Year: 1868




his head, and said, eve did not trust each
other. In 1861, when saw the North
ern barbarians coming down on US, like
the Goths and Vandals on Rome | said,
Let by-gones be by-gones let us stand
by each other / extended my hand to
my old political enemy, Andrew john
son, and he refused to take it. A rising
star in West Tennessee, of my own party
refused to stand by me and after the
storm came and the ship was wrecked,
he with his puny hand attempted to
save it."


So it was then, and so it is to-day.
The Southern men in Tensesee like the
Jews when Titus was laundering at the
gates of Jerusalem, are divided among
themselves. Some are in favor of negro
suffrage from policy, hoping to use it to
carry the State for Seymour and others
are opposed to it from principle. And it
is with the latter the writer fully and
freely coincides-use it not at all. Ne
gro suffrage is political miscegenation !;
political marriage of the two races to
be followed by divorce, and that, by
murder, arson, and rape.


This communication is particularly ad-
dressed to Mr.. Gibbs because he said in
his speech that he was {" Now and for
ever in favor of negro suffrage. wan t
it." said Mr.. Gibbs, g to balance the
power of the great North West And /
also want it because the right to vote
will make the negro more Industrious
citizen; and want him to help pay the
taxes"


The writer was thunder-struck. If
this is the ruling opinion among the
Democrats In that State, the national
Democratic party had as well hang its
harp on willow tree as far as Tennessee
is concerned. For we have no patriotic
tunes to play for her. The national
democratic party needs no. balancing no
where. tits strongly aud hrmly opposed
to negro suffrage North and South. But
if any State chooses to have it there is
no help for it. Let US turn back page
in democratic history. Know nothing
ism wished to disfranchise the foreigner.
The democratic party was opposed to it
from principle and from policy-for the
foreigner had always voted with the party.
Buchanan was elected, and Know-noth-
ingism was beaten. -Four years after the
Know-nothing party merged itself into
Republican party. And those same men
who denounced the foreigner as unworthy
to vote, now patted him on the back and
said, "Vote with US to keep the negro
out of the territories and we will give
you homestead in them" With the
basest ingratitute the foreigner voted
against the party that caused him to have
vote at all. This was what Douglas
dreaded, and why he was for non-inter-
vention to save the South and the Union
For every one knows that it was the for
eign vote that elected Lincoln.
Now, can we trust the negro? He may
vote with US to-day and vote against us
tomorrow. lie the people of the South
recognize negro suffrage as permanent
thing, they will be like man living in
a house with keg of pow under it
never knowing what moment he will be
blown up. A Radical can apply the
match at any moment. Suffrage is already
extended too far. AS we swing round
the circle with unlimited suffrage we
tread on the heels of absolute despotism
" Liberty" said James Monroe, /" has
been oftener endangered by the abuses OF
liberty than by the abuses of power y
Unlimited suffrage is an abuse of liberty
The fact is if we must have permanent
Government, we must be willing fol
be soil to control the suffrage. Negro
suffrage is an outrage on the women Of
- - any an old widow who


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