The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-03-19
TIRED OE UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.

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In a recent lecture delivered in New
York City, Wendell Phillips made use
of this language: "Nou may put on
your diamonds and walk Oil London
strand and be safe; you would not try
it in Broadway without making your
will, and Broadway isthe unadulterat-
ed result of universal suffrage" These
are strange words to come from the
struck philosopher who has
wasted the better part of his life in an
attempt to establish absolute civil
and political equality within the con
fines of national authority. But we
have never had any faith in the class
of men to which he belongs, and did
not believe their hercuIean labOrs to
elevate the plantation negro of the
South to a political equality with the
whites was dictated by a sincere desire
men of inferior classes, but was rather
born of the quenchless hatred and
burning desire for a browning revenge
and a crushing humiliation of the
proud and chivalrous spirit of the
white people of the South. The en-
reimbursement of the negro race of the
South vas 4 work prompted by the
dictates of no broad-reaching philan-
throphy, but was the ~outgrowth of the
vilest passions that ever found q dwell
ing place in the bosom of man. These
even when confined to the white race,
as most of them had frequently de
cIared when inveighing against the
facilities offered for naturalizing for
eign born inhabitants on a short resi-
dence in the country. Their pretended
devotion to human rights was a delu-
sion and a snare under cover of which
all manner of crimes could be COM
mitted against those whose high
courage, proud spirit and noble g,Ier-
osity had Lecome L standing reprOach
to the ndrrOw-sOuled bigotry which
was the recognized rule of their ac-
ton. To break. crush and destroy the
proud spirit of the South therefore be-
came tho absorbing object of their
lives, and they knew of nc way so
etiectual as / elevate the negro TO the
plane OF citizenship and to place the
white race within his power by politi-
cal prescription and wholesale disfran-
chisement. With the political power
of the South i'll the keeping of the
black race, social equality and white
degradation was expected to follow,
when their ignobIe souls would be
glutted with a deep and fearful ven
geance. So far, this foul conspiracy
against the helpless victims of their
unsparing hate has in part succeeded,
and the governments of the southern
States are in a measure under the
dominance of the black race, but the
white race, although wearing the
brand Of political inferiOrity, byyirtue
of legislative edicts levelel against
them by the concentrated hatred of
the North, yet they maintain their
manhood, proud and erect, i'll the
midst of the social chaos which sur
rounds them. and the spirit of the
true born SouthrOn remains un-
broken. Political power in the hands
of the blacks has failed TO break down
the natural barriers which exist in
the social atmosphere. and as the signs
of abortive failure i'll the continued
dominance of the black race are being
written all over the South, these pO-
"Iitical miscreauts and fiendS in human
form are now beginning to turn from
the consequences of their foul work
and to declare that universal suffrage
is IA failure. So far as its establish
mcnt in the South is concerned, zone
will deny that it has been a most stu
pendous failure with disastrous conse-
qucnccs reaching far into the dim and
unknown future, but that with the
Intelligent, civilized, refined and
christian VIII tie people of the country
it is a failure we deny, notwith-
standing the assertion of Wendell
Phillips, backed by the whole school
of political malignants to which he
belongs.
JAMES a. JOHNSON on RAILROAD