The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-30 00:00:00

KANSAS, ON UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.

The vote of Kansas against equal suffrage has
been an " eye-opener" for the Republican party.
It was the most distinct and emphatic condemnation
of the principle advocated by the party, of admitting
coloured citizens, without education, to the Suffrage.
It is interesting to analyse this expression of opi-
nion. Of all States Kansas has suffered most in the
cause of emancipation. It was founded by free
soilers—the advanced guard of the New England
settlers, who for six years bore the brunt of that
sanguinary strife which so shocked the world and
was a prelude to the great American War, earning
for the State the mourning epithet of " Bleeding
Kansas." The free soilers conquered, carrying
their territory into the Union, as a free State,
January 29, 1861. Since that eventful period
Kansas has been earnest in its support of the
Northern cause, steadily advocating every liberal
measure connected with the race on whose behalf
the early settlers had suffered so much. Nowhere
else are the coloured people better treated ; in no
other State have they been so hospitably wel-
comed.
,Thousands of negroes are settled on
the soil, where they have been received with such
conspicuous kindness and sympathy that it is an
object of ambition to the race to secure a place in
a State offering them such advantages. Schools
and churches have been established for their welfare,
and the leaders who most influence the destinies of
Kansas, see around them on all sides the spots
associated in their memory with the fierce conflicts
of those days when they upheld with bowie-knife
and revolver the right of all men to be free.
Three side-issues came before the people ; the
first was Woman Suffrage; the second, Negro
Suffrage ; and the third, the Disfranchise-
ment of rebels. Each was separately submitted,
that the people might express their opinion on
each point unbiassed by the other, and beyond the
power of any to reason away the result secured.
Two Senators and one Representative in Congress
had proceeded through the State to support the
equal suffrage theory. The Republican party
was committed to it, and the mass of the people
were Republicans. The newspapers of that party
earnestly advocated it, and all its conventions and
caucases had resolved in favour of it. So little had
the people given expression to their opinions that
the leaders were confident of carrying the measure
by an overwhelming majority, and they went to
the polls to receive a lesson which they are not likely
soon to forget. From 21 counties in Kansas, official
majorities have been reported, to which may be added
the ascertained majorities of six others, the most
populous iu the State. For, negro suffrage 4,995
persons voted ; against it, 13,563. For female
suffrage, 5,043 voted ; against it, 13,498. For the
disfranchisement of disloyal persons, 9,253 voted ;
against it, 8,603. In estimating the value of this
decisive verdict, we must net overlook the relations
we have described as existing between whites and
blacks in Kansas. It was no tide of opinion against
the Republican party, for the representative districts
have, we believe, returned 60 Republicans against
25 Democrats ; and the Senate will, it is supposed,
contain 20 Republicans against five Democrats. The
argument of the people of Kansas appears to have
been this :—Of all citizens of the United States
we are the best placed to judge of the fit-
ness of our coloured neighl. ours to exercise
the franchise. No doubt we could influence their
votes, just as we could those of our children, if the
franchise were extended to them. But the object
of the privilege would be defeasited if the recipient
is incapable of judging for himself at least to some
degree. Now, the negroes are docile, happy, and
comfortable ; will suffrage—which at present they
are as unfit to exercise as our children—add to their
happiness? or, may it not introduce an element
of future strife?

Kansas has, in truth, delivered the distinct opinion
of that section of the American people best able to
judge, that negrocs, as yet, are not fitted for the
franchise, and, whether consistent or inconsistent
with Republican theories, 'it is not expedient
to confer votes on unqualified men. Regarding the
second issue, we believe it resulted mainly from the
indifference of women to the privilege, those who
rule, as the ladies do in Kansas, being well able
to despise such baubles as ballots. SUSAN B.
ANTHONY, LUCY STONE, and ELIZABETH CADY
STANTON having failed in Kansas, are proceed-
ing on a grand tour in behalf of the cause.
Their times and places are announced as fol-
lows :--Buffalo, New York, November 30th ; Ro-
chester, December 2d ; Syracuse, 3d ; Albany,
4th ; Springfield, 6th ; Worcester, 7th ; Boston,
9th ; Hartford, 10th ; Philadelphia, 1 lth; and New
York, 14th. In Kansas they received a fair hear-
ing, and there can be little doubt that had they been
able to enlist the sympathies of their sex the result
would have been different., for no one denies that
women can do almost anything they like in the
States of the Far West, if they address themselves
earnestly to the task. It is not, however, woman
suffrage that we are here considering, but the im-
portant principle whether the franchise is a natural
right. If THADDEUS STEVENS'S statement be true,
nearly three-fourths of the men of Kansas " are
impudent citizens, who deny the existence of a
DEITY," for they have recorded in a marked manner
the opinion on this subject they hold in contradic-
tion to the leader of the Radicals.--Anglo-American
limes.

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named Bernard Jusman, traveller in jewellery for Cowen
and Co., Birmingham, who had been missing for some
weeks, was found yesterday in a ditch by a gentleman
named Clarke, who was shooting. The deceased had
received a fearful blow on his head from an iron instru-
ment found near him. Ills jewellery had been stolen.

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