Wendell Phillips On Negro Suffrage

YVl tne aunuiii meeting ol tüo rvew England Anti Slavery Uonrention. on VVtdncsday : VVendeli Phillips took the ftond, and f uid that I be real topic for discussion w ;is iamnidirtto süffiiige for the neiiro. Mr. Müjrn.'ird, of Tcnnessue, ws riyiit. Tlitjro ws ao time ti agítate t li ie ques ii n üiscussitt belore '.bu people would not Sicure colored suffrage fur twenty fivo years. The right must be conceded at on;e to i-eoure tbe nation from sn-ious trouble and perhupw disaster, ïlie coudition of evi'fy black man was to-day no botter tW.n in 1833, and ha did not see how aoy man could eay slavery was ubolished and give up his cfforts in the auti slavery cause. It would bu a year tpfore even the technical aboliiian of slavory would take plaoe. 1'he condition of the negro at tho South was in a state of reinal kalle uncertuinty. No man could Bay whether he could own property, proteot bis wrfe, teftify in a court, or exercise any ather natural right. The white men ot ench Htate chiimed tbe privilege to regnlnto all hi, and the Tenneseo Legilaiure bad just enactcd a law concerning free colxred peopte. Do they euaet Iuwh re garding tree white people. Atf that concerns the colnred people is to be regtilated hy tbo w hites, and what will tho whites do when their states are econstriicted without the negra franchise ? Ttey would unite witb the old Democratie party in tbe last Gongress of Jobnw!in'8 presidenoy, and show the ftiends of LHierty wbo it ia that has really been whipped in this last bour of the war. The bluck adinisfion of a single at:tte without negro cuffrage, would nettle the whole quustion, and slnvery woul 1 exiwt in reality but not in narne After thiH wan settled the next quention fnrci'd into (ífingress would be the acceptauce of the Soutberu debt. And if this was done sucoessfuily, he would nrgue for repuiiiation of tho hole to the 1-ist hour of hin life. Deprive the South of negro suffrage iind every drop of blood has been spiiled, and evry dollar of roasure expended in vin. Already had threatH boen tnado that recons'ruution would be put through next winter on (Hl anti negro basis in spite of all oppositiou. It would bo the greitt qui"8 ion of the Congressional sersion This Spring Mr. Suumer said to Mr. Lincln " Louisiana must be reconstiucted on the baeis of the Declaration of Independence." Mi'. Lincoln h-si tated, and did not reply, when Mr. Suuiner saici, " Sir, if you reeonetriict it on any other basis, count me as an opponent." t hat w s the pnsition every friend of a permanent Uuiou aud f perinancni freedom to take, nud stand by it fircnly. Far better tbat Grant had Hniieudered to Lee, than that the President shonld surronder to North Carolina or Loui.iaiiar and ranke useless all the sntfeiings and losses aud sacrifioes of this tearful struifgle. ArrinDg thoge present in the hall were Whitiog, Griswiild, George ThompBon, and Amasa Walker.