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Show ANDREW JOHNSON ON THE N ECU O VOTER. Speaking for myse'.f alone, I confess that I have been disappointed in tha negro's capacity to vote with sense aud discretion. They go up to the polls like m many mules, and you had as well try to address an argument to a mule as to most of them. Y'ou cannot eflect a lodgment in their heads. I thought at first that this would shortly wear off, and they would divide upon questions like white men and vole understanding. But they do not, and I fear never will. 'ihey go in droves, or I might say. in one drove. To attempt to address ad-dress an argument to a crowd of them is like talking to so many mules, as far as effecting anything is concerned. con-cerned. You cannot reach them by any reasoning process. I fear we have calculated too much upon the idea that we could, by education and development, make an intelligent citizen of the negro. Beyond a certain cer-tain limit it seems impossible to take him. There is not much in him to develop and bring out. The limit to his capacity is soon reached. Nevertheless, Never-theless, I am not opposed to allowing1 him full opportuniiies to Bolve the problem and make all he can out of it himself. Give him all the opportunities oppor-tunities in the battle of life that we have, and, it he lails to make anything any-thing of himself, the fault will not be with us. |