Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-11-23
Aflis&ellaneous.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Being here ON business / nronoso to od-
tire of political cossip and sneculution
The recent elections have caused mucb
conversation. but without any definite con.
clusions as to their popular meaning, fur
ther than this, that majority of the peo-
pie Of the North are not in favor of Negro
Suffrage at home, whatever they may de.
sire should be the case at the South. The
radicals will not boldly face this popular de-,
cision, and work directly for negro suffrage,
but will cndeavor to accomplish the end by
ndirection. There are two modes for then,
to do this by: one, by an amendment to the
Constitution, altering the basis of repre.
sentation in Congress from that of popula
ton, as now, to that of voters. Such an
amendment, it is urged, would compel the
Southern States to cnfranchise the negro.
in order to maintain their power in Con
gpess. If they should refuse to enfiancbsc
the blacks, then they would have but II
little over onc-half their present number of
representatives in Congress, which would be
as agreeable to the radicals as if they en-
tranchiscd the blacks, for the sole object off
effort to make the negroes voters is political
power, as they believe the negroes woulI
always vote in favor of the radicals.
The other mode is through the constitu
tional amendment, already adopted by TWEEN
ty-four States, and which lacks only three
more votes of being adopted as Il part of
the Constitution, and which it is admitted
it will shortly obtain ly New JERSEY. Ar
kansas and Florida voting for it. The first
clause of this amendment provides that
slavery shall never exist in the United States;
the second clause empowers Congress to
adopt all appropriate legislation" TO carry
out the first clause. or course Congress is
made the Judge of what legislation is nm.
propriatc to that end; and the rudi ais claim
Senator Wilson. Of Massachusetts nrn'
claimed so in his Yonkers speech reccntiv-
that this sccond clause would confer on
Congress the power to declare that no State
shall make any distinction on account of
color, either in its constitution orbv leyslo.
tive act. And that is the mode the radicals
expect 10 adopt
And may add, in thi, connection. that
it was this p1rt of the political programme
that put Henry Ward Beecber SO much in
love with the reconstruction policy of Pres.
ident johnson. Itwasconsidered not worth
while to vex and humiliate the southern
people to the extent of requiring them di.
rectly and immediately to confer suffrage on
the blacks, when both could be avoided by
Congress taking the sole responsibility on
itself of forcing negro suffrage on them.
The radicals have another object in view
in theadoption of this constitutional amend
mcndment, and that is, to prevent the ne
gro question from being taken altogether
out OF national politics. The adoption off
the amendment in full, will make the negro
forever a part of the legislation of Congress,
and he will be an element in the Congres,
sional elections as much as the tariff or cur
rency, or any other everlasting subject of