Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-11-17
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NEGRO SUFFER AGE.

DlsPatCHeS iTo" washington INFORM US
that Fernando Wood is at the Capital
and that lie announces hims elf in favor OF
the adoption of the constitutional amend
ment, and the extension Of the right Of
suffrage to negroes. The same mail brings
US the Chicago Times, of the 18th inst,
10 which We find a double.leaded leader
m favor Of extending qualified suffrage to
the blacks. We quote the following from
the Times article:
Can the democratic party succeed until
the negro question shall be gotten GU, Of
the way? 1t cannot. What next2 Is not
negro suffrage inevitable, and is not the
quickest way to get the negro question
out Of the way TO at once conccde The sul-
trage, making issue on on the degree to
which it shall be conceded? We know
that many democrats have not reached
this advanced view Of the case, and that
such still feel greatly inclined TO revolt at
the proposition Of negro suffrage in any
degree; but let US tell them that it is al
the inevitable comes. Negro suffrage, we
say, is inevitable, and whether it shall be
qualified or universal depends upon the
promp,ness or otherwise with which the
democratic party shall move with refer.
ence 10 it. The south will speedily yield
qualified negro suffrage upon the motion
of the democratic party; because. if for
no other reason, she will soon see, if she
does no. already see, that if she do no:
yield it, she will ultimately be compelled
to accept universal negro suffrage
Qualified negro suffrage yielded by the
southland By this we mean impartial
Suffrage or suffrage dependent upon the
intelligence Of the man, irrespective Of
color, as is now the rule in Massachusetts,
tile negro question riU hare been dis
posed Of, and tie occupation of the ncilh
ern republican ,adicat pcrty ,riN be gone
.toTere'. Not one inch of ground will it
have to stand upon and the country can
once more turn to those IN aterial ques~
tions Of public policy the right disposition
OF which is so essential 10 the public
prosperity. 1t will De upon these aues-
lions that the democratic party will tri-
nmph, and it will be by this triumph that
constitutional governmen t and our federal
system will be preserved.
If the south be wise, it will not wait,
on this suffrage question, even for the
motion Of the democratic party. If it be
wise, it will lose no time ia putting in
motion the necessary machinery by which
1t will at the same time save itself from
humiliation, preserve its own self,respect,
rid the country Of The most vexa,ious
Question that ever distracted any country,
kill the worst political party tha. ever
existed on the globe, aud put tho Union
in the way Of speedy restoration. This
machinery consists, of course, IN c0n.en-
tons to revise the state constitutions.
The declarations of Fernando Wood
ard the position assumed by the Chicago
Times, very plainly indicate that here
after the radical advocates Of negro suf-
frage will meet with little opposition from
the radical or "copperhead" wing Of the
Democratic party. Ia fact, it looks as if
the leaders Of that wing of the party
would 90 the whole hog. and ont Herod
Herod in comforting social and political
privileges upon the glorious and irrcpres-
sible Sambo! We believe with the Chicago
Times, tina. negro suffrage is inevitable.
l. is the legitimate fruits Of the teachings
and practices of the black republican
party. They have approached the question
slowly but surely, all the while educating
the peop!e-the laymen of their organi-
zn,ion-to aequiesce in the progressive
theory Of the leaders That party is
largely in the ascendant in the la~-mal:-
ing branch of the government, and their
power 10 carry out their disgusting policy
with reference to enfranchising the negro,
is unquesiioned And that they will ex-
ereise their power in this respect we have
not the least doubt. But because the rad
icals have the power to, and will give the
negro equal political rights with the white
man, is, to our MUD, no reason why De-
mocrats ebould stultiy tbemselves-b
every idea which they have ever advanced
aud advocated with reference to this Issue
and become second fddlers to Thad.
Stevens, Greeley, Sumner, Phillips, ct 1t
omne genns, for the shin dig in which the
negro, with a grand ho.down and doubles
shuttle, is to dance into the possession Of
all the pyliiieal privileges enjoyed by
American citizens.
The black republican rar.y is PRO-
eressive party, bas all their progress is in
the direction of the negro Let them do
their own progressing and soon they
will reach their goal, and lose their spiri.
and their strength in the more potent
enepations from the forms of the beings
into whose embrace they are so eagerly
rushing. They are in possession Of pow.
er. Let them exhaust it. Then the Dem
oeracy will again assume the reins Of
Government.
The grand jury Of the District Of Col
umbia has indicted Sanford Conover for
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