New-York daily tribune., 1865-10-13

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with less Difference. And they often tell us
witness Gen. McGowan) that they get recon-
structed expressly that they may regain full
power over the Blacks, and enact code that
will make them work and keep them in their
places. Have we night to shut our eyes to
these facts
The Times urges that
"a greater innovation than for the FEDERAL Govern.
ment to prescribe the qualifications OF voters In the
various States could hardly be imagined
Under favor, yes, sir the prescribing that
all men shall be Free, was far greater IN
novaticn." If we had only forbcrne this, both
Rebels and Copperheads would have gladly ae-
cepted any other. Yet this has Hd been for
borne; and now We ask that it be made reality
and not sham.
Says The Times:
"The safeguards Of life ard property which exist 10
tribunals of Justice being secured to the fretduen
their possession Of the suffrage becomes nste1I ~ ~
comparatively small consequence. Good wIh hnu 80 80
faith to the freedmen no longer demand IL ei'"' ~"
tuaIy or seemingly"
is that sol What says our home expert
ence' The Blacks have always enjoyed inc
right to cue and to testify in our Courts Ihey
have never complained Of their treatment there
in. Yet to-day Black man is not allowed a
license 10 drive his own horse and cart and work
for such as choose to employ hlm, ngnt mere III
New York. He has had hard struggle for the
r;,ht 10 ride in our City Horse-Cars, paying his
fare like other people, and has barely secured
it. if it be secured, after years of insult and out
rare. If "a Black builder were this dav to take
contract TO erect house or store for some
one who chose TO employ him, and should
employ Black carpenters and masons on the
lob. we believe they would be stoned of of 1t
before the weeks end. 1t is not long since q
hundred Black women and children barely
escaped with their lives from the t0baceo-ware-
house wherein they were earning living by
their honest labor, until Irish Democracy saw
fit to hunt or burn them out. II is little more
than two years since Black men, women girls
and boys, were hunted through our City's
streets as though they had been mad dogs,
though they were not even suspected of any
wrong bat their color-several of them subjected
to death Of torture; many more to tho most
horrible outrages and indignites-whilc an
Orphan Asylum filled with Black children was
burned to the ground, while Irish women stole
and carried of the orphans garments TO clothe
their own children. Yet no one has ever sen-
0usly proposed the forcible expatriotion Of our
Blacks, while wholesale Negro bansbment Is
popular az the South, and even such Un.oniStS
az Brownlow favor it,
We cannot admit, therefore, that the Right
Of Suffrage for Blacks is ga matter of small
consequence" whether to themselves or 10 the
Union. Were they enfranchiscd, South Caro-
lima and Mississippi would to-day be among
the most loyal OF all States. and stubborn bul-
warks against any future attemp, TO dissolve
| the Union. But resdmit them, with all power
in the hands Of those who were Rebels 80 long
as they could be, with the steadfastly loyal ma.
jority of their people helpless under their feet
and the Nation will yet rue its treachery and
short sighted folly. There aro those now mis-
leading it who will weep tears Of blood in var
depreciation Of their sacrifice Of justice aud
safety to the binding lures Of crooked policy
and yaulting ambition.