The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-09-05
Negro SufTrage-Gen. Schenck in
Favor of IL.

Negro SufIrage-Gen. Schenck i'm
Favor of IL.
On the 10th Of January, 1866, the bill
came before the House of Representatives
to extend to negroes the right of suffrage
in the District of Columbia. Mr.. HALE
moved several amendments, one of which
restricted the right of voting to those toho
ioere assessed for and paid td1es on real or
persoMaf property WithiR the District.
General SCnEScK, perceiving that the
effort of this amendment would exclude the
great mass of vagabond negroes who have
been infesting the purlieus of Washington,
and lounging in the galleries of Congress,
to the exclusion of white people, moved to
strike the same out, and his proposition was
agreed to. The bill afterwards passed by
a vote Of llG to 5l-eveTy vote in the atlir-
native being Radical, and all the Demo-
Gratis, with thirteen Republicans voting in
the negative. GENERAL ScHENcK VOTED
FOR THE BILL
This infamous outrage was thus perpe-
trated on the defenceess people of the Dis
trict of Columbia, who, by the Constitution
of the United States are subject to the leg
islation of Congress.
There is not more worthless vagabond
ignorant and degraded negro population
anywhere in the United States than that in
and around Washington.
1t would have been some protection to
have limited the franchise to those of them
who paid taxes-but that would not have
answered the malignant purposes OF those
who sought to degrade and humiliate those
who were powerless to resist, and who have
no voice even in the selection of their law
makers. These negroes instead of having
some honest occupation, and laboring as
white people have to labor, are regular in
their attendance upon Congress, and by
their foul presence have excluded respecta-
BILE white people from the galleries.
Upon such a population, against the
unanimous remonstrance of the white vo-
ters of the district, General Schenck Uoted
to confer the right Of sgJragei
Not only in the District of Columbia, but
in the Territories did these men also vote
to extend negro suffrage.
On the 18th of May, 1866, pending the bill
to amend the organic acts of the Territor-
ties of Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota, Mon
tana. Washington. Idaho. Arizona, Utah
and New Mexico. Mr.. lie BLOND moved tC
strike out the ninth Section which is as fol-
lows:
THAT within the Territories aforesaid
there shall be no denial Of the elective fran
chise 10 citizens OF the United States becdus
Of race or color and all persons shall b'
equal before the law. And all acts or part
OF acts either of Congress or the Legisla
tive assemblies of the Territories aforesaid
inconsistent with the provisions of this ne
are hereby declared null and void"
Mr. LIE BLoND's motion was ruled down
Yeas thirty-six nays seventy-siX, ever.
vote in the negative being Radical.
Now who will say that General SCHENcl
is not in favor of negro suffrage in Ohio
For what reason would he vote to permi
the untaxed negro to vote In the Distric
of Columbia, and refuse him the sam
privilege in the Third Congressional Dis
trlct of Ohiop
People-white men of Ohio are you pre-
pared for this? DO you want to see til
source of political power polluted by In
fuslng into it an element so degraded an
ignorant as the negre population?
What new light has General ScHENc
had since the year 1856, when he scorne
to vote for FREMONT and hated SALMON /
CHASE for his abolitionism9 When he hel
position under MILLARD FILIMoRK's ad
ministratiOn, he prided himself upon hi
conservatism. The last speech he ever mad
in Dayton characterized by the ability 9
his earlier life, was made about tina
time, and against the fatal tendencies G
Northern abolItionism. Now where
he? A champion of negro suffrage
voting in Congress under the plaudit
of gallery full of lounging, lazy
ignorant and degraded negroes and ne
gresses to put them upon political an
social equality If he can, with poor whit
peoplei We say poor white people, 70
those who assume the airs of wealth an
superior position will rather assume tn
patronage of the negroes-they expect t
rule them as they attempt TO do their work
men. 1t is the quiet, unobtrusive laborin
man who will feel the degradation Of bein
elbowed from the ballot-boX by an impu
dent and boisterous negro. 1t is this elias
of our people that win teel it most-nO, the
,oal neuer feel q, FOR THEY NEVER WILL SUI
NIT TO Tl Radiealism was successful i
abolishing slavery--butit was only beeaus
Of the madness of the friends Of slavery
Upon the new issue it is now forcing upo
the country, it is doomed to ignominiou
6ailure-for the instincts Of nature, no les
than the voice of reason cry aloud agains
the hybridigation of races.