Year: 1868

''same as in do old times done gone away" but
by and by the farm, the cabin and the mule to
daddy, and the garden, chickens and COW to the
old woman, and ''none to make them afraid"


In this frame Of mind the Southern blacks
need only democratic Presidential candidate
whose name lisa guarantee that their civil and
political rights conceded by Congress will be
respected by him. Give them such man and
they will give him the balance of power in every
one of the late rebel States voting in this cleo
ton, not excepting Tennessee There is only
one man for the democracy who can meet this
requisition, while at the same time he can fur
nish . satisfactory record as genuine Union
democrat upon the supremacy Of the constitu-
don against the radical theory and practice Of
the supremacy of military law. We have
shown, too, that on the all-important money
question Mr.. Chase, the founder of our hnan-
cial system for the war, is the very man to
shape it to the just demands of the people and
the wants Of the country under peace estab-
lishment Thus while he is the most available
man to cope with General Grant in the East
and the West, Chase is the only man who as
the democratic nominee this year can gain the
negro balance Of power in the reconstructed
South, including North Carolina, Tennessee
and Arkansas, South Carolina, Georgia, Flori-
da, Alabama and Louisiana.


II will be remembered that Immediately after
the collapse of jeff Davis and his confederacy
the Chief Justice made political or philan
thrOpic tour of observation through the South
ern States-an expedition rendered somewhat
conspicuous from his public assurances to the
blacks at various points touching their freedom
and their civil and political rights. From that
time the Chief Justice became special fa-
vorite among the freedmen for the Presidential
succession, and they have not forgotten him.
To be sure, these "reminiscences clash some
what violently with the copperhead Jefferson
Bricks short catechism on negro suffrage,
which winds up with ''damn nigger anyhow"
but we must deal with things as they are.
Negro suffrage in the reconstructed Southern
States is a fixed fact Negro votes in those
States may turn the scale in the Presidential
election, and turn it against the radical party
with Chase in the field as the democratic can





didate. We see, too, from various develop
ments in the South, that even the old fre-eaters,
dyed in the wool, of white supremacy and
negro subordinatiOn, get along very well with
''nigger suffrage" when represented by demo-
cratic niggers. The only trouble is that upon
the capital stock Of negro emancipation and en-
franchisement the radicals South have secured
the mass of the negro voters against the mass
of the whites. Now, consulting the interests Of
their position in the same community with the
whites, these blacks are ready for change of
tactics. They find that black mans party
against white mans party is pro6tless and
full Of danger. Give them chance, and this
blunder will be repaired. Give them Chase az
the democratic nominee, and in the division of
the Southern blacks between the two parties
not only will the radicals be defeated, but by
the very element created by them as radical
balance of power, and harmony between
Southern whites and blacks will be estab-
lished.