Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-10-03
The Poor Disfi anchiscd.

We are frequently m receipt OF let.
tcrs from Republicans asking If it il
TRUE, as Greeley, npeakcts and Dem
ocratic editors are all tbs while furi.
ously affiri1in!c that many thousands
OF men OF the South are still disfran.
chised, and still kept trampled under
the hob nailed heel of military jes-
potism. 1t would seem that every
Republican who reads should know
how wholly untrue is this stale and
exploded song. And vet, sl1cc such
,nen 81 national renown, like Schurx,
ami hundreds OF lesser lights the
country over, arc continually repeat.
ing il, perhaps i should not be &C.
counted as strange that even many
honest people are led to accept it as
true. Only the other day, Mr..
Schnrz, in his speech at CINCINNATI,
stated that while the negroes OF the
South enjoy the right Of suffrage, the
intelligent and proprietary GLASS OF
inhabitants are excluded from it. It
is not possible he did not know bet.
ter than this; he simply ignored the
facts, as he knew them, IN orde: to
pander to the insatiate hate which
some classes, whose votes Mr.. Schurz
would seek, still entertain for the
black mon.
The simblc truth Is. and all should
know 1t, that not a.single man is now
disfranchised IN the whole United
States. Every rebel who was in the
war against the Union can n:w vote.
JEFF. Davis himself can go to the
polls IN November and vote. tor
Greeley, and will do it. The Gov
eminent has been 80 generous and 90
sweeping in its magnanimity toward
rebels that it to day deprives no man
Of the right of exercising the fran.
chise on account OF his having taken
part in the war OF treason on treason's
side.
We mean by using the word dis.
reimbursement here, that no one 10
deprived Of the privilege Of voting.
There are still a few rebels who can.
uot hold office-amounting in all to
less than two hundred. BY the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Con.
stitution, considerable number we're
disqualified for holding Office, all of
whom had engaged in rebellion after
having taken an oath to support the
Consultations of the. United States.
Yet the Fourteenth Amendment
placed it within the power OF Con
gress, by a t%o.thirds vote Of both
Houses, to rernuye the, disability.
President Grant Urgently recon-.
mended Congress to exsrciee its
power to remove the disability I'M
posed by tho Amendment. Congress
passsd-an act bearing date May 22d,
1872, restoring to Southern men the
power TO hold sofii,c, except the fol.
lowing four classes:
First. Senators and Representa-
tives in the rhirty-sixth and Thirty
seventh Congress, who took part in
the rebellion
Second. Judicial, military and ma
va eI part ii y Inc is rebellion; ~
Third. Heads OF Departments,
who took part in the rebellion
Fourth. Foreign Ministers, who
took part id the rebellion;
Only the double crime of treason
and perjury Of the basest character,
is still held untoreign, and that only
in so far as it prevents the return Of
such traitors to the Offices they once
dlshonored'. Even these can vote,
and equally wifi all other men in the
nation have voice in the rule Of the
country. .
The howl Of Mr.. Schurz, echoed by
the Greeley press, re-echoed by the
Democratic press, 10 all made in be.
halt OF JEFF. Davis and his chief coan.
sellers in treason, who planned their
treason to the Government while
holding Office high in its lists-and
made in the interest OF again giving
to them tho control of the Govern.
ment. It is to make the arch .traitors
ofice.holders once more that we hear
Of SO much. pity for them, and 40
much denunciation OF the colored
people-who, 40 . class, were and
are ignorant, il is true, but not too
ignorant to know on which side Of
the great struggle to find the Right,
nor too ignorant to help pOtently in
saving the Republic when these
same distinguished traitors were try.
ing with all their power to destroy
IT. State Rsgister.
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