Year: 1865

easier to adopt than The one proposed bv Mr..
Sumner; one which believe will meet the
general concurrence Of the people. That i.
to 90 amend our Constitution - to apportion
the political powers Of the States, not By pop
ulation, but according to the number Of vo-
TEN, white and black. The effect Of that will
be TO drive these Southern men BY degrees to
enfranchise their negroes for the purpose Of
increAsing their power in Congress. The
gentleman Who frst proposed that i now up
on the stand, Nj. Newcomb, editor Of the In.
dianapolis Joarn0k Il was FIRST proposed by
him some months ago, in his paper. would
hike to zee the politician that can stand MP and
oppose that amendment. These negroes will
not have political rights conferred upon them.
These white nen among whom they live
would lose political power, If the negroes were
now permitted the right OF suffrage, and that
troable IN the North. There must be equal
ity Of our political powor. Heretofore three
hfshs u the negro population have been rep
resented in Congress. That clause was put
into the Constitution because of the existence
Of slavery. Nov there is no reason, political
or otherwise, why representative and political
power should not be determined by the num-
Der OF loyal and actual voters. The PROPOSE
ton refer to win drive these men to confer
suffrage on their negros, for the purpose of
extending and eniarging their political power.


POLITICAL PARTIES.


Perhaps am extending INV remarks upon
general topics further than / ought, and I
want to say few words in regard to political
parties. l want to say FIRST and foremost, in
regard to this party calling itself Democratic,
that is not entitled to the confidence of the
public in any respect. II is thoroughly taint-
ed and saturated with the virus Of this rebel
lion. 1t broke the national faith in 1864. by
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Ii
took steps in advance, throughout the Ad-
mlnistration Of Mr. Buchanan for the purpose
of bringing on this rebellion. Mr.. Buchanan
and his partisan supporters in Congress, in
the winter 1862, proclaimed TO the world that
there was no power to coerce q State no
power to suppress the rebellion. They de-
clared that these States might proceed with
out molestation in the work of disintegration
and destruction of the nation. This Demo
cratic party encouraged this rebellion by as
suring rebels in the south that there would be
no resistance offered on the part Of the North
TO their work Of secession. 1t opposed enlist
ments; it opposed conscription it opposed
taxation for the support of the Government !;
IT deprecated the national currency; it en-
coursged foreign nations to intervene it
formed base conspiracies in the North. and
sought to introduce the horrors of civil war
into our homes here; and as the last crowninp
act Of wickedness at Chicago, last summer.
that party there proclaimed, in its national
convention, that the war was failure, and it
called upon the Government and the nation
to abandon it. | ask if such an organization
as this is entitled now to receive public con-
hdence? They may now attempt to change
their professions, as they have done in New
York. They made haste there to throw off
the gray back and put the national uni
form. They did the same thing in Maine !;
but the people very wisely showed their dis
trust of them by adding six thousand to the
Union majority. ApPlause;l ] That is the
way think they will do in alf the States. |
want to say that, in my opinion, the preser-
yntion of the power of this Union party is of
the utmost importance to the people Not to
the politicians of that part, but TO the nation
to those who love the national credit and
the national glory, and would preserve and
hand down this Government, in the work of
whose preservation we have been engaged for
four long years. work which we have so
gloriously achieved at the point of the bayo-
net This party, which has done everything
to defeat US in the struggle, can not be trust.
ed. We can preserve the unity and integrity
of the Union party. and submit that we can
better do that by preserving concord and har-
mony At home than by seeking to build up
Southern wing of our party on the doubtful
expedent of negro suffrage. In attempting
to do that we are in great danger of being de-
feated at home and DESTROYED The people
Of the loyal Northern States carried on this
war and put down this rebellion. and if they
are true to themselves, and true to their
great principles, they can still preserve the
power and control of this Government, and
it is their duty to do so. II is true, believe,
that in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. and i,
may be, in other States, the Democratic par
ty, having refused to learn any sense, even by
experience have gone back to the policy and
resolutions of '9a, like dog returning to his
vomit. But it makes little difference. The
people will not trust them.