Description
Though the editor of the Walla Walla Statesman here reprints this abolitionist editorial without comment, he has made it clear that he is opposed to black male suffrage. The excerpted editorial also sets out the partisan nature of this issue, with Democrats ranged against the extension of suffrage to black. And in Connecticut, this change to the law would extend the franchise to blacks who had been free rather than the southern blacks who had been slaves. This issue was very live in Washington Territory, where rallies took place in Olympia, to oppose the extension of suffrage.
Bibliographic Citation
Vol. IV, No. 34, p. 1, col. E