New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-23
Ero. suarage-The Morning News.


FREQ Suffrage-The Morning News.
IL should be remembered and pondered by every
genuine Republican that the journals which and pol
itcians who in the Rhode Island troubles, took the
broad ground that Manhood was q sufficient and In
defeasible qualification to exercise the Right of Suf
frage whether in accordance with or in defiance Of
the existing CONFERENCE.-The men who justified
the Dor Rebellion in asserting, even through the
conHagra,ion fraternal butchery and horrible devas
taiion of Civil War, the right of the disfranchsed
to enfranchise themselves by whatever means they
should think proper-are now vocferous and VIC
lent in opposing the Enfranchisement of the Color
cd Men ofour own State through the legal and peace
full machinery of Convention No man took broad
er grounds in support of Dorrism than John L. O..
Sullivan, now Editor OF the Morning News and
yet we find him following the lead of Levi D.
slamm in not merely opposing the Enfranchsement
Of the Blacks but in demanding that even that small
proportion Of them who now possess the Right of
Suffrage shall be deprived of it by the Convention!
This Is the Progressive Democracy of our time
Before 1921, Colored Freeman voted on the same
conditions as white man. The Democratic Con-
venton Of that year, which was very vehement
against any Property Qualification for the Whites,
took AWAY the Right of Suffrage from poor Coored
Men, on the assumption that they did not possess
sufficient intelligence and independence TO vote
rectly. With black man. this Democratic body
decided that Property is the test of Mert'-a SEN
timent they have since charged on the Whigs--eve.
~ Federalist in the Convention strenuousy oppos.
ing the prescription. Senator Samuel Young-an
oracle with the News-has recently stated that the
progress of the Blacks in knowledge and virtue has
since been SO great that, though he supported the
present restriction in 1921 with all his might he now
thinks its abolition an open question, on which he
has not made up his mind. But the 'Progressives'
insis, on progressing backward and depriving those
Blacks who now vote of the right to do So And
this impudent swindle gulls hundreds of thousands
of voters into the belief that it is Democracy
Tho reasons assigned for this prescription are of
piece with the act Their occupation is generally
Of servile nature says the News. Their position
In society forbids their realizing the manly and in.
dependent feelings of freemen' Hear this, we
white men who obtain your living by honest toll in
the service of others; the argument is Just as good
TOR your prescription as tho Blacks-nay, better if
there besny difference; for the black man has not
sphere that you have Think of INVITING the blacks
w'th their servae employment, in city where
black man who owns horss and cart ia denied a
hconse as cartman by Democratic Mayor.
Tyranny and hateful Prejudice are the same in
Turkey and America-in demagogue and a des
pot Hear the News:
"Of all the advocates of negro suffrage how many are
there who could be induced so to conduct eassrss as
70 extend DO colored brethren social equality .
How many would associate in business connection with
negroes of equal honesty and wealth How many
would meet IA intellectual communion negroes of equal
intelligence and learninst How many would introduce
to the intimacy OF their homes fresides and tables
iss e' y ssN@ "'''9 a'' 'a'V'a0a' But precious
This is precisely as good an argument for eternal
Slavery as for denying the Right of Suffrage South
Carolina could not improve upon the logic, and
would not wish to. But i, confounds the most OBJ
vious distinctions and is at war with common sense.
Social Intercourse is matter of mutual choice the
Merchant and his Porter Lawyer and the Oyster
man, ltbe Banker land tho Sweep, may visit each
other not, their tastes dictate and nobody has
Alright feel aggrieved Unless there be mutual de
spe, no true Social Intercourse can take place, and
the Woodsawyer of proper pride scorns to tread the
Brussels carpets of his Landlord unless his company
heartily desired there. He does moi feel degraded
hy staying away be would be by going on suffer
sfce. Butat the Polls and before the Law every
where the Poor Man demands his equal Rights Re
aaes nothing there By courtesy he is there on his
own INVITATION and on bis own ground. The argu-
', , OIL me News implies servility in poverty
aiike untrue and insulting Where one man votes
oa pafasaiaf side because it Is his employers two
vote just the other way
The News p.oceas,