The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-06-30
Radicals Repudtating the ChIca-
go PlatfOrm--ROW I'm the Camp.
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| The two-faced suffrage plank in th,
Chicago platform-forcing negro suffrage
upon the South, and leaving the Northern
States to settle the question for them
selves has kicked up . first class row il
the Radical camp. While the reconstruc
ton omnibus bill was under discussion
in the Senate, on Thursday, Sumner, o
Massachusetts,, and Yates of Illinois
took occasion to denounoe this attempted
ljuggle. Mr.. Yates pinned to the wall hil
Republican colleagues who voted for ths
ESouthern admission bills, and yet refused
to carry out the doctrine therein applied
to the North. There is no escaping hi
logic, that if Congress may prescribe ne
tgro suffrage for Arkansas, and enact ar
tirreversible guarantee that the State vii
never restrict it, Congress may do ths
same for New York. We quote a brle
portion Of the Senator'S remarks as op
Eposed to the platform Of the Republican
party: as
"What is the duty of the Republican
party on this question? Will it ,stani
back appalled,? Will it join the States
rights party on the other side Of the hall
He had to say to Senators and Repre-
sentatives, to all the members of the Re.
publican party, that this question mus
be met. They could not bury their heads
lin the sand. No question of tariff or
finance could obscure it--nog glare of mil.
| itary glory overshadow it, not even the
mighty name of Gen. Grant. Our oppo.
nents will meet US on every stump, and
ask us what We are going to do-whether
we are for universal suffrage everywhere
Timid counsels must not prevail. Five
millions Of redeemed slaves ask us wha,
we will do. IF his fellow members of the
Republican party refused to meet this
question, he could tell them what would
be the result in Illinois. The RepubH-
can party soould be beaten By $4,000 ma
jiorty. He would settle this question by
bill of ten lines, merely providing that
suffrage shall be universal throughout all
the States. This the people would joy
fully accept, and the Republican party
would triumph most gloriously in Noyem-
Der next. He asked, has it come to this
that the Republican party will draw di-
viding lines between the North and the
South, by establishing universal suffrage
| in one part Of the Union and not in the
other?" essaA
The Boston Post says the squirming
I in the Senate is the same kind of sqnir.
ming that was exhibited at Chicago
Yates has opened bag which the Con.
yention tied with SO much pains, and the
cat is out her full length. It is very
large cat, and a very ugly one. No won.
der the party managers were SO anxious
to keep it out Of sight and reach. Yates
simply insists, with Mr.. Sumner at his
back, that the party shall live up to its
professions. He feels throb Of honesty
in his brain and breast. The other Sen.
ators of like faith tried scowls and silence
on him; but there is the fact, justas Yates
has stated it. The egg is broken, and the
yolk is ,alI over them, Yates puts ans
l. Idltu III du UoJtlCHr tylS Vi party all
more than Greeley does in q "deaf anG
dumb candidate" for the Presidency. HI
demands that the concern shall show it
hand, which is saying that it did not.d
SO at Chicago. Negro suffrage is to b;
enforced by Congress in every State
North and South, or the party has no Ion
ger any claims to popula. respect or con
fdence. Not one rule-says the Illinoi,
lSenator-fo Ohio and Pennsylvania, ant
another rule Cor Georgia and Alabama
but universal and unqualified black suf
lfrage everywhere, established by the pow
ler Of Congress. That, of course, is wha
the Radicals are at, butte propitiate Nor
thern voters, such as those of Ohio aDt
michigan, they adopted two-faced reso
Hutton in their Convention. IF they car
~ this election, the suffrage which Yate
speaks for will be sure to come, and th,
States, instead of being self-governing
are in the hands of a Congressional oil
garchy, and at its mercy in the future.