The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-08-08
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.

ny GU are tn9 only m6UDelS VI Tue mon
party of the Stat whom l have found impa
tient to commit your brethren in advance OF
the meeting of Congress to definite policy
upon subject upon which the convention had
by the strongest implication declaled it pre-
mature to decide what course ought TO be
taken The State election decides no such
issues: the progress of events in the South will
probably throw increased light upon all such
questions; yet you insist that shall give you
my views, not ior the purpose of mutual as
sistsnoe in arriving at solution OF diff,
Guilty, but under notice that the Votes of your
people viii be determined Tor or ageiast me
by 10y answer. l tn nix that ia so doing Won
wrong both yourselves and the whole political
organ cation to which we belong, and to
which you gave pledge of cordial co opera alton
upon the platform ss adop ed, through your
delegates, Woo were present at the convention.
Fo. myself, have no secrets aslto my opinr
ious, snd neVer hesissted to declare them on
proper occasions" .u llsa l1sp. ai5
After RETIRING 10 The perplsxlug question
to be settled within the cor ieg year he says:
81 believe that the President is earnestly CO
telmined to ssek the good of the whole couD-
try, and all of The res in Ii; that he has full
clai N 30 the confidence which we declared
t1at we reposei in him; and that what we IS
Union men cannot succeed in doing, in hsf-
mony auG CO operation With him and his adj
miu s.ra,ion, we shall foil ofdoing altogether
NV slgpost of him, therefore, will be no b4lf
hes ted support, but alous and thorooe h'y
'heyrty CO. operation, with no uIterier puspo. @
or thought of separation on issues liketo isa
It is by The cordial harmony Of Mr. Johnston
and TIE Union members o Congress thai the
county IL to be Car led safely through its
present pe-ils, and division between them
would place me in Immediate danger of shin
wreck.
With respect to the future condition of he
rseomen he writes:
You Judging ON to's disrence, say, Deliver
the four mi lions of reed people iYio the
hanos of their former appressors. now etD Bit
te ed by their defeat and they will meke IL a. r
condition worse than before. i, s'artirg from
the same principles, and az err four $ee,s Of
clio q aad thougnfal observation of he re- ces
ere they are, say l an unwillinglv forced
80 me conviction that the effect of he 7gsr haa
no. been simply to ''eubi,ter' their relations,
bug TO develop q rooted antagonism which
makes their permanent fesion in one political
commonly an absolute impossible. The
sle difference between us ther, is ia the de
gre Of hostility we find existing between the
r4css, and its probable pefneneuce You az
frsge to the blacks, leoujaq them inte1lniae1
qoith ,Shiles, will cure III he trouble. be
lieve that it would rather be like the decisions
in that other darkness of which Milton speat :
where
Chaos umpire sis,
And by decision more embrojs the fray.
''Yet, rs | believe with you, that the light
to life and liberty are inaienable, and more
than admit the dsngsr of leaving laborir o
class at the entire mercy of those who former.
ly owned them as slaves, you will say am
bound 10 furnish some solution of the problem
whica shall not deny he right or incur the
peril. So sm, ana the ony real solution
which l can see is the peaceably separa ion
of be races. But you will reply, foreign
colonization will nre dow hopelessly III der
the ley vastness Of the labor even if 1t were
not 5yranical enough to expei these uufortu
NAT people from the iend of their birh [
grsnt the lull wei3ht OF tire objection, and
therefore say he solution is thus narrowed
down to peacedble separation Of the race on
the soil where they mol0 are"
The General then proceeds at length to H.
lusrate the antagoni:m between the freedmen
ard their former mes ers, claiming that BE-.
eau there cou be no real rpity of people
between he ouhern whites and Southern
blacks, there could be no political unity, but
rather stife for the mastery, IN which the
one or the other would go to the wall
In conclusion, he suggests bat, "without
breaking up the Organization of any Stae
sou AXE contiguous e ritofy in South Caro-
INA, Georgia. Alabsma and Florida, and
there, onder he severaign.y of he United
States, and With al the facilities WATCH the
power and wealth of The Goyeromeat can
give, ~e organize he freedmen in a der en-
oe cy 81 the Union anSls gous 10 the Western
Territories.
Civ hem schools, laws facilitating tue re-
quiiemants of hom steAds 10 be psil for by
their own labor, fai and exclusive political
privileges, aided at he start, should 1t seem
necess' ~, by wise seltc zoos from tie ages.
brains most phianihropic hearts amo,
anti avery men, to joia hem; q judiciary Or
xecutIye which would co4uaaQ their con-
h1enfe IN the first ess iys of poiltical exis
,esca. Tdere ne b. no coercive collection
o. the totored race 10 the designate ted region |
the uiaJoi ty are there now, anu the reward of
political power would draw h remainder |
quite as ragidly - tlei place coeld be sup /
plieo ~ white emigration inso otter states /
The tors Of the s aporl cites coald remsin |
under ne direct control If tae Fede4al Cow !
as he bass ior the common trade |
and iatercou Sc with other par of the Co
Try aad de Worio, which would be necessa V !
The rules oppof.u@iy to develop the high 81 I
clviliz a,ioa lacy acs capable OF would then BE- !
slvea, lotased men of alent aid l. eilig ace |
wouyo not tn maze vain stsaggle fer the |
emp'y Aa4.e OF being lawyer with4u
brieT Or iae chants without race bur woud |
have "hy Isading Journal at the East las |
frequently demanded for beR-aB oppor- |
tunl.J, a. vs. 30 the right, to take rank acs
coroip & oe.r rssl cha, aeter and ability"
EA-SENA OR FOUIE ON Nero SUE. |
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a Letter h ( one, of course in which he |
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