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Show NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. The leading article in the March number o( Tue North American Kevitw ia a symposium on Negro Suflrage, by Seuators BUino and Lamar, Gov. Hampton, Representatives Garfield and Stephen?, Wendell Phillips, Montgomery Blair, and ei Gov. Hendricks. Hen-dricks. Mr. Blaise opens and cloaea the discussion; He claims that tho negro waa wisely and justly enfranchised, enfran-chised, and should not be deprived of hia right to Ihe ballot, but that he is TuTly ciisfra'uTJijT n'i tiun; and be demands for him all of tho privileges that have been granted him by conBtitutioual amendments. Messrs. Lamar, Stepbem and Hampton Hamp-ton insist that the political liberty of the negro is not seriously interfered with, and argue that if the aouth be let alone all of tbe difficulties growing out of emancipation will adjust themselves. them-selves. Hampton Eays that a qualified quali-fied 6ufirage would have been better for tho negro, and Stephana declares that if an attempt should be made to deprive tho Southern States of their present representation in congress on the plea that tho negro ie not allowed to vote in accordance with his convictions, it would be the most wanton outrage that ever was undertaken under-taken in any country Mr Blair takes the ground that negro suffrage is and always muBt be a failure, and instances the trial made with the blacks in the Weet Indies by the English. Wendell Phillips aB9rts that tbe colored voters have exhibited aB much wisdom in politics as have their white neighbors, and that the the south w3 better governed under negro rule than it has since been under white legislation. Gan. Garfield Gar-field thinks that colored saflrage has been more than fairly successful, and aays that the era of peace and good feeling will come only when the negro shall be allowed to caat hia ballot without interference of any kind. This discutiiion is followed by a paper on ths Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards, by Prof. Gorge P. Fisher, of Yale, giving a Bummary ol the works of Edwards and an analysis of bis peculiar line of thought. Gen. Nelson A. Miles treats the Indian problem atsomo length, etaiingmany facts, and his reasons for believing that the Indians can bo best managed undrr military auoervision. J. K. G. tliigaard, the translator of the famous cipher dispatches, presents a chapter on Cryptography, iu which he explains ex-plains fully tho system by which secret characters are read. The clos-iug clos-iug pages of the number are devoted to a review of recent Russian novels, by S. E. Sbevitch. New York: 551 Broadway; Salt Lake: James Dwyer. |