The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-30
The Radicals and Negro-suffrage.

The Radicals and Negro-Suftrage.
We reproduce the following from the
Baltimore Gazette for the benefit OF those
,loyal" cusscs who blow hot aud cold with
the same breath on the ncgro-suiirage ques-
ton. and submit rs a very truthful pen
picture, drawn by a master hand OF inc
'whited scpulchres" set up as leaders OF the
God and morality party.
Cthc motives Of the Radical party were
not simply devilish and its designs ruinon'
TO millions Of people we could afford u
laugh at the absurd aud inconsistent way
in which it plays It's miserable. game. il
adopts one theory to-day and another con
Trajectory one tomorrow. 1t aiiirms Ger
tain statements to be true In one brcatl
and denies them In the next. 1t commit
itself to n defined line Of policy, then re.
treats and again advances In u totally dill
erent direction. A little while ago The
Radical journals were urging the South Il
accept the terms Of Congress, to join hahd'
with the negroes and then govern them
selves after their own fashion. These dis
interested schemers told the Southern PEG
pie that If they had been rs they said they
were the best friends Of the blacks, they
could control the votes of the latter and
that under such circumstances the reiusn
of the south to conccdc to the negroes the
right of suffrage was prompted by = de.
termination to Cypress an obnoxious race
They were assured that the North only
wanted to secure eternal Justice aut
''humau rights in the shape of negr'
suffrage. and that rs soon As they showed
disposition to cooperate withthc ireedmel
the rights of the white race would be re
stored and respected.
A few days since, however, q meeting
was held in South Carolina, which was ad
dressed by General WADE HAMPTON an,
several respectable colored men, and cacl
class spoke with kindness aud respect o
the other. Straightway the Radical con
Germ took alarm and began to fear that
coalition was about to be formed in TIN
South which would outyotc the detestabl,
little faction of itincrant politicians from
the North and southern turncoats, Tn
New York Times and Tribune, therefore
have been swift to deuounce the individ
uals who participated in the late meeting
The Times states that the meeting IVA
without significance except as an attemp
on the part of the whites to lead the ne
grocS," and insists that BEVERLY Nash
the principal colored orator, is a man with
ont influence among the freedmen, an
that ever since the close of the war the.
have denounced him as n COppcrhcad.
The 7ribuRe also stigmatizeS NASH an
his followers" as individuals who ar
known as "black CopperheadS.' and in re
fcrring to the blacks generally it say
many of them are mean, scampiSh loafcr
who choose to live by thieying, selling run
or pandering to lewdnoss, rather than b
honest industry and these will probabl
vote as whites of like proclivities usual
do Thus when these disreputable joul
nails suppose they can control the ncgr
vote, they vilify the Southern people b,
cause they do not acquiCsCo In uniyers,
suffrage. When they fear that the negro,
may be influenced wholly by their form,
masters, they curse both whites and black
as scamps and %loafers. The Radical part
Is bent upon taking possession of the Soutl
body and soul, and this fact accounts tC
allthese disgraceful exhibitions of tcrgivrI
SatiOn, mendacity and knaYcry,