The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-09-23

UNITY not long SINCE became the mother OF n kDe
daughter. A few days after, a Copperbead ~neighbor
happening in, said to the mother, a. Well, | suppose
you'll call it Abe Lincoln NO." she replied,
I'm sorry I can't. Like your friend Jef. it will
wear petticoats ~ Copperhead vamosed.
An honest. but too talkative Republican member
OF the Connecticut Legislature, when the resolutions
came up endorsing the policy of President Johnson.
avowed that he was in a quandary. He could not
endorse the President He thought it a suspicious
circumstance that the Democratic presses approved
of Mr.. Johnson's course, and he said. g Either they
are coming to Us, or We are going to them 80 His
party had either found a cart or lost a horse. he did
not know which. and he was s-going TO wait and
see.
An anvil block weighing one hundred and sixty
tons has been cast at the Midland Works, Sheffield,
England. The enormous cast ives six weeks in
cooling. The mould was dug out in the centre Of
the workshop and the molten iron was run into il
from five furnaces at once, the filing occupying
twelve hours. The anvil, when finished, has TO re-
ceive the blows of q twenty five ton Nasymyth ham
mer.
1t came out in a case before an English police
court that a practice exists among beggars to keep
their children from growing, by feeding them with
gin, SO as to ensure always having a baby 10 attract
compassion. In the case before the court, a child
four years old was stunted so as not TO appear more
than twelve months old.
A New ApvocArE OF NEaRo SuFFRAGE.-It will
surprise most people TO know that the New York
.NetcS, the chief pro-Southern organ in the loyal
States, has begun to express itself in favor Of negro
suffrage. 1t says that in the earliest days of the
Republic many Southern statesmen were inclined 10
give the ballot to the negro, and now it says it
a. could mention more than sfty leading men in the
Southern States who seriously consider this the day
and hour when the preservation and stability OK
Southern interests impel them to return on this sub
ject to the ancient policy of early Southern states
men," The main idea seems TO be that it is only by
admitting the negroes to vote that the South Can
turn it's increased political power to the best account {.
The following reasoning on this topic Is ingenious
The exact legal and political position of the
slave in this country has not always been clearly
appreciated. An eminent writer we'll defines him to
be : a person who is related to society through
another person. called q master, to whom he owes
due service or labor, and from whom he is entitled
to receive support and protection Nothing stood
between the slave and full citizenship but this invol-
untary service; that impeachment is gone, through
the actual operation of the war, and the liberated
black stands himself, q citizen in his own proper
person, and not through the relation Of another
called q MASTER Then if the abstract right to
vote inheres in every citizen, why not in the native
black man? What rule Of law denies him that
rights Is it not his absolute personal right, notD
that he is liberated And if it is his. who shall
take it from him, or who shall come between him
and the State of which he is q citizen ? 1t, as all
other civic rights, may be forfeited by an absolute
crime. But this is common to all citizens"
The FRENCH EMPERoR's UNHAPPY MEXICAN VEN
TURF The London Times is out with a demonstra-
ton of the political and financial blunder committed
by the astute French Emperor in Mexico. 1t says:
In spite of the wealth Of Mexican mines and the
resources Of the country, she capitalists of Europe
are resolute in their distrust of an empire which
rests on foreign bayonets. No tribute to the power
of the Emperor Napoleon can be greater than that
involved in the fact that his subjects are willing TO
trust him in the conduct of q policy against the pru-
dence of which every one of them singly rebels. The
maintenance of the Latin race in Central America as
a check to the encroaching Anglo-Saxon is q grand
idea, but it does not seem to be successful even when
the Anglo-Saxon is too busy to interfere with it.
The Emperor has had it all his own way in Mexico,
and what has been the result! He has placed an
.ot,.o rr,naa ~, N "a 4 IL rio thrnn and m
given him q Papal difficulty, the solution Of which is
as obscure as the reconciliation Of the convention
with the maintenance of the temporal power of the
Pope. He has made the Emperor Macmillan lord Of
a bankrupt excheauer, the demands on which are
great and the supplies limited. The new potentate
is maintained in power by a foreign army. which is
continually engaged in putting down insurgents who
are dispersed in one place only to reappear in another.
And there is now a prospect OF a new difficulty in
the recovered leisure of the neighbor whose restless
activity was o principal motive for the establishment
Of the Mexican empire.
1t is not surprising that all the intellect of France
should chafe at a situation which is absolutely in
glorious, and is not free from danger. Every one is
restless and uneasy, and looks to the supreme head
Of affairs in hope that some effort will be made TO
retire from n position 30 unpromising while 10 is yet
possible. The Emperor Napoleon must himself be
conscious of the deep distrust with which his faith
full subjects watch the issue of the Mexican interven-
ton, and would perhaps be not unwilling on his own
account to consult their wishes, il, at the same time
he could preserve his honor u%ndimmed. But the ne
ceS6ary COrfelatlVe OF unCDeCkeu power ID unulSlueu
responsibility, and the resolute brain which first con-
ceived the possibility of establishing a dependent
empire in the West, must devise for itself the means
Of escaping from the consequences of its own errors"
SUFFRAGE FAcrs.-A Committed of the Executive
Board of the Central Union Club Of Brooklyn. hav-
ing been appointed to consider the whole subject Of
reconstruction, report that they have come to the
conclusion that " all the colored people of the seven
disorganized States have a right to vote, which can
not be taken away from them by any power short Of
a State Convention elected by the whole people Of
each State" In support Of this ground, they sub
NIT the following important facts
"1. The case of Georgia is a peculiar one, and one
which admits of no doubt. The Constitution Of that
State prescribes no qualification for electors, except
that they must be citizens and inhabitants' of the
State, of the age of twenty-one years, and must have
paid all taxes required of Them The word white
nowhere occurs in the Constitution in connection with
the right Of suffrage. We quote from an edition pre-
pared under the direction Of the State by Howell
Cobb in 1859. The authority will. we trust, be
deemed satisfactory, although the character Of Mr.
Cobb, Us q man Of honor, has deteriorated since that
time.
3. The Constitutions of North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia contain no provision in respect
to the right of suffrage. except with regard to cleo
tons for the Legislature and Governor; South Caro-
lima none as to the Governor, he not being chosen by
the people. There is nothing said in these Constitu-
tons about the right Of suffrage for local offices, that
being regulated by statutes.
3. The Constitutions of Florida, Alabama, Missis-
sippi and Texas prescribe that . every free white
male &C., &c, shall be deemed a qualified elector'
the Constitution of Florida adding: at all cleo
tons under this constitution These Constitutions
declare that, the Governor and Legislature shall be
chosen by the qualified electors but they every one
declare, by a marked and important contrast, that
the people (not the qualified electors only have at
all times an inalienable right to alter or abolish their
form of government in such manner as they may
deem expedient.'
4 There 10 No Constitntiop iau or ordipapoa pn~