Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1865-07-29
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4 suggestion so startling At first has b.
come a matter Of serious moyemr nj, affect
ting as il must our own territory Of Wash
inston, over which Congress has para
mount control That Garrison and other
fanatics should continue TO enforce such
views is not surprising; but when such a
leading paper as the Albany Ere"i"g
Journal advocates the doctrine. it becomes
necessary to meet the issue-especlally SO
when the Legislature Of this Territory is
called upon to equali-c the races HERE.
The policy of the radical wing in the At
lantic States requires, as they calculate,
the negro vote in the Southern States, in
order to maintain supremacy there and
elsewhere. There never was more mis-
taken policy in party politics engendered.
1t has been originated under a false notion
of the true character Of the negro man, and
if carried into effect the chivalry" will
have gained over the North at least half a
million votes upon any subsequent Presi-
dental election. The effect of freedom to
the slaves has made obsolete the three
fifth provision of the first chapter Of the
Constitution, and now all instead OF three
fifths arc counted in Congressional repre-
sentation, exactly as they always have
been in the free States.
BY the census Of 1860, there was in the
States and Territories 3,953,760 slave
population. The usual ratio of votes is
one vote to every five persons. This Will
give, under the proposed political revolu-
ton, 79O,752 negro votes for Presidential
electors. Of these, then, is it probable
that less than 100000 would BE- brought
to the pollsl How will they vote In
nine cases out of ten, the negroes will be
employed by their old masters. For the
support Of their old men, old women, and
children. they naturally look to the " Old
Plantation" They will cling to their old
homes and associations, when they awake
from the St. Domingo d-lusion that free
dom means life without labor. They will
vote as Old Massa" wants them to vote.
If he employs one hundred, or one thou
sand, on his cotton or his sugar plantation,
the new policy" for it is nothing Else,
gives him instead of his one, individual
vote, the number of one hundred or one
thousand, as he may command. Pursue
this blind policy. increase the power of
those whose loyalty is yet to be tested,
and you increase the hazard and danger to
continual Union of the States, from
a source. too. of which you appear not now
to dream. The moral view Of this ques-
ton needs no comment. We all admit
that children should not vote, women
should not vote. Indian men, women and
children should not vote. Are negro men
more intelligent than white women: But
we repeat, the question ia one of policy
Of party. regardless Of the moral status
ofths case. and that policy one Of grra,
hazard to the country.
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