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} m r no t satisfied with demanding, as the result <>f its ease, that she siudi vote, it that alt women shall vote. It lias fouiid a white blackbird, and is ready to U , ar fi u wn the whole fabric of Govern l.ont, if it is »»ot forthwith admitted that jj blackbirds are white. In the same “ av some bright particular Negro star— generally, however, not a Negro, but a Jail-breed, w hose white blood gives him t'l e brains that arc adduced to show the J'vinity of his black—is pitched on as proving that Toiissaint J/Ouverture is j.'‘ thf , r ®hc rule than the exception amODg \fricans. This star is put through all the modes and paces of the # Old Bailey ,'!},oo!. It is shown he can write, ergo , ]] Negroes write; he can read, ergo , all lead; iio knows that suffrage is not kept in brigs, ergo, his race must vote. This, vou si e, is the philosophy of exceptions ;, nn , na d —the same sublime generaliza tion of particulars as made the man who (bund the first Frenchman lie met at Calais red-headed, immediately jot down in note book: Mem. All Frenchmen have red hair. Another fundamental difference between those two theories of suffrage, is, that the Sensible makes fitness convertible with the public weal, while the Fanatic utter ]r disregards the idea of utility. How will this do in the long run, is the touch stone of the Sensible theory; granting that there are, exceptionally, lit cases among women, and among Negroes, can the extension of suffrage to such excep- bo made consistent with the general benefit of the body politic ? Will not the xcluded of those classes, to which the exceptions belong, be stirred up to mu tiny, by what they may deem invidious preference to certain of their fellows? Will it not disorganize home relations to bring women into the arena? Will the introduction of an alien and unimprova ble race engender animosities, or no ? How will it do, in the long run and on the whole? It finds that it won’t do at all. Men hold life, liberty, and property, only H) long as the possession thereof is com patible with the weal of that society in which they live. These are all termed “inalienable rights/’ but that only means inalienable otherwise than by due course ot law. We alienate murderers from life, burglars from liberty, libellers from property. All for the good of the whole, you see; and for this same good wc for bid the exceptional woman and excep tional Negro the franchise, lest, by ill ex ample, they keep up perpetual bub-bub in the State and in the home. The Fanatic theory combats ail this. It insists upon its white blackbird. Perish the whole world, otherwise than that all women an and all Negroes come to the polls. What is the peace of society ? What the sanctity of the home ? What that pride of race which is as instinctive as to shrink from a snake touch ? What that desire for love, and not politics, for one's greeting when one comes weary, at night, to his home ? Away with them! fliey are as dust in the balance, com pared to a wife “killing” her husband’s vote, and Cuffee a suffragan, in a Gov ernment as piebald as it is free. Still further, there is a distinction be tween these theories—the distinction cf Justice. In our political community, is a body that bears the burdens of the ‘Mate. In peace, the fruits of its toil maintain the temple ; in war, the streams ot its blood form a river around it that a Deman cannot pass. The intelligence of this body makes the laws of the land; its length makes the public wealth; its 'odor is the ultimate guarantee of public jhc;y i his body is the White Men, and ‘>m\ uite Men are The State. Women, children, Indians, Chinese, Chinooks, aud Negroes, are but tlie tags and fringes 'uthe robe. None of them have reared I'pthe Temple, and not a soul of them aas ;in y right to a voice in its manage- Fanaticism controverts this, ‘ It 1 pciares tor an equality of political power, elective of an equality of political uesert. It wants to level the efficient ,lowi) t( > the level of the inefficient. It “■cits to make housewives, youngsters, Jl /‘‘ barbarians co-equal with that mag nificent breed of men, whose existence is Ule cro "’iiing glory of the world. Is this just ? for the importance of Suffrage, j-uirrage is mastery. To the extent "of suilrage, each man is the master of \ "ther man in the body politic; and. I '* o Wan this, in every election, there is •a a )n ° • UKla w * loSe ballot gives the law therein, or affected 10 illustrate tin’s, ietussuppose II A and B are opposing candidates, measures, and that A receives 15 000 »", and B *O.OOO. The impression Is lias beaten A by 5,000 votes, is not the case. A is defeated bv ' llt *°W, mid the 4,999 additional are but r,;“^ sage - ex phiio this, let us sup mat we are present at the counting " !l the ballots. The first, let us say, ! mt U * cr A”; the second, “for B”; • ,re the two neutralize, or “kill” each other, and, were the count to stop here, there would be no election. But it goes on. The third ticket is “for B”; this puts B one ahead ; then the fourth “for B”; B two ahead; the fifth “for B”; three ahead. The sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth, all “for A.’’ This wipes out B’s three votes, and puts A four ahead; and so the count goes on, until we will suppose that the last bailor there is in the box “for A” is counted out, and he is found to have had 15,000 votes. At the same time, or shortly after, B is found to have ex actly the same number, 15,000. Here, the vote is again neutralized, B’s 15,000 “killing’ A’s 15,000, and there is no election. But the next ballot is “for B,’’ and elects him, since it gives him 15,001 votes io his opponent’s 15 000. The 4,999 ballots yet remaining do not make him any more elected The fifteen thou sand and first ballot has done that, and the man who cast that vote has deter mined the matter at issue for the whole 35,000 voters. This principle has two curious exemplifications in the history ot elections. In 1849, under a law which required the successful candidates to have a majority of all the votes cast, Marcus Morton and Edward Everett ran for Governor in Massachusetts. The poll stood: Marcus Morton 51,034 Edward Everett, and scattering. .51,033 1 So that Morton was elected bv one vote; nor would he have been any more elected if he had had 50,000 more votes added to that one. Someone man cast that vote, and, by it, elected a Governor of the State. The next case is no later than the Presidential election just o%xu\ In the County ot Chemung, State of New York, the vote stood : For Grant 3/109 For Seymour 3,708 1 So that someone man carried that County for Grant, and, to all practical purpose, made the 7,417 voters thereof utter one voice. “One vote mav be fraught with the fate of the Republic.” • And, now, a word on Negro Suffrage. As above given, will be found arguments on the subject. As to facts, the South can never acquiesce in this measure, or permit its present temporary and illusive existence to continue a moment longer than the armed force, which begat and vitalizes it, remains. On the weakening of that, Negro Suffrage will weaken; on its disappearance, disappear. It is said the Soutli can never acquiesce, because it is meant that it is not in her power to acquiesce. It is against Nature to do so, and Nature cannot be contravened. An attempt at acquiescence would fare as a would-be suicide who casts himself into the stream. No sooner does he touch the water than Nature asserts her rights, the infill overpowers the man’s will, and the poor wretch strikes for life. In the North, they snarl at the South because she won’t. But the truth is that she can’t. The blood in her veins won’t let her, and never will. Negro Suffrage is the bastard son of the Bayonet; and neither can, nor will, outlive its sire. Tyrone Powers. NEW ORLEANS (LA.) CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. New Orleans, Nov. 17th, 1868. Banner ot'the South : Our Street Railroads are truly labyrin thine, and their number and length are a marvel to strangers, while their utility is undeniable. At the same time, they have their imperfections, like every human in vention. By their introduction, much of the quondam sociability of our city has been destroyed, and every day it is grow ing less and less. These modern facilities for each man’s transportation between his place of business and his residence, lessen the opportunity for lengthened walks and talks with his neighbor, whereby was for merly cultivated a homelike intimacy be tween citizens, which existed here more universally than in any other American City. Commerce and domesticity seem to pro gress inversely. In the good old days of Gang syne/ the residents of the faubourgs were accustomed to go in squads, immediately after break last, towards the Levee, where was held a sort of “high change,” for two or three hours, in the midst of sugar, molasses, to bacco, and Western produce. The rest of the day, till dinner time, was devoted to the mercantile duties of the counting house, or office; but, after dinner, little attention was paid to any claims, save those of family or society. In the evening, it was no uncommon thing to see whole families, including ladies, children, and nurses, of the old Creole residents, taking their daily promenade along the same at tractive Levee, whose busy gangs ot steam boat hands, and fresh river breezes, afford ed. at once, interest for the eye and refresh ment to the lungs. Those days and their customs have passed away forever. >M3S!BgI~®F fSI gffiirar. Now, each merchant hurries from his coffee to bis car, reads his morning paper in transitu, and, once arrived at Ins office, gallops through his correspondence, gives orders to his broker regarding the sales and purchases of the day, dispatches his telegrams to New York, or to Europe,' spurs up his collector, arranges his Bank account &c., &c., and, when the day closes, he onl/regrets that its shortness has pre vented a half dozen little speculation* he had counted on in the morning. To morrow is but a repetition of to-day, and so on. usq ue ad, finem —with never achance to call on his neighbors, and not even time to give a civil reception to a stray visitor. “ Glad to see you—sorry I’m to engaged just at this moment—but, take a seat and make yourself at home; there are the morning papers. What? Going in such a hurry? Well, good-bye; call in again, when you are passing”—and the good man does really mean every word he says; and actually believes, with a certain amount of regret,"that the necessities of his business require friendship and courtesy to be thus set aside; never reflecting that all this slavish servitude