Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-19
NEGRO SUFFRAGE AND NEGRO
EQUALITY.
SAM. SHELLABARGER'S RECORD,
THOS. MILLER'S PLATFORM

" hold that this Government 0dS made on
the White Basis, By White Men, for the benefit
of White Men and their Posterity Joreuer.n..
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. t
~ am Opposed 90 Nero Suffrage in Ohio,
in the Soath in the District Of Columbia or any
qcbere else in the United States ROu or here
after, u1lder any circumstances tohateUer."-
THOMAS MILLER.
Ten years ago, but few of our people
were in favor of Negro Suffrage and Negro
Equality and nobody deemed it necessary
to seriously combat doctrines so repugnant
and atrocious to every right-thinking
White man. But now, they are presented
as issues, by a powerful party, to
. be decided at the polls, at the
approaching elections. 1t is true that
Radical speakers and Radical papers,
even now, sometimes deny that these issues
are before the people; but their denials
and protests are the mere blinds and
shields, the fiimsy pretexts used to deceive
the people into voting the Radical ticket
which is, in fact, voting in favor of Negro
Suffrage, Negro Equality, and all their at
verified by the action of the Radical men,
bers of Congress at their last session, and
by the proceedings of the recent Philadel-
phia Convention, to which SAMUEL Shell
LABARGER was made delegate-as well as
by the utterances and declarations of other
public men, and the public journals, and
Conventions, of the Jacobin party.
THE RADICAL CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS IN
THIS DIsTRICT-HIs RECORD.
We purpose to compile tor our readers
the Record of SAMUEL SHELLABARGER the
Radical Congressman from the 9TH Ohio
District, who is now asking the people to
re-elect HMM so far as he is committed
in favor of Negro Suffrage and Negro
Equality; and we cannot begin that Rec
ord more acceptably, than by making the
following extract from Mr.. SHELLABAR-
GERS annunciation of his position upon
these questionable said:
'We propose TO ertend to the Negro all the
political rights and franchises iohich zoe our
seIUeS enjoy" 7 81 - ~ ~
In, view of such an utteranOe as the
mEs
SHELLABARGER'sa earnest and active effort
to pass the following bill through the Con-
gress of the United States: l5saa-r
"a BILL Extending the Right Of Suffrage in the
District Of Columbia.
"Be IL enacted, &C., That from all laws
and parts of laws prescribing the qualihca-
tions of electors for any office in the Dis
trict of Columbia the word white be, and
the same is hereby, stricken out, and that
from and after the passage of this act no
person shall be disqualified from voting at
any election held in the said District on ac-
count of color.
''Sec. 2. That all acts of Congress and all
lawsof the State of Maryland in force in said
District, and all ordinances of the cities of
Washington and Georgetown, inconsistent
with the provisions Of this act, are hereby
repealed and annulled."
This bill was passed by the House Of
Congress on the 10th of January, 1866, by
vote of-yeas, 116; nays, 81. Mr.. Shell
LABARaER's name is among the YEAs-he
having voted for the bill, in favor of Negro
Suffrage.
On the 18th Of May, 1866, the House of
Congress passed the bill to amend the or
ganic acts of the Territories of Nebraska,
Colorado, Dakota, Montana, Washington,
Idaho, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, of
which the 9th section is as follows
s'That within the Territories aforesaid
there shall be no denial Of the elective fran
chise to citizens of the United States be-
cause of race OF color, and all persons shall
be eQltaI before the lao. And all acts or parts
of acts, eitlNer Of Congress or the legisla-
tive assemblies Of the Territories aforesaid,
inconsistent with the provisions Of this
act, are hereby declared null and void.n
The object of this section is to force Ne
gro Suffrage and Negro Equality upon all
the Territories of the United States. The
bill was passed by vote Of 70 to 4S. SAM
uEL SHELLABARGER was with the majority,
in favor Of the bill.
The Radical Constitutional Amendment
passed the Senate on the sth of June, 1855,
and the House on the 18th ofJune. The
following Is the first section Of t.:
aARTIcLEl14, Section l. Az persons bo,ssor
not,sragised In the United States, and subject
10 Ire jstrisdicttoR thereof, are cfttscns Of ne
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