Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-01
negro suffrage.

Some time ago we published an extract
from late speech OF WENDELL PHILLIPS,
In which he claimed that we would be glad
to give to the colored man the privilege Of
. suffrage before the end of the war. A few
days ago we gave our readers the declsra-
ton of The New York Tribune, that itwould
advocate the extension of the privilege of
suffrage to the colored man, until that end
should be secured. The Methodist Quarterly
Review, Miss ANNA DICKINSON and General
! BUTLER, have also espoused the cause of
colored suffrage. The Methodist Quarterly
Review uses this language:
sIn our opinion, the time is coming when
we may need not merely the negro labor,
but the negro vote.
"7heneTo, when educated and Intelligent,
Z toiH euer think, speak, act and VOTE on ne SIDE
of freedom ciUtIization, repl6L 6Licdnisn., toyaty
and the Protestant religion. Educate him and
nut vote in his hand, and no truer patriot
walks the American soil. On the other
hand, there is contrasted element-the
Irish Catholc-that goes By the solid column,
perhaps a hundred thousand strong, for stauer%
retroTession, drunkenness, nlobocrdcy and DIS
loydlty. 1t is compact instrument in the
hands of the priest, and by him handed
over for consideration to the mobocrat."
Miss ANNA DICKINSON, in late address
urges the following as reason why the
colored man should be allowed to vote:
"The ignorant and degraded Irish, who COM
pose the rank and file of the disloyal party,
acere no more capable Of exercising the rlght Of
suffrage than the negroes, who must be per-
a. t,, frfla fr
pernicious influence of the former class.
Patriotism and loyalty lift all men, what
ever may be their color, to the same nights,
side by side. The white and the black have
marched into the Southern land keeping
step to the music of the Union, and side by
side they should vote as they have fought"
On the 4th of February, Gen. BUTLER
made a speech at the Jubilee Meeting in
Music Hall, Boston. In that speech Gen.
BUTLER said:
"By the final passage of the amendment,
which we celebrate, every negro stdue Is made
a citizen Of the United States, entitled as Of
right to every political and legal immunity and
priuilege tohich belongs TO that great franchise.
loud applause.l He may well say, am
an American citizen. [Renewed applausel.
1.-The may not proudly proclaim with the
Apostle, Il was free-Dorn, YET ne can Truly
claim, as did the Chief Captain, with a
great sum, obtained l this freedom lGreat
applause] OF these rights, or either of
them, no man, no combination or eonfede-
ration of men, can with justice deprive the
negro. AS Nation he is of us, with us,
and part of us; equal in right under the
law. Cheers and applause.) To the men of
Massachusetts, in this so clear and self-evi-
dent nroposition. there seems no difficulty.
Since 1883, the colored man in Massachu-
setts, under the laws thereof, modified only
by the laws of the United States, has en-
joyed the rights and privileges of every
other citizen of Massachusetts,. The child
goes to the same school. The man partakes
Of the same employments. The same learn
ed professions, medicine, the bar, the pull
pit are open to him. and more than all, he
carries to the election of his rulers and
framing of the laws the equal ballot, which
soft falling