Year: 1870




Keep the White ball a Rolling


The blackest and the most infamous
Gf there can be degrees in such vilainy,
of the negro papers of New York city,
in an article advising the Democratic
party what to do in order to carry the
next Congressional election, utters the
following oracular sentence:


"What, then, is the platform where
on the Democracy intend to plant them
selves for contesting the Congressional
campaign which is now about to open !
We know nothing of their purposes :
but we assure them that if they hope
for success they must institute without
delay, and prosecute with vigor, thor
ough reform of their party in respect to
its principles, its measures and its lead
ers. The party must abandon the old
contests which sprang out Of slavery,
the war and Reconstruction"


This, we have no doubt, will be deem
ed good advice by all such papers as the
World, which can see nothing but plum
der and stealing in any political cam
paign. To get into power the Demo.
cratic party must confirm all the abom-
nations and despotisms which have
been born of the war. 1t must not dis
turb reconstruction. But more than
all, it must not oppose the negro part
of the Mongrel platform. That is, to
get into power, the Democratic party
must really adopt Mongrelism. Must
60 the whole nigger, in the name OF
Democracy. Such is the advice OF the
blackest organ ofthe black party. And
we have no doubt that there are some
fools calling themse Ives Democrats.
But, thank Heaven, their number Is
rapidly diminishing. The Democratic
party is everywhere putting on its old
garments OF constitutional right and
liberty, ana especially, of White Supre-
macy, This has become again the CEN
trsl creed of the party, All the reliable
and influential Democratic press has
nailed White Supremacy to the mast
head of the party so firmly, that it cam
not be torn down without splitting the
party into a hundred fragments. The
Newark Daily Advertiser, the leading Or
gan of the Democracy Of New Jersey,
in reply to one Of the Worlds articles
recommending the party to make no
opposition to negro voting, says:


"We enter our protest against the
Worlds political MoDgrelism as a dan.
gerous and anti Democratic doctrine,
which will do more to demoralize the
national party than even the great civil
war. Just as we have arrived at b point
where the Revolutionary follies of Rad
icalism have fully developed their mon
strous schemes of iniquity and the odi-
Gus instrumeutalities by which they are
to be enforced, the World, which seems
to be either stone-bind to the tenden-
cy of events, or wilfully treacherous to
the party it processes to serve, proposes
to obliterate the great distinctive and
pregnant issue of the day (at the ex-
pense, even of its own record, and to
plant the Democratic standard upon the
Radical battlements, basing all his hopes
of victory upon its success in catering
for or purchasing the miserable negro
votes. This is the Worlds Democracy


this its consistency-and it is, we con-
fess, about on par with its remarkable
feat during the Presidential campaign
of 1868, of hauling down the Democrat
ic standard hoisted by the National Con-
vention and setting up black flag of
its own"


We do not call to mind a single re-
liable Democratic paper which does not
speak of the World in this same vein of
distrust and contempt. There are many
leading Democrats who do not hesitate
10 avow their belief that the World is
really in the pay of the negro party. 1t
is supposed that it abuses certain mat
ters of the Grant Administration, for
the purpose of getting the confidence
of the Democratic party. which enables
it to demoralize the party whenever the
time of action arrives. However this
may be, it is certain, then, on every
one of the vital issues Of the negro par
ty, the World counsels the Democratic
party to make no fight. The leading
organ Of the New Jersey Democracy
concludes its very able rebuke of the
impudence and treachery of the World
with the followIng:--


"The unpopularity of negro voting
and negro rule has been evinced more
decidedly in the Northern States since
1860 than any other political sentiment.
Time and again. in New York, Con-
necticut, New Jersey and other States,
the people have decisively voted down
all projects for amending their State
constitutions for this purpose. The
vote of the people of New York State
| in 1860 was significant of this fact. At
that election, Lincoln being the candi-
date for President, and a vote having
been ordered on an amendment to the
constitution providing for negro suf.
frage, the result was as follows;--


Lincoln .......,....... 362, sac
Negro Suffrage. 1877, BOA
Majority against negro suffrage. l65, II:


"This would seem to be sufficiently
decisive as to the popularity of negro
suffrage; but it is supplemented by the
fact, which the World has often forOibly
demonstrated, that the Fifteenth
Amendment is a fraud upon the people
and violation of theriphts of The States