New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-08
TEsE GOLDEN MOAaFNT.
TIE NJ y. Tim@ closes a Janus-faced dis


eve recommend the special advocates OF Ncgrc
Suffrage give their cfors ibis direction; Let them
secnre icr the oClred population OF HeT oDn states me
night 10 vote on the same ten rs utLes. IN the state
} OF Ncw-York for example, property qEa hcllon IS
required If colored persons which is not required OF
ans OF or class There is reason WHY this should be
ruintsL II is FOR the people Of the state 10 remove
it Instead 0f demanding tie suffrage for the nerroes
OF Gre Sonthern States, ttcy may with much greater
wisdom aud lrprety first secure it for TIE negroes u
tier OWL
-Few readers can be unfamiliar with this
sort OF logic. physician heal thyself' is a
tTite injunction. Foreign Missions, and every
effort OF far.reachng philanthropy, have borne
this torrent from time immemoral and must
brave ii TO tie end.
The Free Blacks Of this State were deprived
of the Right of Suffrage by the strong demo-
cratic majority in the Constitutional Convention
ofIS2l. This disffanchSement was an overture
of subserviency to the ruling Southern politi-
clans, by whose aid our embryo Presidents and
ether Federal dignitaries hoped to realize their
aspirations. Had there been no Slavery in the
South, there would have been no Negro dsiran-
chisement in The North.
In 1876 our State held another Constitutional
Convention, which submitted the question of
Negro Suffrage TO direct vote of the legal
electors. Every, Democratic organ and dema-
gogue at once spouted "down with tie Mig
gers!" and part of the Wings were frightened
into going with them. SO equal Suffrage was
voted down.
In lS55-60, Wing Governor and Legislature
passed an enflanchisng amendment, subject to
q vote Of the People. That vote was taken at
the Presidential Election Of 1860, when again
the Democratic machinery was put in operation
to defeat it, and, by the help Of some timid.
half-hearted Republicans, led by The World,
reduced but still heavy majority was rolled up
against it. 1t was a Dry-Goods triumph, in d.
rect subserviency to Southern Slavery.
We who ask that the Southern Blacks be en-.
irauchised are known to be equally resolved on
completing their reimbursement in the North.
Connecticut has legally initiated an amendment
to that end, which will soon, we trust, expel
The last vestige Of prescription for Colors sake
from New-England
But there is tide" in human affairs. There
are moments which are grand opportunities
which, once lost come ncveracain. The South,
utterlyupheayed and dislocated by the Rebellion
and the War, is now recrystalizng on basis Of
Free Labor. it has been decided that only
Whites are to vote in the elections about to be
held to revise and reft their respective Consti-
tutions preparatory to their restoration to power
in the Federal councils. And, as Slavery was
so recently their central idea, while the great
majority of their Whites have been involved in
the Rebellion which the Blacks VIGOROUSLY de-
INJURED to, there is great danger that pride,
habit, spleen and latent disloyalty, will operate
to perpctuate the political and civil disabilities
Of the Blacks, wherelrom all reason has departed
since the overthrow of Slavery.
But the States lately insurgent are not yet
"rehabiltated." Their Members have not
taken their seats in Congress, and, so far as
they may have been Rebels, cannot take them,
till both Houses shall have repealed at least one
stringent disabling act of the last Congress.
And, prior to their admission, there is an anti
Slavery majority in the House Of two to one, in
the Senate Of three to one.
With what reason, then, what justice, what
FEASIBILITY, are we, who anxiouSy desire that
Blacks should vote on like terms with Whites,
told that we should leave nine-tenths OF them
to their obvious vote, and devote our whole en-.
ereieS to eniranchising the one.tenth who in
habit those lately distinguished as Free States
that We must effect this before turning atten-
ton to that9 Who does not see that, while we
are relieving the one-tenth the nine-tenths are
morally zure to be consigned to perpetual vas
Isaaas! lheir time, we see plainly, is now or
never. And their enfranchisement secures that
Of their race at tie North while removal OF
disabilities here will nave little or no effect at
the South.
There ere yet grave difficulties to be van
pushed, serious obstacles to be overcome, nat
we abide in hope. Knowing that it is the true
interest of the South to conciliate and satisfy
her Blacks, and not provoke fresh discomfort
among them, nor teach them to look stead
Easily to the North for justice and opportunity,
we make our primary appeal to her conserva-
tive, thoughtful, influential citizens. begging
them not to needlessly provoke anarchy ct
home and interposition from abroad, by refusing
to do justice to the humblest but not least
useful third Of their people.
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