Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-08-09
THE 0UBER NATORIAL LEAP FOX
LIFE"

III compliance WIN our promise in a for
mer issue, We resume the review of Mason's
Address to the People Of Iowa." taking it up
where we left of,-viz: at the sixth resolu-
ton, which, in the language Of the Address,
"ia.ors su"h an amendment 10 the Constitu-
ton AS shall extend the elective franchise to
men Of foreign birth after ono years residence
and n declaration Of their intention to become
citizens"
1his was a grand strike and a generous
bid for votes. 80 consistency, thou art a
JEWELL! 10 deny the right of suffrage to q
million men whose damning sin is to have
dared to love the good old "Union of States,
when to love it was to imperil life; whose
foulest blot it is to have received from God q
swarihy skin; aud whose undying shame it is
TO have been once held in slavery by the con-
sent of those who now deny them the rights to
which we have, for more than ninety years,
declared ''all men entitled, and yet ask China
aud Ireland, Germany and Austria to send
over help in 1867 to elect-perhaps John G..
Breckenridge TO the Presidency in 1868, is
surely . paragon Of consistincy. No, Mr.. Ma
son; We prefer "io be just" first, and alters
ward, We may think Of being rs generous as
you suggest. Blu, to deny natural rights to
those who gin the winter Of our discomfort
were strong pillars to US, and yet grant them,
simply for the asking yes; prcG.r them, to
those, who probably in our sorest need looked
An md 1antal 80 ~.
boy would pronounce the maximum of injustice
and the very quintessence of ull meanness.
But not to detain too long with article sixth
We proceed to the seventh relating to military
Government at the SOUTH; and there we find
IN elaborate areument in favor Of the repre-
sentstion OF the rebel States in the Congress
Of the United States.
Mr.. Mason says:
sNothiag is more certain than that if the
Stat"s had not the r;g'l. 70 s%ecc,le, the orli
nances Of secession were utilities and did not
change N" relation OF parties in the least
The States afterward attempted to 60 out by
force, but they failed also in this attempt
They are therefore still ia Ike Union"
It lie useless to stop here and waste time
words and patience, in talking Of the mere,
question o. theory, whether ''once in the Union
always in the Union be true; for in point of
fact, 1t Is So plain that "a blind burrowinc
mole mist see it, that these lately rebellious
States, stand virtually where they did, when
they stood conquered and covering before our
victorious armies, win, perhaps, this excep-
ton, that the keen acrimony Of such total de-
feat is somewhat modified. In their reco,. struc-
ton. the ballot and representation are among
the last things they need. unless, forsooih,
these begin without any distinction Of race
or color. They nee first to be taught self
dependence and Industry, they need Northern
school marms, and Northern arital and civ>
iliIation and they need these until the times
arrive when q mans life, liberty and property
will be as safe in tie South as il is in orr own
plcasani STATE. Wleiher snch times lave vet
arrived We leave to the reader and the voter
70 say for himself; but if they have not they
are ncilLer Untitled 10 Representative nor are
the safe repositories ltor The suffrage of a
government they have so recently despised
And soughi TO trample undcr tool.
And now to abbreviate further Ia Dor with
the pen, on this wonderful Address 10 the
People efioMa, We clip 81, eSt.ac, lIum the
conclusion Of it, and add the remarks of the
Cedar Valley Tmrs OH II, vs. they contain all
thst need nc said.
Mr.. Mason says: