The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-08-23
PHILADELPHIA CONVENT TION
Able Speech of a Conserva-
tive Republican.
Senator DOOlittle, of Wisconsin,
.' on the Crisis.
... ....... . . Concluded.
QUESTION AND ANSWER ABOUT NEGRO
SUFFRAGE.
concluded.

pOrrhhuEs
A stout Individual, of nervous
temperament, who had been driven
SO dangerously near convection un-
der the pressure of Mr.. Doolittle's
arguments, that he felt it necessa-
ry to make some demonstration,
lest he should be converted into a
Union man on the spot against his
!wiIE here called out: "Why should
they not vote?" Mr.. Doolittle
caught the question up with so
quick, pertinent and eloquent an
answer that the audience broke in
at the pauses of his address with
shouts of delight and enthusi-
asm.
Mr.. Doolittle-The reason they
should not vote, | tell my friend
there, is simply this: In the South
ern States there is mass of col
ored population, among which
, nine-tenths of. .the men have no
sense Of family. and family ties
tremendous applause]-and the
women havo no sense of. virtue;
and the man who would build
the foundations of human society
upon a population like that knows
nothing ofrepublican government.
[Grsat applause. say that, to
base suffrage on the negro popula-
ton of the South, in thoir present
condition, would make q burlesque
of republican institutions-Tl laugh
ter and applause] and we our
selves would be the laughing.stock
of the world. Loud cheers l
can understand how in the North
ern States, where there are few
colored men brought up as freed
men among freemen, with the hab-
its and thoughts Of freemen, with
families like freemen-I can un.
derstand how in some of the States
such population may be admitted
to suffrage. But in the States of
the South, situated as they are
!, now, with this population in its
present condition, there is no man
in his senses, in my judgment, who
would get up to defend negro suf-
frage there. Loud applause +
There is still another and more po-
tent reason than the enc l have
stated. / told il last fall-General
Grant told me and authorized me
to state it-General Sherman told
mo and authorized me to state it
70 President johnson told me and
authorized me to state it-that the
attempt to force negro suffrage up
on those States now would inevita-
bly, lead to war ofraces. ["That's
so."]
THR NEW ORLEANS RIOT.
And let mo tell my friend who
SITS there and makes so much OBJ
jection-[ laughter some facts
[Cries "Put him outl" "Let him
bel" "He's quitnowl"] We have
lately had a riot in Now Orleans.
interruption. There was q clique
in Washington who began a con-
spiracy that has lately eliminated
in New Orleans. That conspiracy
was this: to undertake to get up
. new revolutionary governments in
Y the Southern States, based on ne
gro suffrage. Here was the con-
vention in louisiana conven-
ton whose functions had ceased
two years ago, whose president re-
fused to call it together, majority
of whose members were unwilling
to sit-but this convention, urged
on by:some revolutionists in the
city of New Orleans, sought to
come together, and for what? To
pass new amendments in the State
of Louisiana to give suffrage to the
negroes. What was the conse-
quencee What General Grant
told nae is true, what Thomas JEFF
ferson said many years ago is
true-that. the. attempt to- place
these two races in large numbers
side by side upon an equality in
q free government, will of necessi-
ty breed war of races [applause]
which will result in the end. in
destroying the colored race. And
. there is not to be found on this
earth man from whom the colored
race should flee as they should flee
from that man who undertakes, by
force or otherwise, ts. bring about
negro suffrage upon the States Of
the South at the present time
[Long and continued cheering
No, there is not a proposition that
can be conceived SO cruel, so heart