The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-02-01
A Bill 70 Force Negro Suffrage Upon
the States.

A Bill 10 Force Negro Suffrage Upon
the States.
The radical Congress now in session in
Washington City has originated another
scheme for the benefit of the stree Amer
lean citizens of African scent" Any
quantity of amendments to tho constltu-
ton have been proposed all looking to
the Acknowledgement Of the negro and
the degradation of white men to a social
political and civil equality with the
blacks. but it has been discovered by
DICK YATES, the Disunion Senator from
Illinois. that no constitutional amend
meat is necessary for the accomplishment
of this purpose and that a simple act OF
Congress is amply sufficient to confer the
privilege of voting and all other teTres-
tial blessings upon the dusky descendants
of Ham. Henceforth Africa will cease
to mourn, bleeding Kansas Will no
longer bleed, the negroes shall nave ua.
limited whisky on election days and VIII
vote early and vote often, and no re-
:ractory State or antl-radical legislature
shall modest him OF make him afraid
Every election day shall be for the Afri-
cen n every State day of Jubilo,'
and the States. those defunct members
of a WORKOUT Republic shall no longer
have power 70 say who shall or who shall
not be permitted to vote DICK YATES
has brought forth a bill. Congress is
about to speak and the State legislatures
may IS we'll dissolve Immediately OF
Peep about
To End themselves dishonorable graves,
Tho bill introduced by Senator YATES
last Monday is preceded By several
vhere ase8 declaring that slavery has
been abolished. that all men il the Uni
ted States are citizens. and that the re-
Gently adopted amendment to the Fed
eral constitution gives Congress power
for the enforcement OF its provisions. and
concludes
Therefore Ue Il enacted, &c. That 40 |
State or Territory Of the United States |
shall b. any constitution, Law or other |
regulation whatever, heretofore in force, |
or hereafter to be adopted, make or en-
force, or in any manner recognize any
distinction between citizens Of the Uni
ted States OF Of any State or territory,
en- account Of race. color. or condition,
end that hereafter all citizens, without
distinction ofrace, or color, or condition,
shall be protected in the full and equal
enjoyment and exercise eff all their civil
and politicaLri@hts. including the right |
Of Suffrage
The bill was referred 70 tie recon
structiou committee. It is simply a |
short method of abolishipg the State
governments and running the whole
governmental machine in the interest of
the negro 1t is a worthy invention of
the political party that has already done
50 much to ruin the coantry, and has
both the power aud the inclination to do
more. There is no Limit to its fanaticism,
and there arc no bounds to its ZEAL
Daily and nightly 1t plots against the
liberties Of the people and, one after
another has despoiled them of their
rights Tue law which Senator YATES
proposes for enaction is large stride to-
wards despotism, or rather is part OF
the despotsm which the Eegro-suffrage
party hes already fastened upoa us Is
this the government, and was it for laws
such as this, that the soldiers Of the Re
public fought
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