The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-09-20
ON NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
''EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
CIV TX lOrS

''WAsHINGTON, August Is 1865.
"Gooernor W. L. Sharkey, jackson, Miss.
Il am Gratiied to see that you have or
ganized your Convention with difficulty.
[ hope that without delay your Convention
will amend your State Constitution, abol-
ishing slavery and denying to all future
Legislatures the power to legislate that
there is property in man; also that they
will adopt the amtndment to tie Constitu-
ton Of the United States abolislling slave
ry. If you could EXTEND THE ELECT
I'VE FRANCHISE TO ALL PERSONS
OF COLOR who can read the Constitu-
tion Of the United States in English and
write their names, and TO ALL PER-
SONS of color who own real estate val
ued at not less than two hundred rand tif-
ty dollars and pay taxes thereon, you
would completely disarm the adversary
and set an example which the other States
would soon follow-This you can do with
perfect safety, and you thus place the
Southern States, in reference to free per-
sons CT color, upon the same basis with the
free States
MY position here is different from what
it would be if l was in Tennessee. THERE
l SHOULD TRY TO INTRODUCE
NEGRO SUFFRAGE GRADUALLY -
first, those who have served in the army,
those who could read and write, and per-
haps property qualification for others,
say two hundred or two hundred and fifty
dollars."- President Andrea Johnston, Nooem-
Der, 1865.
ON NORTHERN CoPPERHEADs.
stHe who stands of stirring up discomfort
in this State and higgling about negroes,
is practically in the rebel camp, and en-
couraG Ges treason. He who i'll Indiana or
Ohio, makes war upon the Government
out of regard to slavery. is just as bad.'-
Andrew johnson at Nashville June 10th.
1865.
MIR. JOHNSON A RADICAL.
s.Isknow that sometimes we talk about
compromises. / am not comprOmiSer
nor a conservative in the usual acceptation
of these terms, L HAVE BEEN GENERALLY
CONSIDERED RADICAL. | 90 for en-
actments by Congress and for amendments
to the Constitution upon the principle
that they are right, and upon no other
ground. --[Speech in the Senate, Dec. 18th
1860.
How JOHNSON KEPT HIS ''sOLEMN oBLIGA-
TON"
The extract is from the speech of Mr..
johnson to Governor Morton and the In
diana delegation, at Washington, on the
2lst day of April, 1865: |
Il hold it as a solemn obligation, in any
one of these States where the rebel armies
have been beaten back or eXpelled-I care
not how small the number of Union men,
if enough to man the ship of State-I hold
it, [ say, high duty to secure to them a
a republican form of government. This is
no new opinion. 1t is expressed in con-
formity with my understanding Of the gem
ius and theory of our Government. Then,
in adjusting and putting the Government
upon its legs again. / think the progress of
this work must pass into the hands of It's
friends. If a State is to be hursed until it
again gets strength, it must'be nursed by
friends, not smothered by its enemies"
MIR. JOHNSON ON CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND |
MENTS.
"NOw, turn to the Constitution; we find |
that amendments may be made by Il recon- |
mendation of two-thirds of the members of
Congress-, if ratified by three-fourths ofl
the states. |
1.-THE instrument was made to be good in
and you can take hold of it,
not to break up the Government, but to go
on perfecting it more and more as it runs /
down the stream Oftime."
MIR. JOHNSON ON NORTHERN TRAITORS.
..Treason is none the less treason, wheth-
er it be in u free State or in slave State;
but if there could be any difference in such
a crime, he who commits treason in a free
State is a greater traitor than he who COM
mits it in a slave State. There might be
some little excuse in a man, based on his
possession of the peculiar property, but the
traitor in free State has no excuse but
simply to be traitor to Gov
ernor Morton, April 81, 1865.
TIE NEW YORK WORLD ON JOHNSON.
From the New York World.
Of all the renegade Democrats who have
been unable to resist the steam of the flesh
pots, Andrew Johnson stands preeminent.
Other men have been tyranical; other men
have been faithless; other men have been
enviOus; other men have been false; other
men have been brutal; other men have
got drunk other men have been disgust
ing but no other man has united in such
perfect combination, the seperate mean