Year: 1868

The New York Evening Post says, with
reference to the recent extruslon OF coloreo
members from the Georgia Legislature, that
sit is an unwise act for any political party to
prosecute its opponents. . And. it adds
"Nor is it safe for any party in this country
to plant itself upon policy OF injustice
The American people are too manly, they
have too hearty love of equal justice and OF
fair play, long to tolerate injustice, even where
il panders to their most obstinate prejudices.


In delivering this opinion the Post pro-
nounces the doom of its own party. All the
labors of the leading spirits of that party
have been devoted to plundering the people
ON the one hand, and to prosecuting their
political opponents on the other hand, as
means of perpetuating their system OF spolla-
ton We have believed all along that this
course however it might suit the purposes OF
certain individuals of the party, gratifying
the malignity Of some and the rapacity OF
others, was for the party itself at once fatu-
ously unwise and wantonly wicked And
now one of the foremost Radical journals, in
general terms, testifes to the soundness OF
this 6elief, and confesses the fatal stupidity
which the party committed in fancying that it
could invigorate itself by persecution, and
find permanent safety by planting itself upon
policy of injustice.


The Radical leaders, in DISTINGUISHING
Southern whites, as they did in the recon-
struction laws, and in approving the disfrsn-
chisement of Northern negroes, as they did in
n
over the South " little battle flags" after the
fashion of Sheridan. from whose folds seeds
of war have been scattered throughout the
land, fondly supposed that the people of the
North would cordially tolerate this outrage
upon equal justice and fair play, because it
pandered to their sectional prejudices. Ac.
cording to the Posts estimate of the manliness
and conscience of the American people, those
leaders egregiously blundered in thus reckon
ing and they have incurred the reprobation
of the public opinion which they insulted
while pretending to fatter, and must witness
the miscarriage of the policy of injustice which
they thought TO make secure through the sup
mort of the worst and most irrational OF popu-
lar prejudices-


The Post wishes to apply the principle
which it lays down on the subject of party in
Justice to the Democratic party at large be-
canse few Democrats in the Georgia Legisla-
ture united with white Radicals in the same
body in unseating certain colored members.
Eut the Democratic party at large has nothing
to do whatever with this matter. 1t leaves
the question of suffrage and the question OF
official eligibility to be disposed of in the sew
eral States as the people of each may think
best. In point of fact, the ousting of certain
| colored members from the Georgia Legisla-
ture is the result of Radical policy as devel-
| oped in the present Constitution of that
| State, framed by Radical convention, and
accepted by the Radical Congress. Under
this Constitution negroes are ineligible to
seats in the Legislature. If this be an unjust
feature of the Constitution, the Post cannot
deny that it was Radical injustice which put
il there; and, as a consequence, it must admit
that if the colored men referred to were un
Justly deprived of seats in the Legislature, il
was also, in logical truth, Radical injustice
which elected them.


The principle asserted Dy the fost anu Tue
general soundness of which We concede, car
not be applied in an unfavorable sense to the
Democratic party, for the reason that this
party is out of power and has no means
even if so disposed, of prosecuting its oppo
nents and planting itself upon policy of in
justice. Circumstances have devolved upoi
the Democrats the Office of practically de
monstrating the force of this principle, in tn
name of the people, and on behalf of tn
country. The Post may be assured that tn
Democrats. when in power, will aim to plan
themselves on policy of equal justice AM
fair play and the Radicals will have thei
deserts-which are precisely what they do no
want.


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