Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-09-17
VOLUME XVII.


/ We hare repeatedly said that this
II not b dpeskion b b. aettled by
11safe pre5oflfce and pFec0r1celred ~
tIpx11 ifes. ~ eslghf 10 be setEic1 In
tho 3fnhs e exRerience and ruth.
We dffe that Il should he 20 set
tied, a1Sd MI this reason wish 10 have
the itiile14 md kaixeas stilseassioa.
Ffou1 nn1xe Ho1ksd brawihsas whose
instincts and want az education unfit
them for proatahIe diecansion of any
question Of inap0ftAnce, We expect
Httle che than mere vitupefatiosa
and couras rant; but Why shonid not
miusAted tAinkafa treat this question
Ias they wuald any la chemistry, or
any Department Oh phiiUsophyf
Has The negro, though constitu-
ting q large portion csf the eaFthss
Inhabitants, ever sh0wn any fitaess
6ox ssIf-goyaEnaaent La not the
race, wherever It exists to-day in an
independent condition. either civil
lied or barbaroNs, utterly without .
spirit of adsanesmaat9 IL Il not
sunk Into hopeless desp0sism or
plunged into eonsurnAag anarchy z
IN Ii be true That tlsel Negro has 10
apsness Dor seIfgaveraEnent and b
unahie 10 govern himself wisely
VIXEN Left to hiTnself, By what sort OF
logic do we arrive at the conclusion
that the governing power which Is
30 important 10 us should be divided
with him In shls landg DO we wish
to call dawn upon ourselves the con-
sequences of his passions and appe-
tifes and sioth and barbarisEr1' as
these consequences have 80 terribly
fallen upon llinsself wherever he has
essayed the difficult task Of govern
ment9 But say the supporters OF
the sq1egro sdffFageh doetgine, the
negroes are not sufficiently numerous
to work any material evil TO the
State. This then is 10 yield the
whole question. The influence 6I
the negro in the government would
be hurtfuI, hat not sufficiently so 10
be dangerous. Who knows thlsg
We know there are evils In popular
Who can tell at what
point the good Of the State viii De
sacrificed by the admission 10 the
governing power Of additional evil:
If the negro race is not of itself fit to
govern il its influence is evil, then
the conclusion is irrezragible that the
negro element, how little s0eyer It
may be felt, will to- just that extent
be felt for evil, and should therefore
be rejected.
But the right to vote, say these
Radical negro sufferage aaiyocates, y
inseperAbly coupled yith the duty oi
navfny taxes, when tue party effected
Is aioTai.n Dudley Mann long since
disposed Of this foolish
or assumption rather,
when he said, Ito assert that a every
Raan had q divine right to vote was
rs absurd as for particular men to
claim that they had 4 divine right to
reign IL was one Of the dogmas OF
Fhad. Stevens and his schual, aud
2 ought 10 be justified by the declare
ton of iadepe ldcace. Bat no tact Is
better or more universally known
than that the authors of that instru-
snelt intended to convey no such
idea, They held taaad put in Prac-
tice very different one by Keeping
the negro in seTvltutle anil depriv-
ing him both in his free and subject
state of any such privilege. The
righ of suffrage is Il thing to be Civ
en- or withheld by the State as the
public interest and safety may re-
uuire, else women and minors may
cry out injustice at the lass which
every state, II
White suffrage, with restriction to
the males above twenty-One years ol
age, Is well settled principle in this
not easy to be assaulted if II
is claimed that popular government
Is wise at all. The white race, with
differences based only upon Fictitious
has universal aptness
Cor government, and according to the
American theory, popular govern
ment Is the highest attainment OF
human wisdom. 81. Joseph Gazette.