, 1866-01-05
NUMBER 9.
THE roLrrIcAL SITUATION.

Senator Doolittle, Of Wisconsin, an original
Republican, takes decided ground against negro
suffrage, and earnestly supports the policy Of
TIE Administration, 10 = recent speech before
his constituents, be said:
But these are some who propose, as a protec4
ton 20 them what they sincerely believe (I do
| not question the sincerity Of gentlemen) to be a
better proteeton-that Is, the right Of suffrage
Extend, say they, to the eolored men in these
states this right, and they would be able 70
take care Of themselves, defend themselves
against oppression either by the State or by their
former masters, or by that white race which
has dominated over them for the last two hun
dred years.
Now, my friends, let me assure Won that this
| right Of suffrage, if it were given to them in A
mass as they propose, would affect no such rss
that the white men 10 the mass are disposed
to opPress an3-.. rush them, n you were to
| give this right Of suffrage to the mass Of me-
| groes, as they now are, it would afford them no
more security than if given into the hands Of
children. That right may finally be given to
them, but it must be given by the States first
BY extending it to those who have borne arms,
| and have shown themselves capable of dscharg-
| ing the duty-it may be one in five or one in ten
but to give it now to the mass, in he'present
condition Of things, would be no security and
| no protection whatever. They have for two
| hundred years been subject to the domination
| of the white race; and although the war has
broken the chains of slavery and has set them
| free, yet that freedom is comparatively a nomi-
inal freedom. For if at this day they went to
the polls to vote, if they did not vote to please
the dominant race, they teould not come there at
qH
In letter, subsequently published be also
says:
| l. That the policy of Mr.. Lincoln and Mr..
Johnson, of leaving that to be determined by
those States for themselves, is the only just and
| wise policy.
| 2. That it is in accordance with the letter and
| spirit of the Constitution.
3. That it is almost inconceiyable that any
| Federal administration should attempt to en-
| force universal negro suffrage in States where
for two hundred years the negroes have been
degraded by slavery, when at the same time
nearly two-thirds Of the free States deny suf-
! frage to persons of the same rare who have
been educated as freemen, with the thoughts,
habits and responsibilities of freemen.
Western men generally seem to be of the same
way Of thinking. Since the death of Brougb,
Lieutenant Governor Anderson has been exer-
csing the duties of the Executive Office of Ohio.
In speech delivered at Columbus, recently, he
said.
universal suffrage. | agree with you on that,
and when the question CONES fairly up, shall
be against my friends who are so Jealous and so
numerous and so honest | opposed to 1t,
not because negroes are black, or because they
have been slaves, but because slavery cannot
educate black man so as to fit him to vote
shall be in favor Of the negroes in the South
voting whenever | am convinced that they have
the quantum of intelligence and of virtue to
enable them to vote understandingly but until
that time | am opposed to their voting, and
therefore | don't agree with my friends of the
Faneuil Hall school of fanatics, who run mad
after the millennium, and believe it has come.
What is worse than all this disgusting hypoc-
riSy of the States of Ohio and Pennsylvania, is
Judge Kelly, of Pennsylvania, of all other men,
putting his arms akimbo and saying to the
Southern people that they must let all their re-
Gently emancipated negroes vote, when Ohio
doesn't let them vote, or 60 to Church, or go to
school, or ride in the street cars, and these col
ored people are among us, and are just as much
better than the negroes for whom Sumner and
Chase and others claim the right of suffrage as
you and ! are above the meanest white man liv-
ing. The colored people that we have among
US here are the best of the race, and yet they
have none of the rights that are claimed for the
semi -bSrbarous of the race in the South.
Ex-Governor Todd was present at the same
meeting. 1t will be recolected that the position
of the Secretaryship of the Treasury was offered
to him by Mr. Lincoln, on the resignation of Mr.,
Chase He was called upon for speech, and
said
| agree with Governor Anderson that the
slaves made free so short time ago cannot, in
the nature of things, be prepared and qualified
to act as the governors Of this great nation
When they will be thus prepared is not for me
to fix the time, perhaps not for my children.
They must first be taught to work for themselves.
They must first be tanght to enjoy the fruits of
their own labor. They must be taught that
freedom does not consis. in idleness they must
be taught to read'and write; they must be taught
to worship God they should, in 6ue, be quali-
fed for every position under our Government
before they should be permitted to participate
in that Government God grant that that Pc
riod may soon arrive; but for myself, with the
little knowledge | have of the African who has
lived in bondage all his life, have scarcely
hope to live to see the day when my Judgment
will say to me that be ought to be permitted to
enjoy this great privilege of participating IN our
government But in whose hands can this ques-
ton be left with so much safety as in the hands
of the Union party, this question Of duty to thc
colored race? He would have extended TO him
all the facilities, all the opportunities consistent
with our duty to our fellow man, No man oDt
a pure Christian, who is a Christian from love 10
his Maker, can answer this question. Each
must answer for himself-what is the full duty
to perform?
How TO SELECT FLoUR.-First, look at
the color; if it is white, with a slight yell
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