The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-08-24

nOTuuI uuu enblhNcu' lHeJ dTe dTCu-
itects ofruin, with no capacity for the
nobler art which repairs and rebuiIds.
What results if we make suffrage
depend on colorP ~ lsli
We disfranchise the only portion of
the population on whose allegiance we
can thoroughly rely; and give the
States over to white ignorance and
idleness led by white intrigue and dis.
loyalty. We are placed in most a.
nomalous condition, one in which the
safety "of that Republican form ofgov-
ernment' We desire to ensure, the
Southern States has more safe guards
in the instincts of the ignorant, than
in the intelligence Of the educated
No Freedman can own himself, much
less enjoy any privilege in the South,
unless the connection of the States in
which they live with the United States
be preserved. Secession and State
Sovereignty means e.enslavement.--
Salisbury Of Delaware, and Wiley of
West Virginia, declared in the Senate
in '62. that the Rebel States on their
return to the Union would have the
legal power to re-enslave the blacks
whom the National Government might
emancipate, and it is only the plighted
faith OF the United States that can pre-
vent this crime from being perpetuated
Their freedom is only secure as citi-
zens of the United States, and not of
the States of Mississippi or Georgia.
Their instincts, fears, interests and po-
sition will thus be their teachers in
their duties of citizenship. They are
sure to vote in accordance with the
most advanced ideas of the times, as
the embittered aristocracy are to vote
in the most retrograde. They are ig-
norant, yet they will be in political
sympathy with the most enlightened
voters in Ohio, New York and Massa-
chusetts and if they were as low in the
scale as their bitterest revilcrs assert,
they would still be forced by their in
stincts, into intuitions with their inter-
ests, and their interests are identical
with those of civilization and progress.
They all possess selfish cunning; this
is enough to bring them into harmony
with the largest minded philanthropy
and craftsmanship of the North.
Men most opposed to negro suffrage
assert they will vote with their former
masters. Is this so?
If it were SO, no Democrat of the
North would object to Negro suffrage,
as it would restore to power that par.
ty. Who ever before heard Demo
crat objecting to any aid to power
and patronage? The negro would no
more seek the aid or advice of his for
mer master than the mouse the pro-
lection of the cat; or the deer fly to
the hunter for life. The only danger
to the negro would be the abolition
demagogue, and he only would be dan
gerous, when he deprived him of his
rights. The votes the late masters
: would control in the future, are those
they have controlled in .he past-the
poor ignorant whites, for in the late
slave States, the white aristocrat s
still bound to white Democrat by the
strong tie Of common contempt of
tho "nigger. Is it too much to
suppose there are on the plan.
tations of the South some Hamp.
dens and Adams's who shall give
political organizations to their breth-
rem, and make their votes efficient for
the protection of their interests? "'
How are these Freedmen to be edu.
Gated
Only by possessing political power
to demand it. Free schools are not
the creation of benevolence, but of pub
lie taxation. community can have
universal education that has not uni
versal suffrage-as the children of the
, poor are not educated so much by the
pleading of their need as by the power
of the ballot. To say that the supc
rior race will educate voluntarily the
inferior, which they have long ensla
we'd; lie. set to work to prepare ''nig
gers" to vote, by educating them
only escapesfrom being considered the
artifice of the knave by charitably re.
ferring it to the credulity of tho sim
, pleton. 81. "
/ If the right Of suffrage be not now
granted the Freedman in the forma
, ton of Constitutions of the Rebe
States, is there q prospect Of their evel
, obtaining it?
r Tho people in these States are ar
: unorganized mass. The very persons
qualified by old State laws are dis
: qualified by United States laws, hav
/ ing become revolutonizcd by rebel
, lion. Literally in these cases the
free blacks, are as much part of the
t "masses" as the free whites. AS soor
Q as the machinery of State Govern
ments is set in motion, by these con
ventions now being called, and they
! are recognized by the President anC
Congress as States-no convention tt
! alter the constitutions agreed can bC
, called except by the States, II negro
{ suffrage is right and necessary for the
\ peaceful settlement Of present troubles
now or never, is the time for its in
auguration. Neither party have
rights, and but one party has claims
if those claims are disregared and fu
o ture evils result-.they are irremedi
!. able. The United States Governmen
r has now in its hands the power which
i gives vitality to preliminaries of re
' construction, and will be held in th,
l future responsible for all evils tina
!. may occur, from its neglect or ipjus
tioe of the present. 't