Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-10-09

Governor STONE, of Iowa, has been giving
Colonel BENTON q skinning. This extract is
worth reading: .....,. =
I. have said, upon other occasions that
don't see why 1t Is that the Democrats
should be SO opposed 10 negro suffrage. I
remember, and you all remember, that, one
year ago last fall, the President made call
for 500, 900 additional men. Our quota was
Is, 900 and some hundred. We did not meet
the quota under the call Prior to that time
our State had raised a negro regiment num-
bering about 700 men, l remember that the
call was issued with a promise that If the quota
should not be filled by a certain day, that a
draft should take place for the purpose Of
supplying the deficiency.
remember that some ef these same "anti-
negro suffrage" men under forty five years Of
age, with trembling knees, were selling their
horses, and cattle, and farms for what they
could get for them. Some of these men were
starting for Canada and some for the gold
regions, and the rush was so great that was
compelled to call out the militia on our west
ern border to prevent any more from leaving
was afraid tho entire copperhead party
would leave, and that nobody would be left
to fight me here this fall. Laughter and
In the dead Of winter they hitchod up their
teams and travelled to the verge Of tho plains
and there waited for the grass to grow In the
spring, that they might wend their way over
the plains But in the mean time the troubles
with the Indians broke out, and there these
men were. They could not 60 forward for
fear of the Indians, and the draft was in
their rear. Laughter They didn't know
which way to 60, They kept waiting there
till finally there came telegram from my.
self, announcing that Iowa was out of the
draft. Then these oopperheads came sneak
ing back, looking so much like es-
capped convicts as to be mistaken for them.
How did we get out of the dratt' went
to Washington and got the authorities to
allow that regiment OF negroes on the quota
OF our State. 1t was decided that one three
years man was equal to three one-year men,
and as most, if not all, the negroes in that
regiment were enlisted for three years, all l
had to do to complete the filing Of our quota
was to set down and multiply 700 negroes by
8; and this gave 2, 100 negroes to be credited
on our quota, Laughter and applause In
that way succeeded in getting Iowa out of
the draft; and had it not been for that regi-
ment many Of those who are opposing negro
suffrage here would, in all probability, be
slumbering in their graves on Southern soil.
Many Of this class who did not sell their
farms and get away, ascertalned that negro
recruits would be received as substitutes.
Now, Colonel, ! tell you, If you had been here,
as was, and had seen these fellows smell
ing around all over the country for "niggers''
to 60 as substitutes, you would not have
thought of being their a,ati-negro- suffrage
candidate for Governor. [Cheers.l
Now, when this negro regiment comes
home, after having fought side by side with
| our white soldiers in putting down the re-
bellion, ask you, as a matter of justice,
which has the better right to vote, the hon.
est negro soldier who has fought in the Union
army, or the son Of George Wallace Jones,
who fought in the rebel army
Which has the better right to vote, the
negro who has carried musket In defence OF
our country and our country's flag, or the
miserable northern traitors and rebel bush
whaokers? I tell you, my friends, would
let the honest negro soldier vote in prefer.
ence to such men as these. [Applause.l