The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-11-14
VorE on NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
Majority against

We were prepared 10 see q tremendous MAORI
ty against it. and have no doubt that when we re-
ceive the returns from the whole State, the ma
jority will be increased 100 to l50.OO0-enough
to convince the friends of the negro and the abo-
litonists that the people ofthis State are decided
ly opposed TO placing the blacks on political
equality with themselves
There is an important fact developed by these
returns, showing that the friends of the colored
race do not identify themselves with the
abolitIonlsts proper-those iacuous and I'M
princPed demagogues who would trample our
institutions under foot, and deluge the land with
the blood of our best citizens, IN order TO
have their abstract ideas of right prac,i-
cally carried out. The vote in fourteen
counties, in favor of negro suffrage, is
1886, while the abolition vote, in the same
countess for Birney, their presidential candidate,
in 1914, was only 4, l47-making a difference of
nineteen thousand one hundred and eighty-nine
vot' rs, who are disposed to give the negroes the
right of voting, but who not of the abolition
lists proper. There is another fact elected by
these returns, that proves that the abolitionists
the thorough going dyed-in-the-wool abolition
lists, those rebellious traitors to their country
are not sincere friends of the negroes, but
identify themselves with their cause, simply for
personal aggrandzement, with the view of OBJ
tanning balance of power between the two
great antagonist parties, and consequent poll
teal selfimportance in our elections. Thus we
see that in one county,where Birney received
s5l votes, the majority in favor of negro suffrage
is only Cos; and, in Oneida, where the abolition
lists at the same time polled LA votes, negro
suffrage is 100 in the minority.
T.. A. IT,
proper, those who interfere in our elections,
are mere handful of designing potcians-who
have embarked in the negros cause for the sole
purpose of obtaining political influence. They
are to be set down as men who would raze our
beautiful political fabric to the ground, provided
they could elevate themselves on its ruins-men
who would rather "rule in hell than serve in
heaven"
The people are beginning to understand their
true character, and the time will soon come when
they will be summed and avoided-as is the plague
in the East
JUSTICE TO SENATOR JOHN DAvIs-1t seems that
all this time we have been doing injustice to Sena-
tor Davis for his course on the two millions appro-
priation bill at the close of the last session of Con-
gress, and that while we have been attaching
blame to him for strangling the measure, the
fault lay all the time with the clocks Of the two
houses.
Mr. Davis has lately made speech 10 the wings
of Worcester, Massachusetts, vindicating his con-
duct in the affair, washing his hands OF the
spons'bili,y, and throwing it on the hands of the
senatorial clock 1t seems there was a variance
between these two naughty clocks-that OF the
House and that of the Senate. The Senate clock
n,
witty becoming the dignity of time-piec OF that
august body, whilst the House clock went over
the ground faster, and arrived at the goal
eight fl minutes before it's antagonist.
The House, GENERALLY as fast their clock } adj
journed by their own time, and Mr.. John Davis,
according TO his own account, was Mortified at
finding that the House had Adjourned before he
had got through with his speech-the Senate hav
ing still eight minutes to act aud vote upon the
bill. IT'S true that it would take more than eight
minutes to take the ayes and noes on the passage
of the bill, but how was Mr. John Davis to calcu-
late upon all these little minutes of tme when he
had a solemn duty to perform-nanely, to put in
tangible shape before the country, an explica-
ton of his views on the Texas question, our Mex
lean relations, the general policy of the govern
ment, and other matters embraced in his speech,
such applications being at that particular uncture
of vital importance to the interest of his country
and OF such grave moment rs to outweigh all petty
considerations as to peace war between the
United States and Mexico
We therefore, after hearing Mr.. Davis's lucid
and able vndcation ofhis course, feel constrained
in justice to that much injured gentleman, to say,
that we have hitherto looked at his conduct in q
wrong light, and that we will henceforth put the
entire onus ofthe transaction on the Congressional
clocks, to which it of right attaches, and which
should be kept in better order in future.