Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-12

THE OBIECT OF BLACK sUFFR AGE
The New York Tribune, in replying IN
ertens0, TO an article in the World,
which was ELECTED by an attack by the
Tribune upon Mr.. JoHNsON's premises in
the late Message, touching negro suffrage,
makes the following frank confession
and proclamation
Remarks.-Mr. johnson had charged
that il was the oUOUed purpose Of the
Observation-Disclosures TO give the blacks a
clear msjority In every Southern State
The World deXteTOusly substitutes for
this an assertion that the Reconstruction
policy Il designed to keep the RepuOli-
cans in power "by the aid Of the negro
vote which Is q horse Of quite another
color. It il established by successive
elections that, where all the ex-rebels are
allowed 10 vote, while the blacks are de-
MED the elective franchise las in Ken
lucky and Maryland), the Democratic
party carries all before il while, where
the blacks are enfrsnchised, and 3 1.-THE
Of the ex-rebels are not, the Republicans
generally succeed. Now, then, we not
merely admit but proclaim that one
reason for our desire that the blacks shall
vote If based on the probability that they
will generally vote with the party that
has freed and e~nfraucised them. In
other words: We wish the blacks 10 vote
for a reason exactly parallel with that
which makes the World clamor for the
Acknowledgement OF all the rebels, and
there Is exactly the same baseness in
volved in the one wish az in the other.
We don't want fifteen Kentuckys and
Msrvlands voting for the next President
the World does. II we vince - in the
premises, the public will remark it.
This is not only " one reason" but the
whole Of It. Neither the Tribune nor
o other Radical would for one moment,
support black suffrage, were they con-
WINGED that it would be cast against the
Radical party. On the same principle
the Radical party would grant suffrage
to Soy class Of men or women. There
can be no doubt, in the mind Of sDy
thinking observer, that not a COnfede-
rate would be disfranchised, il the Radi'
cal party could calculate on thessup'
port Of the so-called rebels. The pretense
that the COnfederstes have forfeited
their right Of suffrage, and that Il is dan.
gerous 10 give them participation in the
Government, and all other pretenses,
indeed, are put for Tard merely TO cover
the design, which the Tribune has 50
boldly avowed, as the end and purpose oil
negro suffrage. The only n and pur-
pose is TO secure their party in power, al
the next Presidential election. The end
may be legitimate, II legitimately
pursued. But the means is the
means OF the highwayman. 1t may
be very proper, lawful and
honest, in the highwayman, to get an
other mans money as for example,
when he shall give him a guild pro quo,
or promise TO pay, which is lawful and
fair, and honestly intended to be COM
piled with, or II be al induce the max
20 voluntarily give him bis money. But
the reverse appears, when the highway
man demands his money or his life"
The Radical party wish to be con-
tinued 10 power. AS long a they can
get it by the free suffrsges Of an intelli-
gent people, accustomed TO scrutinize and
canvass the claims and purposes Of par
ties, they are fairly entitled 10 ii. But
whenever they are compelled 20 deprive
hundreds Of thousands Of ~prescnptive
freemen Of their rights to vote, and TO
make new voters out Of men who have
exercised that right, and whom no
man Of intelligence and the least particle
Of self-respect, will claim 70 be cOmpe-
tent for its exercise, they come 30 near TO
the higbwaymsn's plea Of stand and
deliver that q hsir-split cannot point