The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1870-12-22
HON + JOURNAL.
Negro Suffrage.


o. Convention, In favor of the outrage,
o were, that we had only about forty
thousand negro voters against n hun
dred and sixty thousand white voters
and that If We did not full down upon
ousWknees at the feet Of a tyrannica
administration, and lick the hand that
smote us,-like contemplate cur
and do what they dictated, our State
would be reconstructed.
,es History informs us that the occasions
: are rare that private interests are viii
linGly sacrificed to the public good,
aud we think the action of many prom.
iuent men in Tennessee, md the action
OF the State itself last March, in the
advocacy and adoption of the b ongrcl
Constitution, is an illustration OF this
grea, ,rath.
Every man is presumed by the Inv
to contemplate the natural conse
Quenccs Of his own acts, snd this rule
Is applicable as well to corporations.
BY adopting negro suffrage, there,
fore, the State OF Tennessee has dc
clared to the world in general that she
regards the negro as the equal of thu
white man. .morulIy, socially, aud pc
liiicailv. And, therefore, that provis
lon u! her Constitution which inhihi,s
the intcrmarriage of white 'ucrsons
with negroes, or persons OF mixed
blood descended from negro to the
third generation, is the most ridden
lous farce, under the circumstances, Of
which We can conceive
The question Of right, in regard to
negro suffrage, is not effected bwmer
numbers Suppose, for the sake of ar.
gument, there were 100000 negro vo-
tiers In the State, and only 10000 white
voters, instead Of being the reverse,
Would not all the offices, or nearly all
soon be In the hands of the negroes
Would not they possess all the power
and influence? And would not this
power and influence cynfcr upon its
possessors social supremacy? Ii
making the laws to govern the common.
monwta,h, feeding from the public
crib, and standing up before the 2azr
OF Chrlstendom rs our representative
men, does not constitute the recorul
ton ofmoral, social and political eQua,.
lily, when voluntarily ncquicsccd il,
No would like TO know what does
And when we admit that the negro is
worthy to sit in the State or Federal
Legislature with the white man, to
make laws to govern society. TO I'll the
Presidential chair, or to be Minister TO
England or any otlicr foreign court,
wo cannot see very clcpsly how ,he de.
duction can bc logically avoided that
he is worthylo associate with our fam
lilies, and to lead our daughters, our
sisters, or oar mothers to the nltar.
Ills true that the negroes are IN a
minority in Tennessee, but in South
Carolina they are greatly in the asccn
dant. and the voluntary recognition by
this.S State o. negro suffrage IS n pracii.
cal endorsement Of the pandemonlun
that exists in South Carolina. There
10 no escaping this conclusion. If ne.
gro -suilragcis right here, then 1t is
right there. Aud m it is right there,
then it is right to- place the intc!Ii.
gence, the wisil3m and the material in
terests of great State beneath the heel
Of u class OF beings who are hut ltllc
better than barbarians. But il it j. !
wrong, IL It is great outrage, as W.
affirm, then it was wrong for this STATE
to endorse il either directly or ind.
rcctly. -...-4 p1f.'-r p Dos
The honest masses of the people nrc
not so much TO blame for the present
disaI aceful attitude Of Tennessee. A.
remarked by Mr.. Fentrcss, in the Con
s,ituMonsi Convention, the majority Of
that body LETT the pcoplcn no alternative.
II thoy voted for the Old Constitution,
the ballot was not taken from the ne.
gro; and il they voted for the New
Constitution, in order to enfrnncllsc
themselves, they must, at the san;'
time, enfrancLiss the negro. Right
there, in that Convention, the danning
wrong Was perpetratod, and such men
as A., o. =, Nicholson and Neil ).
Brown gave II their active and persist
ent support. -rJ pr'a.s1 Poe, -
WAatsyer cslamities negro suffrage
entails npop us in the future, the PEG
pie should pever forget those men who
choksd, III DOWN. their threats. and
whose moral cOwardics was only sur
passed by their unhallowed greed o,
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