Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-06-29

The New York Press ON the Presi.
dents Talk with the So uth Caro-
lima Delegation. ~
The Ne,u York Evening Post in an edito-
rial commenting on the reported converse
tipn between President JOHNSON and the
South Carolina delegation, uses, this Ian
guage: -
Nothing. il seems to us, could have been
more iudiciously conceived than the Presi-
dents address to the delegations; he had no
taunts nor rebukes TO utter; no unieeling
allusions to make to the past; but he address,
ed himself in manly, straightforward way
to the business of the occasion, and TO the
work. of the future. He told them plainly,
but courteously, that slavery was dead, and
that the duty of South Carolina was to con'
form her Constitution and laws that fact:
He Informed them, further that he belonged
to theIstrict Democratic school or thinkers,
that he believed in the rights OF the people,
in freedom of speech and the press, and IN
the great muniments OF liberty, declared
long Since in Magma Charta and preserved in
our American Constitutions; and that he
should. administer the Government, using
all It's legitimate. Influences, tofurther the
interests, not of classes or cliques. or mon
opolists, but of the whole people. Such
direct, earnest, salutary words have not
been spoken from the Executiv echair since
the days of Jackson.
THE Ne,o York Heraldexpresses this opin-
ion:
ThisFwin give great satisfaction to the
country, and will enable the late slave,
4 Al nla ri lnlInTSfQ1n
their true position-that they have no al
tentative but to accept the fact that slavery
is dead, and dead beyond any possible
chance of resurrection. Next, with regard
to negro suffrage, President johnson gives
al solid reason for avoiding 1t at present,
which appears not to have entered into the
heads of our ''wise men of the East" among
the Abolition radicals. He holds that the
late Southern STAKEHOLDER, who has the land
and the capital to employ help, if we grant
negro suffrage now in the South, VIII con-
troll the votes of the blacks against the poor
whites; and any one who Knows anything
of the prejlidices between Southern ne.
groes and Southern poor white trash"
Knows that such will be the case. Then we
must not forget the influences of the mas
ter over the ninds.of the, blacks still on his
plantation They-will give him their votes
to retain their cabins and their work on
s'the old place" till they can do better, and
he wil1iniake 1t their interest to give nm
their suffrages.
Thus we perceive that the intimate knowl-
edge otyPresideht johnson of the, southern
people and Southern slavery, and Southern
classes and races, and his long and active
political experience among them, has made
him much wiser man on this subject OF
negro suffrage than his Northern radical
instructors 1Ld d-i6 so eitis '-F't. ad. r.
The Ne,o FORK World treats the subject in
this manners Elf& 0CS .20M
President Johnson's views, as now further
Developed, contain three arguments against,
forcing negro suffrage on ltherestored states.
The first of these, which he has frequently
given before, is, that the power OF regulating
the elective franchise has always been pos
sessed, rightfully and unquestioned, by
every State. Mr.. Johnson's second argu-
ment, which is none the less conclusive from
being presented by implication, is demon
stration that negro suffrage is not necessary
to secure to the blacks the maintenance of
their freedom. To relieve this point from
all possibility of doubt, he insists that South
Carolina (and, by parity OF reasoning, OF
course all the, other revolted States,) shali
not only so amend her Constitution as to
preclude slavery, but shall also ratify the
pending amendment to the Federal Consul
tuition prohibiting slavery forever in all the
States: thus putting universal freedom un-
der perpetual Federal guarantee. SO far
as regards the complete success of emanci-
patton, this drives the nail and clinches 1t.
1t takes away all preteDse, and all color OF
pretense, tor insisting on negro suffrage as
a means of securing to the blacks their new
ly acquired freedom. ~. .,l..tfT,.-.N
President Johnson's third argument,
though addressed to the South Carolina
delegation, is obviously meant for the ne
gro suffrage party of the North, who are
accused by him. of acting in ignorance of
the situation. His argument hits the mark
so exactly in the middle that he must state
it in his own words: awhile the war has
emancipated slaves it has euaucipated
larger number of white men. lie lwopld
talk plain, as the delegation had said that
was what they desired. He pouidTgo lte
men who had owned fifty or a hundfet
slayes,-aud who did notcare as much tor the
poor Y Mite man as they did for the negro.
Those tctO Otcn the land hare the capital TO EN-
ploy help, and, therefore, some Of our Northern
friends a. e deeeiced iohea hey, living Gtdr of,
think they can exercise a greater control ODER the
| freedmen thai, the Southern men eohO hare been
reared ,otere the institution Of Slacery has pre-
| cdiled."' ~ o. A.,i'.'.'i ,-i ID 'A' DIE
| The Ne,o York Times says:
1tis sheer qnackery to makenegro Suffrage
| the sovereign pdndced of Southern HIS
Whether, it would have any good effect at all
whether, In fact, 1t would ilotdo far more
harm than goods very doubtful. The
worst evil Of the South, as President john
SON clearly pointed out to the South Caro-
| lima deIefrafes on Saturday. has been its
class rule. A few thousand men in each
| State have owned most of the cultivated
soil. have held most of the wealth, have had
the control of the legislation and civil ad-
mipistration, and have kept not only black
men i'm physical bondage, but the great
mass of the white men In alTost total igno-
rance, and in almost complete seryitude,
mental and moral. This oligarchic power
has practically shut out all the Republican
| influences which have so nightly elevated
all other parts Of the country. The great
problem now is how to break up that power.
,s* s'*c Ifsthe possession of the suffrage
through all the past years has not redeemed
the "White trash of the South, what right
have we to assume. that it will do any more
for the black men?g If the poor whites have
been so ignorant and stolid as to be man.
aeeti like mere tools bylctheI landed class
how shall yet poorer blacks, yet more igno-
rant and st9lid, escape the same fate?0 3'ts
The Ne,o York Tribune expresses itself thus
The careful reader of the report herewith
printed of President Johnson's colloquy, or
Saturday with certain prominent South
Carolinians, having previously ponderec
the proceedingsof the late meeting IN Bos'
ton and the letter In our lastiof Robert DALI
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