The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-10-17
Negro suffrage.

The discussion of tbs subject Of negro
suffrsgs in this country is beginning to at
tract attention and comment abroad. The
leading journals in England express their
opinion with the usual freedom The fol-
lowing is an extract from an article in the
L ndsn S sturday ReUiel0
The numerous slater ent1 which purTort
10 prove he moral and intel ectusl aptitude
Of the emancipated slaves may be dismiss d
IS simply incredible. Philanthr0pis's ought
to updefs. and that, il liberatel Southern
slave were really So to share IN the govera-
ment-of the republic, he would furnish an
unanssefable Hfology, not only ior he sys-
TEN in which he vas traine but the
slave trade on which the institution was
orig nally founded. Mr.. Wendell Pull ps
himself would arcely propose 70 admit
heathen African savage 10 the electoral
booth and experience hiss shown that
neither missiOnar Is nor traders can make
perceptible impression on indigenous barba-
Tism. Che distance by which the freedmen
Is separated from the Ashautee measures
the benefits Of American slavery; and If
the c0Ored population Is nov worthy Of
sovereignty, Ae cotton plantations must
hare been the most efficient schools Of reli-
gi0a and morally tchieh haze hitheTf0
been established on earth. a scrHpHl0lfs
conscience lD0Hld feel tke urgent duty Of KID
mapping The remaining population Of Central
africa, 10 pass tAcm through The pro-
cess tiat has refined and snbiiHlatcd their
happier kiHsmea beyond the Aaonfic. ! is
not necessary 70 answer more seriously
foolish women and eifeminate rhetoricians
who affect TO vindicate the equality or su-
periority Of degraded race. There may
he ali Nfan
which excluded from all sba Of power q
third Of the southern population /; but wise
statesmen are rHther anxious for results
than studi0ns Of Theoretical symmetry, and
it is always easy 10 furnish soand reasons
for measures which are fou-d 60 be pSac-
tieal'y ezpedient.
The Review mskeI 8 very strong point
against the origiral radical abolit;onists,
who for many years proclaimed that the
system Of slavery which prevailed in the
South, kept the slaves IN state Of barba-
riism aud that il was impossible TO elevate
hem many degrees above the brute eree-
ton so long as they were regarded and treat
ed as property; but who are now proclaim
ing with equal emphasis and positivsnesu
that, though Just entered upon a state Of
freedom, these sayages," without further
tuition, are qualif ID TO become the recipi-
ents Of the ba lot These men care nothing
for consistency. They did not elamor ioi
abolition from friendship for the slave, OF
from motives Of humsnity but 10 attain
political power. Through the instrumental
ity Of q war, foolishly brought about by
their antipodes, yet coadjutors Of the South
the sbackles were stricken from the limbs Of
the Save, and now, fearing that they may
be consigned 70 political iusignifcanee, they
have enlisted under the banner Of negro
sufrsge. We're they sincere and honest
had they really patriotic devotion to Tepub-
lican institutions--hey would wait and see
what is 70 be the effect upon the freedmen
Of the abolition Of slavery. If the freed
men improve and become Intelligent, use
ful members Of tociety, then there will b
some reason to ask for the extension to then
Of the right Of suffrage.