The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-06-27

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| and twenty i've thousand dollars
The Vermont Democratic Convention meet at Burffng
to-day for the purpose Of nominating candidates sc
Governor Lieutenant Governor and STATE Treasurer n
be voted for at the ensuing election
The stock market dull but firm, yesterday Gov
ernments were fraction higher Gold opened at 40
and closed at 142K 142k on the street. Tho closing
price at night was 142
The markets were generally depressed yesterday, and
prices ruled in favor Of the buyer though there
marked changes 10 note. Foreign merchandise was
quiet Domestic produce duh and heavy, and. -
general thing, somewhat lower Cotton was steady.
Conss was quiet but hrm Sugar was without note
worthy change On 'Chanse -four was dull, heavy,
and somewhat lower Wheat, corn and oats heavy
and Ia %. lower. Provisions wore duI, heavy and
lower whiskey was steady.
| The Late Boston Negro SuRrsge Meet-
| ing-Ths Radicals end tks Administra-
tiOn.
There was considerable meeting the other
day in Faneul Hall, Boston, on the "reorgani-
cation Of the rebel Sts+es," and in behalf Of
the right Of suffrage to the emancipated blacks
in this work, as the vital question Of the pre-
sent crisis The resolutions and the speakers
on the occasion were built upon this text and
addressed to this object. From these and other
proceedings of similar character in other
parts Of the country we can understand very
well what is coming. The republican radicals
against President Johnson are organizing upon
their old platform of rule or ruin, and negro
suffrage in the rebel States is the issue upon
which they expect to control him now or TO
supersede him in 1868.
Mr.. Theophilus Parsons, chairman of this
Boston meeting, opened the ball in favor
of negro suffrage in this business Of
Southern reorganization upon this ground
first, that unless the suffrage be given to the
loyal blacks, the disloyal whites Of every rebel
State will have it all their own way; that thus
the Southern States, looking to the Reputation
of their rebel debts, and to the federal war debt
as debt incurred in their subjugaion, will
form themselves into solid phalanx to repu.
diate it likewise, and will DO supported nthis'
movement by their old party associates of the
North, and that thus the most disgraceful and
ruinous consequences to the country may well
be apprehended. Mr.. Parsons next contended
that without the power of selfprotectiOn which
the right to vote will give them, the Southern
blacks, nominally free, will soon be reduced
again practically to a state of abject slavery
under the white race, and shorn of all the
rights of ffeemen.
Mr.. Richard II. Dana, Jr., however, was
the prominent orator of the day. His speech
was the great speech of the meeting. He dis
cussed several propositions in support Of the
suffrage to the Southern blacks. He commended,
first, that towards the rebel States we stand
upon the ground of war, and have the right to
exercise the powers Of the victorious party over
the subjugated enemy; that "we have the right
to hold the. rebels in the grasp Of war
until we have secured whatever we have the
right to require" Secondly, that we have thus
the right aud il is our duty to the Southern
blacks, to require that they shall have the right
to hold land, the right to testify in tho State
courts, the right to bear arms, and the right to
vote. He demands this upon the principle that
the right to. vote should be decided by "the
greatest good OF the greatest number" and
upon the ground of the public faith and the
public safety. He maintains, too, that ''if we
do not secure this right now, in the time of revo-
luton, it can never be secured except by new
revolution" AT The last resort, he says, from the
war powers which the rebellion has given us,
we hold "the political systems Of the rebel
States at the discretion Of the republic" Thus
the argument Of Mr.. Dana resolves itself into
this single conclusion: that the republic will
hold the rebel States in the grasp of war until
they have made constitutions satisfactory to the
republic, including the concession Of: all these
aforesaid rights 70 the blacks.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher- was the
next speaker He rasped tho Massachusetts,
Puritans for their class legislation upon
the right of suffrage whereby it ID. re-
stricted to male citizens over twenty-one
years Of age who can read and write.
He WIS for universal suffrage without
distinction of color, and without waiting for
the schoolmasicr; and he believed that Andrew
johnson was sound upon this question. "R he
seems slow to act" said Brother Beecher, "you
are 10 remember that horse in pasture, with
| out harness, can do some things That horse is
| not expected to do on the road with O. ohaise
behind him." But the man who has labored
most conspicuously for liberty, and lived for
lis behalf, is that strongest and most iion-ike
] man OF our times, Edwin M. Stanton" Thus
much for Brother Beecher.
Senator Pomeroy, Of Kansas, a tearing radi.
cal, came next The distinguishing feature
Of his speech was this-tha. "thc greatest
heresy of the Hge is TO suppose ihas we can re.
construct (the Southern SIates) upon the stumps
of the old STAGES brok off during ibc rebellion.
Next followed DR.. Loring, who, In discussing
State rights, said that "thc resolutions of 1905
were the first whispers Of treason" which h
true, and that "they were aimei at the alien ant
sedtion laws, but were soon abandoned by JEFF
ferson and Madison, the latter bringing the frs
suit under these laws" In addition to al
these speeches letters were read, pursuing th,