The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-01-18


the last named Government has
refused to pay damages commit
ted on American commerce through
the agency of her subjects during
the late rebellion, and has de-
clined to arbitrate, and finally not
to hear any thing further: on the
subject; therefore,
Res0lrod, That the President is
hereby requested to withdraw our
Minister from the Court O. St.
James, and make the proclamation
of National non-intercourse, which
is hereby declared to take effect
after such proclamation shall have
been issued.
Mr.. Broomall, of Pennsylvania,
offered a resolution setting forth
that as the white men in the Dis
trict of Columbia have decided that
black men shall not vote, the Com
mittee for the District of Columbia
inquire into the expediency of
ordering an election, by which
black men shall decide whether
white men shall vote.
Mr.. Finck, Of Ohio, moved to lay
the resolution on the table. Mo-
ton carried by 13S to II.
WASHINGTON, January 15.-In a
debate concerning the bill for, snf-
frage in the District of Columbia,
Mr.. Kassen, of Iowa, read from the
Ederaltst to show that Mr.. Madison
and the trainers of the Constitution
never intended that Congress
should prescribe the qualifications
of voters in the States.
Mr.. Kelly, of Maryland, quoted
the language of Madison to show
that when the people of a State
are by any means deprived of the
right of suffrage, it was proper that
the evil should be remedied by the
General Government.
Mr.. Kelly said he was for the
Constitution in all its length and
breadth, as understood by Washing
ton and Madison, and for it with all
the powers which they maintained
were essential to its perpetuity.
Mr.. Kasson, in reply, said he was
for the Constitution as it is, and he
reasSerted that Congress has no
right to prescribe who in Iowa shall
vote for members of the most
numerous branch of the Legisla-
ture.
If suffrage were made universal
in some portions of the country,
there could be no security for the
permanance of our Institutions.
The Anglo-SaXon race only had the
sure power Of governing it, and to
prescribe the principle Of self
government after establishing il.
AS to the Dirtrict of Columbia,
there are two classes ofblacks, one
old residents and the other new
comers. Suffrage ought to be
given to them by degrees, based
on intelligence.
He was in favor of the Jefferson
ian Lincolnian principle, that suf
frage should be based on intelli-
gence, and on the gallantry of those
who fought for their country. He
was opposed to the extension of
suffrage to every body; and he was
opposed to the pending bill because
it did not exclude rebels, and be-
cause it proposed to give the right
to negroes who have recently
to the District, without
any restriction.
He believed a majority Of this
House were opposed to universal
suffrage, without restriction, in the
District of Columbia.
Mr.. Kasson referred to a state
ment in the New York papers in
volving charge OF larceny against
the late Presidents family, which |
he, after stating that an examina-
tion as to the alleged disappear
ance of property had been made by
the Committee on Appropriations,
denied as an unfounded slander,
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