Year: 1870

The man who tried to sit on two
stools. and failed-the donkey which.
perplexed by the rival attractions of
TWO different stacks of hay, stood irres-
olute between them and starved-the
bold captain in the Beggar's Opera who,
allured at once by two diverse loves,
sings, "How happy could | be with
either. Were t'other dear charmer
away.n unite to read lesson which the
Democratic managers should take TO
heart aa q warning. They are in danger
of being sent to Coventry while they are
making up their minds whether 10 cut
in for a share of the Negro vote or
eschew it altogether. In fact, the party
is lust now in the state of the short-lived
chicken with two heads and four legs.
none of which could be made available
because of the perverse action of the
others.


Why Jack wouldn't eat his supper,
was a puzzling mystery until some one
suggested the very simple explanation
he couldn't get any. No one had the
heart to blame bis abstinence as churi-
ish after that. And perhaps the Demo
Gratis of Delaware are justified by 1t IN
the solemn resolve they have just pro-
claimed, under the lead OF ex-senator
Bayard, that they will seek no Black
vote, but sink or swim by the aid of
Whites alone. Their calculation that
they can win over a few half-and-half
as 1.-The White Mans party-no room in
it for niggersu may be shrewd and we'll
considered. Having fought Black En-
franchisement to the bitter end, they
could not reasonably expect to get many
negro votes Just now; and, should they
gam even fifty Whites by keeping up a
war of prescription against the Blacks,
this may be the best that they can do,
and may possibly enable them to hold
the State.


But there are States where the Blacks
are a majority of the voters, or very
near il; and the Delaware policy will
here be ruinous. South Carolina, Mis-
sissippi, and even Louisiana, can only
be carried for "White Mans party"
by driving the Blacks from the polls, or
compelling them to vote for their own
degradation. Kentucky may be carried
OIL the bred Scott platform; but not all
its Congress districts; Maryland can
scarcely be contested with safety on
that basis; while Virginia, North Caro-
lima, and Georgia, are ali Republican
States if their entire Black vote is given
over without contest by their Sham De-
mocracy. Concede the franchise to the
Blacks, as was so freely done in Virginia
last year, and Democratic triumph in
each is quite attainable; compel them
all to vote Republican, and they insure
a Republican triumph. Hence, our
Senator NJ. Norton, The Chicago Times,
and a good many more such, insist that
resistance to Black Enfranchisement is
played out-that their party must re-
spect accomplished facts, and hence
forth practice ON the Dutchman's sensi
bic rule-"All are fish that come to my
net"


We respectfully suggest that Mr.. Bel
mont shall call together Ills Democratic
National Committee and have it lay
down the law OF the case. If the Pope,
being infallible, needs the moral sup
port of Council to place the fact be-
yond dispute, the Democratic party
needs an authoritative statement of what
is its position on the Question OF the
Day. We hope soon to hear that the
call is out.


Let US have peace" in the perturbed
bosom of Sham Democracy.-LN New York
Tribune.