to Mammon, can purchase for him only what is earned by the Levee laborer, viz.: the ability to occu py one house, wear one coat, and eat one dinner at a time. Indeed, the laborer has a decided advantage over the merchant Prince, in his ability to enjoy the architec tural beauties of the latter’s fine palace, with the brilliancy and perfume of his costly gardens, without any ot the expense of keeping them up! And the farther luxury is his smoking his dudeen without tear ot a curtain lecture thereon, since lie has no curtains to be spoilt. No less a transformation has taken place in the residences of men than in their man ners. A recent stroll through the heart of the Cite showed that the once prevailing stylo of one-story brick houses, roofed with the imported, heavy, brick, guttered tiles, was now only the exceptional fashion, in stead of the rule, as formerly. In fact, those old landmarks are now so rare as to be objects ot especial remark to all ob servers. All around them houses as new and modern-looking as any “progres sive ’ Yankee could desire. And, indeed, I may here say—in a parenthesis—“ ihat’s w 1 1 at s the matter with our entire situation at present; we are given over to Yankee progressiveism, and so are going rapidly to the D— ireetion that Yankeeism naturally tends. Among the architectural curiosities of the old hirst Municipality, there is one on tiie corner ot hayou iioa<l and Derbignv Street, entirely sui generis , in the shape of a well built, genteel, two-story residence, with three large trees projecting through the roof and shading the whole house! These three trees, however, are only the main divisions of one large live oak whose tfuuk rises through the floor of the build ing, and branches out in tho manner indi cated. On the terraced root of the house, are placed a number of rustic seats, where the family can enjoy, most literally, the delights of their own roof-tree. Passing from the First to the ancient Third Municipality, the change of scenery is almost ns great as that between the modern Second and the venerable First Municipality itself. If, in the First, there appears a partial paralysis, the Third pre sents ail the aspects of utter death and de cay 5 with the housestumbling down, the Levees fallen in, the fences neglected, a large moiety of the dwellings “for rent ” ami the stieets almost deserted. W hiking up from the United States Barracks— which are on or near the lower boundary line ot the city—one sees but a succession of scenes of desolation, extending far above the ruins of the noble Touro Almshouse, which, in themselves, form a monument of Destruction quite as striking as any left by the ancient Goths and Vandals. "This splendid edifice, at the time of its destruc tion by lire, was occupied by that portion ot the National troops which are distin guished for having “fought noblyand, as we are now about to “ have peace ” it is to be hoped that “the best Government in the world” will quickly restore the build ing to its former condition of usefulness in the cause of Charity. The late Lake trip of our beloved Arch bishop was so beneficial to his health as to enable his Apostolic labors to go on with out interruption since that time, lie has already ordained several new Priests erected new Parochial Districts, tilled sev eral Pastoral vacancies, and made impor tant changes, and new appointments in the Country Parishes. At this moment, he is continuing his Visitation in West Baton IwOiige, whence he will proceed downward through the River Parishes, administering Confirmation, Ac., till he reaches the Oity\ Here, he expects to arrive about the first week in December, when lie will hold a Convocation of all the Bishops in the Pro vince. Meanwhile, the venerable Bishop ot Galveston is here, zealously exercising his Episcopal functions for the benefit of such Parishes as our own Archbishop had not yet reached. We, also, have information that the Eight Bev. Bishop of Natchez, who has been absent for many months, soliciting alms tor his impoverished Diocese, is now on his way home, and will probably be here in time for the Convention in December. Our people are rejoiced at the antici pated advent of a detachment of the Little Sisters of the Poor, whose arrival is expected within the next three or four weeks. A Lecture, to raise funds for their support, will be delivered next week by the lion. Thos. J. Serames, whose well known eloquence will, doubtless, attract a large audience. It is generally believed that the Churches, Convents, Monasteries, and other Ecclesi astical establishments in Cuba, have ac quired great wealth by the large bequests and liberal donations of the faithful; conse quently, it will not be surprising if a gang, or gangs, of armed robbers should shortly invade the doomed Isle, with the cry of “Liberty” on their lips aud the design of Plunder in their hearts. 80, be prepared for the next sensation, Cuba and Liberty! Southern Radical. CHEAP PAINTING. 1 100 lbs. of the COST r Pecora Colored Paints LEAD) (Costing 12* dollars) will paint as much as 250 pounds of Lead (costing s37#) and wear longer. We make the best WHITE LEAD. Any FANCY COLOR for Cottages made to order. Best VARNISHES and JAPAN. For particulars, address S. BOWEN, Sec’y, _ . novl2 ' 2m Philadelphia, Pa. P. 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