Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-17

III NDtuAlaAu AllEAts
Sheridan never had any politics before
the war. He used occasionally to declare
in the early part Of the war, when serving
as Chief Quartermaster with the late Gem
eral Samuel 4. Curtis, that the abolition
lists and secessionisis ought to be hung to-
gether. Since then he has travelled far
Sheridan NAV be considered a Radical"
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MANHOOD SUFFRAGE IN OHIO.
The Boston Commonwealth applies the
epithet Of a mean State to Ohio, be-
cause Of the refusal Of its Legislature to
submit to the voters Of that State pro-
position to strike the word "white from
the constitution The leading Republi-
cans of Ohio are also termed by the
same paper ga set Of small, selfish
managers" And the Boston AdUertiser
likens Ohio to a fnger-pOst, while point
ing out the ruad 10 others remains sta
tionary itself 1t viii be remembered
that, although the Republicans have a
large majority in both branches Of the
Ohio Legislature, the resolution to submit
to a vote Of the people the striking Of the
word white out Of the constitution was
defeated by small majority A PROPOSE
ton looking to the reimbursement oI
the negroes in New York was similarly
disposed of By the Legislature of that
State Since then the New York Legis,
lature has been dragooned into the adop-
ton Of the proposition, and strong efforts
are being made to force the Ohio Legis
lature into the adoption of the negro
suffrage policy On the night Of
Tuesday, the 10Th inst, a caucus
Of Republican members was held on thi:
subject, at which there seemed no dis
agreement except on the question whether
the Republican party would gain or lose
by it. On one hand, it was thought that
the party would lose while on the other
it was argued that inasmuch as the party
was forcing negro suffrage upon nearly
half the whole Union, it would be st
palpably unjust to exclude the negroes
from the ballot in the loyal States
that no defense could be made before the
people, and the Democracy would gain by
the confusionit could throw into the Union
ranks, BY exposing this utterly indie
feasible inconsistency. No definite con-
clusion was reached in caucus but the
indications are that future conferences
would result in securing majority for
the resolution submitting the question
to the people. 1t is very evident that
but for the embarrassing attitude in
which the Radicals have placed the Re
publican party in regard to this question
the Northern States would not have con
ferred suffrage upon the negro, and it i:
| by no means certain that Whel the pro-
position il submitted to the people 81
those States they will ratify it While
/ the District of Columbia and the South
ern States have negro suffrage compnlso-
rily thrust upon them by Congress, the
Northern tates, where the negro ele
ment is so small as to be Of very little
account, are left free, of course, tc allow
the blacks to vote or not, as they see fit.
And the course of the Republican mem
bers of the Ohio Legislature shows that
If the negroes are clothed with the right
to vote, it will not be as a matter of JUS
tice to them, but simply to advance the
interests of the dominant party The
history of this negro suffrage movement
shows that justice to the negro has had
nothing to do with it. 1t is simply ma
nenyre for the benefit Of the party