The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-13

| the legislators who are to make the laws which
| are to govern society within the family circle
| within the family Man is supreme. He governs
| by the law of the family, by the law OF reason,
| in favor Of conierring the right of suffrage upon
! woman.
Now, Mr. President one word further upon the
subJect OF suffrage, as It concerns he other races
! We are Caucasian, and repre- sent that race. FROM
history, from our education, from our experienc ce,
every man of full age of the Caucasian race in TINS
country, as general rule, is competent 70 eN-I-
else the right OF suffrage In Ielau0n 10 .ne ht ,i
| country, from their history they are incompetent,
as general rule, the exceptions only oelng com ON
| question. When man tells me, for instance that
the Indians of the States and territories are COM
petent to exercise this great right of suffrage, he
| Tells what cannot be made to believe, and
what seems to me imposs ibe for any man to believe
| When man tells me that the Africans in this
country, just let free on the plantations, speaking
of them as mass, not exceptional cases-for there
are great many exceptional cases of intelligent
| colored men who are com petent to exercise this
| right-but when man tells me that mass these
men just set free are competent to exercise the
right of suffrage to help TO make the laws of this
great republic, he tells me what's perfectly alb
hoTrent to my sense Of just reasoning and pro-
priety.
Sir, 1t would be a burlesque on republican i'm
sutuuons, and we would make ourselves the
have just been set free from bohdags Of two nun
! dred years in this country, and who in the coun-
! try from which they came have never risen from
| position the most degraded of any on the face of
the earth-to tell me that they are educated and ex
| perienced now, the moment their shackes
stricken of, and are in condition to exercise this
my judgment. 1t seems to me perfectly I'M
possible -
the people had decided this question at the polls IN
the late elections The issue, he said, instead OF
having been made, was avoided every where. The
idea of universal negro suffrage as the basis OF re-
construction was avoided every where in every
State of the Union. II may be possible that IN
Massachusetts it was mott am not sure about
that-but in every State where there was any fear
of losing the election 1t was avoided.
In conclusion Mr.. Doolittle said he could not
PERHAPS
he might vote for qualified suffrage.
his onnosition 10 the nenGinc smendment He did
not wish to compiicate the QUESTION before the
biII now pendiTs was TO he model for others on
the same snbiect and he did not wish To hiring the
SnesIion of tenaIe snrroSe into H. '9N " OAe '1'
Tbe yeas and navs IUere than called on Mr.
Cowan,s amendment IN strike ont he word ItmaIei
Yoas- Me srs tntbonv Rrown RrckaIav Cowan
| Fostcr Nesmith PATTERSON Riddle and Wade-O
Eays-Messrs. .Cattel, Chandler, Oonness, Oresswel,
Davis, Dixon DoOittle, Edmunds, Fessenden, Fogg,
FrehDgh1ysen,, Grimes Harris, Henderson,, Hen
Ghi hSwstTG' Love, hppkw1OG' Zane, nloTgan
TiumI1li Van WipRie Wiley Williams Wilson and
YGtts-57.
Guthrie, johnson, McDougal, Tye-6,
80 uIs 6nenuulenI was hot auopIeu. -, 60,
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as nrotection 70 Tho baiint iIe ~ ,,di " t 80
for he biIi II Inns amended GoIor or raca s6onI6
not he n test of The right to vote but ne doubted
the nropriety of giving the suffrage to any man
who could not read or write
MIR HENDRTCKS of Indiana said that as n
general nronosit,on he was not i'm favor of basing
The rIgbt IN vote nnon inteliigence and in regue
lain the riobt of snffrsga among White peonle he
shon1d vote for sncb 81 nronosIfion as was CON
tained in Mr. DiYOn,s amen dment hut as # was
now pronosed to INTRODUCED into the citizen shin of
his birtrict yery large class of persons who are
known not to he Qualified Tor the exercise of the
franc hise he felt il to be his duty to vote tor this
| qualification.
Mr. SAUISBURY of Delaware, said he be-
ieyed that upon the massage OF this bill the never
satisfied abolition element of this country would
put itself to work to flood the District with as
many free negroes as possible SO as TO get the Dis
trict' under negro control-a negro Mayor, a negro
Common Oouncil-so that there should be at least
one free negro government in the American Union.
Although he was not in favor of female suffrage,
for the reasons we'll stated by others, STILL with
a view of delaying as far as possible such caas-
trophe as was proposed he had tried to bring his
mind to vote for female suffrage, but it would
women and, under no circums ances, here, in his
own State, or wherever upon this continent he
might be located, would he vote for negro suf-
fTaee. 1t was but the BEGINNING of the forcing of
negro sufrag every where hroue hout this country
This bill was, in the language of the Senator
through the States at least throughout the States
of the nothwest; and neither could he vote for the
proposition of the Senator from Connecticut.
What was the test? person who could read and
write his name-a wonderful amount OF ducation
to qualify man for the dis charge of the high office
and trust of votng-great knowledge of the sys-
tenn of Government under which we live! Did this
implv that To vote for that he also world have to
vote for negro suffrage TO some extent?
He CMr. Salisbury had no more preiudices
sgmed TO he their HaTmest trends He knew them