Rutland Weekly Herald

A Confederate Cabinet Officer on Negro Suffrage.

Ex-Confederate Postmaster General Reagan, of Texas, in a recent letter, takes strong ground in favor of granting to the negroes suffrage, as well as civil rights, and boldly says that any man unwilling to do this is a demagogue. It is certain that no set of politicians ever more richly deserved this appellation than those who relied upon denunciations of "negro suffrage" and "negro equality" as their main lever to influence the elections in the Northern States. The attempt to impress intelligent voters with the belief that the essential requirement for the successful management of the multifarious interests influenced by the action of our government was the perpetual exclusion of loyal colored men from the ballot-box, and the immediate extension of increased power to defiant and dangerous rebels, was a truly desperate enterprise. No demagogue of ancient or modern times ever advocated a more absurd proposition.