The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-06-17
Sumner, Wilson. E'hiIiipJ and
Boutwell, Lead or iii The
Crusade.

the other day, said:
'.Sure,v the same authority va,ch may
limit the electoral law OF slavery r.ay
| enlarge it, lfthe national Authority can do
any thing about elections il it can order an
election; if it can regulate an election; if ii
| can exclude irai!or who is still at large, il
can admit lovalist who's. only incapaci,y Is
! his skin. - q
- The colorei suffrage is now necessity
But beyond this, in IN iking il an essential con
diton Of the restoration. Ok the rebel States
10 the Union We follow. first, the law OF reason
aud OF nature, and secondly, the Consti,l ion,
not only IN is text, bat as Interpreted by the
Declaration oflnoepeudence. of By reason I'd
nature there can do 10 DENIAL ofright on ac-
count OF color; aud We can do nothing which
Is TINS irrational and unnatural. By the
Constitution. isas stipulated ths; the United
States shall guarantee tc every State Re.
publican .Orll o! Government; hut The me3...-
ing o! this guarantee must be found in the
Deciara,inu o: independence. which is h
controlling preamble Of th. Constitution.
I;e.oai al 81 ;'ir-i Tho Trt.-i State ~ mem
called 10 enforce this gnaTant.e. IrUst IusIsi
on Tie equality ot ala mcn before lle law. and
the consent ot tie go"eIBei Such Is the
t.lc idea ot :, republican government accord
/ Ing 70 y mcrIcaH ;Iat.Jutious.
The Save hlasIers. driven from their first
utreHchmen.., already occupy inner dcicnces
Property in !44:.g = abanGOAed; but ihce rLw
insist that coIured persons shall not eEiov
| political rights. Liberty has yeen won. AMI
/ now new compromise is proposed by which
name at States rights. II Is bad that it
>hGu,l be 50 The cause may be DELAYED ::
/ but il cannot be lost; aud all who set them
/ selves against it a.! be oserb6rne, fUr it i,
~ ra-se of Humanjty. No: the ri-' and
proud, Ju. ,Ee poor aHd owiv, will be tie
! favor.,ea ~. al enfrapch1sd republic. The
/ words q the prophet SIT be fulfilled Aud |
viii Danish the people for their evil. and
( wicked fox iAeir iuiIulty, and cause The ar
rogarce o. the rroud cease, and | VII iay-
low the nausl'.Lcss or the terrible. | will.
make man more precious than hrc gold
even maa. than golden wedte ofOphir. |
catch tie.e .ct, inc wo.ds Of prophecy. and
echo them bacl. as the assurafe OF triumph.
At the anniversary meeting oi'Ihe Emanci-
patton League, held in BoStonlast week,
Ex Gov. Boutwell, Set his pegs somewhat
in advance Of the Speakers who preceded
him. He declared Hre would never consen;
- che read,n ssior Of a Stale into the Union
unless under Constitution which gave ,!'e
-i.ht ofsutTrage to black as well as to y hiie
Tie black mar. must vote, az ali events
whether the whites did or not y He suggest
ed. also that, lat the next session of Con
cress, the districts covered by the States o
South Carolina and Florida should be or
ganizcd rs r.eT territories, and the colored
people invited 10 settle there. and build u,
States of their owa, from whitl they Nigh.
in a few years, send black Representatives tC
! Congress" ID 4 -t ,
Senator Wilson. Of Masshchu etts. s.ri
:the Legislature Off ifennessee bad passed
thrcuga one branch, a law de q, adiug the free
D blacks of that State to the condition of serfs
D ann he wocd 'e;l the people OF Tennessee
E Gov. Brownlow and President Johnson, Thai
the Representatives Of Tennessee canno, be
. rece we'd in Congress with that law upen hei
statute books" The ballot. he declared,
must be put in the hands of the black man
Mr.. Wendell Phillips is reported to have
said: "He con ended that slavery was alb l.
, ished and that the Reconstruction bolcy OF
: the administration as set forth in the procla-
nation for the reconstruction oc North Caro-.
lima, was an absolute surrender OF the helm
OF the Union tu;c the hands Of Alex. II. Ste
phens aud his co,wo.kers. Reconstruction
on that basis was a practical fraud upon TIE
North. Every life and every dollar that had
been spent had been stolen from then--
J There was but one wy in which the people
:.
was a declaration of rcpudiation of the entire
war debt. Such party would have his voice
ard vote until God called him hence., He
would constantly oppose every step Of recon
struction that did not place the negro upon
: an absolute equality and level with the white
! man. There were but two parties in the
: Countrywide sycophants of jeff. Davis and
tie lovers Of liberty. Every man who sup
ported the Norib ,Coroina procla arnation was
Dav!s sycopbsnt. Better, fair better would
it hare been for Grant to have surrendered to
Lee, than for President johnson to have
surrendered to North Carolina.
4 The. National 3Sg1te1Y ,syaiiila2,gd, Of
7 June 8, has leading article. under the head
cafsSa | 4i b5is tit! ss sse IT, % ., sssh tgS9r's
assailei:
! "And the snbstanee' Of 'tbd5 whole is that.
faras Nort6 C'aalrelina si.f is Concerned, the
administration has declared against n ,gro
suffrage. North Carolina is banded over to.
rtns rule of a nerciless .aristocslcv, created BY
the act of President ,Johhsont and resolved.
not merely 10 axcit,de the negro from suffrage
I nut 10 make his new Possession of free dom q
nlockery apdsR ssan.i nkzt eabeeser odtaFits.
i II hook at sFenmes$ee,,i a and the black code
which ha passed /, one branch OF its
Legislature 10 Saeh a tyranny is the necces-
sary consequence OF the distinction in races.
there is no party an the Suuth that is friend
1yto ~ ahs nsgfe' q Z. Sfsposed 70 asl Justice
ine feoels aals M rhyn lSeeaaser1 1hel asa saeisS
are the peof hwfiites. 10 aa,Esys hated -tbssI
! negro. as IA negro, sssss i sSaa The slay-hold-
Ting glass did y,.sda daot~iAk sltichsssty s6xzR
tba Rs'of .1fsss n asS Ss @ e @aii,sd led
there is3s0Aesnai a iehmaee that S}isAe free