The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-04-20
,th9 C6aditionlT Of q .seco ns3.rilci--' p

i14he ,Condi ton of { & :s'aSecOnstriic-
,u,hs u,,h tiOn." 'ai l" "r"ud r.,.
The aDead Daokr writes TO his paper, the
PhfadeIphfa Press, tiat "Immediate uni-
versal sruffAgS tsdot pbssble, 6dtthat the
Southern. States will be lst runrepresented
until shts formally Hhd tIlEhselves' to the
ultimate and complete enItAhebisement of
dlrtIsf citizens, IS certain" HAll- their
citizens simply means all Their negroes-T
tha ipte'slavci and tbo free eolored black
and;yellp%s Of, whAtever mental or iphY}i-
calao0nditions congressman from Nortli-
ern aafWestern States propose sOapfiiiaa
the people Of eleven other states, equally
sovereign. 10 invest a portion Oftheir popu-
lation with, privileges" legislatfng those
privileges into rights which their 6teii peo4
plestbope, do not eXtepdtoA lke,,ciass,of
popntdtt6nH not only DO not extend by
constitution or Statute, bdtby popular vote,
at different periods, haye absolutely With
he'd from them, with two exceptions, But
t,s9 only .Sf tbf ,f,geaty-dre States, whqse
radical deegntiofisito Congress insist on In
nicefngs this outrageous policy ii Upon
other communities, against their own
prineiplcB tsfltrightlaid idehs Of sound
policy, e, SuIBsr .fhhf Rcero p6pula-
tion 70 be enfrqpchised, WITHOUT, extTq-
ordiaafy, ic9hqitiQnsioo in Gi9 ~ ae.F0
is. .ferbitlden tire exercise Of franchise! The
Consultation, in defining disqualification
Of ap p.elector plainly Specifies ~cvcry tekiis
citizen as having the legal right to vote.
In l6ses LnShg tunder this Clause, itle
Courts of the State uhitve decided, in more
than pne inst9pce, that the WORD, Efite Yqs
to5be cnrstrue6 rs meaning, that "persons
having a trt*tars OF Afriean blood. ,but'a
preponderanee of ,o'tite blood, or being more
white than black" &c, has the rights Of an
electbr. 'IT1iisd decisibnhas since been and
is now. SacSqptel Fls the p'eping oflths
Constitution so faTr, rs ,the, regulation of
suffrage to coiorad people isf conceded; /;
although Judge REID, the clearest
and ablest ryiptellfct iPnl lthar Aq-
prsBae Benchn at that period. emplsat-
ically dissehted, Insisting, as the report
shows, that white meant pure 1chite-
unhad5ayN ami HhH lA% 6btiAitptfoif iht
tended to exclude all persons from the
privileges of the elective franchise, except
persons'of pure tchitee blood" IN this. the
debates of the convention, which framed
theiiastrumdht, ddmistakably isiIstiiin tlie
Jhdge in the. Positions Which he held, as
didithe opinions and the win of the people
of Ohio, in voting for and adopting the
Coustfturiofr. bnicss, therefore, n neyr0 I'M
this State is so pltysHaIy and naturally
10 l,ot ba to IA, TO IN a
lchite man, he-can not be- allowed to exer-
cisa aspGTfages But the Representatives, 10
Congress from this State who follow after
the lead of stNSyR, srFyESs, PHfI1rrs
and GARRISON, have the effrontery to
demand of the people of eleven
Southern States that 4Hi shall invest
a porti9pg8f their pohblaton with
franchise ssIlioh we here emphatieally y
withbQl6ffom like population ,of Our
ownl Saeh. sectiolhll- gislatiops il Sne
sense, Sai,d such partisan egislationg, IN
anotheE 'csa be psspsfly characterized by
no milder term than ffagrant vfilaihy. To
call it wrong, or injustice. .rwoald baecom-
paratively dignify, it7-tt is Rqrtisgn. giE
lainyi And yet, there are hundreds ana
thousands Oh men anOllD VINO are so en- en-
slatea BY apsHiI1dsa iiI1dsa pattfsapshiP, pa that they
do not hesitate to sustain and commend
this conduct, Of lltheir represen entatives, AMI
in doing so are,.astisalqoryu unscrupulous
enough to maintain that they are acting
the ipart ofheA friends of their country,
are soHnd In 'tbatriUtistn and imBuef With
the genuine Christian Spirit n'lH
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