Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-09-24
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.

NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
Ine TrLun% iinC> t@uir win ne Ee:,au;r a
the late Convention did Mt supper rcgrn
suffrage but said then, ana 81! now, do
not think the negro i prepared Tor 1t | TO not
believe the time has come yet do not believe
that, after years Of bondage, they can instantly
be set free and clothed with all the privileges
OF citizens They have not YET the knowledge
necessary to exercise the civil privileges.
ain not one Of those either who believe their
votes would benefit the South for it appears
to me. looking at the scenes lately occurring in
New Orleans and Memphis, that they would
have TO vote for the Democrats for their own
safety and in such an election between
Grant and Left such one we're to take
place they would throw johnson as high as
kite, and elect Bob Lee in his place and it
would tend to determination Of their race for
at the elections, if they did not vote with their
late rebel masters some drunken man might
cause riot which would end in the firing OF
their houses over their heads ard Wholesale
slaughter in the streets.
IMPEACHMENT OF TIE PRESIDENT.
lie said there was another thing Tor which
the President ought to be impeached. The
people of the country have righ; to meet when
and where they choose to consult among them
interest; but without talking Of the legitimacy
of the Convention at New Orleans, he could say
it had committed no treason nor broken any
law 1t had as good light to assemble rs the
cOpperhcad rebels bad to meet in Philadelphia
Yet by the encouragement given by the preSi-
dent, and the taking of power from the rghttul
executive and placing it in the hands OF military
satraps wholesale slaughter Of loyal citizens
was the resuls, and this also, think, constitutes
an offence which ought to constitute another
count in the Indictment against him. Gentle
men, we are threatened by his friends, by the
press in his service, and his confidential friends,
and especially by that incerdiary Montgomery
Blair, we are threatened with a coupH ctat,
We arc told that if these cOpperEcads in the
North should succeed in electins quorum
with the Southern representative, Andrew
Johnson will recognize them, and ignore your
loyal representatives Candor compcls me to
say do not believe such an absurdity. 1t
would require a bolder man than Andrew
johnson. More it would require great fool,
and Andrew johnson is no fool.
A HIT on SEWARD.
There Is gentleman standing at his right
hand, his right hand bower, who has been play
ing court-iester lately, letting himseif descend
from bis high position He has thrown out
such an insinuation and has asked the people,
DO yon want a President or King" But
as for hIr it is only charitable to say he is more
to be ptied than to be blamed. | would say
believe Seward mind is gone, for it would re-
quire to be unusually developed to 20 through
the domestic a1fiiction and the scenes he went
through without their having an effect upon
his mind. | came to that conclusion after two
late interviews with him, and [ mentioned it to
many of his friends, all of whom agreed with
me- and said he-was not the man he had been;
therefore, instead OF blaming, [ pity him. 1t
Is impossible otherwise that such man could
have let himself down to such DEPTH but if
such freak should ever enter their heads,
you have twenty-five millions and an army led
by loyal head and heart to protect you. They
dare not; but let them if they dare The gen,
tleman then went on to review the resolutions
of the Philadelphia l4th of August Conven-
ton, which, he said, was composed Of the prin-
cipIes CT the Radicals, but cnunciated as their
own.
PITCHING INTO GREELEY.
He next pitched pretty hard into bis friend
Greeley, who, he said, had sometimes gone off
half cooked and does not show hisuSuai wisdom
by proposiDg things which only add new cause
of strife, and which would tend To be obstacles
in the way Of the general success of their par
ty, and concluded by saying the only locality in
the North that would make decent show for
my policy was the city Of New York. the
only State he was apprehensive Of was New
York and if he had fear Of any district in New
Jersey it was in Patterson laughter and
requested them to give as much power again,
if not more power, to the next Congress, and
his labors would then be amply rewarded
Tie speech was not concluded until hear II
o'clock, having taken nearly three hours in de-