Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-06-04
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A GREAT DELUSIoN.
Many Of the Radicals" in our party,
in the North. have been grossly cheated
with this idea: If Universal Suffrage is
granted or enforced. there will be a solid
accession of 900, 900 negro votes to the
Union party. Never was there a more
erroneous belief fostered. Setting aside
the intrinsic Of the motive on
which the Radical hool-hoo,ing journals
sound their appeals-mere partizan power
being the assumed end and aim, and that
to be secured irrespective Of all other con-
siderasions-she suggestion is wrong. false
in toto. Suppose that there are 100000
negro votes to be had On the Universal
Suffrage plan, in the South, full nine
tenths would 60 as their employers dicta-
ted or advised, or offered to pay them.
The argument is insisted upon: Because
two hundred thousand negroes were co.
listed in the Union Army, therefore it is
certain they would all so the straight
Union ticket if allowed to vote. How
absurd does this claim appear, on a sim
pie review Of recent history-if criticised
with no other reference. When this war
commenced, how many Of US firmly be-
lieved there would be great instructions
in the South. inaugurated and prosecuted
BY L'Ouver,ure Toussaints and hosts Of
tollowerss After the expectation OF this
aid to the loyal cause, which was to be so
spontaneous and powerful, had died away,
i, was revived in this manner: Proclaim
emancipation (said many and there will
be q general uprising Of the negro popu-
lation Of the South. But the emancipa-
ton proclamation brought no such help
as was so s,renuously p~rophesied in this
direction. True, both before and after
the great and glorious decree Of freedom,
negroes Aocked to our armies; but they
concerted and carried out no independent
plan Of action on their own behalf or for
the benefit Of the National cause. As the
Union armies penetrated the South, and
literally surrounded or occupied" whole
States or large Plantation Districts, ne
groes were largely enlisted into the ranks.
We would not abate one jot Of their due
credi. for service on behalf Of our Coun-
try during the war. But it cannot be de.
MED ,ha, they did little or nothing to help
the loyal cause, until they were fairly en-
closed or captured in the Union lines. That
they at frs, appreciated, so far as their in
t~ellects would allow, the nature OF the
struggle, as it was likely to or did evensu-
ally effect their civil relations, was evinced
by the help they did render to escaped
Union prisoners. The action Of the
Southern negroes during the war demon
s,rased that they are incapable, as a mass,
Of appreciasing the right Of franchise as
they ought. The majority Of "~enliss'
men,s" in the Southern States were prac'
cally drafts" If the Radicals" could
have had their way in Congress, We verify
believe they would have given half 9
million votes TO the Democratic" party
instead of obtaining 600, 900 votes for TIT
Republican organization. The Southern
~demasogues would peddle the Copperheae
tickle, with the protest that it was the sru'
Union ballot, and in a majority Of in
stances the Blacks would not know bette
than 10 cast the ticket SO offered; il
many cases they would have no though
or conception of the principle involved IL
the political contest they were permitted
to participate in. If Stewards proposition
of Universal suffrage, for universal am
nes,y, had been adopted by Congress
most Of the Rebels and Copperheads
would have Joined in approving it, as Q
project tending directly to the re-establish'
men, Of the rotten democratic" rule
tha. brough, upon US civil war and all it'
attendant, and now recorded, horrors
Congress has wisely refused to throw the
control Of the Government into the hands
of traitors and their co-operasors, BY
proposing to the States a Constitutional
amendment prescribing negro suffrage in
the lately rebellious States or throughout
the Nation. The biggest lie Of the times
is the assertion that the Radical pro-
gramme would have secured 600, 900 votes
to our party from the adult blacks Of the
South. President Johnson and Senator
Doolit,le, who favor limited negro suffrage
in their respective States, have laid down
the only rule for its admission that is CON-
patible with common sense and national
safety.