The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-07-29
Neere eaRrnxe-and the Dear
Negro.

| Negro SaHrnge-and the Denr
Negro.
The discussions which this subject have
elected since it was precipitated upon the
country by the North Carolina proclamation
of President johnson, have brought out the
fact, that at least nine-tenths of the Republi
can party are in favor Of its enforcement up.
on the southern states. For while a num-
Der hung back, fearing the overshadowing
power of the President and the loss of the
loaves and fishes if they offended him but
since the impression has got abroad, with
how much foundation III truth we are Unable
to say, that the President himself does not
object to Eegro suffrage in the South, only
that be wants congress to force it upon them
and not the executive, the whole party was
stiafencd up, and 20 the thing as party
the measure; the approved plan being, to admit
members lof Congress of no southern state:
until such state shall have made provision
for allowing the negroes to vote.
Now aside from the innumerable legal as
we'll as moral difficulties in the way Of the
rforce ment Of such a scheme, there is
meanness and hypocrisy connected with 1t
that is peculiarly characteristic of its down
east origin. While these patriots are very
jealous for the rights of the negro in the
south, scarcely one of them is found who will
advocate negro suffrage in the north. Here
the negroes haye enjoved the civilizing inf1u-
ences Of freedom tor many years, while at
the south they have been thoroughly brutal
ICED by slavery. If anywhere they are al all
fitted to exercise the elective franchise. sure
ly it IS in the north. But true to the puritani
cal instinct Of seeing the mote in brothers
eye, but not the beam in their own ard of
measuring to others by different measure
from that with which they mcte to themselves,
they are furious to enforce " blessing" upon
the south of which themselves will have none.
The meaning of i, is that they would en-
force this "bles.ing' upon the south, not
from love either OF the southern people or
the negroes, but from hate mot as blessing,
bnt as punishment. As a punishment to
the southern white man, by making him IN
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former slave and as punishment to the
negro, for protesting to love him, they force
upon him, at the so1th, as a means Of pun
ishing and incurring the hatred of those with
whom he must live, right which they cen
fess he is unfit to enjoy, with all his more
favorable location, at the ncrth.
1t turns out again, that the worst enemy
the negro has is his p-ofessed friend, the
aboli,iouists. Whenever the negro hears a
man talk loudly of his wrongs, and how he
loves the poor freedman and contraband, let
him beware of him There have been "a few
negroes brought to Ottawa and vicinity by
these noisy sympataisers with the poor freed
man Howihave they Jared? Hive you ever
heard of one who has not been maltreatcd
and had cause to weep that he ever left the
Old plantation and "massa?" Let for exam
pie, the poor negro whom Father Perkins, of
the Rpubl,can, brought from the south, and
introduced to the Blessings of freedom, tell
his tale Of woe. We know of no man who
has protested more ardent love for the freed
man than Parsou p. He has negro in his
employ-he viii not object to the competency
of the negroes testimony. Let Pompey
speak