Reconstruction Its True Basis Speech of Hon George S Boutwell At Weymouth
Reconstruction Its True Basis Speech of Hon George S Boutwell At Weymouth
George S George Sewall Boutwell
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It was also natural in States where slavery did not exist, but where its ideas Avere carried by immigrants or where its social and business mfluences prevailed, or, possibly, by mere comity in some cases, that the public policy should be fashioned upon the theory that slavery, or at least, a condition of ])olitical inferiority was the |)r()|)i'r rortiiiie of the ])laek man. It is likely thai the overthrow of slavery will hv followed by a revision f this policy; but in any event the argu- ment i...n favor of negro sutfrage in the rebellious 15 districts is as valid when addressed to Illinois or Indiana as when "addressed to 'Ne^y York or Massa- chusetts. The war for freedom and the Union has been carried on by the whites and negroes born on this continent, by the Irish and the Germans, and indeed by representatives of every European race, ^^ith this fresh exjoerience we ought to make it a part of the organic government that no State shall make any distinction in the enjojTnent of the elective franchise on account of race or color.
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