But the masses at the North were opposed to negro suffrage, and only two or three State constitutions sanctioned it.
The Democratic party, unitedly opposed to negro suffrage, was still in Northern States a power to be reckoned with.
Sumner objected to it because the constitution did not grant negro suffrage, and he avowed the intention of using all parliamentary means to defeat it.
What do his assailants expect--to carry the country on the Massachusetts idea of negro suffrage, female suffrage, confiscation, and hanging?
Negro suffrage, at that time, was exceedingly unpopular.
Negro suffrage will, no doubt, come in time, as soon as the freedmen are prepared for it, and the danger is that it will be attempted too soon.
Negro suffrage, as white suffrage, is at present a question for States.
Sidenote: Negro suffrage in the District of Columbia.
As I see it, the question of Negro suffrage in the United States presents two distinct aspects:-- FIRST: the legal aspect.
The alternative offered the nation then was not between full and restricted Negro suffrage; else every sensible man, black and white, would easily have chosen the latter.
We are beginning to suspect that the attention attracted by Negro suffrage is due, not so much to the injustice of disfranchising the Negro as to the spectacular circumstances surrounding the American Negro.
What can be said as to the question of Negro suffrage?
Negro suffrage, which only a few had favored during the last year of the war, was now advocated by the radical Republicans, and the popular sentiment of the party was tending in that direction.
I was not a little startled but answered: "Of course I shall say the Standard is the truest and best paper for negro suffrage; but I can not say that it is so for woman suffrage.
We ask that the experiment of woman suffrage shall be made here, under the eye of Congress, as was that of negro suffrage.
Again she wrote of the situation in Kansas: The Tribune and Independent alone, if they would urge universal suffrage as they do negro suffrage, could carry this whole nation upon the only just plane of equal human rights.
At the beginning of the campaign, Republican leaders and newspapers were in favor of woman suffrage, but when it was feared that its advocacy would hazard the chances of negro suffrage, they repudiated the amendment.
Negro suffrage in the districts lately in revolt is thus a present political necessity, dictated by the selfishness of the white loyalist as well as his sense of justice.
When she and Mrs. Stanton asked him for space in the Tribune to advocate woman suffrage as well as Negro suffrage, he emphatically replied, "No!
Imagine commissioners of election of the Mississippi type regarding a Negro, or a white man known to be favorable to Negro suffrage, as a "suitable person!
In recent discussions of the merits and wisdom of Negro suffrage, this period is as a rule strangely overlooked.
The Republican convention had shirked the question of negro suffrage at the North by referring it to the individual States.
It could not yet brook acquiescence in the exclusion of its old leaders, and the alternative of negro suffrage or reduced power in Congress.
Negro suffrage is for the present an established fact; if after a fair trial it works disastrously, we will appeal to Congress to repeal it.
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