The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-06

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Aas qualified him for Tie rieht Of suRtaks md
the exereise q Pelitical power, We hall stnl-
hfy ourselves and give Tie lie to those declax-
atious upon which We have Obtained political
power.
Then after stating Mr.. Summers p1oposi-
ton v sxcluds the rsbsls aad sdnif cblored
men to the rightof suffrage, Governor Nor.
ton came to the conclusion that the policy
would rssat in
coLoRED STATE 0ovERsMEsrs.
If you enffanchise all the negroes ia these
States, you will have at least twenty negro
votes to one white vote, and in the work Of
reconstructing the States Of 6osth Carolina,
Alabama and Florida, you would have ! Lar.
to one white vote. Now, ask yOu, what 4
to be the effect Of that 7 The FIRST effect viii
b, you win have colored State governments.
Under such : condition Of things the negro
would no more vote for white man. than
you up here would vote for = black man.
They woald no more elect . white man than
you would elect black man. Human nature
is the same, whether in white or colored
skin. The could be nothing that would con-
fer more pleasure upon man of that rnce of
course, than the elevation 70 political power
Of . mon Of his own race and color. HAVING
secured power, they would retort upon us
that which We have so steadily practiced upon
them. If you give them the votes, they will
elect men Of thsir own color. And We would
have no right to blame them. We would
rether think badly of them if they did not.
| would ask you if the negroes of Hayti, or
9TH nrx,la< H. IL
have ever elected white man to Office ?
Under Mr.. Sumner plan, you will give them
an overwhelming majority in every one of
these States, and you viii give them the po-
litcl power of the South. That they viii
exercise that power by electing men bf their
own color, is absolutely certain. Believing
that human nature is the same under different
compile Nons-that the negroes are nok differ
emily constituted from ourselves, and that
they have like passions with MS, We can not
doubt how this power will be exercised. Some
will say that it is all right-if they can find
colored men qualified, all right There are
enough colored men of education in the North
to 60 to the South and fill every Office there.
and have no doubt they stand ready 10 do it,
Here We deny to them almost every rifht, ex
cept that of mere personal liberty, AID it is
30 IN Illinois and many others of the Nprthern
States and when you present to them the
prospect Of holding the highest offices in the
gift OF the people Of the Southern States. res,
assured they viii embrace il. They will have
coiored 6oyernors, and colored members of
congress, and Senators, and Judges of the
supreme Court, &c Very well, and 4uppose
they do send colored Senators and Rebreseu-
tatives to Congress. | have no doubt YOU
Will fnd men IN the North who viii be willing
to SIT beside them, and will not think them.
selves degraded by dong so. have nothing
to say to this | am simply discussing the po
litical effect Of it. In every State where
there is colored State government, n negro
for Governor and negro for Supreme Judge.
white emigration will cease. There will be
no more white emigration to any such State.
lou can't find the most ardent anti ilslavery
man IN Wayne county, who will 70 anh locate
IN a State that has colored State government.
! on will absolutely shut off at once, and ef.
fectually, all emigration from the Northern
States, and from Europe too, whenever that
event shall happen. Thus they will remain
permanently coiored States in the South.
The white men who are now there would re-
move from them they would not remain un-
der such q dominion.
coLoRRD BALANCE or powER
Very well, say some, that is all vety well.
II We can get the negroes to go there. But
let me say that the colored States would be a
balance of power in this country. ask, is
it desirable to have colored State govern.
menty | say il is not. 1t is not, for many
reasons One reason is, that such States
would perpetually constitute balance of DOW
er. They would be held bound by the strong
est tie that ever binds men together-+the tie
OF color ana OF rAce-the tie of q dotn-trpd
den and despised race. As three hundred
thousand shareholders, by q comm on tie,
were able TO govern this nation foi long
time, so four millions Of people, bd md to-
gether by much stronger tie-despfsed by
the whole world, as they have BEEN would
constantly vote and act together, AID their
united vote would constitute balancd of pow
er that might control the Government of this
nation.
SUI lit, then, however clearly and strong
ly we may admit the natural rights of the ne
gro-I submit it TO the intelligence oflthe peo-
ple-that colored State governments are not
desirable; that they will bring about results
that are not to be hoped for; that finally they
would threaten to bring about it, and. be-
lieve, would result in q war of races.
THE SOLUTION or THE DIFFICULTY.
Now the question comes up, how can this
thing be avoided, and yet confer spon the
negro his rights? Well, if / had the power,
will tell you how I would avoid. ! believe
it will be the way in which it will be ultimate
ly worked ont, for l believe the time will
come when these rebel States will confer upon
the negroes the right Of suffrage. If I had
the power would arrange it in this: would
give these men just emerged from slavery a
period Of probation and preparation; would
give them time to acquire q little property,
and get alittle education, time to learn some.
thing about the simplest forms of business.
and prepare themselves for the exercise oi
political power. At the end of ten, fifteen OF
twenty years, let them come into the enjoy
ment of their political rights. BY that time
these Southern States will have been so COM
pletely filled up by emigration from the North
and from Europe, that the negroes will be In
permanent minority. Why? Because the
negroes have no emigration but the
natural increase, while we have emigration
from all the world, and natural increase be-
sides. Thus, by postponing the thing only
until such time as the negroes are qualified to
enjoy political rights, the dangers have been
considering would have fully passed away.
Their influence would no longer be danger
Gus in the manner | have indicated, and a
conflict Of races would not be more likely to
happen than it now is in Massachusetts,. In
Massachusetts, the negroes have exercised po-
litical rights for twenty-five years, and YET
there has been no disturbance there--no con
flif4 of races Why? Because the negroes