The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1863-11-27

parts the confres Of his State he becomes simply
a common citizen, entitled equally with any fc.
male, or other citizen, to all the privileges and
immunities of acitiEen guaranteed by the Fede-
raj Constitution, aud to all the rights Of persons
and property recognized by private information.
al law founded upon the comfy Of nations but
whilst SO absent temporarily from the doininion
of his State, his rights us an electof is held in
abeyance--attaching to his person with all its
intrinsic vigor, upon his return t0 the State"
None but a simpleton previous to the passage
Of the SOLDIERS Voting Blll' would have claim
cd anything else than is said there by "Wyan-
dot" But in his great grief over the fate o
those who had "set up in the Court House and his
desire to defend his JUDICIAL ArrARArus--his
Court--from utter ruin--(for he had heard both
the Court and candidates, in their distress, say
o, Death! it's no,o we feel thy sting, and O.
AJolitionists, noW we feel thy victoryD he treats
the whole subject just as though the Legislature
of our State could give her citizens no special
privileges when compelled to be absent from their
townships and wards in defense even of the elec-
tive franchise over those who, under the old law,
voluntarily absent themselves on business OF
pleasure, and then sets up the poor, miserable
claim that even under the section of the law, al.
lowing soldiers to vote-before quoted from
|"Wyandot," that they cannot vote beyond the
limits of the State. "Wyandot" further says:
previous to the passage Of this act and before
the election of 1862, and whilst number Of the
electors Of Ohio were in the military service and
as such absent from their respective townships or
wards, but actually employed or stationed with
in the State, it become question in the State,
it becomes n question in the minds Of some per-
sons in high civil authority, whether such elec-
tors could vote within the State, whilst rithomf
tho township and wards OF their rcsidencea!'
What "persons in high ciril authority" troubled
their minds so much in the face of a plainly
written law2 All that is done to deceiue, and
to try to make out case to justify "Chief Jus.
ticc, Curt" by making the people believe that
such things did agitate the minds of great men,
when there was nothing Of i'll And still further
to deceive, "Wyandot," says: ...
"Hence, at the subsequent session of the legis
lature, the act under consideration was passed.
Why try by such sophistry to make epeople
UcllcNe tUuV IO tluTl Iluu pcCi hihuS HhS'iou'
to the date of which he speaks, when the great
men of Columbus iaborcd 30 hard2 Have you,
Mr.. "Wyandot," already forgotten the general
ho,rl that went up from all such men as you, be-
cause the war democrats and Republicans defeat
ed one Soldiers Voting Bill in the winter or
spring of 1eG2-long before "tle election OF
ls62~ If you have forgotten, then would ad-
wise you 60 to Mr., Dumm's files he having been
one of Chief Justice Courts" Associates on the
bench, of course he will be good authority-and
there read fer yourself! "Wyandot" further
says:
"Thcre is no language in any provision of this
statue, that expressly or by necessary implica-
lion, warrants the assumption that the legisla-
tur, intended to extend it's authority beyond the
.,rritorial limits Of the State"
Neither is there any that confines it to the
bounds of the State. Isn't that riehY Ifthe act
Intended to make two classes Of soldiers--con-
,rring special privileges on that class remaining
II the State, when the other and far more numer
,us class were sent forth to fight and denied the
privilege of voting, could not and ,eould NOT the
legislature have saia th"t the operal'oh o' 'he
aw shall be cohhhed to the STATE ana "'ula
lot that have been baser fraud upon the sol
..icrsn than the Prosecutor big on committed by
old Abe Of which the C0l' so bitterly com
'laineds
But no doubt is left here. When thing is
,ot made local by It's own language, but left,
!, :, .,;, ant hr,od 90 .,, ocros of tbe United
', v ~ '''is act ofo"u a' vi. avs 49,, Ill
States, it then takes small Judges sno small
Wyandots" to whistle it down to bounds OF
heir own moon;tudc so no to subserve their own
'.,l.,
mus! ...
Notwithstanding the dissection of this ctsays;
That whenever any of the qualified voters of
Il. s4..o bal, ho In .ha o.,,a, n,;,;..,, sor,oo
40 >, 80 VS. s''"'' " ~ ''9 ".', ".'S
THIS state or % ms on"ed sta'es ut docs not
" "" or of the United States when within the
tnte of Ohio, s1and as such absent from their