Year: 1865

Negro SuMEo8e Ah OOnneculcuts


The following is extract from the speech Of Hon. d
B. Harrison, delivered in the Connecticut House OF
Representatives on the passage of the constitutional
amendment allowing negro suffrage:-


Mr. spRAKER-As a member of this House, deem it
wise at this time to let the the people Of Connecticut
the white voters Of Connectcut-decide whether they
will accept this amendment or not Therefore, for that
reason alone, If there other, would vote yes'
on the question before the House. As OF the
people, would vote for the amendment because am in
favor of aboshng slavery in Connecticut Whether we
can roach II elsewhere not reach 1t here,
and am in favor Of cutting it up hore, root and
branch You say that slavery has been abolished in this
State l deny It. The negro in Connecticut is toer-
atod-he is not free. Reluctantly have yielded to
a free man. the most precious Of them all you still re-
fuse him. You no longer whip him. you no longer sell
him. you longer refuse to let him eat his bread
in the of his brow but that great right which
Is the of citizenship In free commonwealth
that right which is the defence and guarantee OF all
others the right to be, man, absolutely equal to
every other before the law the right TO exert the
influence Of free in the choice of his own rulers
and In moulding the laws by which he Is governedths
right you still refuse deliver TO the black There
fore say he is not yet free


Views OF the southern Prcss.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT IN KENTUCKY.


From the Louisville Journal, May 2el


The convection Of the eSpediency and necessity Of
ratifying the constitutional amendment is, We think,
everywhere gaining ground In this State Tho best and
most enlightened friends Of Kentucky are rapidly wheel
ing line and putting their shoulders to the wheel to
push the great work of Kidding the State OF an ncu
bus and nuisance Slavery In Kentucky Is now neither
one thing nor another II is neither fish, flesh fowl
The negroes free enough to be OF to their
masters free enough TO relieve those masters Of
their responsibilities The masters therefore, have all
the hardshps of the benefits Of the system of
slave labor


THE NEaRo's PROSPECTS.


From the Richmond Commercial Bulletin, May o.


No humane man fall to have deep interest In
these It is great mistake suppose that the respecta
bic people Of the South do not feel i as strongly as the
most Jealous aboitonsts Hatred Of the colored


sentiment entertained by none but the lowest pareis OF
population, by those who have been peculiarly
annoyed by the management OF servants The general
feeling of kindness and compassion evinced by
the choorfulncss with which owners, in INDECENT
circumstances have for series Of years maintained old


The military authorities who have been put in charge
Of the matter have very wisely determined to act on the
old copybook proverb-'Ideness produces want vice
and misery" Dsregarding all theories, they treat those
long habuated to act under the control Of others in


state Of pupiage which absolutely demands constant
superintendence and coercion They know that nothing
the most strenuous industry preserve the blacks
from starvation, and that industry, in many cases
will prove unavang The officers insist that they shall
not congregate In the Cities leaving the lands, the
produce Of which their subsistence depends unculti-
waited They will not permit them to lounge about the
streets in complete ideness, but compel them to find
| some employment Where they unable to work, or
70 nnd work, they have furnished them provisions
These regulations should be enforced strictly but not
| harshy nor cruelty


Southern men, and indeed, all men, should earnestly
aid in their execution as aordng the only security
against pauperism hitherto unknown in this country
and confined 10 the dense population OF Europe


Lot all their real well wishers forget for the present.
all thooyies about the social equality and the suffrage OF
the negroes and apply themselves 10 relieve their actual
physical wans and their actual and acknowledged
defects Of character Every lover OF his race whatever
may have been his past opinions must desire that these
wise measures should succeed and finally enable those
who have taken the negro under their special keeping
| realize their mcst sangune expectations.


THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.


From the New Orleans Picayune, Nay 90


Just vt this time the people OF such States illinois,
whose constitution refuses the negro home, and New
whARp hn


general thing are given the privilege Of voting II they
possess freehold property Of two hundred and nifty
dollars, discussing the question whether or not they
will make the recently emancipated negroes Of these
states the qualified voters thereof with more or less
| cuson of white men therefrom


without discussing the abstract proprety Of is mea-
sure, Of It's being fixed upon by the decision OF men
who are not affected by It, we desire now simply 70 al
lude 70 Of the arguments used to enforce the propo
ston II urged that If this be not done the immense
number Of rebel soldiers returned from the wars will
override the white Union men, and utterly extinguish
| the Union sentiment Of the country.


Now, according 70 the experience which so far has
been ahorded in the South, II may safely be declared
that the great difficulty has been and s 70 induce either
soldiers civilians in the service OF the confede
Affairs There is to fear that the men who
have been compelled by tho failing fortunes OF their
TO abandon the confedeacy will sink into 80 com
plee an indifference as TO public affairs as 70 practically
abandon their citizenship altogether.


On the contrary, II has been found that when men
formerly connected with the Confederate cause either In
their own accord in the political contests Of restored
Union none have exceeded them In the earDestiess OF
| their reprobation OF all persons and things which
snacked Of rebellon or which have been accused OF
| giving IL aid and comfort


II these viows be correct H. will be that there Is
special danger TO the Union Of the South which
proachabe people Of New York and Illinois, and other
settlers Of good examples to extend the elective fran
chise 70 the freedmen OF these States.


As TO the obtaining OF justice for the coored man we
believe that u Is conceded that his treatment by the