, 1865-06-06

n1orc sensible plan of controlling tle CIV
eminent; bst the North would have listened
70 III its haar,brs'ned pseudo re'ormers
I'LL doomsday without being led
into any such fa'al blunder. The Northern
people Ind every reason to be antl-slavesy. to
The extent Of limiting slavery, and would
eaEc been far roore universally 80, could they
have voted for the restriction Of slavery With
ont being charged with entertaining alt the
d:eunionist heses!es of the Qavylsonisn abo.
Huonlsts. The latter infused bitterness and
Sttuperaton into The slavery question. but
atdtd cp}y weakness to the real anti-slayerv
party which elected Lincoln, and which. WHEN
rebe1lionSgaEe them The highland puwer to do
50. abolished slavery. VIC are compelted n
Wonder At the sublime impudence with which
Wendell Phillipa, who in 1860 advised the
people to vote for Breekinridge rather than
Lincoln, has strutted the: mimic stag. Of hi.
little Gar1isonian eotetie7 AZ the bIoodlesi
hero Of bsood-bought emancipation, obtain.
Cd by the wfse faItbfulness Of President 1trc-
coin, whom be had denounced is the aIllI-
'no'a slave hound, J" and BY the steadfast cour-
aEe OF political party, whoss principles and
Naoets ne had never sustained, bat had
fought 'tooth md nail' throughout It's whale
existence.
AVE have labored With eome cafnestness ia
impress upon the public mind the wisdom
and Justice of exercising the lawful power
OF The federal government and the lcclti-
mate m1uence Of Northern opinion In favor
of securing 3 qualified extension OF the suf.,
ffaEc to the blacks IN the Southern States:-
We have appreciated the impolicy Of ex end
ing the suffrage to those Of the blacks who
have taken no part IN earning their freedom,
and who can neither read nor write, nor snp-:
port their families. As all the Southern
States heretofore Tecunstucted-West Viz
gfnla, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mary
land and Missou!i-have excluded black kuf.
fragc, It Is plain that to claim indts:rfmtnate
suffrage for tic blacks throughout the South,
Is not only to defeat black Suffrage entirely,
but to deserve defeat. !-'-,
tits precisely here that Wendell Phillips
mnjesic stupidity AID sentent1ons Ignorance
CONES effectively to the aid Of the enemies Of
lcero sufiagc, by advocating the rcpndiatlon
Of the national debt unless the negro suffrage
be made universal. 0fold he insisted upon
disunion, /. c. rebellion II he coula not have
immediate emancipation. Now he asks in
discriminate and Immediate suffrage or else
rrpudiatiou. By the former policy he did tho.
pro-alavesy party good service. By the latter
be stabs the enlightened friends Of negro sui.
fraee with an assaasin's hand
The national debt Is now held almost Who'll
y BY men who would be glad to see mode1.
ate system Of nesro suffrage secured. and
who're influence, If left undisturoed, viii b.
freely given to such policy Phillips, who,
though Vitality. has probably invested very
little money In the national debt, proposes to
punish the present friends Of negro suffrage
by destroying the yalue Of their property If
they fail to secure the success Of his plsn Of
negco suffrage. Nothing could 50 etfectusllS
damn all Efforts to secure the right Of yotins
to The blacks as the extent and manner Of Phil
lips advocacy OF it. ,.