Year: 1868

tnau oncejInu nave acquircu soine Id
miliarity with his favorite phrases.
When he states proposition and as
sures us that "no rational man can
doubt it," or adopts very emphatic
mode of assuming or asserting its truth,
we have contracted habit of expecting
something exceedingly extravagant and
absurd. In the present instance, our
have not been disap-
pointed.


To the unrefecting reader, the i'm
preston derived from these articles will
be, that Democratic leaders in this
State and in all the States" had taken
the author into their special confidence,
and had revealed to him all their plans
and hopes and fears. Now, we doubt
this. Nay more, we assume the respons-
ibility of saying-it is not so. He
might prove a faithful contidant and
valuable counsellor for the Democracy,
but we have not yet been able to sec it.
Besides, if our leaders in this State and
in all the States have told him our Sc
crets, it is unkind to publish them right
off in the Intelligencer. The truth is,
he assumes much but knows nothing ;
and we take the liberty of assuring
" the rejecting, intelligent and honest"
readers of the Intelligencer that what he
has said on the subject is all "bosh."


Nor do the gentleman's predictions
always come true. We have not forgot
ten that he assumed the prophetic man
tie in 1861. He then told us, and un-
for him the prediction was
recorded, that 81 DO not believe this
can permanently be held
together by military force. l do not
believe that any section of this confed-
eracy will ultimately snbjugate and
oveIrun the other, and hold it as con-
quered province. have no idea of any
such thing. 1t is against the spirit and
genius of the age. Nobody would at
tempt any such thing. l regard civil
war as really settling the question that
there is to be ultimately n separate con-
federacy. I have no idea that such
war could end otherwise than in separ-
alton of this Union, and the organiza-
ton of separate confederacies. l am
perfectly satisfied of that. Anybody
that supposes that fifteen or even seven
or eight of the States can be held as
subjugated and conquered provinces
makes a great mistake. But whether
they can or not, they ought not to be.


1t is against the spirit and genius of the
age; and no man ought to seek to


do it."


This prediction of 1861 signally fail
ed. So, no doubt, will the prediction
of 1868. We are told, in effect, that we
will restore a wonderful prosperity to
the South, by maintaining negro gov
ernments there. The creation of vast
St. Domingo within the Union is to
"end at once and forever the apprehen-
sions of fresh troubles that now per-
wade business circles" Gen. GRANT, if
elected, will enforce this policy; peace
and tranquility will be restored all
over the country; wonderful prosperi-
ty will return to the South; and the ma
terial interests of the country will no
longer suffer from the uncertainties OF
the future! We cannot see it. We fear
this prediction will fail as signally as
the other one; and that our tranquility
will be such as BRowNLOw has estao-
lished in Tennessee.


1t is now admitted that this "settle-
ment," as it is called, which GRANT, if
elected, is to enforce upon the country,
assumes "the civil and political equality
of all men," and is based upon the prin-
ciple that "no person or persons on ac-
count of race, color or previous condi-
tion shall be deprived of any political
or civil right, privilege or immunity
enjoyed by any other class OF men,"
We could express this more briefly.
In its application to the South, it means
not merely negro suffrage and negro
but negro supremacy. Under
the auspices of General GRANTS admin
istration, the white man is to be per-
manently disfranchised, the negro is
to rule, and the Yankee car
pet Dagger is to lead the negro by the
ncse whithersoever he pleases, and to
plunder at his discretion blacks and
whites alike. We have always con-
tended that il was coming to this. But
we do not recollect to have seen it be-
fore so plainly avowed.


We thank the author Of these editori-
ais for his boldness and candor in stat
ing the great principle of his party
He tells US now, plainly enough, that
this civil and political equality of all
men, without regard to race or color,
"is the only foundation on which a
democratic government can rest" and
that he who resists the acceptance OF
so Just principle as this must accept
a classification with the enemies of pop
ular government" This great princi'
pie is to be the cornerstone of a new
Radical administration and it is to re-
store a wonderful degree eff tranquility
and prosperity to the country.


The avowal of such doctrines in West
Virginia shows that we have taken an
other stride, and long one, IN the


downward path of Radical progress.


Radicals Thr owing up the sponge.


The Philadelphia Erening Telegraph