Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-02-08

h.ps represenfafiOn-I soy u PIeiHi-I 90 R0f want
5r1 t6 hare the right II - Mage before this Con-
49,, 6ar lone tke great lrcrL 81 regeaerGtiAg the
1OHSfitutiOa and lars IF thiS country according to
the principles Of the Declaration f Independence
Hence Objeet 70 the amendment OF my friend from
Ohio Mr. Schenckl He SAYS that II we allow these
/ people representation in proportion as they extend
| the suffrage We shall encourage them 70 extend II
l Ia the GolOred race. Well, that is the very Obiec
| ton. They riH giUe the outrage to their men'GLs
I their house seFrGnfs those they caA cORtr0t, ana
/ elect WhOm they pleGSetO make our tGrs. IhGt -
I not the Kind u iHcTedSe If suffrage FGhi;
/ raHt al such cut of from IT. But when they
have said 70 ali the freedmen 10 the former siaSes
60 \ on are men and you shall be represented lheh
let them come here shall not be here - sec a
Is did their masters who, few years sihce' uieN
pistols and daggeFs upon me when Was inaElhg
such speech as this yet free people wil De mere
represented and they will take care OF themselves
/ This admission asto " meBials and house ser
wants shows clearly that, political fanatic as
/ ne is Mr.. STEVENS is not blind to probable
fact that threatens, We should rather say prom
| ises, ultimately to subvert the whole Radical
scheme for the perpetuaton of the ascendancy
of that party by means Of negro suffrage IN the
South. This idea has evidently found lodg-
mept in his mind, and it is fair to suppose that
il will spread 70 other minds. Ii IS, however,
IA q
ut this time, to invest the Southern negroes
with suffrage, since, lift is done, the " mehlaiS
and house servants" and those whom the
Cor,bern whites 90 control" will enable them
70 .. elect whom they please to make our laws"
lie desires to put of Southern representation
in Congress four or five years, until the South
rrn negroes can be educated. He favOrs the
postpOnement of everything until 4" this Con
sress has done tho great work OF regenerating
the Constitution and laws Of this country &C
cording to the principles of the Declaration OF
independence.
No matter how long Mr.. STEVENS and his
party may defer these measures, land we do
not apprehend that they will hold long lease
OF power), the Southern negroes will still he
the mcnials, the house servants and the
hired laborers and dependents Of the whites
and as much under their " control and inhu-
ence as they now are. The more they are edu-
Gated Tint il mast De Z rough education at the
host the more sensible they will become of
that dependence, and the more liable to be in
Huenced by the advice and direction of their
superiors-in voting as in other affairs. The
truth is, Mr.. STEVENS is ahead of his party
lie sees this consequence Of negro suffrage, and
he would avoid it. lie wants to keep the
southern States out of the Union, as States,
altogether, and forever, and to hold them " as
conquered Provinces" He does not wish
either the Southern whites or the Southern ne
,roes to vote and to be represented in Con-
sress. He is but tollipg bis party on as far as
he can get them to go, in the direction of his
policy, by this cheat of prospective negro SUI
trage-lor by his own admission it is a cheat
II Z" keeps the promise TO the ear, but breaksit
to the hope" lie puts of the fulhlment
for four or five years, and when they elapse,
he would put it of four or five years
loager-indeed, forever. His object IS to keep
the South ont of the Union, and he uses this
trick to that end, as he would use any other
available expedient lie begins to see what
We have been inclined to think from the be
ginning-thAt when the elective franchise shall
be conceded to the Southern negroes, they will
generally be guided in voting by the Southern
whites with whom they were raised, whom they
know and understand, to whom they look for
employment and on whom they depend for
thousand offices OF kindness and accommoda-
than by strangers who live at a
distance, or Adventures who may come among
them at election times to influence their votes
and will disappear again as soon as the cleo
Il ms are over.
We have more than once presented this
view, and it is sustained by many strong
r. aSouS