Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-03
PRFCFPT AND PRACTICE.

lhe W dshlngtoh tHtph dliuues rs iOl-
lows 70 a case Of precept against prac-
tice
"Now what We wish to call the attention
of our readers 10 is the fact that, in Phila-
delphia, the home Of Judge w. ID. Kelley,
one Of the most violent negro-equality men
in the country, his own constituents refuse
to allow negroes the privilege Of riding in
the same street cars with white persons y
The feeling to which the Union alludes
is not confined to Philadelphia 1t crops
out in almost every neighborhood in the
Northern States However much the
leaders of the Radical wing Of the Re-
publican party may preach equality for
the negro, the rank and file Of even that
faction viii not put themselves upon a
social level with him We do not doubt
that they would be entirely satisfied to see
this thing done for the Southern people,
but when it is brought home to them they
will have none of it. In every attempt
that has yet been made in the NOrthen
States since Mr. IincCln's proclamation
Of freedom was issued 10 confer the right
Of suffrage upon the negro, the PROPOSE
Iion has been rejected by a very large
majority, and there is no evidence that
the people have been convinced that they
were then in error For instance, in
New York, in 1860, proposition to per-
nit negro suffrage without a property
qualification was defeated by minority
Of 1852 and in 1864 a Ike propo-
sition was defeated by a majority of
l2S,939, but the vote was much smaller
in the last election, so tie majority
was relatively larger In August, lS62,
proposition to grant the right Of suffrage
10 negroes in Illinois was rejected by -
majority of 1921, while a proposition
to exclude negroes from settling in the
State was adopted by a majority Of lOO,-
jS7 II is hardly probable that 80 great
a change has been wrought in the minds
Of the people ofthese States, as that they
would now vote to make the negro their
equal ut the ballot-box The people Of
Illinois were then with Mr. Lincoln op-
posed to making voters or jurors of ne
groes, or of qualifying them to hold
Office" and they expressed themselves in
the most emphatic manner The people
Of New York were equally emphatic IN
their condemnation Of similar PROPOSE
ton, and we feel quite sure that they hold
to the opinion yet they then expressed at
the ballot-box The people Of Connec-
ticut and Wisconsin have more recently
refused at the ballot box 10 confer upon
the few negroes in their respective States
the right to vote. Notwithstanding these
evidences of the opposition of the North
ern people to making the negro the equal
of the white man at the ballot-boK, the
Radicals in Congress insist thatthe South
ern States shall do it, and they have
conferred the right Of suf
rage upon the negro in the Dis
trict of Columbia, where the white people
are all but unanimous in their opposition
to the scheme. We find in the North,
where the few negroes residing there are
far more intelligent and capable of exer-
cising the right Of suffrage than in the
Southern States, that the people are
determinedly opposed to comforting this
right upon them Yet Northern mem
bers Of Congress insist that the Southern
people shall confer upon the ignorant and
unlettered Africans among them, who
were their former slaves, the right Of
suffrage, which carries with it the right
to hold office and to SIT on iuries And
it is broadly intimated by Radical Jour
mails and Radical leaders that this is the
ultimatum upon which the Southern
States will be admitted 10 their equality
in the Union. Can it be wondered at
that the Southern people should spurn
such an oHer2
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