Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-17
WHAT RADICAL LOVE FOR THE
NEGRo MEANS

WHAT RADICAL LOVE FOR THE
NEGRO MEANS,
The Radicals profess more than ordi-
nary friendship for the negro, and insist
that he shall be made a voter But this
game appears to be confined only to those
States where they are in the minority,
and need the votes Of the negroes to en-
able them to gain or hold control of the
States. In the Northern States, where
the Radicals and Republicans have the
majority. they have been very slow to
confer political rights upon the negro.
The recent Republican State convention
Of Pennsylvania refused to pass a reso-
luton indOrsing negro suffrage, and re-
commenting the people of that ancient
commonwealth to adopt It. Such a reso-
luton was offered, but it was sent to
committee and there smOthered- The
New York Tribune denounced the pro-
ceeding as a cOwardly dodge and shuttle.
The Pennsylvania Republicans, while
ready to make voters of the negroes in
the South, have no notion Of putting
blacks on a par with themselves, at
home, in Pennsylvania, where they feel
they have a majority without the assist
ance Of negro votes Their love for the
negro extends thus far and no farther.
At the Republican convention of
Orange county, Indiana, on the 29th of
June, the following resolutions were
adopted "without dissenting voice"
Resolved, That while we rejoice at the
downfall of slavery, the establishment Of
universal liberty throughout the republic,
we do not believe Il possible or desirable to
establish social OF political equality be-
tween the black and the white races. As
citizens Of loyal State in the Union, we
claim the right to establish such laws in
regard 10 suffrage as to us shall seem best
calculated 20 secure the harmony and pros
perity Of our people
Resolved. That all attempts TO establish,
either social or political equality by legis-
lation, only tends to disturb the peace Of
society, and corrupt the purity Of the bal
lot-box Therefore, we are in favor of the
separation of the races, by colonizing the
negroes Of the United States, in some To-
cality congenial TO their well being as the
means Of fnanl settlement Of this Yexed
question, in American politics, and Sc
curing the happiness and prosperity Of
both races"
There is little doubt that these resolu"
tons express the sentiments Of the great
body of the Republicans of Indiana.
Feeling strong in numbers, they do not
desire the votes of the negroes in that
State. There are but few negroes in In
diana, and their votes would affect but
little either way but the Republicans are
opposed to comforting political rights up
on them. And the same condition Of af-
fairs would have existed in the South had
the Radicals been strong enough to have
carried these States without the aid Of
the negro vote. When the franchise bill
(Which gives the negro the right to vote)
was pending before the Legislature Of
this State, the Press and Times had the
candor TO confess that if it was supposed
the majority of the negroes in Tennessee
would vote the Conservative ticket, they
would not be enfranchised And there
is not man in the State who believes
they would Notwithstanding the evi-
dence points unerrigly to the fact that the
enfranchisment of the negro was purely
a selfish movement on the part Of the
Radicals, there are intelligent colored
men who do not seem to appreciate the
fact that they are being used as decoys to
lead their race into the support of party
whose highest ambition is Office and the
spoils Of Office. Wherever the vote of the
negro has been necessary to the success
Of the Radical ofice>seekers, he has been
but where they have re-
garded his vote as not being necessary,
this man an,i brother" has been left
mere cypher in the body polite. Not a
State in the North has yet conferred I'M
restricted suffrage upon the negro, and it
is by means certain that it will be done