The Placer Herald

Iowa Constitution—Negro Suffrage Overwhelmingly Defeated.—The new Constitution recently passed in Iowa has been adopted by a majority of five or six thousand votes. The vote was light, and strict party lines were not observed. The Republicans generally voted for it, as did many Democrats. It is a liberal and fair instrument. The principal objection to it was a clause in the bill of rights, which nullifies the Fugitive Slave Law. But knowing it to be void, many national men voted for it, notwithstanding.

From indications thus far, negro suffrage is overwhelmingly defeated. For instance, Scott county gave three hundred and twenty-two majority for the Constitution, but twelve hundred and forty-five against negro suffrage. Jasper county gives four hundred majority for the Constitution, but is almost unanimous negro against suffrage. And so it is throughout the State.

This is an indication of Western sentiment on this subject. It almost certainly declares the result on the same question in this State. There, as here, the Republican party accepted it as the issue—the Democrats openly avowed themselves against it. The result is completely satisfactory. Negroes cannot vote in the white West, yet awhile.