Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-01-17


officer In the discharge Of his Official, duty,
shall be removed to the Circuit Court Of
the United States, as in said section pro-
vided. The second section provides that
any suits so removed under authority of
that section, and now pending In any Cir
cult Court Of the United States, shall, by
order of said Circuit Court, be forthwith
handed to Che State court from which the
same has been so removed, there to be dis
posed of as 1t would have been II the re-
moval had not taken place, and said re-
moval shall in no way affect the validity of
any action In said State court priorto its
removal to the Circuit Court.
The House resumed the consideration OF
the bill to- extend suffrage In the District
of Columbia. 7osugu
Mr.. Julian, of Indiana, demanded suf-
irage for colored men on the broad ground
OF natural tights, and repudiated suffrage
as a mere form. Without suffrage no man
Is actually free. The great wantof every
poor man was home, and the ballot and
homestead should go together. There were
10000, 600 acres of unsold lands in the South
which, unless prevented, will open to rebel
spectators. These lands should be set
apart for homesteads for both white and
black loyal men. If the bill heretofore in
mittee on Public Lands, should become
law, every freedman would become free
holder. If it were objected that all negroes
were too Ignorant TO vote, lie would
reply that they were not all ignorant.
Many OF them were educated and quite in
telligent, and the large portion of them
would not suffer by comparison with white
men, who institute mobs against nnoffend-
ing colored people and publish their deeds
as negro instructions; and yet nothing
was dOns to,disfranehse them. Hewoull
give the negro the ballot to maintain the
liberty already secured. If the military
were withdrawn from the South and the
ballot withheld from the black man, tbe
most disastrous conse equences might result.
The comforting of suffrage, therefore, was
means Of safety. If the whites in this
District who sympathize with the rebel
lion. vote, itwould be emeanto withhold the
ballot from loyal negroes. 't@ |'~@e
Mr.. Randall, of Pa, replied to the remarks
recently made by his colleague Kelly with
reference. to the suffrage in Pennsylvania.
He was glad to say the Democrats have been
against extending the right of suffrage to
the negro race, and in this the Democratic
party had the aid of vast numbers of those
who were politically opposed to them. His
colleague proposed to make an issue here
he had failed to make at home.
Mr.. Kelly said when he was quite young
man, and acting with the Democratic party,
he united in petition to the Legislature
to change the Constitution so that every
man in Pennsylvania who was not pauper
or felon should be citizen in full.
After further debate, Mr.. r lndall asked
his colleague whether he wonld, by chang
ing the Constitution of the United States
In amending the Constitution of Pennsyl-
vania, strike out the word "white," as a
qualification of voters?
Mr.. Kelly said he would, having regard
for Franklin and Others who laid the foun-
dation of the Government. .U
:. Mr.. Randall resumed his remarks, saying
he should uniformly vote in accordance
with the action of his State, without regard
to party. He believed the two races are
distinct, and believing that, he was unwil-
ling to takea step which would place the
negro on an equality with the white man.