The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-07-06
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The Late Boston Negro Suffrage meet%
ing-The 'Radicals and the Adminls-
tration. i Hs
There was a considerable meeting the
other, day in Feneuil Hall, Boston, on
the Reorganization Of the rebel States"
and in behalf of the right of suffrage to
the emancipated blacks in this work, as
the vital question of the present 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 q 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 con-
troll him now, or TO supersede him in
1868.
Mr.. Theohilus Parsons, chairman of
this Boston meeting. opened the ball in
favor of negro suffrage i'll this business
Of Southern reorganization upon this
ground-tirst, 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 South
ern States, looking, to the reputation
of their rebel debts, and to the federal
war debt as debt incurred in their sub.
juga:ion, will form themselves into u
solid phalanx to repudiate it likewise,
and will be supported in this movement
by their old party associates of tho North,
and that thus the NEST disgraceful and
ruinious consequences to the country
may well be apprehended. Mr.. Parsons
next contcnded that without the power
of selC.protection, which the right to vote
will give them. the Southern blacks,
nominally free, will soon be reduced
again practically to state of abject
slavery under the white race and shorn
of all the rights of freemen
Mr.. Richard III. Dana, Jr., however,
was the prominent orator of the day.
His speech was tho great speech ef the
meeting. Ho discussed several PROPOSE.
tions in support Of the suffrage to the
Southern blacks He commended, first,
that towards the rebel States we stand
upon the ground ofwar, aud have the
right to exercise the powers of the victo.
rious party over the subjngated enemy;
that 1--WE have the right to hold the reb.
els in the grasp, of war until we have Sc.
cured whatever we have the right to
require" Secondly, that we have thus
the right, and it is our duty to the South.
en blacks, to require that they shall
have the right to hold land the right
to testify in the 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 ofthe public faith
and the public safety. He maintains,
too, that 'if we do not secure this right
now, in the time of revolution, it can
never be secured except by new revo.
luton" at the last resort, he says, from
the war powers which the rebellion has
given us, we hold "the political systems
VI tle Teoei iotateS at the QtScTetiOn 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 un-
til they have made constitutions satisfac.
tory to the republic, including the con.
cession Of all these aforesaid rights to the
blacks.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
was the next speaker He rasped the
Massachusetts, Puritans for their class
legislation upon the right Of suffrage,
whereby it is restricted to male citizens
over twenty.one years Of age who can
read and write He was for universal
suffrage without distinction Of color, and
without waiting for the schoulmaster
and he believed that Andrew Johnson
was soun- upon this question. aIf he
seems slow to act, said Brother Beecher,
you are TO remember that a horse in
pasture, without harness, can do some
things that horse is not expected to do
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