The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-26

Com ,ra1 Blair OF Missouri on Negro Suf-
haBc and Now England ideas.
fhe following Is an extract from recent
fIpeoch Of General BLAIR. 1t will be remembered
that General BLAIR is Republican, and WAS
one OF the strong supporters Of Mr.. LINcoLNs
Administration:
tell you, my friends, that this idea Of negro
suffrage is the one ruling idea with this party. It
is tho reason why the Union is still disrupted.
The blood Of thousands of mon has been shed III
away to cement, and bind, and bring together the
States OF this Union, simply because thero arc IN
Q midst 3 party who are determined that this
Government shall never be white mans goyern-
ment, but shall bo a mongrol cur tlaughterl
mixed with all low relations and in which he shall
exercise the same power. Gentlemen, you would
be deceived worry much in the belief that this idea
Of admitting the negroes il tho Southern statos
to suffrage arose from any sontimentslity on the
part of these New England statesmen. They
have other views which lie down deeper than tho
rhetoric which they expond over tho hardships OF
| excluding the '1oyal" negroes of the South from
| suffrage. Their intense anxiety and desire is to
zens-with that last great right OF individual sov-
ereignty-because it is the ultimate right of de-
| termining who shall rule this Republio-to mako
.a our equals ~ in pont9 mt insist that
Some people are fain to believe it rises simply
from q morbid sentimontality-an abstract con-
OF the ghS of all eF is that
should be entitled to equal rights under orr form
Of government. I believe that any person who
inl6ibes this opinion is utterly mistaken when we
como to sfft down to the very dregs the motives
Which actuato tho leaders OF this radical junto
That there arc mon who are led by this idea Of
sentimcntaity, believe; that those bright rho
torical phrases and beautiful metaphors which
are thr0wt out by che flushed md accomplished
orators in Congress, like Sumner, have misled
konle young and simple minded young men-our
own Senators, for instance, [aughterl-I can
we'll conceive to be true.'' '"'S' .-'rr...
l. But the New Fngland m6n-the men who gov
| ern New England, that rule this party-have far
other and far different motives. With them it is
power; with them it is dominion. 1t is with them
the desire to rptnin in their hands the control Of
| all the affairs OF this Republic They wish to
| negroes, enfranchised in'the South and they wish
to extend theBe States OF New England into eleven
more at the South. Why, my friends, by that
means they could still maintain those high tariffs
that grind TO powder the people Of the West. In
| the midst OF our suffering, when throughout tho
West we are bleeding ut every pore, and when our
produce, which We have succeeded in making the
sells for scarcely any thing on the n1arkets-we
have been compelled to pay the most enormous
| prices for those fabrics which are made in the
! looms of New England, and they receive the most
enormous prices, almost fabulous upon the pro-
| ducts Of their machinery in Now England and
most the entire debt which has been incurred in
the prosecution and maintenance of our glorious
Union. am not as familiar as other gentlemen
for have not recently made tile proceedings OF
Congress- my especial study, and therefore do not
profess to be aa we'll acquainted With tho details
OF the measures which have passed and are still
being pressed through Congress for the benefit OF
THIS New England interest; but there is one exam
pie which I desire briefly to allude to here. and
which will illustrate their whole schemc, :.