Show OUR REVIEW of the past and the future of the american A negm degroy by D 2 A M at D AND HIS the bill providing for negro suffrage in the district of columbia was among the first important meas measures measured of the thirty ninth congress the debate upon it began immediate immediately lv after the of january 1866 and a great many efforts were made to postpone the measure or to make it restrictive but they were all voted down and on the announce announcement ident of its passage there them was waa great rejoicing throughout all parte of the house the question of reconstruction was brought directly before that sea session of congress by the report of the joint select committee on that subject submitting the fourteenth constitutional amendment the second section of that measure was a compromise and its object was to unite the radical and the conservative wings odthe of the republican party by restricting the right of representation in the south to the basis of suffrage instead of extending that basis in conformity to the right of repp representation it was a proposition to the southern whites that if they would agree that hw clio negroes should not be counted in the basis of representation the leaders of the republican party would hand band them over unconditionally to the tender mercies mercie of their old masters it was a scheme of cold blooded treachery and ingratitude to the negro when we take into consideration the fact that nearly two hundred thousand served in the arm armies ies of the union and among whom no traitor had ever been found A blind mim man can very easily see that the course which tile the republican leaders were wen in favor would have made all the negroes of the south political outlaws and at the sam same e time it would have been a wanton betrayal of justice and humanity the conservative policy which had so long sought to spare slavery wu was obliged as usual to feel its way very cautiously and to wait on the logic of events while the negro as we shall show nasf was finally indebted for his franchise to the dd desperate sperate madness of his supposed enemies M in rejecting the dishonorable piro proposition position of th those ose who claimed to be his friends the second section of the XIV constitutional amendment proposing cosm i g to abandon ahe the south on condition that they should counted coni jed in the basis of representation wa e ly by the I 1 people 5 of df tho the S southern stat and iri t 1 y that of mr buco liine olna proclamation of W to the A a ss p I 1 auml ali U 46 AM haa been first accept ai the work of bf A 9 art ial arfer ir fer i t R ra mo rg diw R 4 q 1 men 45 il t rl i at 11 in 3 K 4 t these former leaders and most of the other distinguished leaders of the republican party have frankly admitted that they were not in favor of placing the negro on the same footing with the anglo saxon james G blaine was always an intense hater of the negro when he ran for president of the united states in 1881 a delegation of very prominent negroes waited upon that gentleman while he was stopping at the fifth ave hotel new york city but the plumed knight absolutely refused to permit them to invade his rooms or to touch the hem of this s garments after mr blaine lad become secretary of state he used all of his influence to prevent frederick douglass from being confirmed as minister to st domingo and he made it so hot for mr douglass that he was compelled to resign john A logan of illinois was mr blaines running mate and it will be remembered that black jack was a member of the legislature of his state during the years of 1854 1851 and 1855 and he was the only member of that body who introduced a bill authorizing his state to expend the sum of two th busand dollars or more for the purpose of purchasing bloodhounds to be used in hunting down all negroes who attempted to seek refuge a within the borders of that state but not withstanding this fact general bogan looked down upon all negroes who refused to vote for him with the greatest scorn and contempt to be continued |