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Show Good, Vert ! .Mr. Theodore Til-ton Til-ton is no way diEJent in expressing his views, and his views aro no half formed affairs, but full-fledged and in many things extreme enough to satisfy the most radical of Radicals, tie tells the Republican party its duty in phrase that is neither halting nor uncertain, un-certain, and contends for tho great un-dyed un-dyed race irreverently called "darkeys." Hero is how he talks of tho Republicans Republi-cans in the Golden Age of the Oth : If that party means to put its principles prin-ciples into practice, if its championship champion-ship of tho negro has been in earnest and not a sham, if its leaders and followers believe in equal rights without with-out distinction of color, then its nominating nomi-nating convention ucxt summer, in making up a ticket to represent its whole constituency, ought to recognize tha claim of tho newly enfranchised race. Wo say unhesitatingly that the Republican party ought to give its next Vice-Preiideucy to a negro say, for instance, Frederick Douglass, or Robert Purvis, or Senator Revels, or some other excellent citizen whose civic virtues God has clad iu the divine comeliness of a dark tkin. "Divine comeliness of a dark -Liu" is good, very good, particularly good. Now, let this Radical party, which Mr. TiUon ys. tho country needs, strike boli'y out. nominate Victoria Wood hull for President, and Revels fV-r Vice-President, and bid iU male Caucasians staad aside to sec the glory which a free-lover and a ue-zro can oufer upon the pro;:.l American Republic Re-public ! |