Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-03
WHOLE NO. 786.

Of the Revolutionary war, and which incorporated
the Declaration of Independence as part of i,S
substance, every male nhabitant of the state,
without restriction of color or place of birth, whO
paid rent to the value of forty shillings I$5 was
made a voter for assemblymen; and freeholders 20
the amount Of one HUNDRED pounds lS250l voted
for members of the Senate. The Amended Con-
stitution Of 1921 removed the property qualifcs
ton from white voters, but retained itn regard
to colored voters. Tho Constitution Of 1916 modi-
fed the property qualification still further, and
ordained that no man eff color should have right
to vote unless possessed of $3.50 worth Of real
estate, and have been three years citizen of tho
state and year resident in the district in which
he claims a vote.
In accordance with the provision Of the Consti-
tuition for its own amendment the last Legislature
provided that the inspectors at each poll, at the
election for Governor to be held on the 9th Of No
vember, 1850, shall open boz to receive the bal
lots OF citizens in relation to asproposed q amend.
ment for restoring the equal right of suffrage tc
the colored people.
AS the laws stand, they are certainly an nnoma-
ly, Either negois a man or no is not; il he is
not mau, but a mere animal or brute, then he
should not be taxed or allowed to vote under any
circumstances whatever, and the property quail
iication should. be repealed but if be is mar, it
is both Inconsistent and unwise in our legislators
to sub ect him to disabilities of which other men
are rid. 1t is fundamental principle of our gov,
ernment, in which it had its revolutionary ori-
gin, that no class should be taxed without repre-
senaton, and that if we ooncede its civic existence
in one light we must recognise it's civic existence
in the other. Until we boldly declare, then, that
the negro does not belong to the human species,
We do not see how are to escape the Just infer
ence from our most settled and sacred theories of
right and law.
a strong prejudice, VIC are aware, exists asains.
.his class, which many Of the members Justify by
their utter thriftlessness, ignorance and degrade
ton but much Of the result is to BE ascribed tc
the prejudice ITSELF and to the state Of inferiortJ
in which they are held The negroes being, to SC
large an extent outcasts, have few of the social Of
e personal motives which determines othcrs to i'm
n prove their condition. 1t must seem to them ,
IS hopeless task. Yet, in spite of these deprsoatin
e circumstances, many of them have made their wa,
to respectable positions. In this city for instance
1t is estimated that they holders of property
Q theamount of five millions of dollars; more of the
children go to the public and private schools than
OF white children, relatively to the whole NUMBER
'hero are relatively fewer colored paupers or crim-
nals in the public institutions than of white :;
while prescribed as they are, they manage to sus-
tain weekly newspapers and monthly journals of
their own, which compare favorably with moro
conspicuous publications. These facts plead
strongly in their behalf, and show that while they
are entitled to suffrage, they are no more likely to
abuse it than the other classes by which i. is now
possessed.-N, Y. ECening Post.