New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-18

that men should be disfranchlseu to-udy mereiy
because they were Rebels years ago. All he
requires is, that they shall nor be hearty
Unionists, loyal to their country ana 10 he
publican Liberty. But if tho hu-hlux Man,
the assassins of Ashburn, the systematic burners
of school houses for Blacks, and those who,
according to her Constitutional Convention,
have made Texas PandemOnium OF murder
whenever the presence of a Copperhead as
Military Commander rendered the homicide of
TTnionists a safe amusement, arc to be enfran
chised at once, without condition or qualiiica-
ton, it will be on some other motion than that
of Mr. Greeley. He would gladly blot out all
remembrance of bygOne Rebellion, provided
those who are to be amnestied will cease to
act as malignant, ranCOrOus Rebels.
AS to Suffrage The World deliberately and
willfully misrepresents Mr.. Greeley. lie never
favored Universal Sulfrage-that IS, Suffrage
without qualification or restriction. lie would
prefer that a light poll-tax should be assessed
upon every sane adult male citizen, and make
the tax-list of any election district its registry
of legal voters. But he utterly condemns and
protests against any discrimination based on
Color. and insists that nothing shall diSquahfy
Black that does not equally dlSqualiy
White. If there are TO be reasonable quail
"fcations of intelligence Ga very slippery
test they should apply to White and Black
alike; or, if there be any discrimination, 1t
should favor those who cannot read simply be-
cause to teach them was. in their youth,
crime against the State.
The World seeks to deduce from its false
premises conclusions absolutely monstrous. 1t
asks
with what consistency can he rGreeeyI denounce
Revolutionary an attempt 10 undo what. IN his opinion
ought never to have been dohef IN his oMnloh' lhe
Acknowledgement OF the leading Southern whites was
an unwIse aud mistaken policy; how then can he OBJ
jet TO It's REVERSAL In his opinion the security OF the
negro race did not require that all OF them should vote
but only those who are qualified why then should ne re-
gard calamity the prospect Of restoring things 10 The
basis which he himself proposed settlement OF our
diiicultiesf
Peply-What Gen. Blair proposes is not to
repeal, to reverse to restore, to eniIanchisc,
but expressly to treat the Reconstruction acts
"as null and void" to dsperse' by Military
force the carpct-hag State Governments
cxpel by violence from Congress the present
representatives of Southern States and allow
1.-THE White people to rcorganze their own
" Governments and elect senators and Repre-
" sentatiycs" All this Is based on the grossly
unconstitutional assumption that Whites, as
Whites. are entitled to special and exclusive
privileges in the Union--that Blacks On short
"haye no rights that Whites are bound to
respect It is the vital spirit of the late Re
bellion, rcviying its watchwords and repeating
its resort TO violence and boodshed in their
support Gen. Blair proposes markedly an ans
toc,atic usurpation and "A reactionaIy rcvolu-
ton. Even were the Reconstruction acts rs bad
as their enemies charge, this would be utterly
uniustifabc-nay, atrocious. But when we
consider that their most distinctive character
stic is not restriction but cnfranchiscmcnt-
that they are all that stand between -Four
Millions of our countrymcn and lifelong vas
salagc-we feel that the man who proposes
their overthrow by revolutionary conspiracy
and military force is a blackcr traitor than
even Ions Napoleon. We give the Democracy
joy of their convert candidate! May he cling
10 them like the shirt of NcSSUs'