The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-09-27
From the Augusta (Ga.) Transcript.

From the Augusta (Ga) Transcript.
The argument presented for negro sui.
frape will not bear criticism. 1t is ncces-
sary. say the agitators, because the African
has been always loyal The fact is that he
took no part in the conflict at the begin.
ming. and when he became Federal SOL
dier. did 50 not from love to Constitution
Of which he knew nothing, but because the
government offered him freedom. The
s,m. Involvement led thousands TO follow
the British in the Revolutionary war. The
negro was as much Tory, then, as he is
Loyalst now.
The government needs their ballots as
veil as their bullets, says Boston. Not at
all. The Republican party needs them
sorely enough. But it would stagger the
most sagacious Of its politicians to make
anv sbow Of argument upon the assertion,
that the welfare Of this great country is de.
nendent upon some hundreds Of thousands
Of votes to be assigned to persons wholly
unacquainted with the history or Conssltu.
ton Of the country, or any political ai1a'rs
whatever. Suppose an Asrarlan law were
commanded to the enfranchiscd olacKs'
How would they vote?
But ",he late insurgens Southern whites
will repudiate the national debt II restored
10 full political power, says the Radical.
Has Boston, We reply, any right to forecast
the nolitical action of the South, before she
has had an opportunity Of speaking her
mind IN regard to any national subject
Or. will negro suffrage help the matter
Tho Southerner may insist upon the pay.
ment Of the debt, because it touches the
honor Of his country. Such consideration
will hardly operate upon the mind which
knows nothing of the debt except its bur.
dens. and laments the additional charge it
leyies upon every thing he eats and wears.
Suffrage is the necessary guarantee to
freedom9it is further alleged. Not If that
freedom is guaranteed by State acts ana IN
stitutions and the power Of the Federal
Government, we reply. Liberty to the no
gro is not equality with the white-a conu'.
t:on which the temper Of the people, the
laws of the North itself, and the distinctions
established by Nature forbid.
Then, exclaims Boston, if you wont have
negro suffrage, and we can't keep you out
of Congress, we shall insist that the ratio OF
representation shall be fixed by the number
of voters. You shall not be represented by
population any longer. We reply, let this
rule become general, as it must be to oper.
ate upon any section Of the country, and
what will be the RESULT The former slave
States will lose one third of their represen-
tation. But in that loss every one OF the
older States of the Union will share. From
these there is 4 constant westward emsra.
ton OF men; the women stay at home, and
will be msrepressnted under this new ar.
rangement. Let it take place, and there is
no Northern State that will suffer more
from the constitutional change than Massa.
chusetts, whose sons ar. scattered all ovel
the West. She will find that she has DIES
poiled herself.
O, Boston! Boston! will nothing per
suade thee, city of many notions, material
and moral, to cease thy aggressive mis-
sionary work" and let US alone, until the
sentence, weighed in the balance and
found wanting" shall be inscribed by thu
hand Of Doom upon thy palace walls
Wilt thou never cease to denounce unit
thou myself shalt prove the truth Of the ole
Hindu proverb: Courses are like chickens
they always come home 10 roost."