Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-06


WE reprint in another column an
article on the subject of negro voting,
from the columns Of the n. Y. News.
The News, most of our readers are
aware, is the leading Copperhead pa
per in the United States, edited by Ben.
Wood, and regarded us the text sheet
of the party. During the rebellion,
no paper in the United States more
thoroughly sympathized with the South
or enjoyed more fully the confidence of
the leading rebels than tho News, and
when it uses the following language
upon the position of those Southern
rebels, it is presumed to know whereof
it alllrms:
1--WE could mention many more than iify
leading ueu in the Southern States who
seriously consider this the day and hour
when the preservation and stability Of
Southern interests impei th0m to return on
his subject to the ancient policy Of the
early Southern statesmen. They know and
acknowledge that Slavery in their States j.
effect OF the war; DNt Meg accept Il, a1d
arc by no means reluctant to cOniorll their
methods st State potity to he changed con
dti1n Of public affairs. ilcnceiarth they
cutor upon u nnw era Of Southern pr0spcn-
ty. We believe that this prosperity, yet to
be developed, will, in the future, be, At the
result Of Southern industry and Intelligence
was in thc former time, fruitful source Of
riches TO the whole country. The old con
dition Of things, upon which rested the
splendid superstructure Of tho Southern
power, is gone but in negro suffrage the
acute and web instructed Southern states
man behoIls new world OF political pow
or, and he will, under wise and fostering
regulations, call that New World into ex
istenee to redress the balance OF the Old !!
This, gentlemen of Boston, Mes,rs. Editors
OF the World and the Times, is the new
policy which even now is dawnng, though
IN clouded majesty, along the Southern
skies, and before the full day Of which, may
bo, the Northern Lights are destined to
pale"
And when it declares, "The right to
vote belongs to each male citizen of
twenty one years of age. 1t is his by
birth" "The elective
franchise is his inherent right" n
"Then If the abstract right to vote in
heres in every citizen, why not in the
native black man? What rule Of law
denies him that right ?" Is it
not his absolute personal right RoO that
he is liberated p We begin to think
the Democratic party intends to head
off Wendell Phillips, Fred. Douglass
IL Co., upon the negro suffrage ques-
ton, stealing their thunder; and,
simply, because it has learned that
''more than fifty leading men of the
Southern Statcs,' favor the PROPOSE
tion, and because under proyident
regulations "this political power will
not, in the hands Of Tie South be bar
rem scepter in their grip" No one who
knows the means to which Democratic
politicians resort to obtain success,
would doubt for single moment that
If they could see in the negro element
"a new world Of political power" they
would De brawling advocates of negro
suffrage, and would be speedily enga-
gcd in hugging and kissing negro
children, rs freely as some Of them in
this vicinity have been known to en-
gage in hugging and kissing children
of an older growth. we commend thi.
article Of the News to their careful con
sideration, and warn them of the pro
gress of events.