The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-16

their OH m4oGer9 o9 G0nexo 0naa4 40
higher rates Of wages in Alabama and Miss's,
sippi are inducing some Of them 70 discard
their contracts in Georgia and migrate west
ward in Alabama
NJ. Hri~ht On Enslish Reform Rights
and Negro Equality.
During . lengthy and able speech in the
House OF Commons in advocacy of the bill
MI. Bright said :aWhat is it that lyou pro-
pose to do? The right honorable gentleman,
the member for Oxfordshire, told You what
must happen to those who draw hard line
and put the workman behind it, and say,
That separates US from you You have a
million Of electors now, and you have close
on eight millions of grown men in the United
Kingdom. Can the one million say to the
six or seven millions, HITLER you shall come
and no further |! Is the thing possible?
the member for Huntington, is looking this
way-does he think it is possible? No. he
does not: he knows it to be impossible. He
has the experience of an illustrious member
OF his own family, who thought 1t possible to
maintain the principle of protection and II
nally, after doing everything that he could,
after violating his own convictions, after fight
ing the battle Of honorable gentleman oppo
site for years, he was compelled at last to
render, and admit to the humblest man in the
country-to the poorest weayer-thaf he, the
great Minister of State, had not comprehend
ed this great question as the working man had
comprehended it. Hear, hear.) | want to
ask YOU whether you are resolyed-for this
question is put to US in discussing this bill
whether YOU are resolved that bolt shall be
put on the House Of Commons, and that the
people shall be kept torerer on the other side Of
itt The honorable and learned member for
Belfast told us the House of Commons was
not to be representative of persons, but
representation Of classes. Why, if the hon
orable and learned gentleman gave in q court
of law such opinions on law as he gives here
on the constitution, depend upon it he never
would have occupied the eminent position
which he does occupy in his profession.
ooh, oh!i) He knows perfectly we'll that
there never was j. the constitution of this
country such a thing as representation of
classes in the Commons House Of Parliament.
We should have been called the House of
Glasses, or something equally absurd, If any
thing so absurd as such representation had
taken place. He knows that IN times preyi-
GUS to the usurpation of the Tudors and
Stuarts every free man who had q house in u
borough was represented here in this House
and he knows that the Parliament Of Charles
l. declared the franchise to be the right Of
every householder in every borough. Hear.
hear. And though the honorable and learned
gentleman attempted to show that the quota
ton | made from Lord Somers did not bear
the interpretation had put on it, if we come
down to much later period, and to the men
who lived sixty, seventy and eighty years
ago, you will find that every leading man of
the liberal party at that time was in favor Of
extending the franchise far beyond that
which is proposed by this bill. Hear. hear. J
| If honorable gentleman opposite ever read
| anything of what is passing IN the United
States, they will see that there is a question
| there which is causing great difficulty, just as
! this question of reform is here. 1t is pro-
posed that four million of negroes shall be
/ given these rights that they shall no longer
| be bought and sold: tina, they may change
their employment and their masters. that
| they may work for wages and save money !;
/ that they may be sued or sue in court Of
! law, and that they may give evidence in
! court Of justice. Beyond that, at present,
] their rights are not to go. They who were
| their masters not two years ago. and who
bought and sold them, are not willing, for
] reasons which they think sufficient. to grant
I those negroes the suffrage which hitherto was
! almost universal Ill that country. The fran
/ chise never was universal IN I'll country. and
: it is not necessary that il ever should be.
Cheers. But we have representation
/ here: and if the Crown be secured in its dig
i nifty and The House of Lords in the enjoy
] ment Of its privileges, the House of Commons
/ sits here, or ought as matter of right to sit
/ here, by the free election OF the commonaity
/ of the kingdom. Cheers | ask the gen
] tleman opposite whether they mean to stop the
Torking men OF fhis country srdctly rhere the
i fur millions OF negroes in the United .states
| are stopped tsOh, oh!'') WE'LL that - a
/ fair question. In England all those rights
| which the bill just passed by the American
Congress gives the negroes are rights which
! are conferred forever to the great body of our
people butthe negroes ask for further rights-
for what has been called the creation of q
constitution: and though it has been resolved
not to give them the right Of voting. | don
think in the United States that position can b.
long sustained. ! am quite SIRE in this
country it cannot be sustained II you are
resisting millions Of people behind the en-
bankments rhich you hare built up, hour long
will it b. before the SURFING from, the otAe1
side trN rash orer and destroy tie embark
ments ,chich you hure raised Hear, hear.
The right honorable gentleman, the member
for Buching hanishire. asked the question with
which | commenced my speech Can thi,
question be kept in allegiance = That wa:
the question he asked in 1859. ask, can i
} be kept in allegiance in 1866? You may de
feat the bill. am not learned in pariamen
tary computations. There are gentlemen or
; the other side who, / dare say, profess to tel
: what majority there be for the bill or wha
majority against it but of these things
know nothing | will admit, if you like, tina
you can reject the bill you can defeat thu
government; you can drive Earl Russell from
office. The right honorable gentleman tn.
member for Buckinghamshire no doubt has
Parliamentary Bradshaw. and all his lines
converge to Downing street a laugh.
myself unwittingly contributed to bring hin
back there before now but we had shortly Il
} expel him from his high position in otiicia
: life. If the right honorable gentleman goe
to Downing stree: again, is he prepared to So,
l that we shall have no Reform bill, or is b,
prepared to say that we shall have one, and I,
propose such measure as he proposed il
l859-one of which his own colleagues, tw,
= Of the most experienced of his colleagues
declared to be fatal to the constitution Gen
tlemen opposite may find that the question
: will break up their party. "a laugh
:, they come to deal with the question of reform
! they will find difiulty and if they do no
deal with it their difficulty will not be less
: There still remains the nation outside TIL
House and there will still remain the grea
question of Parliamentary reform. Cheers.
| believe there never was bill submitted t
this House BY government connected witt
I the liberal party which it was more clearly tn
: duty and interest of what is called the conser
9 vativeparty to support "a laugh, and "Hear
: | hoar ~