The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-21
universal'suffrage on the attention of the
Y S. LAsAR, OF MISSOURI.

universalsuffrage on the attention of the
nation.
HENRY S. LAsAR, OF MISSOURI.
He offered q series of resolutions, the
purpart of which was that there could
be no peace in the Southern States until
the doctrine df equality was carried out
practically.
j. S. FOWLER, OF TENNESSEE.
Mr.. Fowler, of Tennessee, expressed
himself in favor of negro-suffrage, and
desirous of an adjournment until morn
ing,
A. J. HAMILTON, OF TEXAS.
Mr.. Hamilton, of Texas, then spoke
charging that the oppoaents of the negro
suffrage agitation had broken their faith
with the other members Of the Con.
ventioR, their having been a previous
understanding that the body should not
adjourn in the hasty manner which was
new proposed. He also charged that
the programme which the Border State
delegations had marked out for them
selves, was to hurry through their own
peculiar expressions of sentiment and
then retire to their homes, leaving the
Convention to do as it pleased on the
negro suffrage question; they of the
Border States thought thus to evade all
responsibility or accountability on that
score, for they could tell their constitu-
ents that the action was taken in their
absence.
The speaker expressed his belief that
if the attempt now made to muzZle the
Convention was successful, it would be
very gratifying to Andrew johnson, for
it would be a story that his friends and
the enemies of human liberty everywhere
would be glad to hear.
JESSE sTANCEL, OF TEXAS.
These rebels acknowledged they had
made little mistake as to the conduct
of the negro if freed, but they say don't
educate him. Now if the white man is
the superior and the negro the inferior
race, why are the former afraid to take
equal chances While he (the speaker)
did not boast of any superiority, still he
was willing to give the poor negro free
and full access to take his chances of be-
ing excelled intellectually, morally and
socially, by him.
A. w. HAWKINS, OF TENNESSEE.
The times had changed, and now he
had the pleasure of addressing collec-
tion of colored people on the subject of
their general improvement, and particu-
larly as to their right to exercise the
great privilege of voting. 1t was an
historical matter that colored men vot'
ed in Tennessee and other States prior to
1884; and among the old politicians in his
State he knew many who have in times
past sought the colored vote, and who
were indebted to that, in part, for their
election to office. He had seen colored
men walk up to the polls with white
men and cast their ballots, aud he never
then heard that it infringed' the white
mans rights, or in any way degraded the
franchise Laws were not less inst be-
cause black men voted for them. But in
1884, o new constitution was adopted III
Tennessee, whereby all colored men were
excluded from the ballot tbox. 1t mat
tered not to him upon what theory tho
disfranchisement was based; he could see
| no sound reason 10 any OF them. Wheth-
| er man be Caucasian, Negro or Indian,
as he is man, he Is entitled TO the in
alienable right of all men.
JOSEPH WILLIAMS, OF VIRGINIA
Mr. Williams, of Virginia, spoke for a
short time. lie was on the broad plst
| form of universal manhood suffrage
| fAppiause Ii there were no other rea
son the black man should have the fran
chise as reward for the blood he has
split
THE VOICE OF GEORGIA.
The Georgia delegation submitted q
series Of resolutions TO the effect that
| loyalty was power in the land; the ex.
tension of the right of suffrage in the
South would be a protection to loyalty
which should be garantced by the gov
eTnment; that nation never could be
| true to itself so long as it ignored the
civil and political rights of those who
fought to maintain It's integrity in tho
hour Of peril; that traitors shOuld not
be parloned while loyalists were dis
franchised; that the bones OF our loyal
soldiers are tho Jewels Of the Republic,
and should be gathered together and
preserved forever, because of their sa-
| credness to the cause OF liberty; that
Audcrsonylle in Georgia is the Mecca Of
America, whittier the pilgrim patriot
should wander to touch its sacred dust
and cOnsccrate himself anow to liberty.
THE VOICE OF TENNESSEE.
We the undersigned, delegates from
the beautiful valley region Of Middle
Tennessee, whose soil is dotted over
with the graves Of the martyrs of Free
dom-grayes thai look into our very
windows-a region crowded with de
| fenseless black men, hundreds Of whom
have bo,n) holorabo Tar5 in defense of
American nationality and liberty ty,-cOm-
ing as delegates from this region, more
| than n thousand miles away, and in
view of their constituency, we cannot
| either be silent or subscribe to half
way EXPIRE ssion of opinion. The dumb
eloauence of these honored graves and
the defenseless condition of white and
black loyalists there plead in trumpet
tones in favor of negro suffrage. We
therefore desire to concur in the report
of the non-reconstructedS States in thisre-
spect, and to add our testimony to theirs
in an appeal to the Christian heart OF
the country in favor Of what, in our
opinion, alone will bring true peace to
| the South, and assist TO establish the
| government Of man.
Signed by s. c. Mercer, Of Tennessee;
Samuel w Arnell, of Tennessee; James
II Gregory, Of Tennessee; John Ruhm,
Of Tennessee; & + Moss, Of Missouri.
RESOLUTIONS.
RcsoIred, That we are unalterably ia
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