, 1865-07-14
A New Phase in the Irrepressible Conflict
Doctrine.

A New Phase in the Irrepressible Conflict
Doctrine.
The San Francio Bulletins regular New York
correspondent, writing under date of June lst,
gives the following about the ''beginning of
new irreprsssible conflict" as he styles it, but
which most persons would call 'tths continual
tion of the conflict" for it is simply feature
in the doctrine net hitherto brought prominent
ly before the public
At the meeting at Boston yesterday of the New
England Anti-Slatery Convention, the question
OF negro suffrage was made the order of the day
by a resolution from Wendell Phillips, Chair
man of the Business Committee. The gist of
the resolution is, that the reconstruction of the
rebel States without negro suffrage is a practi-
cal surrender to the Confederacy, and will make
the anti-slavery proclamation Of the late Presi-
dent, and even the expected amendment of the
Constitution, utterly inefficient for the freedom
and protection of the negro race.
Mr.. Phillips argued, in support of his resolu-
ton, that reconstruction, as laid down in Presi-
dent Johnson's North Carolina proclamation,
was an absolute surrender of the helm of the
Union into the hands of Alexander H. Stephens
and his co-workers, and practical fraud upon
the North And there was one way in which
the people could still hold the helm of affairs,
and that was by declaration of reputation of
the entire war debt. party based on this
principle would have his voice and vote
till God called him home. He would constantly
oppose every step of reconstruction that did not
place the negro upon an absolute equality and
level with the white man. There were but two
parties in the country--the sycophants of jeff
Davis and the lovers of liberty. Every man
who supported the North Carolina proclamation
Davis sycophant. Better, far better
1
dered to Lee, than for President johnson to
have surrendered to North Carolina.
The Hon. Amasa Walker, a gentleman who
has heretofore filled considerable space in
Massachusetts, politics, followed Mr.. Phillips in
full endorsement of his views.
This same question of negro suffrage was
fully discussed at the meeting in Boston on
Monday of the Emancipation League, the prin-
cipal speakers being Ex-Governor Boutwell,,
Judge Kelly of Philadelphia, Wendell Phillips,
and Senator Wilson. Mr.. Boutwell, said that,
with him the question was not whether black
men are to vote in the insurrectionary States,
but whether white men should be allowed to-
Senator Wilson remarked that he was in favor
of putting the ballot into the hands of the black
man, and declared that he would vote for the
admission of no delegate into Congress from
any of the States which were rot constructed
on this basis.
eolored men in North Carolina Charles Sumner
writes as follows:
~ see little chance OF peace and tranquility
in any rebel State unless the rights of all are
recognized without distinction of color On
this foundation we must build. As you do me
the honor to ask the proper stand for you to
make, have no hesitation in replying that you
must insist on all the rights and privileges of
citizen. They belong to you; they are yours;
md pwb Oh 20 Al e,
usurper and imposter."
Thus the irrepressible conflict is begun, and
If it does not gather strength and volume as it
grows older, it will not be because there are not
earnest and eloquent men at its back.
Senator Sumner is regarded as the leader of
the negro suffrage party in Congress, while
Wendell Phillips is the acknowledged represen-
tatiVe man of the negro-equality faction out of
Congress. PHILIPPE threatens the Government
with the ycpudiaticn ot tire war debt if it shall
fail to carry out bis principles, and Sumner
threatens to provoke war between the whites
and blacks if the Government does not side with
him on the suffrage question. In the meantime,
however, President johnson is leaving the qes-
tion of suffrage where it properly belongs-to
the people of the States, respectively, to regu7
late it for themselves. But this does not suit
the Sumner-Phillips party, for by Johnson's
plan, the whites only are recognized as the 7o-
ting population of the Southern States, where's
II tho question should be left in an unsettled
condition until the convening of the next Con-
grsss, the majority in both houses would be fa-
vorablo to plan of reconstruction" which
would give the negroes the right of Suffrage
There is where the shoe pinches., Congress
does not meet until December, and there is ev-
cry probability that the rebelious States will
be ''sst upon their legs again" before that time,
and upon a white basis too. But the radicals
are not going to let the question be put to rest
in that manner, for they have the majority in
Congress, and where the Southern States elect
members opposed to negro suffrage, they will
not be admitted to their seaats. Wilson no
doubt speaks the sentiments of all the radical
members of Congress when he says that he
would vote for the admission of no delegate
into Congress from. any of the States which were
not constructed on this EbiacK basis" And
Boutwell-the incarnation of reyengeful di-
nbolism-says the question with him "is rot
whether black men are to vote in, the insufrec-
tionary States, but whether uhits men should be
allowed to-" The "year of jubilee" is at hand,
and it ''must be now the Kingdoms coming"
when the dominant party in Congress--a Con-
gress in free. enlightened America-labors to
disfranchiss ssthe whites and enfranchise the
blacks Go ye
"Black spirits and white,
Red spirits and gray;
Mingle, mingle mingle,
You that mingle may,
and the devil take the hindmost, so help you
hiscsgenationists; and damned be he who first
cries hold BLACK enough.