Year: 1870




We select these States as those in which
the negro vote may prove most important
political balance of power should the demo-
Gratis concerned persist in their foolish policy
Of rejecting the blacks as political allies. We
will give few examples. Connecticut Is a
closely divided State-two thousand as the
popular majority on either side being con
sidered handsome victory. Now, allowing,
on the universal male suffrage system, one voter
to every six persons, the negro vote in Con-
necticut will be near fifteen hundred-a vote
which, in a close fight, may carry the State.
In New York there are, perhaps, now sixty
thousand citizens Of African descent, or, say
ten thousand negro votes, which may prove
the balance Of power. The same may be said
but more emphatically, of the six thousand
negro voters which doubtless can now be
mustered in New Jersey. The ten thousand
negro voters of Pennsylvania may turn the
scale in that great State, while, if the repub-
licans are given the five thousand negro votes
of Delaware, they will carry everything in that
quarter. So in Maryland, the thirty thousand
negro voters going en- masse with the repub-
licans, as they are likely to 60, from present
appearances, may rev0utiOnize that State.
Even in Kentucky, with her forty thousand
democratic majority, the party will not long
be able to hold out in its policy of hostility
to the black race against forty thousand black
votes.


The sharpest political fight ever made in
Indiana was that Of October, 1868, when the
republicans won it by less than two thousand
majority There are, we have no doubt, at
least three thousand, probably four thousand
negro voters in Indiana to-day, and if they are
with the republicans they have the State safe
against all possible contingencies. We present
these considerations of the negro vote in the
States especially referred to in view Of the i'm
portance of this vote in these States in the
elections of next October and November for
new Congress, to say nothing Of Kentucky in
August. Briefly, the negro vote in half q
dozen of the otherwise closely contested North
ern States may establish the majority in the
next House of Representatives.


What, then, is the course which common
sense would suggest to the Northern and the
Southern border State democracy. 1t is
the common sense policy adopted by
tives Of Virginia last summer, whereby
they carried the State and secured two
United States Senators and . majority
in the delegation in the lower house Of Con-
gress-the simple policy Of cultivating the
negro vote. In the cotton States the planters,
by combined action in behalf of the negro
political element, may readily gain the most Of
it. In the Northern and the late border slave
States the democracy will find the task Of
negro Cancellation more difficult, but still they
may break the force of the colored vote by cul-
tivating it. II Is morally certain that if the
democrats as o national party desire to make
the reelection of General Grant q compara-
lively easy matter they have only to continue
in the old democratic ruts Of hostility to the
constitution as it is and demand for the
constitution as il was, including ''the almighty
nigger." What say the old purblind astrolo-
gers of the party? Surely they can't expect
to make much by persisting in the back track
Of ''the time-honorcd principles of the party, =
which is as dead az julius Caesar.


SIGNS AND TOKENS. Among the signs an d
tokens which the disrupture In tho democratic
party at Albany has created the following from
the Utica Morning Herald (radical sheeD Is
PERTINENT


Considering the fact that week ago boasts were
Mayor by 1,5o0 majority, the reduction OF that ma
jortty TO twepty-sx is substantial defeat Ephraim
Chamberlain democrat, was last year chosen Mayor
by ITO majority. MIR. Sanford democrat, for Sena-
tor had 504 majority In Utica The difference In the
result 10 due not to republicans only, but to The
hearty and cordial support OF large body OF the
best and most intelligent democrats.