The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-02-29
Black Is white, aRd Negroes are
Cttizens Of the United states.

The Supreme Court now IN session at Col
umbus, by the unanimous decision Of the
Judges, decided that a negro, having visable
admixture Of African blood in his veins, is q
,slits man, and although the Supreme Court Of
the United States, the only tribunal which has
the power to declare who are citizens of the
Cnited States, has decided that negro is not
and cannot be, yet our Supreme Court has over
ruled the decision OF the higher Court, and with
it has oveTruled the Constitution ITSELF The
decision is based on what the Judges say was
the settled Interpretation OF the Constitution OF
1902, and which entitled the mulatto to vote.
"No change" says Judge Gholson, twas made
in this respect BY the corresponding section Of
the Constitution of 1851" This is an error
a very Hagrant error, aswill be seen by quoting
the section of the Constitution of 1902 and
contrasting it with that Of the present Con-
stitution The old Constitution, Art ", Sec
ton !, says:
"Tn all elections, all white male Inhabitants
above the age Of twenty one years" &c, "shall
enjoy the right OF an elector."
Art ", section l. Of the present Constitu-
ton, limits TIE right Of suffrage, by saying:
Every white male citizen ofths United States
OF the age OF twenty-one years." &C., "shall be
entitled to vote at all elections"
In the one case the right Of voting is confined
to "white male inhabitants" in the other, to
"white male citizens ofthe United States" the
change consisting in the difference between a
"citizen Of the United States,' and an "inhabi-
tant' Of OHIO.
Webster thus defines an "inhabitaNt:"
'TNHABITANT dweller; one who dwellS or
resides permanently in place, or who has
fix d residence, as distinguished from an
occasional ledger or visitor; as the inhabitant
of house or cottage; the inhabitants of a
iowp, CITY, county or State. So brute ami
mails are Inhabitants Of the regions to which
their natures are adapted; and we speak of
Spiritual leings as inhabitants ofHeayen."
The same high authority defines citizen as
an "nhabitant who enjoys the freedom and
privileges Of III, city in which he resides the
frc.m.n Of city, as distinguished from a
for,n.ncr, or one not entitled to its privileges"
&r.4s o g a-
rhe above shows material difference be-
tween citizen and inhabitant-the former hav-
ing political rights, the latter mere dweller in
q place, and hence the assertion of the Court
that the qualification Of a voter under the old
Constitution and the present one was so nearly
alike as to show nc material difference, is not
warranted by the facts. t-...
But throwing this all aside. The Supreme
Court Of the United States declares in express
laws that a person of African descent cannot be
a "citzen OF the United States" The State
Constitution or the State Legislature can, by
law, make "citizen ofOhio," but neither has
the right to make a "citizen Of the United
States" and as the trainers Of the present Con-
stitution chose that terIn in order to fix the
qualification OF voters, it must remain so fixed
until the Constitution is changed, and the de-
cision Of tho Supreme Court OF Ohio, all the
Judges concurring, is not worth the paper on
which it was written, for no one doubts, that
if carried up to the Supreme Court Of the Uni
ted States, it will be reversed as soon as sub
mitted.
Negroes are citizens Of Observation-Disclosures
naturalzed foreigners are, or were, citizens Of
Michigan before the first Constitution of that
State was changed. Neither are or can be cit
izens Of the United States Let either apply
for passport at Washington and he will find
no authority to grantit, for they are not citi-
zens of the United States, although they are
citizens of Massachusetts, or Michigan. The
Dred Scott decision, which fixes this fact be-
yond peradventure, is not new decision.-
The Government has acted upon it since the
adoption Of the Constitution, and hence we say
that the decision ofthe Supreme Court Of Ohio
Courts, and clearly wrong, is not to be regar-
ded.
The idea that because man is more white
than black he is a white man, is ofiisclf ridic-
ulous. Judge Gholson, before his election, was
a .laveholdcr-a slave buyer and slave sell
Ter. He bought and he sold slaves who had
more white than they had African blood in
their veins. Could he hold q white man or a
white woman in slavery? Certainly not--the
laws forbid it. r.e.ra
The only test of the extinction of the Afri-
can blood is the social circle. That man who
shows ever so little Of the blood Of the African,
is debarrcd from visiting as equals the social
circle of the whites, and yet Judges who would
scout the idea Of quarter blooded negro visiting
their families, declare as Judges that these
quarter bloods are to all intents and purposes
whites, yet let one of these schites-no matter
how rich, well educated moral or intelligent
they may be, presume to address as lover the
daughter ofone of these Judges, and our word
for it, an action for assault and battery would
lie against the Judge for kicking the negro out
OF the house. National Democrat.
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0TWe don't know very accurately the num-
ber OF mulatto voters now resident in Greene
county; but ifreport be not grossly exaggerated,
1t is among the possibilities that Greene county
may have a mulatto representation in the next
Tao,slature of Ohio A very Ettle manogamant