Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-06-13
The Republican Party and its
 Two-Faced suffrage,

Congress clearly has no jurisdiction over the question of suffrage. It is a matter which those who framed the Government expressly confined to the States. This was one of the rights re- served to each commonwealth for itself when the Federal compact was accept ed. Such has ever since, until the re- cent days of Radicalism, been the ac- knowledged course of the Government and the undisputed prerogative of the States. It has been unchallenged through all these years by all parties. Statesmen, however they might differ on the other subjects, have ever agreed upon this. Naturalization for the Fed foral Union, and suffrage for the States, were the very corner-stones of the Re- publican ediiice.
 This, however, the Radical party has displaced, and in manner which, while it aims at ingenuity, disoloses the fraud to open view.
 1 This party is in possession of Con- gross, Among the very first steps in their revolutionary course was, by mil- itary seizure and power, to stiile the voice of the accustomed voters and tade charge of the ballot-boX for them selves. With this view they dis1ran- olise aaiarge body of the whites, and enfranchised the late slaves, without regard to their fitness or intelligence. It was a mere act of usurpatlon. It was a political coup d etat Tor the maintenance of their rule, aud by means of which they could not only govern the South, but rule the sen timent ofthe North.
 They had as much right to create voters in massachusetts as they had in South Carolina. And this Mir. Sumner attempted, in bill which he introduced in the Senate. But the storm fWrath and indignation, which came upon every breeze from the North, proved too potent warning to be unheeded.
 The Chicago Convention has, there fore, been forced openly to avow for it's party . sectional platform, with one law and constitution for the North and another for the South. We are, there fore, under two governments and not one. The Republican party is not na,- tional in it's objects and views. It is sectional. For over three years it has persistently prevented the restoration of the nation. And now it will not have it, except upon such terms as will enable it to wield the South, through the dominion of tho bayonet, for the controt aud in its ownintercsts, of the North. <
 The colored race are enfranchised by t for tha purpose -ot defeating the will of the white race of he North This they may not accomplish. But this is their design.
 Hence we have the subterfnge con tained iii one of. tic blanks of their platform. It is in these words:
 'sJhe guarantee by Con gress of equal suffrage to all Loyal men in tlfe south was demaadedaby every consideration Of public safety, Of gratitude and of justice, and must be maintained, while 1 fhc question of sIiiffage ii ell the loyal States properly belong to the people of those States.
 There can, of course, legally be no distinction betweenthe different States Tho Republican party, in view of the recent elections in Connecticut, Ohio and Michigan, on the subject of negro slsflrage, are forced 10 admit that Con- gross cannot otintermeddle with the elec- tiVe frauchjseTn the States. But they schOose to create adisiinction, by class ing without any right, certain states now as loyal, and others as disloyal. h other words, Congress reserves to itself togciass any Stases at it's option, as disloyal, and then declare the Con- stitutien and it's guarantee inapplca- bie 0 #. It is a power dangerous and without warrant,
 Loyalty means allegiance to the United States Goyernme If the States and people of the south are not in allegiance to tho Unified States Cow ernment, te whom are they in allegi-@ ance?
 ghe whole resolution a transparent attempt to gloss over their overthrow of the political structures and funda- mental rights of ten of the States.
 The purported common ruler holds out the Constitution to the North, and sword 10 the South. Through the lat ter if unchecked. the former will prove but brief and barren gilt.--Charles- ton Courier.