New-York daily tribune., 1865-10-03
THE WISCONSIN REPUBLICANs.

! a convention at JaneSVlile ldSt "eeh' 'o' 'AN
purpose of expressing their views on hationai
affairs and ratifying the nominations Oh inc
Union party. Judging from the large number
Of eminent men there present, from the un'
ainching plainness of the resolutions, and IRON
the great ability and courage of the speeches'
no convention ever held in that State has
exercised SO direct and general an influence as
this will upon the people of Wisconsin.
The leading idea Of the Convention as ex'
nressed in its resolutions was Impartial Suffrage,
as an essential condition of safe Reconstruction
and the security of the Union in the future IL
was unanimously resolved:
"Tbo, in our opinion IL is incompatible with the no
nor of the nation after having called 10 tne ~ hi
US TO abandon him In the hour OF that Victory Nlo M
eaor,, helped TO secure that TO brand him rs
the RIGHT OF suffrage is 10 deliver him disarmed anu ncp
less into the hands OF his enemies and tha h
II Is competent and right and in accordance Win %
national fifth which Is virtually pledged TO MIN ior io
nrosc.ion 70 mp0se on the States recently engaged IN
Rebellion a. further condition Of tber return 10 Iu
fellowship in the Union that IN hxing tne er,l
cons,ituencies they make no discrimination against al!
person on account OF race or color.
The Convention proceeded to declare that
whatever theories about the imposslbilly OF
Secession might prevail, the States were practl'
cally under control of the Federal Government,
as was shown by the appointment OF PROVISIONAL
Governors. by prescribing the qualifications OF
electors, and by insisting on EMANCIPATION a'
the condition precedent 70 their return Ihey
resolve that Congress in conjunction with the
President, and not the President alone, IS the
proper authority to fix on the conditions OF re-
construction, and that all the loyal people oil
the South. not repentant Rebels alone, are en-
titled to vote.
The main speech to the Convention was made
by the Hon. T. o. Howe United States Senator
/ from Wisconsin He ndorsed the resolutions
without reserve. He further called the atten'
ton of the Convention to the fact that the last
/ eri,lature of the State had passed law
abolishng the exclusion of the negroes from the
ballo. box. a law which required the ratification
of the people, and which he besought the people
TO agree TO. There are but 1853 colored men III
Wisconsin; the question, therefore, might seem
( of little practical importance, but Senator Howe
reminded his fellow citizens that "it is OF inn
mensely more Importance to you, white men,
and 10 your characters a. citizens and Repub-
,licans, that you shall do this, than it is to any
interest that these }j3 black men have The
Senator urged it as one step toward securing
suffrage for the negroes of the South, and that
without suffrage emancipation is sham.
These people the negroes. they live down certain
communities Which have been waging against the
people of tie United States. They were owned
almas, entirely by the who made that war
and carried Il 10 the bitter end. As know.
these men have been emancipacd simply because they
have ceased be the property OF their former owners
| will wait for official information on that point. II
YOU mean by emancipation thai they have simply ceased
10 be property must be allowed to say that does not
come up TO my notion Of emancipation In the States
omebodv has got to WELD the powers OF the Goyein
fnen and that power has to be welded by the whlte
population by the who formerly owned these col
ored people and by them exclusively or by tue coored
Wheseyer the authority and prerogntiye Of
State, are given to these Southern countries is your
duty that the coored people have share IN such
authority so that they may be able to protect them
selves in the enjoyment OF their rights.
This speech of Senator Howe was preccdedby
one from Gen Paine, of the same tenor, and
i followed by one from the Union candidate Tor
Attorney General of Wisconsin, who avows his
unhesitating conviction that the question of
negro suffrage is one of the deepest necessity in
the preservation of this Union, and to save
what we have gained by our vast struggle"
He sees that :" this question OF negro suffrage Is
the great one now before the American people.
II will be the great one before Congress when
these Rebels are applying to come back, and
the terms on which they are to come
back have TO be decided upon, and
T as it il decided, will it be determined
whether we shall hereafter have in
the South, Free States, based upon freedom
and Justice, or the slave tyranny of the past. Ii
is therefore the duty of the people to interest
themselves deeply in this subject, and while We
refuse to restore to power the Democratic party
of the North, also refuse TO restore power
TO the Democratic party of the South. If the
States are reorganized on Rebel basis, treason
and Copperheadism will be made respectable,
and patriotism and liberty made odious, and il
on the basis Of loyalty, the reverse will be
true"
On the whole, we judge the Wisconsin Re-
publicans have very clear ideas of their own,
and don't hesitate to express them.
/ @..
i One of the Assistant { Commissioners of the