The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-19
THE CAnpAIGy IN ILLINOIS.
Speech Of Senator Trumbull in Reply 20 Mi
paudfefru.

Speech Of Senator TrumbnIl in Reply 90 Mr..
Pcndlctcn.
On the 14th instant Senator Trumbull deliv.
cred his long expected reply to the speech
made by Mr.. Pendeton at the great dem
democratic gathering IN Springfield on the nth OF
September last. The reply was delivered in tho hall
of the Housc Of Representatives., to an audience
numbering about 200 people. Mr. Jesse X. Dubois
was called to the chair. The following extracts
from the main points OF Mr.. Trumbull's Argument
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
The complaints, Ii understand them, against the
reconstruction measures arc that they disfranchise
certain leading rebels and enfranchlse colored men,
/ think Congress had entire authority TO pass this
law and OF the same time hold, according 20 the
platform laid down at Chicago TINT the right Of snf
people OF the states and not TO Congress- Well, say
the democrats II t belongs to the people Of the loyal
states why don't II belong to the people or the rebel
StatesS For the simple reason that IN the rcoel
States YOU have.not got any state governments.
s0u gf the authority to determine vino Is o
ganize IT. you cannot have representation In Con-
gress. Well, 1t is asked, "Why did you extend tho
men enough there, as you yourself had shown IN
the governments you had set up. and therefore, TO
inaugurate loyal government we had to take
them in IL was necessary, IN order 10 organize
state governments which should be true to the
Union that the coiored man should be permitted 10
take part Ii, that organization. IL necessary 10
protect him in his freedom. You had shown that, by
the governments you undertook 10 set up under
MT JOHIsOh htiSPiccs. iOu NCht Al ohOc w NUfh
and egslated TO deprive the negro OF ina civil rights.
You provided 20 sell him out II he did not have en-
poyment on the first day OF January. You legslatcd
that he should not own any land. You manifested
your spirit In q thousand ways against his freedom.
Unless Congress was TO permit the constitutional
amendment aboIishng slavery 10 be trampled under
foot and slavery, in fact, again re-egtabshed,
against which you had gone to war. 10 became necos
sary to give the coored man the ballot Tor his own
protection; and Congress gave H. In the exercise OF
Its begerent rights In those rebel States which had
no state governments.
Congress has no bcllleerent rights over loyal
state government OF our own, loyal to the Union,
that never has and never will rebel against IL.
lCheers Butt Is said that these States are under
negro supremacy. How So The registered voters
in these states not all negroes. In five Of the
ten States the white registered voters exceed the
colored registered voters, after leaving out all those
disfranchised persons, who are really very few so
that In half at least OF the rebel States the whites are
supreme II they act together But hope that that
distinction will not be made. should be sorry to
see the two races acting against each other. Seven
Of these States have proceeded to form State gov
ernments; they have adopted constitutions, which
recognized states OF the Union, having state gov
ernments with all the authority that p rfans to any
OF the states In the Union, 80 that this military gov
eminent, so much abhorred By our democratic
friends, Is withdrawn from some OF these States,
unless it should be necessary on the 8ppii-
cation of these State governments, to de-
fend them against unlawful acts Of rebels
within their borders, just as It would be lawful on
the application OF the State government OF Illinois,
to call for military force to put down insurrecton
against the government OF this State The other