Year: 1868

tWeuly Oul VI IWeutJ -ouc, giving ouiy oHe
white vote out of every twenty-one male
adult inhabitants of the southern states


If you enfranchise all the negroes in
these states, you will have at least twenty
negro votes to one white vote, and in the
work of reconstructing the states of South
Carolina, Alabama and Florida, you would
have larger proportion-perhaps thirty
colorcd votes to one white vote. Now,
ask you, what is to be the effect of that
The first effect will be to erect colored
state governments. Under such condi-
tion of things the negro would nc more
vote for white man than you would vote
for negro. They would no more elect
white man than you would elect a black
man. Human nature is the same, wheth-
er in a white or colored skin. There
could be nothing that would confer more
pleasure upon man of.that race, of course
than the elevation to political power of a
man Of his own race and color. Having
secured power, they'd force upon us that
which we have SO steadily practiced upon
them. II you give them the votes they
will elect men Of their own color And
we would have no right to blame them.
We would rather think badly of them if
they did not. l would ask you if the
negroes of Hayti, or any other place
where they are in the majority, have ever
elected a white man 20 Office Under MIR.
Summers plan, you will give them an over
whelwhelming majority in every one of
these states, and you will give them
the political power Of the south. That
they will exercise that power by elcctilg
men of their own color, is absolutely GER
tain. Believing that human nature is the
same under different mplexions-that
the negroes arc not differently constituted
from ourselves, and that they have like
passions with us-we Vannot doubt how
this power will be exercised.


Some will say that if they can find color
cd men qualified, all right. There are
enough colored men of education III the
north, to go to the south and fiji every Of
flee there; and 1 have no doubt they stand
ready to do it. Here we deny to them
almost every right, except that of mere
personal liberty. and it is so in Illinois and
'ome other of the northern states; and
when you present to them the prospect of
holding the highest Offices in the gift of
the people Of the southern states, rest as
surcd they will embrace it. They will
have colored governors and colored mem
bcrs of congress, and senators, and jud gcS
in the supreme court, &c. Very we'll
and suppose they do send colorcd senator's
and representatives to congress, have no
doubt you will find men in the north who
will be willing to sit beside them, aud will
not think themselves degraded by doing
so. | have nothing to say to this. am
simply discussing the political effect Of 1t


In every state where there is a colored
state government, negro for supreme
judge, white emigration will cease There
will be no more white emigration to any
such state You can't find the most ar
dent anti-slavery man in Wayne county
: who will go and locate in a state that ha!
a colored state government. You will ab
solutey shut off at once, and eifectually
: all emigration from the northern states
and from Europe too, whenever that even
shall happen. Thus they will remain per
manently colored states in the SOUTH Th'
white men who are now there would re
move from them, and would not remair
9 under such dominion.


Very we'll, say some; that is all yer,
5 well, if we can get them to go there. Blu
G let me say that in such case the colorel
c states would be balance Of power in thi
' country. ask is it desirable to have





i IL is not, for many reasons. One reason
t is, that such states would continually con
, stitute balance Of power. They woul
e be bound together by the strongest ii
Q that ever binds men together--the tie @


color and of race--the tie of downtrod
# den and despised race. AS three hundre
If thousand shareholders, by common tie
L were able to govern this nation for lon
n time, so four millions of people, bound tt
1t gether by a much stronger tie --despise'
y by the whole world as they have heen-
T. would constantly vote and act together
l. and their united vote would constitute
t balance of power that might control Il,


government of the nation.


l. / Isubmit, then, however clearly an
% strongly We may admit the natural rigl
'e IF the negro--I submit it to the intell
d gcnce of the people-that coored stat
10 ooyerrments ara not Desirable that the