The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-07

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the other
women's rights women have certainly made
out strong case against Horace Greeley and
his brother radicals in the Constitutional Con-
vention who have SO coolly set aside the claims
of the women in favor of those of negroes in
general and South ern negroes in particular.
Mrs. Stanton may we'll impeach Greeley for his
desertion of her cause. She might also COM
plain of the strange silence of Charles Sumner,
who has not ventured to echo even the voice
of John Stuart Mill She might call upon
Henry Ward Beecher to account for his absence
from the love feast on the Fourth Of July at
Waccabuc lake, near Golden's station, in West
chester county. or all the radicals Wendell
Phillips, who has just endorsed the eulogy Of
woman mans fellow and comrade everywhere"
and of "taking counsel with women in all
grave Matters" is alone constant to women's
rights women. "Among the faithless, faithful
only he." The truth is, the radicals think that
they can easily manage the 'niggers !" but with
more modesty than we might suspect them of,
they begin to have misgivings about their
being able to bambooEle end control refined
and intellectual women. They stink away
abashed by the searching glance Of woman's
clear, bright eye. Her quick intuitions ofright
and wrong penetrate the DISCUSSES with which
they would fain mask their real motives.
Both her heart and her mind are ready to
espouse the interests of the country ON
broader scale than is contemplated by their
narrow plans Of partisanship. In word, they
despair of managing her, and tear themselves
from her embrace to rush into Sambo's arms.
Shall tho women or the "nigg ars" votes
This is one of the most curious questions that
has arisen from the complications of our civil
war; None who are not blinded by fanatioism
can fail 10 see how utterly unit the negroes
are to exercise the right of suffrage. A few
rare exceptions only prove the rule To vot,
is virtually to govern. thoughtful repub-
lican (not radicaD who has recently pub
lished a pamphlet on Universal Suffrage"
mlintains that if there be any natural right to
govern it must be founded on nothing else
than the natural ability to govern wisely and
we'll. He cannot see why "ths work of gov
eminent, with its infinite and complicated
interests, its constant danger of doing too
much, its often danger of doing too hstle-a
work demanding the wisest head, the most
evenly balanced judgments, tho lessons Of the
past, the best culture Of the present." should
be thrown open to tn, "utterly unskilled hands
of ignorant negroes, just released from cen.
turtles of bondage" Even General Butler is
reported in the Tribune as having said:-
Universal, impartial suffrage, alliod to univer-
sal ignorance, will only add to the danger
giving to the masses the club of Hercules to
be welded with the strength of the blind
Samson, after he has been slave grinding in
the prison house of the Philistines." The
pamphleteer to whom we have alluded sug-
gests that if there is to be q trial of universal
negro suffrage let it be in these Northern States
where the negroes are fewer in number, better
educated and more intelligent than In the
South, and let the States which are most in
favor Of it try it first If 1t works well on trial
it can easily be extended; for it is much easier
to grant the suffrage than to take it away. AT
the same time he cites the letter of Tribune
correspondent to show that in Jamaica "the
elective franchise represents to the ignorant
blacks two shillings and as much rum as they
choose to drink on election day at the expense
Of the candidates The longest purse would be
sure Of o majority" In note it is said to be
Every noticeable that the whites of Jamaica have
recently procured the abolition of the principle
OF selfgovernment in that island, preierring to
be governed by council appointed by the
crown rather than by the representatives of a
horde of ignorant negroes. Thus the extension
of the suffrage to the negroes Of Jamaica has
naturally led to the abolition of popular gov
eminent in that island" Few that are familiar
with the facts Of the case will assert that the
negroes of the South are better qualified for
the elective franchise than those Of Jamaica.
On the other hand it would be superfuous
to set forth the infinitely superior qualifications
of educated white women, when it cannot be
denied that any one of them is more capable
Of voting wisely and well than are all the
plantation darkies throughout the South.