Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-20

vote the same way. In this, by the way,
some fools may be mistaken. The negroes
are rapidly acquiring knowledge, and they |
will be found, when voting time comes, not
lust the fools some fools take them TO bo.
So far as we know the Union party, gen
orally, doubt the prOpriety Of admitting the
negroes without limitation to the right
of suffrage. Indeed many judicious men
doubt the propriety of admitting foreigners
to the enjoyment ofunrestricted suffrage. -
Many affirm that it is absurd aud unjust to
admit an ignorant, vicious and uuprinciplcd
| foreigner TO swear to the Constitution when
he cannot read word it, while u neral
and intelligent American born negro, who
/ can read, who has fought in the Union ar
my for the life of the Union when it was in
peril, and who pays tax to support the
Government, is denied vote. And again
some affirm that on the principle of good
policy il would be better to give one or two
hundred thousand qualified negroes their
votes, and thereby secure peace and order
in the South without the cost of dollar to
the General Government than to keep IN
arms one hundred thousand Of standing
army at tho annual expense of one hundred
millions of dollars ....
Gen. Grant has expressed the opinion
that permanent peace and order in the
South will have to be established in one of
these ways A hundred thousand men and
hundred millions of dollars make pretty
costly sacrifice for little party barbarian
and wicked prejudice against color. Mr..
Lincoln seemed to have similar views. He
expressed, in letter to Gov. Hahn OF Lou
isiana, his opinion that 'sOne" of the colorod
people should vote. Here then, doubtless,
honesty is the best policy. And why not
fearessly vindicate it?
The great question of naturalization, and
: the exercise of the franchise rights must
I, soon be met as all the other grave questions
u of human rights and national policy. This
Q is destined, inevitably, to be the great Ques
9 ton now just coming in order before the
) great American people-more important
than all other petty party questions mootec
, by little shallow brained short-sighted, un
y prncipled Democratic, somi-secesh editors
= who know nothing but imping, decrepic
u party, as far behind the age and progress
j of the times as the crotched wooden plow
y of their cotton-growing and weman-whip
Z ping Southern brethren. The fate of thei
II dear ignorant foreign emigrants, and thei
e. e market and trade are as deeply concerned
70 in this mighty revolutionary question as ar
> the negroes. The General Government wi
- - likely yet step in and settle this question
u by organic law that will, as common law
3 sltution itself demands such ultimate SCI
~ ~ tlement. 1t says-"The citizens oil eac
III State shall be entitled to all the privilege
% and immunties of citizens of the sewers
:. States" This provision of the Constitl
s lIs ton must soon be called out from its privi
81 cy aud its principles tested.
~ ~ We must prepare for grave issues in tn
'oc country as in the old world. Let us,
VI VI least, discuss this question as other que
", tions of right and policy are discussed /
% = MEN, and not like the ignorant i'll bred, ta
;U- 70 tered, vicious, proiane, dirty-faced stre
" urchin, bawl out at every street corner
ilsS "NIGGEn EQUALITY !" The vulgar shou
AZ Az Of the rabble vociicrating abolition" al
'"u "dboIitiOnist," never arrested the progress
human liberty, or the fall of slavery for {
hour. Neither will similar unmeaning bt
.,,, lowing irighten from the discussion Of Il
'n' 4. grave questions of human rights, or reta
t,' the march OF truth and justice, and huma
y. ity and human progress in a country whe
,oI majority Of the people believe, honestl
80 - the teachings of the Declaration Of Anne
" can IndependGnce. TRAVELLER.