Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-19

reside. No State shall make or enforce AM
Idtcs tohich shall abridge the priUileges and TN
naunities of citizens Of the United States, mo-
shall any State deprive any person OF lire
liberty or property, without due process
oflaw. nor deny to any person within IL
Jurisdiction, the equal protection OF the
laws kq,N> n ~ %f
This section puts White and Black, ma
tive born and naturalized, on political
equality. 1t makes them "citizens OF the
United States and of the State wherein they
rreside.n Byuexpress terms, the Black
is made as complete and as full citi-
zen as the White. That no doubt what
ever may be thrown over the subject Ills
particular to specify that mo State shalt
make or enforce any lasos aohich shall d6rsdgt
The privileges or tmmnities Of citizens Of ht
United States" This has particular refer
ence to making voters out of the Blacks
When this Amendment shall be adopted, II
adopted 1t shall be, no State can deny or
( withhold from colored male adult the
privilege of voting, no matter whether its
Constitution shall contain a prohibltory
provision, or whether any of its laws shall
prohib,tit. Wherefore declare Whites and
Blacks co-equal citizens, and as such enti-
tied to "the same privileges and immuni-
ties" if such is not the intention? That
this has not reference simply to an "equal
protection from the laws"is manifest from
the conclusion of the section, which says :
I ''nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty or property, without due pro-
cess of law, nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction, the equal protection of its
laws.nu Whatever, therefore, belongs to the
White citizen of the United States, in vir-
tue of his citizenship-the privilege Of vot-
ing, the privilege of holding office, the
. right to life, liberty, property, and the
equal protection of the laws-each and all
will belong to the Black man, if this
Amendment shall be adopted. Its object is
clearly this. 1t will not simply make vot-
ers out of the Blacks in the South; but 1t
p, will make voters out of them here in Ohio,
and in every Northern, Eastern, and West
ern State. "gi
This Amendment passed the House of
Congress by vote of-yeas, 1873; nays, 36,
SAMUEL SHELLABARGER voted YEA-in IA
vor of making the Negroes the equals of
White men in everything; in favor of con-
ferring upon them the right to vote, every
eohere in The United States. ~ - -
SAMUEL SHELLABARGER voted, on the 18th
of December, 1866, in the House of Con-
gress, to lay upon the table, and thus de-
feat, the following resolution, declaratory
of the Rights of the States upon the ques-
tion of Suffrage:
a. "ResOlved, That any extension OF the
elective franchise to persons in the United
States, either by the act of the President or
of Congress, would be an assumption of
power which nothing in the Constitution
of the United States would warrant and
that to avoid every danger of conflict, the
settlement of this question should be refer
red to the several States"
SHELLABARGER deemed it necessary to
defeat this resolution, in order that Radi-
cal Congress might force Negro Suffrage
and Negro Equality upon unwilling States
and Territories, in violation of the Consti-
tuJlOQ OF U06 OHlJcu OJdJcS'
On the 2lst of May, 1866, SAMUEL Shell
LABARGER voted, in the House of Congress,
to kill the following resolution, by sending
it to the Committee on the Judiciary:
"Resolued That it is the opinion Of this
House that Congress has no Constitutional
right to fix the qualification of electors in
the several States" 4.,.
This resolution, like the preceding one
would have been in the way, had it been
adopted, of Congress comforting upon the
Blacks the right to vote, and Of establish
ing Negro Equality in the several States
and Territories. Hence, SHELLABARGER
voted to kill it.
We might extend SAMUEL SHELLABAR-
GERS Record in favor OF Negro Suffrage and
Negro Equality to much greater length, by
further reference to the Congressional Globe
for the last session-which is our authority
for what has already been compiled, and to
which reference is hereby made for verifica-
ton of all the foregoing-but it is deemed
unnecessary to add anything more under
this head; as his advocacy and support of
these doctrines are already SO well under
stood by the people of this Congressional
District. He CANNOT DENY HIS RECORD I;
and we believe he has no inclination to do
so.
THE DouGLAss-DIC MoNGREL PHILA-
DELPHIA CONVENTION = sHELLABARGER
APPOINTED A DELEGATE.
The Douglass-Dickinson Convention,
held in Philadelphia the first week of Sep
tember, adopted Platform which contains
a Negro Suffrage Plank, while the spirit of
the proceedings and the utterances of the
leading men and women who attended the
Convention, all look to Negro Equality, as
we'll as to Negro Suffrage; and much that
transpired goes to indorse Miscegenation.
Many of the members of this Convention
had already given their sanction and in
dorsement to political pamphlet entitled
'Miscegenation," issued by Radicals for the
purpose of educating the people" up to
the idea of Miscegenation +. Amalgama-
tion-a blending of the VIII ,te and Black
Races. This pamphlet. wh ch has been
widely circulated and cordially approved
by many of the leading Radicals, says on
pages 40 and 80: -....
"When the President proclaimed eman-
cipation, he proclaimed, also, the mingling
of Races. The one foll0tcs the other as surely