Year: 1870

| rncy preaching the docfdne Of universal suffrage
over Owe, the whole State Tho scored listened TO It
Win grenter regard The Threatened danger which
nag SO thoroughly feared seemed reeedIng his view.
vote Again the campas OF ia on o. sns
orship between Sencr and Stokes came on and once
irage cry II was reiterated upon the stump IN the
newspapers. eyerywhere. The coored assured
thht he would now forward and help 10 enfran
chse the white man he would not be moesed In any OF
Tue rights which he now possessed The result
marked and Senter the universal suffrage candidate


with HIM very respectable fraction Of the negro vote
ne was elected as is wellknown by a very heavy
ture, soon TO assemble. That General Assembly came
together pledged to call Constitutional Convention for
sne purpose OF amending the franchise. and making
sunrage universal In that Convention, in session
urging. despite all the solemn promises made that the
1gnt 10 vote DO summary taken from the black man
and II has been holly discussed ever since. The
question has been ON the adoption OF the ma
appointed to consider this portion Of the Consttuontho
iIrner urging that the negro be not inteered with In
the ght 10 votes the latter strong for acknowledgements
ana urging that the proposition be submitted to separ
ave ,e vote o. the people The discussion OF question Ike
Convention becomes. under all the circumstances
preudces OF the former saveowner we're appealed to
the negro was represented OF inferior not
dton of seryltude. IL urged that he did not
legally have the right to VOTE but that this great priv
the hands Of the white people we're tied Long arguments
Mere INDUCED in to prove that admitting the negro to
about the destruction Of the Government Speeches OF
tnls blhd Werc lndnlged In until the whole Convention
were stirred up aud now and has been for three days
Involved in debate upon question that would have
been much better TO have settled by quiet vote.


The champions Of universal suffrage have out
noby and ayowed their position without equiyocaton
ExG0v. Neil T. Brown Of the first who came out
for negro suffrage He besought the delegates not to act
IN tins matter with prejudice but to consider what would
be best for the interests Of the State Slavery he said
had gone down tho stream of time along with other
drft.wood the negro was ree he had the right TO vote
and they could attempt TO take from him this great
privilege without producing disastrous consequences
Key Turner and Thompson. officers In the Confederate





strongly for negro suffrage so have House OF MOntgOm
cry, Baxter OF Knox, Netherand and Nicholson. One Of
the most effective speeches yet made that OF Mr.
Blgard an uncOmpromi-ing Union man who was i'm
prisoned during the war for his loyalty.


have little doubt but that the people OF the state
while they desire to see this question OF suffrage
settled forever, would vote down II ii were submitted
TO them as separate proposition III II goes before them
doubt not that 1t Will be adopted There Is by no means
existing the kindly relation between the white people
and the coOred which existed at the close OF the
Disrust has been bred between the two races and
II depended upon the people Of Tennessee the poor
colored would be speedily deprived OF the ballot
But thank God IL does not depend upon them and the
Fifteenth Amendment will speedily place this great
question above the puny legislation Of tins or any other
State.


little incident that transpred yesterday. During the
Of his speech the franchise, Gen. Kyle, who
served In the Union army branehed of to give Brown
He commenced his oyerhaung OF these men with some
inyectve OF rather a personal character. He was
promptly called to order. and admonshed to keep
10 the particular subject under discussion. There
division OF opinion in Convention. many
desiring to see these public men 49, scathlpLy
compelled TO leave choice topic. The spectacle OF
Confederate General calling Republican to order for
abusing men Of his own, or what was lately his own'
party ls, confess, singular one 100
The Convention. 80 far AS can learn, stands about 20
for White Mans Government against 65 Tor Universal
Suffrage. vote will probably be had to-day or to-