New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-14

os.e the candidate. fer TIE Senate .s4 Assembly In regard .
:sS That e. @ Il. nov ..s
they have always stood the friends and otecor: Of the eIse
the equality ef Iii oitirer' before the law especially the
'ser,d shi Of r.siou' liberty and they regard ..
whether BY refusing rights Of ci.nship By denyns
them ev employment and position unsecomins
interests Of the people.
We print these two Resolves together, in or
der that their consistency may be made manifest.
We have fr,t an assertion that the exaction Of q
Property Qualification for the Right of Suffrage for
Blacks is highly proper and ought to be maic-
| TAXED. Next il is asserted that to let negroes
vote here without such qualification would draw
item hitler from other States, though it is note
| rious that those States which do ALLOW the same
Right Of Suffrage to negroes as to others have far
fewer Blacks in proportion than this State has.
Thirdly, We are told that our last Legislature in.
itiated a Constitutional Amendment, whereby the
People Of our State should be enabled to vote for
or against retaining this Property Qualification, for
the purpcse of strengthening the Republican ranks
at the polls Of our Elections. Fourthy the public
is asked to believe that they who devised aud car
RED this notable scheme for increasing the Repub-
lcan vote directly set to work to defeat their own
object by suppressing this Amendment Gin the
"peeOn holes Of the Executive Chamber" And
lastly-the Amendment being for the present dead
the People are urged to interrogate all the can
ddates for Senate and Assembly on the subject Of
TIL. Right of Suffrage, and hold them to strict
accountability" Is not this too much contradiction
humbug ard rigmarole to be crowded into one
resoluiionl
But the Democratic party" who so strenuous.
y insist that aristocratic negroes shall vote and
tose only, and who are afraid that allowing poor
negroes to vote will draw them hither, sounds a
different rote in it's "hsrp Of q thousand strings"
when white immigrants are to be csjOled. 1t be-
comes all at once concerned for the rights Of "the
"labOriDg Masses" and for "the equality of all
"citizeDs before tie law" whether they have $3.50
worth of real estate or not What glazing hypoc-
risy is here If negro worth $3.50 in real estate
is citizen, go is one who has less property or none
at all. If it be right that "the laboring masses
of Europe should vote here as well as their richer
brethren, why not "the laboring masses" of
America as we'll How does $3.50 worth of real
estate qualify negro to vote and not white man!
Who does not see that these two resolves are in
ala1ing contradiction and that the object of each
is to win votes at whatever expense of principle
or consistency
Rescrd Tha. declare the resolutions of the Black Re
publican Legislature declaring its wsut Of confidence 10 the
Supreme Cout Of the United states a. blow at the indsPen
cons BY legislative department aud that on the contrary
@ 'H nesoe as Combining Sl to policy
the States and the F.des Government aud essential
their security a. communities and tina. fully with
that tribunal in holding hs willie each State can confer whist
net enable them to cary such privileges into other States with
out the sanction Of the General Government
We rejoice that these gentlemen have taken
their stand so unequivocaly on the bred Scott de-
c's,n. II their partifans could only be generally
induced to read that decision, with the opinions
pronounced in support Of and dissent from it, they
could hardly fail to see that it is based on false his
tory and sustained by impudent sophistry. If the
resolves Of our last Legislature were ga bow at
"the independence of the judiciary" then Justice
Curtis's opinion, read from the Bench Of the Su-
Ore me Court itself, was much seyerer blow to
that same. Up to this -FOUR, we are confident that
not one in twenty of the Democratic voters Of this
State have read the leading opinions delivered on
tie decision of the bred Scott ease and we believe
lefs than one tenth Of them can ever be cOsxed or
tainted into reading those opinions. Oay the most
stolid and wilful ignorance does sustain the
judgment Of the Court in the Free States. And if
the Federal Constitution may be Overruled in its
express requirement Art ", sec p, that " The
60 citizens Of each State not Of the United States
shall be entitled to all privileges and immunties
of citizens in the several States as this resolve
airms that it mayhem any stipulation in favor of
Justice and Humanity contained in that instrument
may be nulled with equal facility and plausibilty.
Democrats Of New-YOrk you have above the
Plat 'orm of the politicians who recently assembled
in your name at Syracuse and nominated State
Ticket. We ak you to consider patiently and
csndidly whether this Platform is accordant with
that fundamental doctrine Of the Equal Rights Of
An Men, which cannot be false if Democracy is
indeed living, practical truth. To which do you
sdhere-the principle Of Democracy or the
namel
The most casua observer Of the pOlitcsl contests