The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-01-30

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Oar City DeIeg alton In Congress ON tho
Negro Suffrage Question.
The record Of our city delegation In Congress
on the bill e-anting the right of suffrage to the
blacks of the District of Columbia involves
such course Of Inconsistency, hypocrisy, stul-
tifoaton and party h;ckery by the members
concerned a. win sure,.y be remembered
against them by their constituents, republicans
and democrats. Both parties, in this city and
its immediate surroundings. arc, re may say
unanimously in favor Of the recoA ostruction
policy of President Johnson, embracing u Is idea
that if the suffrage anywhere South Is ~ b
given to the blacks it should be under certain
careful restrictions. But look OF the record q
our city representatives in Congress ON this
subject When, the other day, the bill granting
unqualified suffrage to the blacks of the Dis
trict of Columbis was before the House, on the
motion Of Mr.. Hale, of New York (republican,
from the interior), to recommit the bill. with
instructions to amend it by putting In certain
conditions Of property and intelligence, the
vote stood fifty-three to one hundred and seven
teen, and yet there was majority present IN
favor Of this proposition.
The question recurs, whore was This majority
It was In the hands Of the democrats, thirty
seven votes. Had they given these votes n
support Of the ffty-fhrs conservatives for the
recommiment, the BILL by q majority Of eight.
would have been returned to the committee 70
be amended with the aforesaid restrictions.
But instead Of voting to recommit with the 70
publican conservatives, the whole thirty-seven
democrats voted with Thaddeus Stevens and
his radicals for Wilson's unqualified negro suf-
fiage bill And thus the New York city dele
cation were divided
For qualified negro surrage-Mcssrs Darling and Ray.
For unqualified negro suiIrage-Messrs Brooks Chan
Ter, Jones and Taylor-4 fall democrats)
We find, too, that majority of the republic
can members from the State outside Of this city
voted with Raymond and Darling, although
they were not supported by solitary demo-
crat from this or any other State. The demo-
Gratis voted solid with Thaddeus Stevens; for it
was party trick Of more Importance to Thorn
than principle, consistency, the administration
or the country. II was specimen of party
duplicity and rascality broadly exhibiting the
hollowness of their professions in support Of
President JohnsOn-a trick which shows thai
when they can't use him for their party pur.
poses they will use Thaddeus Stevens They
will buy and sell in Congress after the fashion
of Tammany and Mozart Halls By buying
and selling they dream of restoring to power
the f1eshless skeleton of the old defdnct and
dissected democratic party. They seem to have
an idea of securing President johnson upoa .
capital In the House Of Representatives oi
thirty-seven votes.
But the democrats having defeated the %
commitment of this bill, the question, REQUIRED
upon its passage granting unqualified suffrage
to the blacks Of the District of Columbia, ana
the bill was passed-yeas ll6, nays g. And
here, again, we have another shameless exhibi.
ton OF factious trckery In the course of the re-
publican conservatives Had the 6fty-three In
the vote for recommitment voted with tho
democrats against the unqualified bill, 1t would
have been defeated; but there were only nine
teen republicans equal In moral courage 10 thia
test. All the rest, at the crack of their party
whip, went over to Stevens On the passage Of
| the bill the New York city delegation Stood
For unqualified negro suftago-Messrs. Darling and
Against M-Esssrs Brooks chanse. Jones and r.v.
ior4 (democratsl
Here the 'little joker" IL transferred to the
other thimble; the mass of the republican oon-
servatives are with Stevens, and the democrats
are paid off in their own coin-treaohery for
treachery-an example offactious juggling On
both sides utterly disgraceful and contemptible.
Thus the whole New York city delegation
Raymond and Brooks, Darling and Chanler.
Jones and Taylor-stand committed upon the
record to unqualified negro suffrage-some on
the recommitment and some on the passage o.
this District bill. We thus place them before
their constituents, 80 that they may be held 10
proper account for their course Of trickery.
double-dealing and Hypocrisy, by which this
bill Of unqualified negro suffrage was passed.