Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-20
STEWARDS sPERcH

As it was reported by an entirely COM
petsnt short hand writer, we can only
say that the Senator has very greatly
changed its wording, and omitted and
inserted without much regard to his
spoken text. We do not complain OF
this for the talk needed a vast amount
of pruning to deliver it even nto re-
spectability. Some Of the greater ineon-
~sistencies of the speech as delivered are
by the sweeping ''revise." HIS
striking out such remarks as 80, how
the Democrats did lie in California" in
tho late election, and "Haight is a rot
ton plank, thrown out Of the Union
party" may be commended, on the
score of good taste as they were not
remarks fit to be made, under the cir
cums.ancss, by a United States Senator
Of such recent and early political history
a. has Stewart. The striking out the
declaration that the "Last Democrat
was born" and the borrowed reasons
he assigned for that opinion was, per-
haps, j~usti6abls on his expectation that
it and his sweeping assertion that the
Democrats lied terribly in the last can
vass in California would or might pro.
duee an unpleasantness Of retaliation on
him from the Democratic press Of CAL
ifornia, which might as we'll be avoided
as not.
In his speech, as spoken, Stewart re-
capitulated a long series OF offers for full
admission to the people Of the Southern
Statss, which they rejected. He laid
the entire blame on them for not " Sc
curing" Reconstruction ample, long
ago. And, hm,-after having charged
the Southerns with gross and foolish
pervsrsensss in refusing terms Of recon-
ciliation,-hs turned round and laid all
the blame on Andy Johnson ; said the
Southsrnerswould have accepted the first
Congressional reconstruction terms if
johnson had not policied against them
This contradiction is somewhat mended
in the Report attributed to his utterance
On Tuesday night. But numerous iu-
constituencies and incongruities remain.
Stewart says in his speech that
we must meet the issue Of "negro suf-
frage," and Immediately afterwards he
says that SIT is too late to war against
negro suffrage. 1t is an accomplished
fact" If the Congressional e~nfranchis-
ing act for the freedmen in the rebelious
States, and the negroes in the Terrific
ries, has virtually made an "accom-
plishsd fact'' of negro suffrage, where
10 iths negro suffrage issue that 1--WE
must mset?"
Stewart says the ballot is the proper
weapon Of protection for the"wsak,"
and especially that weakness which is
ofs'ignorsnce."' Butheignores, ordoes
not spprshend at all the fact that if as
such a protection the ballot in the hands
of the ignorant negro is a weapon that
may relieve a party of = temporary di-
lena, it may, and is likely o there
after to confound the nation with new
mischiefs. He snesrs at white men
who vote the Democratic ticket and
sign their names with an y, and then
and before rejoicss over the instant en-,
.franehising of zoe, 900 negroes, few Of
whom can write or read, and of whose.
capacity for sslfgovsrnment, the
Springfield Republican radical as it ISL
and Prof. Draper ian Abolitionist, a
philosophical writer, declares that it
does not equal that Of average, children
Of ten years of age, in the Northern
States!
He SCOTS at the idea that negro suf-
frage tends, "lsads" to negro equality,
but he fails to show, or rather, attempt
to show, that it really will not ''lead"
to social equality. We have only his
assurance that 1t will not; contained in
the thrsadbare snser at ''any man.who
is afraid Of a negro becoming his equal
Negro suffrage does'slead'to negro equal
ity in many social directions. In this
section, in his spoken speech, he asked
in substance, if it did lead to general
equality among the races, was it not
"fair'' to give the negro the chance, etc?
But this appeal has been removed from
the "~revise." Then, as we have said,
he dilates on the inherent, everywhere
manifested superiority Of the Anglo
Saxon race-making ajumble oftongues
on this matter, to confuse and hedge as
best he can. If the Anglo-Saxon is a
VIGOROUSLY superior race, why should
it not in a Republic retain the privilege,
exclusive, of making the laws? And if
it is greatly the superior race, why will
you give to q million Of notorious infe-
riors the privilege of voting in deter
mination Of the character of the Gov
eminent? o, what a mess Of trash doth
William pile on these points. The sim
pie fact is: when you give the negro the
ballot you make him the absolute, un-
qualified equal of the white man in this
Government. And you give to the ne
gro the unquestioned "balance Of pow
err for all time to come. You place
him at once among the rulers Of the ma
ton, in as perfect a sense as native
white men now are. "Social equality
follows political equality" says Wsn-
dell Phillips. So soon as you admit
the latter, acquissce in it, in any State,
agree to 1T as an accomplished" and
i%rrsver'able '~'fact," you have social
equality on the short road toward ac-
complishment.
Look at the practical effects: You
have negro State legislators, Governors.
and Federal Senators and Representa-.
tivss. Stewart himself said (tbonoh
wa think he scratches this o,t &C %.