The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-08-16
MONDAY. AUGUsT IG. ls75.
Negro Suffrage Just and wise

national politics who seem by nature
to be incapacitHted from taking broad
aud statesmanlike views Of public
questions; who would repeat with
mournful cadence and dnwnca>t eyes
the sublime appeal ~ Patrick Henry,
"Give me liberty or give me DEATH
yet, who at the same time deny lib
erty to other men wing claim the right
To freedom ON the -ume grounds as
they-God's great charter Of human
ity-His creation OF man Of one blood,
whatever the color ~ his skin.
Among those who would shout Glib
crty'' till they are hnarSe, aud deny
it with the next breath to tile black
man, Is Senator Buyard, 81 Delaware,
who, with strunge unwi-dom, and
f0rgetfulucss of the advance and
changes of time, seems anxious to
single himself Out AZ the one prUmi-
nent Democrat most behind the age
aud leaS; qualified to deal with the
problems of to-day. We learn from
an exchange that Senator Bnyard
says cit has been a great mistake to
give the right of suffrage to the negro
race" lie is down on the Democratic
slate for President, and II he should
happen To get the Illumination, he
will get that opinion pretty firmly
impressed upon his mind. Putting
aside the name uf Mr.. Bayard for
any higher position than hat he now
holds, for the rcaSOns stated, it is be-
cause he entcTtains such opinions on
negro suffrage that Journals are
forced To make record of the events
which are fast becoming IA national
disgrace, which the Democracy will
he unable either to laugh down or
clear themselves from completely in.
The Pittsburg DdiY Dispatch says
Several negroes were killed by
whites in Vicksburg on Monday.
We do not know the causes which
led to the homicidal acts, but are fur
nished with the announcements that
quiet was imuIe, lately restored
and that no fIrther trouble is artic-
ipated.' 1t is clear that 4 negro is
considered of less value there now
than before the emancipation procla-
nation"
OF course, until Mr.. Bayard and his
party shall recognize the coIored maj
rs a citizen, entitled to all the rights
and privileges of citizenship, before
the law, murders and Outrages by
white Democrats in the South, will
continue. For in the South the old
and Infamous doctrine of the Dem
ocracy is in full force-a negro has no
rights which a white man is bound
to respect.
But men who possess the qualities
of statesmen in n free country, and
whose acquaintance with historic
times and men is large, do the world
a service when they put their opin-
ions upon record, because those opin-
ions are based upon II correct juug-
ment, which experience has con-
tirmed. Macaulay, the historian,
witnessed almost as great a change
in England as has occurred in
the United States, though without
the effusion of blood. He took part
in the great reform movement which
gave the franchise to thousands Of
citizens to whom it had been denied.
The old tory argument which had
been used to keep the people down,
was used to the Iast-that the people
were not fitted for the exercise of
political rights; that they were too
low and ignorant; that the working
classes, though producers of wealth,
were not entitled to parliamentary
representation. Not until the threats
of a revolution became 81 loud and
ominous that it vas impossible to
resist the popular demands, was the
franchise bestowed which admitted
multitudeS of citizens at once to their
share in the national government.
Macauiey viewed the contest from
the battlefield; and what he thought
of the unwise, unmanly, illiheral
conduct of those who denounced the
people Us unworthy of possessing the
right to vote for the man who made
the laws they were bound to obey,
and who taxed them for the support
of the public service, he has put in
very plain language. He says:
Many politicians of our time are
in the habit of laying it down AS a
selfevident proposition, that no peo-
pie ought to be free till they are fl to
use their freedom. The maxim is