The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-25
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The negro I'm the FuIure.

Two of the recently elected Senators
have expressed themselves strongly in
regard to their duty to the colored man.
Mr.. Trumbull, of Illinois, in an ad-
dress to the Legislature, said: =. &. .s.
At the last session of Congress, / de-
clared in my place in the Senate that
the colored people of the United States
must be fully protected in all their
rights ofperson and property, and that
L was prepared to do whatever was
necessary to accomplish this, even ifit
were to place in their hands the ''baIIot
and the bayonet." Not thirty days ago
I advocated the overthrow of the dis
loyal political organizations of the late
rebellious States, and the placing of
them under the control of loyal men.
Within the last ten days have voted
for bill securing TO colored persons in
the District of Columbia, the right Of
suffrage to the same extent as 1t is pos
sessed by the white My past record
commits me fully to the protection of
all loyal citizens against the oppres-
sions ofthe disloyal, 10 the necessity of
placing the political organization, in
the late rebellious States, in the hands
of loyal men-to the securing of perfect
freedom and equality in the protec-
ton of person and property to all the
inhabitants of the land; and now, rein
dOrsed by all my constituents, I shall
go back to my place in the Senate to
labor with renewed zeal for the restora-
tion of all the States to their former
position in the Union upon loyal ba-
sis, and upon such principles as will, 1
trust, forever secure to all the inhabi-
tants of the land that liberty which be-
longs to the free citizen of free Re-
public. % --#
Mr.. Drake, of Missouri, in similar
address, said:
a man, whatever his color, must be
held to be a man, everywhere, under
all circumstances, to every intent. be-
fore every tribunal; and this nation
power, guarantee his manhood's right
to him, whoever would rob him of
them, or under whatever pretext the
robbery is perpetrated or threatened.
A nation that would stand idly by aud
let millions of its citizens be so robbed,
whether by individual lawlessness, or
by organized communities assuming to
act through law, ought itself to be de-
spoiled.
Thus speaking, you will probably
have anticipated my next wOrds-the
negro must be entranchised. Without
that he cannot be really free, nor can
the nation be calm. ~
Whenever and however the subject
may properly come up, will demand
and uphold impartial suffrage-by
which mean suffrage for the black
man on precisely the same terms as for
the white. If more be required of him
to entitle him to vote, there is, there can
be no other possible reason for it, than
that God made him black: and 1 will
not stamp Gods work in him with any
badge of degradation and contempt,
which the aristocratic pride, the unrea-
soning prejudice, or the wicked ingenu-
ityof men may deyise.
To:secure the great end of negro en-
Reimbursement viii take no by-paths,
nor will 1 enter into any bargains
which may in any possible degree
weaken the healthful power of Radi-
calism in the nation. Least of all will
give for it the enfranchisement of
rebels. If it is right to make the ne
gro a voter, let il be done because it is
right, not as swop with rebels. We
swopped bullets with them for four
years, and they got considerably the
worst of the bargain 1 do not propose
now to swop ballots with them, for in
that dicker we should be sure to lose.
The like ground has been taken in
Congress by Mr.. Stevens and others,
and it. is evident that the South by
their refusal to adopt the Constitution
al Amendment, are preparing the
way for certain "irreversible guaran-
tees" of far more stringent nature
than those included in the amendment.