The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-25
PARAGRAPHS
Local and Political.
B A oNTIBUFoR R.

The Fifteenth Amendment" TO
The Constitution of the United
States giving the negroes the right
10 vote and hold Office Is upon US:
and imposed upon an unwilling
people ~ fraud and violence. We
know Of no escape from this dilem-
ma. We must, therefore, submit.
for we know of nc proceedings that
can be instituted whereby this great
wrong may be remedied.
This Amendment is intended and
viii bring to the polls, exercising
the right of suffrage, a large class Of
persons who 7 entirely ignorant
of the true principles of our Gov
eminent and careless of the best
interests Of the country. In sever
al of the States they will be IN the
majority, and in certain localities
they Will hold the balance of pow
or, thereby becoming an clemens
for good or evilin the land. Attic
polls they will be controlled insuch
a way that universal suffrage will
become involvement and somewhat
disgusting even to Republicans
Radicals will socn experience a DIFF,
hculty in engineering this kind oil
cattle, when they have the ballot in
their hands. Negro suffrage is des-
tiLod to recoil against them with
telling and effective force before
long.
The newly enfranchIscd have no
intercs! IN the payment of the
twenty-five hundred million of that
Nationals Swindle, now and for
years to come, a grievious burthen
upon the industry Of the country
They can be easily induced to JOIN
that grand army of repudIators,
now slowly but surely gaming
strength over the whole land, and
wipe out this imposition. The RAJ
ideals have enfranchIsed a set OF
men who have no interest in great
monopolles and corporations which
have been brought into existence
by vicious, fraudulent and corrupt
legislation and which are every day
gaining control of the politics ofthe
Nation, stealing power from the
many and giving 1T to the few
They r enfranchislng men wh0
wall vote against high tariffs, and
IN favor of free trade, against bank
paper and in favor of gold and sill
vor.
The Radicals Will begin to see ali
this, and will look around for some
remedy and make efforts to get out
of the scrape the best way they can.
For few years to come, in the
Northern States, the Radicals will
influence and control the negro
vote, but the time lie not far distant
when they will lose this controlling
influence. In the Southern States
where this new enfranchised ele,
ment is more numerous and where
they will have the power to decide
political questions. the old masters
of the negro race will, in the affec-
tons Of the negro, ~supercede the
pernlclous carpet baggers, noy in
testing the Southern States and mo
nopolizing all positions of honor
and profit. The danger to the Ra-
ideals will be, as goes the negro o
the South so Will go the negro o
the north.
The Radicals then, Instead of be
ing the friend Of the negro, will be
come his bitter enemy, and theii
first resort Will be an cducatlona
qualification for the exercise of suf
frage, or they may become the ad
vocates of a property qualification
at any rate, the negro must b
got rid of, for they Will have be
come sick of this thing called uni
vetsal suffrage-it will not work q
they expected, but to their grea
disadvantage.