The Portland daily press., 1866-09-15
iia,ar.iaI suffrage.
HOW THE ADDRESS OF THE LoYALIsTs OF
THE UNREPREsENTED STATES CAME
TO he ADOPTED.

!
THE UNREPREsENTED STATES CAME e
TO DE ADOPTED.
Theodore Titon, in d letter from Hhiiadei-
phia to the Independent, gives the following
| account of the circumstances which called out
the declaration of the Loyalists from the States
still without representation in Congress, in fa-
| vor of impartial suffrage:
| The main business of the convention was tn
issue an address to the country. The commit
tee for its preparations were gentlemen repre-.
senting the reconstructed and unreconstructed
States, The Border men wanted to dodge nc
gro suffrage; the Gulf men wanted to meet If.
The discussion waxed warm in comn,ittee-tbc
maryland members winning by a majority
vote. The address presented by the commits
tee therefore, though noble piece of writing
as an indictment OF Andrew johnson, contain
ca no syllable for impartial suffrage. The Gulf
states were altogether dissatisfied with this de-
iectiye report. What should they offer as a
supplement? Their only hesitation as to utter
ing their solemn demand for the negro's ballot
as . safegard for the white mans life, was the
fact that they were buttoned-holed by timid
Northern politicians, who begged them not to
mention negro suffrage till the elections were
over. Ii the out-spoken Southerners had been
| framing party platform on which the whole
republican party were to be compelled to stand,
then these rabbit-spirited Northerners might
have had a show of reason for intermeddling
As it was the North gave a message to tile
South equally cowardly and impertinent, say
ing, Gentlemen you tell us that your lives are
in danger, and that your only protection is to
make the negro your friend; but ON the other
are of more Importance than your lives, and
you must therefore hush your mouths as to ne
gro suffrage This Northern counsel was
staggering to the Southern mind What was
to be done? There was need that different
voice should be spoken by the North-the voice
,f 1Asn 1l
courage. 1t was spoken, and spoken grandly
the effect was irresistible; the Borderers were
put to flight; the victory was superb.
The circumstances were these. 1t CHANGED
that, at the moment of the adjournment, Oh
the morning when the Border State address
ignoring suffrage, had passed the convention
the nall was crowded with the most brilliant
audience of the whole session. This audience
after the adjournment, was instantly convert.
ed INTO popular meeting-your present cor
respondent suddenly finding himself in the
chair. The chief speakers were Anna e. Dick
inson and Frederick Douglas-both of whom
were novelties to the Southern delegates, who
therefore listened with an attention that
amounted almost to bewilderment A Gull
State man said to me, This meeting seems
almost supernatural in its effect" Everybody
except the discounted Marylanders, seemed
satisfied with that meeting. The time-servers
were routed-hOrse, foot and dragons. be.
lieve that all manly hearts made, ON that day
willing surrender to woman and q negro
The spectacle was beautiful. AT the close q
the meeting it was found that the audience
had been sitting unbroken, and without recess
from ten in the morning till five in the after
noon--seven hours!
will not say that had this meeting not beer
held, the radical Southern men would have
yielded to the advice of the Northern politicians
to withhold the demand for Impartial Suffrage
4, will only say that the meeting kindled the
Soqtherners to enthusiasm, confirmed theil
own good judgment, and united them in an in.
vincible purpose.
The next morning came the Address from
the Unreconstructed States,