Year: 1868



 An effort, we hear, is meditaied to perfect and adopt constitutional amendment, defining and fixing the conditions of the right of suffrage throughout the Union. We hope it may be made, and may prevail but we warn those who engineer it that they will fail if they make it one-sided and partisan. We ardently desire the com plete enfranchiscmcnt of the blacks; but a measure looking to this end alone will encounter resistance too formidable to be overcome. It may and probably will command in Con- gress the requisite .two-thirds of each House, but it will not be ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the States. The following, at least, will be found adverse: New Jersey, Dels- ware, Georgia, Maryland, Ohio, Mis- souri, California, Oregon-S.

 We include Missouri, because that State has just voted, by large major ity that her own blacks shall not be enfranchised--as Ohio and Kansas vo- ted last year.

 The legislatures which must act on this question are yet to be chosen in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and many if not most of the Southern States; and it is not probable that all of them can be carried for enfranchise- ment. We must not weigh our friends too heavily in the elections at hand, under the exhaustion and languor which naturally follow momentous, desperate struggle. They cannot stand it.

 But make your proposition broad and comprehensive enfranchise all who are now disfranchiscd because of re- bellion as well as color; and we may confidently hope that Virginia, Missis- sippi, Texas, with possibly Maryland and Kentucky also, will vote to ratify. Not merely to remove the ban from the rebels of West Virginia, Tennessee, etc., but to enable them to send to Congress the men of their choice rather than those whom Congress will accept, they may be induced to give such a measure hearty support.

 We propose no truck and dicker-no compromise. Weurge the enfranchise- ment of the blacks because it is just, benefcent and wise; we urge ~the enfranchisement of the rebels for the same reason. There are men among them who deserve no favor. as there are blacks (and whites tool incapable of exercising inteligently the right of suffrage; but we cannot adapt general provisions to individual cases. fit be deemed essential to swear every per son thus enfranchised not to use his restored right to deprive others of the same, just set your swearcrs at work but we do not think it necessary There are free States that long held out against black nfranchisement-as, in- deed, several still do; but we cannot rccollect single instance of a State en- franchising her colored men after an earnest struggle, and afterwards dis franchising them. Enfranchisement, once fairly carried over organized re- sistance, is carried forever

 THE NEGRO VoTR IN ALABAMA.-The election on Tuesday, so far as heard from. satisfactorily establishes a fact as creditable to the good sense of the ne- groes as it is ominous to the Radical party of the North, who think they have claim upon the entire race--soul, body, and brooches. It is that very large proportion of the colored voters sided with it's section and their people. It is so now, and the proportion is destined to increase with every election under the universal suffrage system, thereby proving beyond doubt that that portion of our population can nevor be made subservient to the schemes of Northern sectional party. We shall not be surprised to find the North the very next to make war on negro suffrage, as an element of power in the hands of the South.-Savannah Republican.