property and the
reward of honest labor."

Mr. Tilton, in _The Independent_, in allusion to the recent
Republican defeat in Connecticut, concludes; "the policy of negro
suffrage is clearly seen to be the only policy for the National
welfare." ... "What then, is the next step," he asks, "in the
progress of reconstruction?" In italics he answered, "We must
make Impartial Suffrage the rule and practice of the Northern as
well as the Southern States." He proposes a new amendment to the
Federal Constitution which will secure to every American citizen,
black and white, North and South, the American citizen's
franchise. What is meant in this article of the _Independent_ by
impartial suffrage is understood by these words in another part
of it. "The Republican party in Connecticut was abundantly strong
enough to secure Impartial Suffrage. But it chose, instead, to
insult its black-faced brethren, and refused their alliance." Mr.
Raymond, in the New York _Times_, speaks without a stammer on the
suffrage question. It declares, "In New York suffrage is now
absolutely universal for all citizens except the colored people;
and upon them it is only restricted by a slight property
qualification."

A correspondent of the Boston _Congregationalist_, in a letter
from New York, tells us, "A Constitutional Convention is to be
held shortly in this State, and we expect to see universal
suffrage adopted.... The Strong-Minded Women aim to secure female
voting, but they will fail, as they should." The
_Congregationalist_ has also an editorial article headed, "The
steps to Reconstruction," in which it speaks excellently of "a
millennium of Republican governments," and of Impartial Suffrage
in them, as near at hand. But it too speaks only of freedmen to
be clothed with the rights of citizenship in the millennial,
latter-day glory so soon to be. Over the black male citizen this
editor shouts, "chattel, contraband, soldier, citizen, voter,
counselor, magistrate, representative, senator,--these all shall
be the successive steps of his wonderful progress!!"

I have produced these as the best representatives of the
different styles or types of the radical or progressive movement
in the work of reconstructing the government. That the _Standard_
and _Independent_ b