The Daily Gazette

Mr. Blaine roars in the ears of the North and South his lament over the latest discovered result of the enfranchisement of the slaves and their admission into the number of men counted as the basis of political power in the nation.

Our opinion has already been expressed that he does not reason either shrewdly or honesty on this point, and that he merely assumes, but does not show that there is a grievance because the negroes do not vote with his party. We believe, on the contrary, that the negroes have abandoned that party, and that this is an evidence of their keen perceptions. They have found that it is not to their interest to continue to act with the party that simply made them go bail for the hordes of thieves, forgers, pickpockets and scalawags of every stripe that were inflicted upon the South as republican office-holders in the carpet-bag regime, but we admit for a moment that Mr. Blaine's complaints are just, what then? In practical politics, of which Mr. Blaine is notoriously fond, it is not worth while to go into details for which you have at hand no remedy. If the negro vote has been "scooped up" by the Southern democrats, whether by chicanery, or browbeating, or by the legitimate influence of interest and intelligence, Congress has no means within its reach to remedy that fact; and all that is worth the attention of practical politicians is the result—that the South, as the final consequence of the war, has greatly increased its representation in Congress and that that representation is not divided. Politically, therefore, the consequences of the war come round to an end precisely contrary to that predicted by politicians—namely, the destruction of Southern political power.—N. Y. Herald