Washington telegraph., 1865-08-23

from the vicL.barg Herald, July Is.


lFrom the vicksbsrg Herald, July ls,l
NEGRO SUFFRAGE AGAIN;-We give
place, this morning, to a communication
on this subject. The writer evidently
does not understand the difference be-
tween a gentleman being appointed or
elected to do the State printing, and be
ing employed to act As Organ for the
State. The Herald is the "org IN" Of no
unan or set Of nbea, official or otherwise.
1t is simply the journal selected for the
publication Of State papers We are 10
rnofe the organ Of Gov. Sha key than he
is of u.s. We don't Twn Governor-
hareno use for one. nor does he own us
I'm by-gone days, when Gov Sharkey
WAS in minority, he did not undertake
TO buy up the press and we hardly think
he will fnd it necessary to enter the mar
ket now that he is the chosen man If
the Government, and the people, too.
Our correspondent enters within the
temple and, takes hold of the horns of
the altar, for the benefit of the "poor.
houseless, homeless, iandl.ss race" We
suppose it never occurred to him that a
poor, houseless, homeless, landlrss
race was not likely to make the best
kind Of citizens to b. intrnstei with the
elective franchise Why. there ~ the
poor Indian. who has better right to
this soil than any race now upon it; but
poor. houscless, homeless, landle~s,' as
LIE is, he gets 10 sympathy from any
body The fact is. the Indians ought
not 10 be allowed TO vote; but why not.
as well as the Afr.canl We wish some
of these excessive sympathizers with he
poor African. who is shut out from the
polls, could be brought TO take a ration
al view Of this subject. There WEE once
time when poets sang Of the beauty
and grace Of the Indian Inaiden" when
all story was replrte with the wrongs Of
the prosecuted race But that sort of
thing has played out The Indian
maiden" has been seen, and was neither
rs beautiful nor graceful as ''s0me ether
girl" The poor, prosecuted race were
found to be a Set of treacherous, drum
ken yagabonds. There are not enough
Indians III this section 10 trouble us, but
there are plenty of them in the North
west; yet We have never raised a hue
and cry that they were not treated like
citizens-admitted to the polls, and by
their superior numbers allowed TO vote
the settlers out of the country, or reduce
them TO their own debased condition.
There is not man, with half an idea
ia the neighborhood of where brains
ought 70 be, that does not know that the
negroes Of the South are ignorant, lazy,
| tritiing, deceptive, and, when not con-
trolled, perfectly worthless. 1t is true
that Z few intelligent negroes can be
found around our larger cities and to wns,
but they are a mere drop to the ocean,
compared with the laborers from the
| plantations. The free negroes are, if
possible, more degraded ard deprayed
than the late slaves. l----s ..
| Did 1t never occur to our reverend cor
respondent who quotes Scripture SO flu
emily, that the Israe.ites, when they were
relieved from bondage, were not immedi-
ately transferred to the "happy land of
Canaan but that they were kept manv
years in the wilderness to fit them for the
enjoyment Of the promised land We
commend him to this fact. 1t is barely
possible that the people Of the South
niEltt not believe that every free person
III cspable Of being admitted TO the polls
in fact. citizenship no more carries with
il the right to vote than 1t does the right
~ property without legal compensation
4 dere has always been clamor among
d iew agitators and fanatics to give wo-
maa the right of suffrage, but it has new
er been seriously considered by the conn
try. We believe that the deliberate con-
viction of mankind will justify the
Southern people in Withholding the right
of suffrage from a race incapable of exer-
cisins it. In many Of the Southern
States, thenegroes greatly outnumber the
whites, and the delnsr Of negroes at
the polls, in these States, would render
rehabilitation farce, and result in the
debasement of the whites, instead Of the
amelioration of the negro