Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-01-23
RICHMOND WING.
TUESDAY MORNING
Negro Enfranohisement.

lecturers, the negro has an "em"u"ual nature,
not intense and lasting with the white race,
but shallow, mutable and child-likc. Hi,
susceptibility is easily acted on, and what the
more cultivated and better regulated white
man regards with composure transports StvEo
TO a high pitch Of transient enthusiasm. Ac-
customed 20 the mOnotouous routine Of seryi-
tude for centuries, the southern negroes never,
until recently, had any contact with those
mighty events which, in proiouuder natures,
swell the heart to bursting. Their first eNpc-
riencc Of this character was when 10 was an
nounced TO them that they were free. The iu-
dicrous JOY, bewildcrcd amazemeuJ and half
incredulous air, manifested by them, formed
picture worthy the pencil Of a HoGAErH.
The negroes of the District of Columbia, more
fortunate-Or unfortunate, a, the case may bc
than the rest Of their lsyethreu, have, within
the last few days, experienced In such degree
as their natures are capable OBJ, another grand
sensation, inspired 10y the passage through the
House Of Representatives OF the bill granting
them the elective franchise. True, this bill l.
not vet a law. IL may be- cmlScuLtcd or de-
featcd in the Senate, or vetoed boy tine Prc,j-
dent. Yet, its passage through the House
was triumph for S,vBo, and filled him with
ioy unspeakablc and fll OF glory The gale
ries OF the House OF Representatives We're
crowded with negroes. They mingled ON "a
footing Of equality with the best AND proudost
of the whites o., both seNc,-trom certain
quarter of the country. The flircst of the Ia
dies and the toulc,J OF the negroes were
in close proximity. When the result ct
the voting was announced, the hall anal
the galleries reSouudcd with applJusc-thc
mingled applause OF whites and blacks. Tie
negroes were almost frantic. They rushed
from the galleries, shaking hands with each
other, with members OF Congress, indeed with
everybody they saw. Il i, not astonishing that
such result should have excited their ''cm'-
tional natures" Within les, tIlu ONE year
from the time that they were coarse corn-tc.o
negroes, they found themselves seated under
the dome of the Capitol of the Uuitcd States,
IN the cushioned and highly oruamcutcd gale
ries OF the House of Representatives anon" Tine
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OF the United State, they SAW the Congress "i
the United States with theiy owu eyes, ami
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IL Is needless 70 waste words Tor the purpose
OF showing that there iSa perpetual ron'l'c' DC
tween labor and capital. Everybody WHO
knows anything, knows that. The emancipa'eH
negro, as free laborer, now enters, Ike aIIiree
laborerS, upon that long and bitter conn'ci.-
He goes into that competition, winch dlSun-
guished writer has we'll characterized a. can-
nibalism, upon most unequal terms and with a
prejudice of race and OF caste against him.
Invest him with suffrage and lac Is exposed To-
the superadded antoson'>m ct party strife ami
luminosity. Before, no had no competitors {;
aow, he has Suppose suffrage 10 he si'ea hnl
nothing but compettiou-thc competition, too,
of the weak with the strong, the conflict be-
tween the carthcrn and the iron vessel. Made
the equal of the white man d" before the law.
to use Radical lan-uaSc--hc viii not Do
backward in asserting that equality. Ignorant,
he will OF course be preSumptuou> and odcu-
sivc. That natural and jucN,mgG.>hable sense
Of superiority felt bv the white race will De-
aaronted--pcrpctuauy atroutcl. The very
men who are in favor of nc,r, suffrage. are
themselves conscious of the superiority of tine
white race.
When they look at the negro, and then look
into their own hearts. they know and feel Una,
'"'E are DONG violence 10 nature lH'H ir''-
ly do not believe thar the negro is, or ever will
be, tit Tor seli-goycrnmeu,, or can uc made the
equal Of the white maa. They hU"N chat they