New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-03

heads. and their opposition is illogical ana III
sincere. They realize that Impartial SUFFRAGE
ia inevitable they resist it in the hope oi
thereby securing local and temporary ADVANTAGES
prior TO that general acquiescence in Its justice
and benefceace which they foresee and expecl
to share.
The World again beats the party gong Al
opposition to Impartial Suffrage. IL threaten,
us with q unanimous Democratic vote asa.n''
it. which it cannot secure In our otate oon'
sttutional Convention two years slhce' WI.
Magnus Gross, the only German Democrat
chosen 70 that body, leading editor, ana one
Of the chief oracles Of bis people, not only
voted steadily for Impartial Suffrage, but ad-
vocated it in speech which the editor OIL INC
Vo,M would DO the wiser for reading to-day
There are q great many thousands OF Germans
in orr State who usually vote the Democratic
ticket, and they, as q body. are favorable TO
Impartial Suffrage They may be dragooned
into voting otherwise but, if they do It, such
vote will be the dictate of their partisan ailili-
atoms. not of their unbiased Judgment. Left
TO themselves, nine tenths Of our German -born
citizens would vote to accord to every native
of the soil all the rights that they claim Tor
themselves.
The World thinks all who would vote to deny
the Right of Suffrage to Blacks IN our state
would oppose the XVIII Amendment We think
not. We believe many who, as State ques-
ten. would adhere to the compromise made
by the Convention of 1921, would rejoice to
sec Impartial Suffrage cOnclusively and uni
versaly established by the ratification OF the
pending Amendment to the Federal Constitu-
ton. They desire that the people should con-
slider and vote upon topics quite apart IRON
tho rights or wrongs of negroes; and they see
that this topic blocks the way to the conSld-
Grafton of others, and is morally certain 10 10
so till it is disposed of rs only 1T can be.
There was never time when the Judgment
and conscience of our people did not decidedly
concur in insisting that men should bc treated
by our institutions and laws according to their
respective characters in utter disregard OF
their color. But Slavery. whe our State
tolerated it, forbade that its victims should DO
voters; and, when Slavery vanished from our
soil. it still fingered at the South, and thence
exercised baleful influence over the Free
North. The Democratic party became ailili-
ated with the Slave Power; their alliance was
like that of mystical Babylon with the kings OF
the earth, as portrayed in the Apocalypse; and
Northern Democrats cruciicd democracy to
bask in the favor of Slavery. Hence the re-
pcated votes of nearly every Democrat to
impose a Property Qualification on class oil
our people so poor in fortune aud so weak IN
| influence and numbers that their disfranchiSe-
ment was only ineligible as gcnuiieXion
before the altar of Slavery. Now that tho
| idol is shiyered the worship is an exhibition oil
sheer malgnty.
The ratification of the XVIII Amendment by
orr late Legislature was fair and perfect The
majority who voted to ratify therein truly
represented their constituents. They did not
represent Mackerelvile nor the Five Points, and
did not pretend to they did represent the con-
stituencies by which they were elected, as was
their duty. The refusal of our Democratic
Secretary of State to certify the result to the
! State Department at Washington is violation
of official duty against which the Legislature
should have taken ample precautions.
| The World says: "The negroes of our State
:" are amply and fully protected by our laws
| That was not demonstrated in Brooklyn, when
| scores of them were mobbed, and mauled
and narrowly escaped burning to death, for
their temerty in presuming to earn the wages
! offered them in y tobacco factory; IL was NOT
eyinced in this City when n Democratic mol
hunted every coored person they could find
through our streets as though lie were wolf
hanging and burning those they could
catch, and burning to ashes the Or
phan Asylum which presumed to slcl
ter some scores of colored children
Our laws will not this day protect the coorcd
men VINO would like to drive their cg g... 80
rages, and convey therein those who Choose
to employ them; they would not protect Black
carpenters and masOns in venturing to build a
house in our City. In short. the Blacks are
shamelessly denied legal protection here in the
free exercise of their faculties in earning an
honest livelihood; and they never will nor can
be adequately protected until they are allowed
to protect themselves by their votes, as we