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the equal of every other. It provides for all of them trial by
jury, free speech, free press, entire protection for life and
liberty and property. It goes further. It secures to every citizen
the right of suffrage, the right to hold office, the right to
aspire to every office or agency by which the government is carried
on. Every man called upon to do military duty, every man required
to take up arms in its defense, is by its provisions entitled to
vote, and a competent aspirant for every office in the government."

The truth is, impartial manhood suffrage is already practically
decided. It is now merely a question of time. In the eleven rebel
States, in five of the New England States, and in a number of the
Northwestern States, there is no organized party able to
successfully oppose impartial suffrage. The Democratic party of
more than half of the States are ready to concede its justice and
expediency. The Boston _Post_, the able organ of the New England
Democracy, says:

"Color ought to have no more to do with the matter (voting) than
size. Only establish a right standard, and then apply it
impartially. A rule of that sort is too firmly fixed in justice and
equality to be shaken. It commends itself too clearly to the good
sentiment of the entire body of our countrymen to be successfully
traversed by objections. Once let this principle be fairly
presented to the people of the several States, with the knowledge
on their part that they alone are to have the disposal and
settlement of it, and we sincerely believe it would not be long
before it would be adopted by every State in the Union."

The New York _World_, the ablest Democratic newspaper in the Union,
says:

"Democrats in the North, as well as the South, should be fully
alive to the importance of the new element thrust into the politics
of the country. We suppose it to be morally certain that the new
constitution of the State of New York, to be framed this year, will
confer the elective franchise upon all adult male negroes. We have
no faith in the success of any efforts to shut the negro element
out of politics. It is the part of wisdom frankly to accept the
situation, and get beforehand with the Radicals in gaining an
ascendancy over the negro mind."

The Chicago _Times