Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25

publican Party has been but half demo-
cratic, that it has not been able to 90 ON
to triumph everywhere. 1t Is the half
truths that fail. Whole ones cannot. 1t
is the falsehoods, 81 almost universally
mixed with truth. not the truth Itself
which fails. If the Republican Party be
only honest and brave enough to go for all
truth at the point of suffrage, and to COM
nit itself, unreservedly in principle and
spirit, to the equal rights of all men, 1t
will, at the very next election, carry Oalo
for negro suffrage.
[ ventured word Of Warrington l
see that the defeat Of negro suffrage IN
Ohio is serving to increase the efforts to
defeat it at the South But the peace Of
the South, nay the very life Of the South,
is in her submission to the necessity OF
negro suffrage; and, therefore, you and
all the gentlemen and ladies OF the South
could not be better employed than IN
teaching negroes to read and write. Beau
tiful employment All Heaven would re-
ioice in the sight of ii. Not only should
negro suffrage be submitted to by all-it
should be reioiced in by all Al should
rejoice in this long-delayed justice to a
long-oppressed and outraged race But If
the intelligent people of the South cannot
be inspired in this case by love of the
right, lei them, at least be inspired by the
fear of the wrong. The Southern negroes
are, indeed. ignorant How could it be
otherwise, when. for ages, the policy OF
the South has been to make their inStruc-
tion crime Nevertheless. the Southern
negroes arc not fools and all the ingenu-
ity of Southern learning cannot pufsuade
them that white men, who tried to destroy
the nation, are entitled to vote; and that
black men, who tried to save 1t, and did
their full part in saving it. are not The
denial of suffrage to her negroes would
have seriously hazarded the safety of the
South. But if, now, when it has been
granted, there shall be an attempt to wrest
it from them-what, what will become OF
the South Let Hayti answer Her ne
groes bore even with the worst outrages OF
slavery. But when Napoleon was lntatu-
ated enough to attempt to wrest from
them their newborn frcedom-how deplo-
aabe was the fate Of .hcr whites before
the unrestrained fury OF her blacks Let
the Dominican Republic. also. answer.
+ spain utlNcI IttDA 10 Ibb HCA Nl LiNA - ~
self-government and people counting
but one or two hundred thousands, proved
an oyermatch for that great nation. Such
was the power Of desperation against
numbers. In vain Is it that have made
the study of the history and character Of
the negroes one of my ite-studies, if 1t
be not true that, whilst no other men are
50 easily controlled by treatment of jus
ticc and kindness, no other men become 50
terrible when, at last, under heaped-up
wrongs, their patience Is exhausted. One
more consideration, at this point. Things
are not aS they were fifty years ago and
the misguided men of the South, who are
seeking to strip the negro OF has right TO
participate in choosing his rulers, should
remember that, in this afternoon of the
nineteenth century, the cry for the recog-
milton Of the equal rights of all men Is
fast becoming the cry OF all Christendom. :