- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Negro Suffrage Not a Matter of Political Principle
- Creator:
- Arkansas Gazette, July 14, 1868
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1868
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Article advocating that suffrage for African-Americans is not a matter of political principle, but rather is a tool to bolster the Radical Republicans.
Suffrage -- Blacks -- African-Americans -- Politics and Government
never enfranchised the Chinese, and that no effort even has ever been made to enfranchise the Indian, not taxed. As a domestic and social question, therefore, the white people of Virginia should fight the attempt to impose negro suffrage upon this state as provided in the proposed “constitution.”— When a man finds his home on fire, he calls all his domestics to assist in extinguishing the flames, and if they should refuse to aid him, would he no longer retain them in his employment? Our political house is on fire, and we urge our fellow-citizens to [unreadable text] their domestic and all other employees to [unreadable text] the flames. We deny that congress has the right to make the negroes ‘voters,’ but we had not the power to prevent congress [unreadable text] to do it. We are denied our constitutional [unreadable text] of testing the validity of this act of congress, but we will have a method to make it comparatively inoperative. Let us say to the negroes: We don’t want you to vote for our[unreadable text], because we do not think you are [unreadable text] to vote at all. We will not require you to vote [unreadable text] direct. But we will compel you to stay away from the polls, remain at home. [unreadable text] do the work we employed you to do, [unreadable text] will get no further employment from us. This is a simple plan, and will [unreadable text] the “vote for the ‘constitution’” to the [unreadable text] of 40,000 or 50,000 if adopted by the white man of Virginia. Let us try it. – Richmond [unreadable text]. Arkansas Gazette, July 14, 1868 - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1526
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1526/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Original Collection:
- Arkansas Gazette, July 14, 1868
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
-
Negro Suffrage Not a Matter of Political Principle
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