Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-03-10
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we copy the following article from Har

we copy The following article from Har
per's Weekly: .s--.f ~ yu..rt III,
No man who knew the White House IN
the dreary days Of Pierce and Buchdhdr
could have believed that 10 lees than six
years afer they left il, man who 10 their
time was o STAKEHOLDER and southern dem
ocrat would stand in that Honse as Presi
dent and say 10 q delegation Of coloret
men, headed by a fugitive slave, ant
pleading for absolute equal rights:
would il were so that ell you advocated
could be done in the twinkling Of an, eye
aud adding that they were pursuing th,
same eud hut by different means. We
confess that We are more cbeered by this
tact and these words than surprised OF
dish hesrtened that The President does nB'
agree as TO methods aud times with Mr.
Douglass and bis friends, ......-...f.- -.
The Presidents position is plain. Let
Us see II it Is one that should bitterly dis
appoint or discourage those who believe
that on honorable aud peaceful Union can
le established only upou equal rights -
lie is not opposed 10 impartial suffrage,
but be thinks it better that those Who
are now vested with the poitic,l power IN
any state should decide when aud how 1,
expedlent to oex'eud its,o others Looking
at the actual situation be is of opinion that
ihe morbid bate Of the colored race, upon
The part OF the whites, in the unorganized
states, and the fact tha, the coored popu
ls'hh there is IN general landiess, homeless
ignorant, aud babituslly dependent, are
Sufficient reasons for not enfrauchisirg
them BY what be regards as an unconsti'u
tional exetcise Of poxer. The consequence
OF such uction, how ever jast in Itself, he
considers would be co,h ct Of races. and
even were il, p ohuble that ,be blacks
could hold their own against the VIII te. in
The contest, he snpposes. and hci duhlless
Ugh IN The SUI position, that in such an
event The bosIiiry of the whole country
would be aroused against the unfortunate
colored population aud pos'p me uded Fly
the establishment Of equal righ s. IL is
better, therefore, he thinks, as "a matter of
expedeucy, 10 IN ,iutan the personal E ee
dom OF the colored race, TO give them land
and protect them in its cultivation. to de
feDd al their civil rights by the arm OF
The United States, to promote their edntd;
tion, aud by all these means to enable
them TO acquire habit Of self.sppport and
self respect, to show the whites that they
are per rmanent and integral popnla' ion,
TO allow time to sootbe the angry passions
that follow so fierce a war, aud by making
it The eoverpowering interest Of the present
political community in which they live to
enfranchise ihem. 10 secure that result by
consent and not by arbitrary enactment.
Now il. US many assert, be proposed to
leave the freedmen at the South naked 10
their enemies by withdrawing the troops.
by sbolsbiug the freedmen's bureau, aud
by restoring the privilege Of the habeas
corpus-if. in a word, The President we're
in favor of The Democratic policy 10 the
matter he would be scorned aud repudiated
by every humane and honorable man. But
it ia not so He thinks and says a grea,
deal more. Hevir,oaIly says to the freed
mel: The United States will secure To
Won all that the ballot would secure unul
! the ballot is given to you by those who, 10
my judgment, aud that of MIR Thaddeus
Stevens, alone have The right TO give it,
| Bat | will d. all that | can 10 make them
see that it is their interest 70 give it 10 yo
by recon- uendiug, as 4 hsve f-eqten Iy
done. that f'p "eseniation sh oil he based up
on. the number of voters. | do not pro
pose to lenv, you defeucleless to your
enemy pnnopled in political power. do
not mean to arm the strong or cast down
The weak. And IL cannot do what you
wish directly aud 10 your way, shall yet
do it indirectly aud in my way. ,..ff y..,
THIS is certainly an Ineligible aud con
sisent position. Its weak print, however.
is evident. 1t makes the Freedmen's Ba
reau stand 10 the place Of the ballot to the
colored populations of The late slaves tates =
But it admits to Congress those who de-
prive the freedmen Of the ballot. and allows
them to vote whether the Bureau shall be
continued II the enemies Of the freedmen
shall ata,his time hase an increa sed repre-
senlalion based upon his Il f'sedom-as they
will have unless the unorgan z-d states be
required TO adopt the amendneut-we
shall have done What we nesn to deprive
4 be fir edman Of she only defence We pom
ise him Aud when the states 10 question
are thus disprpportionaiely represented.
and succeed by various combinations, in
overthrowing the burean. what can absolye
this nation from the enormous guilt of con
ferring freedom upon race. yet, while it
had The power, to secure in Aud when
the SLAVES are once more wholly 10 the
hands Of the late masters, the tictinis OF
Black Codes aud Vagrsnt Laws, how will
the President havelrd them through the
Red Sea of war aud bondage 10 d fairer
future OF Liberty and pescef gur, iagiula
Bat no man, however he. may differ
with the President as to msi ihods and de-
tails, has any right 10 doubt the sincerity
of his purpose; aud no ini elligeat msn but
must applaud an adopt bis words. that be
might differ with some of his friends. aud
should feel wholly at liberty to differ. aud
TO state the gronpd of bis contrary belief
or opinion; but he eonsidsrd himself iden'
tilted With The great Union party, and had
no desire or intention of being found outside.
MR SEwaRD's IKyLuENcE. Tho Wash,
iugton correspondent Of The Hartford
Press" attributes the treatment Of traitors
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