The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-06-14
The Views of the Great Cham
piOn Of the Republican Party.

As there is much curiosity to see the
views oi the great re eIullcan champion upon
negro suffrage, which were recently aliuusd
to, We give below fuller report of them:
"At the annual meeting of the New.
England Anti; lavery Convention, on Wed.
nesdy, Wendell Phillips took the stand, aud
said that the real topic for discussion was
immediate suffrage for the negro. Mr..
| Maynard, of Tennessee, was right. There
was no time to agitate this question. Dis.
cuSion before the people would not secure
colored suffrage for twenty-five years. The
right must be conceded at once to secure the
nation from serious trouble, and, perhaps,
disaster. The condition of every black
man was to day 10 better than in 1883, and
he did not sec how any man could say sla.
very was abolished and give up his efforts
! In the antl-slavery cause. 1t would be u
year before even the technical abolition OF
slavery would take place. The condition OF
the negro at the South was in state of re-
markable uncertainty. No man could say
whether he could own property, protect his
wife, testify in court, or exercise any other
natural light. The white men Of each
State claimed the privilege to regulate all
this, and the Tennessee Legislature had
just enacted a law concerning free colored
people. DO they enact laws regarding free
white people? All that concerns the colored
people is TO be regulated by the whites, and
what will the whites do when their States
are r, constructed without the negro iran
chse? They would unite with the old Dem
ocratic party in the last Congress Of john
son Presidency, and show the friends OF
liberty who it is that has really been whip
ped in this last hour of the war. The
black race would be kept practically in the
condition of serls, bound to the soil. The
admission Of single State without negro
slavery would exist in reality, but not in
name.
After this was settled, the next question
forced into Congress would be the accep-
tance of the Southern debt. And if this
was done successfully, he would argue Tor
Reputation Of the whole to the last hour of
his lite. Deprive the South of negro suf-
trage, and every drop Of blood has been
spilled, and every dollar of treasure expend-
ed in vain. AlIeady had threats been made
that reconstruction would be put through
next winter, on an anti-negro basis, in spite
of all opposition. 1t would be the great
question of the Congressional session. This
spring Mr.. Sumner said to Mr.. lincoln,
Louisiana must be reconstructed on the
basis OF the Declaration OF Independence.
MIR. Lincoln hesitated, and did not reply,
when Mr.. Simmer said, Sir, if you recon
struct it on any other basis, count on me as
an opp nent. That was the position for
eve.y friend of permanent Union and of
p rmanen, freedom to take, and stand by it
firmly. Far better that Grant had sumen-
dered to Lee than that the President should
surrender to North Carolina or Louisiana,
and make u>elc, all the sutferings and
Ii sses and sacrifices of this fearful strug-
gle
Among those present in the hall were
Whiting Griswola, George Thompson, and
Amasa Walker"