The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24
HOW IT WILL HELP
THE REPUBLICANS
Continued from first page.)

emancipation and deportation be
adopted they will have neither to flee
FROM He says in his third message
same volume. page 1911: while | do
not repeat in detail what / have here,
tofore so earnestly urged upon this
subject, my general views and feel
illgs remain unchanged and / trust
that Congress will omit no fair oppor-
tunity of aiding this important step
to great consummation.
President Andrew Johnson in a veto
message, volume 6, page AIS, says on
NEGRO suffrage in Washington. ID. C.:
at is the highest tribute of an Amer
lean citizen and when guided by vir-
tue. intelligence, patriotism and
proper appreciation of our institu-
tons, constitutes The true basis of
Democratic form of government in
which the sovereign power is lodged
in the body of the people. It's ln-
fuence for good necessarily depends
upon the elevated character and pa
triotism of the elector, for If exercis-
ed by persons who do not justly esti-
mate it's value and who are indiffer-
emf as to it's results, it will only serve
as q means of placing power in the
hands OF the unprincipled and ambit-
ious, and must eventuate in the COM
plete destruction of that liberty of
which it should be the most powerful
conservator. Great danger is therefore
TO be apprehended from an untimely
extension of the elective franchise TO
any new class in our country. esre-
cially when the large majority Of that
class in welding the power thus plac-
ed in their hands cannot be expected
correctly to comprehend the duties
and responsibilities which pertain
to suffrage" On same subject. on page
4S3, he says: after full deliheratiOn
upon this measure | cannot bring my
self to approve it, even upon local con-
siderations. nor YET as the beginning
Of an experiment on large scale,
yield to no one in attachment to that
rule of general suffrage which dist n
cuisines our policy as a nation, but
there is a limit wisely observed
which makes the ballot a priv
ilege and trust and which requires
of some classes a time suitable for
probation and preparation. TO give it
indiscrmnately to a new class wholly
unprepared by previous habits and OPP
portunities to perform the trust which
it demands is to degrade, and finally
to DESTROY its power. for it may be
safely asserted that no political truth
is better established than that such
indscriminate and all embracing eN
tension of popular suffrage must end
at last in it's destruction" He further
says in a veto message, page 534, same
volume: 'When | contemplate the
millions of our fellow citizens of the
South with no alternative left but to
impose upon themselves this fearful
and untried experiment of complete
negro acknowledgements and white dis
reimbursement, it may be almost as
complete. or submit indefinitely to
the rigor of martial law without a
single attribute of freemen, deprived
of all the sacred guarantees of our
Federal Constitution, and threatened
with even worse wrongs, if any worse
are possible, it seems to me their
condition is the most deplorable to
which any people can be reduced"
He said in his annual message, page
SOD: THE subiugation of the States.
(Southern) to negro domination
would be worse than the military
despotism, under which they are now
suffering. The blacks in the South
are entitled to be we'll and humanely
governed and to have the protection
of just laws for all their rights of per-
son and property. If it were Practicable
at this time. to give them a govern
ment exclusively their own, under
which they might manage their own
affairs in their own way. it would
become a grave question whether we
ought to do so or whether common
humanity would not require us to save
them from themselves. But under
the circumstances this is only a spec
ulative point. No Independent gov
eminent of any form has ever been
successful in their hands. On the
contrary. wherever they have been
left to their own device, they have
shown a constant tendency t. fall
into barbarism.' Page 566, he SAYS:
.sOf all the dangers which our nation
has yet encountered, none are equal
to those which must result from the
success Of the effort now making to
disfranchise the half of our country
President Grant, page 1856, seventh
volume. says: "As this will be the last
annual message which | shall have the
honor of transmitting TO Congress
before my successor is chosen, Will
repeat or recaDitulate the questions
which | deem of vital importance,
which may be legislated upon and set
tied at this session. First, the
States shall be required to afford the
opportunity of a good. common school
education to every child within their
limits. Second, Make education
compulsory, so far as to deprive all
persons who can not read and write
from becoming voters after the year
1890"
In his eighth annual message. page
Ali, he SAYS: .Fhe attention OF Con
gress cannot be too earnestly called
to the necessity of throwing some
greater safeguard over the methcd of
choosing and declaring" the election of
a President. There seems to be no
provided remedy for contesting the
election i'm any one State. The rem-
cdv is partially. no doubt. in the en-
lightenment of electors The compul
sorry support of the free school and
the disFfranchsement of all who can
not read and write the English Ian
guage after n fixed probation, w I'D
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