The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-04-26

Tue REPUBLICANS TRYING TO Prevent Dun
SOLDIERS FROM VoTISG.-The leaders and or
gans Of the miscegenation party have of late
been expressing great anxiety as to the vote Of
the soldiers in this aud other loyal States.
Poor Greeley, who twas born black as COAL"
on the authority Of his .biographer, Parton,
has been particularly exercised about the mat
| ter. Halt dozen times he has quilted his
moral history Of this immoral conflict to can
| ton his party associates of the dangers to be
| apprehended from the conservative instincts of
the army. He knows that the good sense of
Generals Grant and Mcclellan is opposed to
his fanatical chimeras, and Is not without fear
that the army vote. honestly cast an recorded,
would be all but unanimous in favor of one or
other Of those great national heroes.
Acting on Greeley's hints, therefore, and
yet anxious to throw on the democratic party
the apparent responsibility tor denying the
right Of suffrage to our soldiers in
the field, the republicans of our State
Legislature put into their bill for en-
abling absent soldiers to vote pro-
vision hsgrantly in violation OF the State
than gift Of the right OF suffrage to every
colored soldier sent from New York, while our
State constitution emphatically declares that
no negroes but those possessed Of real estate
to a certain specified amount shall possess the
right of voting, or be otherwise considered as
citizens. This unconstitutional provision, the
republicans hoped, would compel the Governor
"a tbo md e hoe -
amendment, which they would pretend they
had not time to give it. But the Governor has
signed the bill, although his concurrence will
be of no value, as the act is unconstitutional,
aud therefore null and void on its face.
There are other objections 10 the measure
hardly less serious in their nature. 1t gives
all the power Of casting the votes Of absent
soldiers to the clerks in our various post
offices, and should really be entitled Gan act
10 enable the Hon. Montgomery Blair, Postmas-
ter General, to become political attorney for the
army, and cast its vote as he pleases." 1t is to
the interest Of all true lovers Of our country
that the men who understand this rebellion
best--our soldiers in the feld>-should be
allowed full voice in the next Presidential con-
test, and it is, therefore, q pity that an uncon-
stitu tional law has been enacted in this State.
GARrBALDI IN ENaLANp.-The recent recep.
ton Of Garibaldi by the English people, viewed
in the light Of the whole history of England
and OF Italy, Ia very curious spectacle.
Italian unity 10 an idea Of very recent growth
in modern Italian politics. 1t is an idea that
has lain dormant in the history Of that beauti-
full land since the great days Of Rome. BY the
social war the minor Italian States compelled
Rome to acknowledge their equality, and when
Rome accorded the franchise to the citizens Of
those several States Italy was as distinct unity
| a. the United States have ever been. But as
the old Roman power died away SO did the unity
Of Italy, and through all the centuries In which
the Church has been dominant the several
cities Of Italy have been divided by sectional
jsalousies, and have waged bitter wars against
one another. All those centuries Of sectional
strife have their reaction now, and 1t Is at once
q reaction against the Pope and in favor Of
Italian unity. The representative man Of this
idea in Italian politics Il Garibaldl.' Garibaldl
lie unlike modern Italian. In no liaeamenl
does his character answer to that received ides
OF Italian character that has been current since
the time Of Machiavelli But he is like an ole
Roman. He ID a. simple minded, q pure, q
upright, az Fsbrioius Or Regulus.
Aua II y Singular circumstance In blstorl