The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-05-30
False Statement of an Ohio Repre-
sentative for Effect Abroad.

Logan district in Ohio, on Thursday made
speech in Congress, in which he is reported BY
Telegraph, as saying that not one man in
thousand in Ohio, or the Northwest, was for ex
tending equal social or political privileges tone
groes." This speech, il correctly reported is
queer one for Mr.. Stanton, orall the men in Con
gress, to make, for it has been about one montt
since negro, by the name ofIrwin Scott, wa.
elected Road Supervisor in one of the stronl
Republican Townships in his own county. The
duty OF Road Supervisor in Ohio is, to warn al
citizens, not exempt by law, to work two days
eacl. year repairing the public highways Of tht
Township under the direction of the Supervi-
sor, who acts as overseer. The election o
the negro Supervisor is well taken off in {
Song for Irwin Scott" published in the Logan
Gazette an able Democratic sheet published in
Mr.. Stanton's town and edited by his opponent
at the last election for Congress. We give it
below. The Krousop and Aky named in the
song are leading Republicans in that region, and
are among Stanton's most devoted friends and
supporters;
A SONG FOR IRWIN SCOTT.
I is white male citizen of desc United States,
Elected Supervisor by the friends of Seward and
Bates; t..
votes and holds Office, and Use spoctin' somfin
higher,
De white folks when dey write to me, write "l,vin
Scott, Esquire!"
Oh, white man, take your coat off,
And work little faster,
l is de Supervisor big,
l is de white mans master.
Dick Krousop! What you don' Of You lazy
loafin, niger!
Take hole OF dat are mattock dar, and help de
tudder niger!
You Brudder Aky! hump yo'sef! You idle, stupid
fellow,
Or will take the ox-gnd here, and lam you till
you below!
Oh, white man roll de sleeve up,
And work good deal faster,
i de Supervisor here
is de white mans master
likes to work de white folks, Use glad Use Super
visot.>
Dey used to call me 'nisgah' but de court has
mad cm wiser;
fIurrah for de Republicans by demI was elected,
And now de Locofocos say-"Tis just as we expec.
ted!"
Dick Krousop, take your coat off,
And Aky shovel faster,
sde Supervisor here
l Is de white mans master.
Perhaps Mr., Stanton may avail himself OF
the quibble, that this election of negro, in his
own county, to be overseer Of white men, is
not to be taken as giving the colorcd race
"equal" privileges with the white, for it puts
the negroe head and shoulders above the white
man, refusing the latter equal privileges with
the negro.
But we have other facts. Cleveland is gov
erned by school law differing from that OF the
general law of the State in this: The latter
passed by Democratic legislature, provides
for schools for colored children separate and
apart from those OF the whites-the former
omits mention Of negro children. The schools
of Cleveland are governed by Board of E1uca
ton elected by the voters Of the city. That
Board consists OF majority of Republicans,
who not only refuse to provide separate schools
colored children, but have refused to allow them
to sit on separate benches, mixing them up in
by the side of the whites. And
that same Board have refused, when the pa
rents Of the white children requested it, to al
low their children to be seated by the side OF
those Of their own race, one member of the
Board, in the debate which ensued thereon,
declaring that he would rather his little girl
should be SEATED in school by the side of
colored child than to sit with frizzley- headed
Irish one or bare-heeled German one"
The constitution OF Ohio declares that per-
sons exercising the elective franchise shall be
"lree white male citizens Of The United States"
Under the law, negroes having less OF the blood
Of the African than that of white in some To-
calties were allowed to vote. The last Dem.
ocratic Legislature passed a law prohibiting
Judges from allowing such persons to vote, and
furnishing the negro for offering his talot at
my election. In defiance OF the fact settled by
the Supreme Court Of the United States, that
persons with visable admixture of African
blood cannot be "cihzens Of the United Stutes,"
the Supreme Court OF Ohio, composed Of Black
Republicans, in their anexiety to give the negro
equal political privileges with the whites, re-
versed the decision, and held that negroes hav.
ng more blood of the white man than that of
,he black in their veins, not were only white
out were ''ctizens Of the United States" and
hey declared the law to prevent negro voting
These facts and others which might be given,
we're we'll known to Mr.. Stanton when he made
,is speech. Yet in the face 70 the facts, he de.
Jared that mot one man in thousand in Ohio
,r IN the Northwest, were in favor Of extend |
ng equal social or political privileges to the ne
,roes. His speech will do we'll enough away
rom home, but here in Ohio, and particularly
n Mr.. Stantons own county, where the reverse |
s known to be true, it only subjecas it's author
o ridcnle and contempt,-Ne,0ark Adv. ii
Put Him Out! Put Him Ont!
A certain class OF politicians are making
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