The national Republican., 1861-11-30
NEW RESTRICTIONS UPON POPULAR
LI0ERTY.

We referred the other day 10 report recent.
ly made TO the Virginia Convention, by Mr..
Stuart, who was a member Of Mr.. Fillmore's
Cabinet. The special recommendation in that
report, was to restrict popular election to the
single case Of the election Of members of the
Legislature, and to provide for the appoint
ment OF all executive and judicial officers in
some other way, according to the South Caro-
lima model. The reasoning Of Mr. Stuart's re-
port, however, goes much farther, and points
distinctly to restricting the right Of suffrage.
even for members Of the Legislature, within
very narrow lmits He denounces the univer-
sal suffrage Of the free States, as having already
resulted in the worst mischiefs, but our alarms
will be moderated, upon learning that one of
these mischiefs is the system Of universal edu.
cation, under ,ehich the children of the poor are
educated at The ezpense Of the RICH" This, to the
Virginia aristocracy, is undoubtedly very odi-
ou., and they mean to take efficient precau-
tions against suffering similar aftliction them
selves.
Just about the time of the publication of this
report Of Mr.. Stuart, we have De Bows Reuie,o,
the great organ Of Southern political philoso,
ply, recommending that, while the right Of
suffrage should not be taken away from per-
sons now living at the South, who were born
at the North, or in Europe, 1t should not be
extended to such persons who may hereafter
migrate to the South. We have not seen the
article in De Bows Revie,o, but we find it thus
described and approved by the Richmond Els,
patch ofNovember IA:
DE Bows November RevieU has an admira.
BILE article, entitled the Perils of Peace The
obvious danger of an immense Yankee immi-
grafton, which will abolitionize the border
States at the ballot box, unless such restrictions
are placed upon the exercise of suffrage as will
prevent them from euer having Uote, are painted
in letters Of light We have often referred to
this danger as one which, If not provided
against in time, will render all the blood and
treasure expended in the war entirely proftless
The same writer also contends that while oui
present foreign population. which has proved
80 gallant and faithful In the Southern cause
should retain the possession Of every righ
which they now have, the sarne privilege should
not be conferred upon future e'niTants to hi.
countvy."
hoPRhJ, ouSh shAp6 I'D IL pooeAbte, Dut IL
slave oligarchy were allowed to have an inde
pendent nationality Of their own, they wouli
crown the personal enslavemeAt of another
race, by the political enslavement of their own
They would not long suffer the poor whites, ,
to whom they deny education, and whom they
keep always in abject poverty by the use o
slave labor, TO exercise even In name, rIgh
of suffrage already practically nullifed by de
nying to 1t the protection of the secret ballot.
The next step would be orders of nobility
as seen among the grandee planters of Cuba
to be followed by q monarchy, probably in tn
form Of European protsctorate. Every da.
developes these to be the ulterior designs 0
the slave-holding aristocrats of the planting
States, now waging war to overthrow the frees
and best government which the human rac'
has ever enjoyed.