Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-07-30

BY evlnslDs suooaragipg progress in
che eonvalesae OF his thorax.
6. On ne 18th Of January the
Housspassed the Senate bill to admit
The territory ef Colorado as a State in
TIE unions This b~iTIeontained precise
" the same condition as to suffrage
a. that embodied in the Nebraska bill,
/ q. forbade n distinction on account
Of race or color in the exercise of the
elective franchise. For Mis btU HHb6e1
voted. IGlobe, PL. I, page 4sLl
Z on n 10th Of January 81. the
House passed a bill entitled San act to
regulate the elective franchise in he
Territories Of the United States" The
provisions Of this bill were as tOllows:
nFrom and SITTER the passage Of Ibis
/ act there shall be no denial of the etHc-
ITfve franchise in any of the Territories
/ NJ The Unit. d States, 9s0W or heTeQJteF 20
be organised, 10 any citizen baeFe2J on nc
/ eo,raf Of color. or preVioWs condition Of
ee-g-if,tfe: and all acfs or part of &C 5,
eit5er al CONFESS or Legislative As
-embIies Of said Territories mcoH<ist-
I eht with the provisions Of this act, are
hereby null and void"
For this BlUa also HNbbeU COted. IGlobe
PIT. !, page 1891
g. The military reconstruction act
provided among other thingsth hat in the
Reconstruction of the rebel States the
/ elective franchise should be exercised
bv all male citizens Of said states twen-
/ tv-one wears old and upward, of what
ever race, color or previous condition,
and required that in The constitutions
TO be framed and adopted by such
| States provision should be made for Sc
curing the privilege of voting TO all such
persons. For this act. as We showed
last week, Hubbell voted on its hoal
passage yer Johnson's veto [GlObe,
PIT. 8, page 1881
Thus it appears that our would be.
Democrats state Senator voted for i'm
partial or so-eaIIed ''negro-sufrage".
seven distiaet times, viz to establish it
in the District of Columbia, for which
he voted twice; TO require IFS establish
ment in the new State Of Nebraska, for
which he also voted twice; to introduce
it in b territory of Colorado; TO ex-
tend it into all the territories of the
Union, and finally to e~nfranchise the
blacks in ten rebel States.
Now let the Herald compare these
votes of its consistent candidate with
the following u%tteranees from his Johns
town speech and reconcile the two il il
can:
1.-THE great majority of the American
. people were opposed to comforting upon
the E population the elective fran
chise either 10 the Southern or North
ern States or in the District of OOlum-
bia or in the Territories"
"Either the four million Of emanei-
pated colOred people ignorant and i'm
poverished, are unit for self-govern-
ment or else all the lessons public and
private taught US in early life, in re-
gard 10 the necessity of general intellI-
geuca TO sustain Republican govern
mpnt were false and untrue"
eff Congress had proposed to import
wild Indians from the Rocky Noun
tains, and place the power in their
hands to govern these States, the prop
ositiOu would not have been more cruel
and unhuman than what they did"
81 am opposed to this measure" 1.-THE
XVIII ameudment.)
= p'They (tbe colored people, are surely
/, not qualified by education, V6y nature,
for seIf-governmeut and they would be
a disturbing element in the politics OF
our SIate,"
! Now here are the votes for impartial
suffrage on the one one side and the
! coarse, uerrow-minded and Tufianly ut
~terances against it on the other. We
have put the two side by side not mere
] " show their Inconsistency but To
/, expose the shameless demaRoguPry
which il disclOses. No q can serve
two masters, and the conclusion is ire
sistable that this man, either in his ut
terances or his votes was a dishonest
: and hollow hearted deeetVer bidding
for the favor of party. 1t will not do
for him TO say that mis- votes were conf
pulsOrY service and his utterances hon.
est convictions. for that would simply
! amount to a confession that be feigned
! 10 be a Republican for the sake OF
spOils. If he complains that he was a
~ slave in the Republican party, doing
unwilling service in VlOlabiOn OF his
convictions, why did be beg TO be on-
tinued in that abject relation ? Why
did he ask The party torenOminate him2
.lIf he was all this time q Republican
only on p~retense and in reality a Dem
oorat, then he WIS simply q hypOcrltp,
deceiver and demagogue, guilty of the
foalest wrong to this party which had
bestowed upon him its honors and Its
confidence. No honest man, no man Of
principle could be capable of such de-
cPpGiOn. He would turn from it as h.
would from the dishonor of a bride or
the breath of psstilence.
To say that he changed his mind
would be the more honorable apology
were it not for the date of his CONVEX
sion. That renders it equally futile,
) As late as the time OF Mr.. HanlIton's
death the writer was taken to task by
Hubbell, insulted, b-rOw-beaten and
threatened with all sorts of things be-
cause, as untruthfully alleged, be wrote
a letter to the Cincinnati Gazette charg-
ing him tHubbell) with affiliating with
; the Democratic party. Yet scarcely a
. fortnight afterward be was in a Demo
: cratic convention a candidate for it.
nomination and weeping over the mis-
Wis! Gen. Beatty had been nominated
t by the Republicans and Hubbeil want
f ed to be nominated by the Democrats,
This was the dateO of his CONVERSION, this
the time when it dawned upon him that
the colored people were too ignorant
too vote and that the reconstructed
measures were all wrong. The scales
fell from his eyes at the anxious seat OF
, a Democratic cOnventiOnfFOm which be
anticipated a nomination for Congress
J The reader will judge whether a change
! of vie VS. under such circumstances was
made from sincerity of conviction and
3 u~nselhshneSs OfpurpOse or from the love
r and expectation of office. He will de.
, eide whether a con version ike thi>
gives stronger evidence of the sincerity
of the converted than of his %capability
: of bsrtering away his principles for
political reward and having settled thai
question we leave him TO determine
, whether it was a healthy search for
2 truth or the sOrenessin Hubbell's threat
= changed to his cad which made him 8
, Democrat.
{ MILLERsBURGH, MT. VERNON &
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