The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-11-18
snnrase m the states.

We have been taught the new doctrine by
the Radical press and speakers that the
States have TO rights which Congress-s0
| long as they control it's bound to respect.
4 Congress is to be supreme, IL can make
| and unmake, endow and disestahlish, grant
and take away. But unfortunately for the
preachers ot this doctrine, they are not lul-
ly supported by their text. The second ar
ticls of the Chicago platform asserts for
| part of the States a continued exclusive
right to regulate the qualifications OF suf>
frage, Willie declaring that the other part
has lost it, We thus see State rights main
tanned in certain cases, whatever may be-
come of the in others And the fact that
they are thus maintained is an admission
thst they Cannot lie tIsarped. In the very
act Of tyrranizin6 over a portion of the
States, the Radical platform is compelled to
confess the inherent soananess OF the gener-
al principle which the party sc0ffs at as a
rule. They are reluctant witnesses against
the very doctrine which they would enforce
upon those over whom they have the pow
er.
This shameless Inconsistency shoull alone
subject it to the con iemnation of the peo-
pie. Radcaism declares that the States
which did not take part in the rebellion
shall be left inviolate in their local right to
regulate the question of Suffrage; while the
States that were so engaged shall be strip
ped of that right entirely. What aggra-
Yates the usurpation, is the fact that in the
States that are denied their customary
right, the question of suffrage is Of vital
moment, considered in reference to every
local or personal interest, while in the
States in which the right is left untouched,
the question would e&cioe bat triflng inter-
est as practical one. The Northern
States have but few negroes to be made
voters, and they have almost unanimously
refused to grant the privilege; whereas the
Southern States WIcfe negro suffrage is of
the highest concern to the ropulation, are
to have forced Upon them what their tenn
norary tyrants refuse themselves to endure.
Such is the justice and equality of Radical.
ism; and lest the people of the South may
not be sufficiently humiliated, or provoked
to the very highest dccfee of inAignAticn.
the black voters have been supplied with
arms and marched from town to town TO
overawe men whom the dominant party ini
Congress has deliberately disfranchised,
This is new road to peace. and a novel
way to restore the Union.
There is still another point to this forced
negro suffrage business that merits careful
attention. The Radicals contend that the
negro of the South must be either chattle
or citizen; but they are careful rot to
force their theory into practice in States
over which they hoVe control at home. The
blocks of the North have for more than
half a injury been free, but they have not
been citizen., save in a very fw instances.
And it has never been thought necessary
to make them citizens in order to secure to
them the ENJOYMENT Of all their personal
rights The law protects them as II pros
tccts everybody else. N4il rights and ci'i-
&enship have been held to be distinct mat
ters The whole Question is one for each
State to answer separately to itself, con,
sulting its own views Ani interests before
the orders or directions of any party or
any Congress This is precisely what the
Chicago platform permits the Northern
States to do, while it denies 50 plain right
to the South On such platform there
can be no Union, because there is no equal
ity. The d ,mocrats demand that the States
shall be left to themselves. With all their in
hefent rights and powers hnmpaired; and
on this basis thcs are confident that Union
can be re stored and made permanent. We
trust that the new Administration will
show itself substantially of the same mind.