New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-27
TWIN CHERRIES.

As the subject is one Of the gravest Importance
and worthy Of consideration in every aspect
that can be presented, We give The I'mess
argument entre-as follows:
1t Is sheer quackc.y to make Negro suffrage tne
sovereign panacea Of Southern ills Whether 1t woum
have any good effect at ai-whe'her IN lact "1u n
not do far more harm than O0(isvery doubtful. Inc
worst evil of the South, President johnson clesry
pointed out to the South Carolina delegates on
has been its class rule lev inou:aaa men I'm held
most of the wealth. have had the control OF the
t,op and civil administration. and have kept not ohy
Black men in physical bondage pnt the graz Io,
tie White men In almost total ignorance aud In almost
complcie seryiinde. mental and moral Ihs ohghicmc
power has practically shut out all tne r9pnohcan inu
enoes which have 80 nightly elevated al otner I.s o.
the county. The great problem now Is now 70 oreaA
up that power. .,.. L. ..
"It Is claimed with great yehemence that tins ~ 70
be done by giving the Blacks the Sufhage. but Tue
they have remained subject to this ogarcby. genera
ton af or Votes In their hands have been
simply tickets OF vasssicgc They have never oeeu
used in an independen, waymsVe rh;s t,ot T. ipas
pu,abe II the possession Of the Suffrage through oil
the past years has not redeemed the hte trash OF
the South what hight have we 70 assume that WIZ 90
any more for the Black meni II the Poor Whites have
been so ignorant ard stolid as 10 be MANAGED iike
mere tools by the landed class how sAaii the Ss'
poorer Blacks, yet more ignorant anu s'os ~
negroes will know that il In not for their interest "a
keep tue political power IN the hands OF Their od
masters VIA. assurance have We that they riA know
itY II was 10 the Poor Whites " the SCUM 10
vote as they always did in the interest Of the slave
holders; and vet these Poor Whites did not know II.
We have here In the North hundreds OF thousands OF
for the last four wears with their whole heart and soul
fr the very and the very policies that Dos suted
their old oppressors lntelngent people nave pceh sur
pris j al ihis-have called 1t incredibly inconsistent
and sbsu,d But we have right TO apply the rules
Which govern intelligent men 70 any calculations upon
the conduct OF the Ignorant. Ignor snce wherever ~
EXISTS ALWAYS buwilders and deludes-slways makes
those cursed with rsensbe ~ their most obvious '
terests and fits them 10 be tie mere tools o tue deSRn
ing The Freedmen will DO specially exposed " TINS
effect. without land Of their own, they VII continue
To work for those who have II. They will remain de-
pendens upon the panters,w rely upon item Ir tneir
livelihood, and viii be particularly subject 10 then In
sit hasbeen said bysome discerning Union Of the
South that there could way Of erpetdating
the old class rule Of the outh than the bestowing the
Suffrage upon plantation ab0rcrs-nct would practi-
cslly give the PLANTER VITO has but single vote.
| ten or fits or "A hundred votes Whether this would
prove to be the case cannt yet say The relations
between the since Emancipation have not yet
taken definite shape enough 70 justify settled concu'
| sion But do say that DO one has any right "
i assume that tho negroes having the Suffrage would
vote to srit Noither men thousand miles away. whom
they never saw and against the wishes anc purposes of
their employers. An the antccedent probabilities are
against IT, The assumption has nothing but vague
| speculation ana eDI nope W rest oePcnu,
uader present Developments. upon Negro Suffrage -
the great OF recognizing the South sheer en-
pificism.
TO all which, thus responds The TRIBUNE:
/. We cannot reasonably deny the common
right of manhood to a large portion of our
people upon our own simple assumption that
another Glass; who hare enjoyed that right,
have derived no good from it and done no good
with it. Judge each by its own conduct. not
by that Of the other.
g. "Class rule" at the South was based on
the denial of all rights to the laboring class and
a partition Of the power thus wrested from that
class among others-a most illusory, unequal
partition, but one which gratifed the pride OF
the Poor; Whites and the love of power and
sense Of personal consequences of the slave
holders. The overthrow of Slavery skaters
this fabric: Universal Acknowledgement will
utterly destroy it.
3. The Blacks may be ever 20 Ignorant and
stolid," if The Tunes insists on it yet they were
never so stupid as to uphold Slavery or favor
Secession. They have not improved the oppor-
tunities afforded them by their masters absence
in the Rebel armies to butcher tho families Of
those masters in order TO obtain liberty, nor
have they betrayed our soldiers, escaping from
Rebel prisons or escorts and throwing them
selves on the first negro they met for conceal
ment and subsistence. Not to indulge in
"odorouS" comparisons, We will simply say that
the Blacks as class have evinced signal good
sense throughout our late conflict, and have
demonstrated capacity to use power without
abusing it. We trust that they may be afforded
the opportunity.
a. Whether the Blacks, IL enfranchised, will
generally vote with or against their old masters,
will depend. we presume, on their treatment
by those masters, and on the questions whereon
the country may from time to time be divided.
As rule, other things being equal, an enfran-
chised negro generally votes for gentleman
whenever he has o chance; and some Of the
masters arc, while Others are not, gentlemen.
Usually, we presume, negro laborer would
vote with his employer. provided he were fairly
paid ard well treated by that employer. and
provided his so voting, did not tend to injure or
degrade himself, his kindred, his race.
5. But we deny that the negroes, being free,
will remain dependents on the planters. "
Some will; others will not, as with White
laborers. The energetic and frugal will in time
buy and work lands Of their own, just as many
of the free negroes of Washington, even under
the sway of Slavery, contrived to accumulate
considerable property and become real-eState
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