The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-06-26
The Negro Suffrage Plank la the
Chicago PLATFORM,

The second resolution Of the Chicago platform reads
as follows:
loyal at the South demanded by every consid-
Grafton of public safety of gratitude and of justice and
must be nainiained whilo the question of suffrage in
all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of
those States"
We have acady declared our conviction that the
above resolution would prove entirely satisfactory to the
most extreme advocates of negro equality, and we had
wait long for the clearest proof our assertion
The Philadelphia IOst of yesterday has the following
commentary upon it
There is nothing in the Republican platform, adopted
at Chicago which cannot heartily approve for ey,
the second article which is the only open 10 obec
tion, pledges the party to maintain Impartial Suffrage
in the South. THAT MAINTAINED 1T IS NEWT.
ESTABLISHED IN THE NORTH, for it is impossible
that The Republican party dpide its principles ant
hold 10 t,ooaced policy 1t is certain to lose the col
orcd vote in the South unless it gives the ballot to col
ored citizens in the North And II it refuses become
the champion of freedom everywhere it will deserve TO
be dSgraced and defeated The right of the loyal States
to decide for themselves the suffrage question docs
IN opinion give them power to prevent citizens Of
the United States from voting for officers Of the United
States, and here it is that Congress should interfere
We trust Mr. Stevens will not forget his bill prohibiting
States from dist chsing citizens of the whole country
And it is to he regretted that the Convention did not
more explicitly declare that the people Of the loyal
States ought to grant the ballot to their fellow citizens
without Respect to color. BUT WE REPEAT THAT
SHIP ON THE MILLIONS OF CoLORED PEOPLE
in THE SOUTHERN STATES AND TO CONTINUE
TO WITHHOLD 1T FROM THE THOUSANDS IN
Now We ask every Northern who is opposed to no.
gro suffrage and consequently negro equality to look
this proposition squarely in the face Ierc we have il
asserted by Of the ablest Republican papers in the
country that the platform on which General Grant has
voluntarily taken his stand if carried out by his eoc
ton renders negro suffrage and negro equality nev-
liable necessity in every State in the Union The Post
very rnthfuy declares thar sit impossible to confer
full citizenship Tho millions of colored people in the
Southern States and to withhold it from the thousands in
the NORTH
Let no make mistake about this matter. The
election of General Grant will certainly fasten negro
suffrage upon Pennsylvania. There can be no escape
from it except by his defeat The Post points out the
precise method by which the result will be achieved
when IT says that the right of The loyal States de-
eide for themselves tho suffrage question does not give
them power to prevent citizens of the United States inc
the United States" And though Congress may adopt
groes well as white mem from voting officers of
Thad. Stevens bill for granting such privileges to the
negroes before the next Presidential election General
Grant will not have got in his seat until 1t will be
pushed through
Let every reader Of this article remember that we put
no construction of upon the second plank of the
Chicago platform, but that take that of one of the
ablest Radical newspapers in the country We agree
with 1t entirely in its expressed conviction that the
maintenance OF negro suffrage in the ten States lately in
rebellion renders the speedy adoption thereof in all the
rest an absolute and imperative necessity So surely
General Grant elected law will be at once passed de-
claring that all citizens of the United States land ne
declared by the Radicals to be such shall have
the Union. That once accomplished, and the rest will
speedily follow The only way to defeat negro suffrage
in Pennsylvania is to defeat Grant and ColfaxLaucds-
ter Lltetliqeucer.