Year: 1870




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CT attention this morning is
lled to en- article In the Times
"a Republican. The editor Of


journal with an apprenticeship
olnsarly forty years in active hos
iillty 70 the Democratic party, has
driited into that Of "moral ideas"


AAigher law" and Of course


adopted the dOgmas of the


with which be afiliates. He
agely discusses the declaration
made by US few days since that
tie "negro Is not q voter by
! right, but that be enjoys 1t as a
prisilege." Probably we were too
courteous to the Radical party in
framing the sentence, and should
have written instead privilege
that the negro votes through the
operation Of q wrong.


The editor Of our Radical CO.
temporary argues that because the
fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments are now a part Of the Con-
stitution that they give the right
to the negro.


Il Is true they are recognized as
parts of the Constitution but are
they 90 in fact? 1t is not at all
Improbable that they will never be
expnnged, but does that alter the
truth Of history? How came
these amendments to become inte'
graI portions Of the Constitution
Were they adopted in conformity
with law? There is not person
so blind with prejudice or so big
Oted who viii not at once say all
law was outraged in engrafting
them upon the Constitution.


The fallacy and farsicallity oi
the thing was plainly apparent in
the6act that the negroes them
selves voted to give themselves
the right to vote. With the same
degree Of justice the people
Of Great Britain could vote
themselves the same right. Until
these amendments were adopted
the negroes had not the right to
vote, and since the sO-called right
} was secured through the operation
ofa wrong it becomes a wrong in
itself, and what is a wrong can
never be q right.


The world may acquiesce in an
accomplished wrong. but thai
never makes 1t q right.


Inability to overcome a wrong
may cause its perpetuation but YET
It never becomes a right. Hence
We say the negroes in voting enjoy
. privilege and violate r'ghI
which does not belong TO them. Il
doubtless is true that they vii
continue through all time to enjoy
this privilege and ii time we viii
begin to view it as an inherent
right which they possess. But YET
the facts Of history will not bear
the admission out. But for the
votes of certain Southern States
these amendments would nevel
have been adopted. Yet the worlt
knows that the lawful, rightful vo
ters Of the South untrammeled an(
free would never have cast th'
votes which have been recorded
against them. The American ma
ton well knows that the true sen
timent Of the true Southern voter
Is not represented in the resul
which is recorded against then
Does the the forcible and IN
blushing preparation Of q wron
make q right9


The violation of law in the adoT
ton Of these amendments wer
not confined alone to the SoutE
Many non-slavehOlding State
we're outraged and misrepresenteC
Among which are New York, II
diana and others.


The bayonet cast the vote of tn
misnamed free men Of the sout
and fraud, tricked and swindle
many ofthe North. Yet becaus
these unworthy and disgusting in
hnsnces have pasted these amend
ments to the tail Of the Constitu
ton, Radicalism says the negroe
enjoy q "pOlitical right"


The editor Of the Times and Re
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