The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-11

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Universal Amnesty and Universal Suf-
frage.
The radical political faction, under the lead
of Chief Justice Chase and the New England
Jacobins, have been for the last two months
laundering about on the question Of restora-
ton of the South, more especially in regard to
negro suffrage. Judge Chase opened the ball
in letter of instruction to his Western fol-
lowers, and then started for the rice fields of
the South to address and consult with his col
ored friends. The Jacobins of Boston, taking
their cue from Chase, commenced their attacks
upon the President, spiced with threats of
another revolution and war, and followed by
laudations of the negroes Of the South. Like
the Jacobins of France, they paraded themselves
before the country in high-sounding phrases
and glittering generalities in reference to
humanity. In this movement it took both Sena-
tor Sumner and Wendell Phillips to make one
Robespierre, while Senator Wilson became the
were devised by this Jacobin clique in and
around Faneuil Hall-including another civil
war-to brighten the President into the imme-
date adoption of their plan Of negro suffrage
as military necessity. The radical poll
ticians here and elsewhere were at the same
time plotting and scheming for the same object.
The soldiers and veterans of our four years war
defeated their movements in Ohio, while in this
State the loyal leaguers took up the same
cause of negro suffrage in their secret councils.
The Tribune their organ in this city, took all
sides, both for and against negro suffrage con-
sented to our policy Of comforting the privilege
of the elective franchise upon the negroes, with
the restriction of sufficient education to enable
them to read and write then again coming out
for universal suffrage. After adopting all sides
and angles of the question, praising and de-
nouncing the President Greeley finally came
out in yesterdays Tribune fat-footed in favor
of the doctrine of "universal amnesty and uni
the whole question. aF
We accept that platform. We are in favor of
and advocate the doctrine of universal amnesty
and universal suffrage. Although we can see
no reason why JEFF Davis should not be tried,
convicted and hung, just as well as John Brown,
for melting instruction, yet we are willing to
let him go for the sake of harmony and the
adoption of q general policy, unless Wendell
Phillips can be hung with him on the same
gallows. But the difference between US and
the Tribune and his loyal league negro suf-
fragc agitators Is, that we prefer that the privi
lege of the elective franchise shall be conferred
upon the negroes in legal and constitutional
way. We, therefore, prefer President Johnson's
plan of arriving at it to that of the unconstitu-
tional and revolutionary mode adopted by the
Jacobins and the Chase radicals, of which tho
Tribune is the organ. The question of suffrage
has, from the foundation of our government,
been wisely left to the several States to decide
and arrange in accordance with their re-
spective interests. We can see no reason
even in the light Of recent events growing out
of the rebellion-why New York or Massachu-
sets should possess this right, and at the same
time deny 1t to the people Of Virginia or North
Carolina. Nor are we able to see why the peo-
pie of New York-where there are not enough
blacks to affect the results of our elections one
way or other-should require that q negro,
with all his advantages as a freeman, should
be worth two hundred and fifty dollars before
he can vote, and the people of Georgia-where
the blacks, with their manacles, as slaves,
but just removed, form at least one-third
Of the population-should vote without
any restriction. This, as we understand 1t, is
the position of President Johnson. He is un-
questionably in favor of comforting the right of
suffrage upon the blacks of the South, but he
desires that the people Of the several States
shall regulate the affair and place around it
such restrictions and qualifications as will
prevent its abuse by those who are to exercise
the right. We cordially support the President
in this view of the subject, believing as we do
that it is the only policy which can in safety to
the country be adopted. The Chase radicals
and the New England Jacobins, on the other
hand, threaten new revolution and social
war Of races unless the President, under the
plea Of military necessity, confers by the whole
sale the right of suffrage upon the emancipated
slaves and excludes the white population of
the South from any voice in the matter
But Greeley, in raising the banner Of uni
versal amnesty and universal suffrage, has
manifested q determination to cut loose from
the revolutionary fanatics in New England and
elsewhere. He has travelled a great way
around to arrive at that decision. He has
turned oil manner Of angles to reach that
point Even his arguments in yesterdays
Tribune on the subject were so misty
that It would have been impossible
to have OWNED his meaning but for the SEN
tence in which he states the naked proposition
Of amnesty and suffrage. Like all other advo-
Gates of the right of negroes to vote, in depart
ing from the only legal and constitutional way
of comforting that right he loses and contra