizens
Of The South the political rights which they
won with their blood, and remand them
again to virtual il not nominal slavery
They know that the attempt to do this viii
result in bloodshed, and that the Southern
Republicans will aght in defense Of theii
rights; but they are prepared for this also
The President--the Democratic President


Is to have control Of the army, and the bay
oaets Of the soldiers Of freedom are to b,
used 70 undo the work that cost the lives 0
half millien Of patriots to achieve.


4 is only the part Of prudence 10 remem
per that this q What he Democrats prom