The Potter Journal

Negro Suffrage.

The Tribune, in the course of some remarks on this subject, says:

"We are very willing—and believe the Unionists, white and black, would be willing—to accept an installment of justice, and have the whole matter settled amicably and finally. If the Southern States will provide that every black who can read intelligently, who owns real estate and has paid a tax, shall be a voter, we would gladly accept this as a settlement of a vexed question, though it would probably not, for the present, enable one negro in a hundred—perhaps not one in five hundred—to vote. But if the blacks are to be proscribed forever—if they are to be taxed by the votes of whites who pay no tax, yet allowed no voice in levying those taxes or spending those proceeds—if they are to be held evermore as outcasts and lepers in the land of their birth—if they are to be debarred from all political rights by the votes of "Three Millions of rebels," and told that this is their punishment for having aided to overthrow the rebellion—why then we think the Republic will owe them at least a determined effort to see them righted, and we shall incline to make that effort."