The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-10-18
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.


Iaboring hard to convince the people o.
what they do not believe themselves
that negro suffrage is not q leading
measure of the Radical party. We are
at loss to conceive how they have the
effrontery to deny, in face of all the
facts which go to prove it. Let us adduce
the testimony.
The Radical party in the States OF
Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts, in
state Convention assembled, declared in
favor of it. Congress voted to force it
upon the people of the District of Co
lumbia and the Territories. Thaddeus
Stevens, the acknowledged leader OF
the Radical party in the House of Repre-
sentatives, does not hesitate to openly
declare in favor of it. He says:
"This Congress owes it to its own
character to set the seal of its repro
baton upon a doctrine which is be-
coming too fashionable, namely,
that this is the white mans Govern
mentn
And again:
I" think there would always be
Union white men enough in the South,
aided by the blacks, to divide the repre-
sentation, and thus continue the Re-
publican ascendency.'
Charles Sumner, the Radical leader in
the Senate, declares that call, without
respect to color, should stand equal
before the law
Mr. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts,, one
of the Star Chamber Committee of
Fifteen, and candidate for reelection
to Congress, in q recent speech, said:
. If the present Congressional plat
form expressed the whole claim to be
demanded of the South, it was one that
he would not support. 1t was well as
far as it went, but it did not go far
enough. There would he no safety if
the South came in and these demands
were only complied with. Our only
security in the future WAS in endowing
the colorcd loyal people Of the South
with the elective FRANCHISE, and the
speaker said he did not intend to vote
for the admission Of either OF the ten
States not at present represented in the
Congress Of the United States until im-
partial suffrage Vas secured to all the
people Of those States.
j" He believed That when the Thirty
ninth Congress assembled in December
next there would n0t be found FIVE mon
who were identified with the Republican
party who would net he IN favor Of in
partial suffrage Il every enc Of these
ten States a z condition Brecec}ed e
tt6ir admission.
Mr. Boutwell, : aae Of the Radical
leaders Of Gongsez. and Knows what
he ailifnis III this matter 10 be true.
Governor Morton, af Indiana, another
s'big gun" IL The Rs6lical ranks, de-
clares
u believe thai 9he fime viii come
when every maa Ia The country, white
and black VIII hss.e lie right Of suffrage,
and that suffrage should not depend
upon color, that ther@ Is nothing in that
which should make q distinctions
Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee
is a Radical, aud 4 candid one. IIeWas
imported to West Virginia BY his Radi-
cal brethren last spring, 10 stamp the
State in favor Of the Constitutional
Amendment. lie was their chosen
representative, selected by themselves,
and they cordially endorsed the sound
ness Of his political views. Having
been set up by Themselves As the ex-
ponent Of the Radical sentiment, Weare
Justified in addueing his expressed
opinions as evidence of the views
which they entertain. IN speech
made at Athens, Tennessee, a short
time since, he said: