The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-16
Enemies Of the Government.

From the DAILY Ne1oS. .I . ...N -
The Black Republican party is, at heart, op-
posed to the principle of universal suffrage.
The private views of the individuals of that
party are, as every one knows, hostile to the
system which makes property liable to be
outvoted by labor Municipal elections, from
Portland to Chicago, bring out annual denun
Citations of the doctrine which, as these de-
nunciatons aver, assigns the payment of taxes
to one class OF society and the expenditure
OF those taxes TO another. The bitter hate with
which the party in che ascendancy in Congress
regards the Democracy, the tone of anger with
which il almost always refers to the Democracy,
on the rostrum or in the press, originates, in
TACT, on the ground that that party is the great
body of the enfranchisPd children OF toll.
And your millowner, with his inflated wealth
and upstart arrogance; your shoddy grandee,
with his greenbacks, so new to MS hands that
he must thrust them with him into society,
represent, in the vulgarity of their souls, my
lords of the proud stomach, who, consolidated
in Black Republicanism, spit, torsooth, upon
the suffrage OF the poor .- NJ ...
The opposition of the party in power to uni
versal suffrage has passed out OF private life.
1t stands proven substantially in the attempt
made recently to cheat this city, by false cen
sus, out of her righttul representation in the
Legislature OF the State. The new law govern
ing elections in New York was evidently
prompted by hostility to general entranchIse-
ment; lor when it threw obstacles in the way of
voting by insisting that, with limit set on the
time Tor keepin@ the polls open, each foreign
voter shall be subject to the test of an examina-
tion of his certificates OF naturalization it took
open ground in opposition to the principle of
universal suffrage. And the conclusion that the
Black Republicans are hostile TO the general
franchise ON which the Government of white
men rests, becomes still further enforced by the
fact that in their attacks upon IL recently in
Congress, some or them have proposed, openly,
that it be restricted to those only who can read
and write
The opposition to the universal suffrage cannot
be carried out by the Black Republican leaders
in the face OF direct attack. Their pretended
defense OF the right OF the negro 20 vote, on the
ground ol his alleged equality of intelligence
with the foreigner who is admitted TO the suf-
trage, points cut plainly the line of their ap-
proach to the sanctuary OF our republcanism.
| With the prejudice OF the country enlisted III
their onslaught upon universal suffrage IN the
case OF the naturaliZed citizen and public judg.
ment enlisted ID il IN the case OF the extension
! ofthat suffrage TO four millions OF semcivilZed
negroes the Black Republicans know well that,
il successful in their present agitation they will
| defeat universal suffrage before the people,
under movement of reaction. Permit four
! millions of more or less barbarou5 blacks TO
make a mockery OF political franchise AID our
| lite upon the issue, the Black Republican enc
| mics OF universal suffrage will advocate, and
| carry before this people, as the only means of
retracing their steps in that fatal purpose, the
restriction of suffrage by some test of education
or of property. With what alarming truth,
| then, Mr.. johnson has denounced leaders OF that
! party as "enemies of the Government the
| country may understand when 1t recollects that
| those very leaders are careering at full speed
on the high road to the destruction of the
foundation of the Government-unlversal suE
| irage.