Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-02
AS TO VOTING.

gro IS the burden OF stewart song
in his present California campaign. And
then he goes on to say that the negro
saved the nation. There were only
ls6, 900 uegroes enlisted, and the MAJOR
ity Of these were brought into service
after the war had closed. The Army
and Navy Journal, recently, clearly
shows that it is a great f%alsehood, and a
gross reflection upon the wh'te loyal
soldiery, to say that to the negro belongs
the chief or a large share in the honors
of the fual victory. The moral force OF
the Emancipation Proclamation cannot
be over-estimated. We fervently be-
lieye that ths, act invoked successfully
the Divine blessing to such a degree
that the triumph Of the rebellion became
an im~possibility. The God of battles
undoubtedly answered the prayer Of
the mar,yred President, which was APP
pended to the great Declaration of Lib
erty to the slave.
Citizens: when the ballot is given to
the negro and the Chinaman, in these
Pacific States, the power Of Government
will have passed from the People to the
hands Of rich corporations.
Stewart says: "The ignorant negro
needs the ballot more than does the iu-
telligent white man,-needs it for pro-
lection" "Its a power for self pro-
lection, on behalf Of the ignorant ne
gro," says Stewart. Then is it an i'm
plement for evil, in the hands Of the
ignorant, the childish.
A correspondent, in another column,
R~ailroad-spike y, gives some practical
prophecies for our people to note, in this
connection.
The idea that the inferior races must
be placed on a political equality with
the Caucasian is perhaps the favorits
thought Of Radical politicians in their
reconstruction plans for the whole ua-
ton, but that there will be a rerolting
from the proposition, we cannot doubt.
Many amiable persons are deluded by
the sound Of the term, equality" as
something God-ordained, and reaching
to the enfranchisement of all races,
alike, in a Republican form Of Goverc-
meu But when they see, n surely
they will, whole corps, regiments OF
railroad and plantation hands voting at
the dictation Of rich and greedy corpo-
rations, for the tax-bnrdening Of the
people generally, they will have a
strong, home incentive for regretful re-
Elections. And when whit. men are
compelled to sit with negroes on juries
if ever they are, 10 our Western
States-or have their suits decided by
negro jurymen, they will commence APP
precia.ing, if neverbefore, the impro-
priety Of the present Radical pro-
grsmme in a Republic.
The very last person in the world to
hurrah for negro suffrage is Senator
William VI. Stewart; as we can show
from his speeches in the Senate in 1865.
He then even conceded that as a mere
prejudice" the feeling Of superiority
in race on the part Of the Caucasian,
should be respected and thoroughly &C.
knowledgsd in discriminating United
States Statutes, aud the National policy.
With William the thought has come:
Negroes aud Mongolians are certain
TO be enfranchised within a few years;
and as the white vote in Nevada will be
pretty thoroughly concentrated against
me, I'll BE the inside bidder for the
votes Of ignorant 'colored citizens
and their masters" In Wendell Phil
lips, Horace Greedy, Abby Kelly Fos-
ter and other distinguished Abolition
lists the advocacy Of negro suffrage is
consistent action; but coming down to
Stewart, you hear the talk ofthe origi-
nal equalizers diluted, d~isarranged and
dashed out, in feeble initiative efforts.