The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-08-09

from q disorder which appeared to
be poison. The parties to that
deadly crime were generally sup.
posed to be tree.negro servants,
who had been instigated to it by
some Abolition miScreants of the
North, who owed a spite to Presi
dent Buchanan.
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What Does Citizenship Confer?
In his speech at New Albany, In.
diana, quite recently, Governor
Morton, while he gave strong ap'
probation to the Constitutional
Amendment that Congress has sub.
mitte1 to the respective States fol
ratification, wherein full and com
plete citizenship is conferred on
the Negro, denied that it made him
q voter, and took Hon. Joseph Z.
Mcdonald to task for having
claimed that it does do so. 1t GER
tainly follows that if a Negro is,
by the Constitution, declared to be
as much Of a citizen as white
man, and that none of the rights
and immunities thus conferred can
be abridged by any of the States,
he is a voter as much as a white
man. At Bloomington, Indiana,
Mr.. Mcdonald made speech on
the 21st, where he discussed this
question thus: ..' 9f''-.H
The first section of the proposed
amendment declares "that all per-
sons born or naturalized in the
United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of
the United States and of the State
wherein they reside. No State
shall make or enforce any laws
which shall .abridge the privileges
or immunities of the citizens Of
the United States" - F.
"A citizen, according to Aristotle,
1is one who is a partner in the leg
islative and judicial power of the
country" g-goq .u.sn .El
| BONNER says "a citizen is one
who under the Constitution and
laws of the United States has a
right to vote for Representatives
| in Congress and other public or
ficers, and who is qualified to fill
\ offices in the gift of the people.
Webster defines citizen tc
mean "a person native or natural
lied, who has the privilege of ex
ercising the elective franchise, ol
the qualifications which enable
him to vote for rulers and purchase
and hold real estate" ..a .4 aa
These definitions are sustained
by the judicial decisions Of many
OF the States, and by the Supreme
Court Of the United States. p.
But, says Governor Morton, with
an air of triumph, women and chill.
dren are citizens, and yet they do
not vote! To that answer: I'm
der the Constitution as it now
stands (in a general sense white
women and white children are
I But black women and black chill.
dren are not. If however, you
adopt the proposed amendment
| you confer the same rights upon
negro women that are now enjoyed
4 by white women, and upon negro
4 children the same rights which
4 white children have, and upon ne
| gro men the same rights that" car
be claimed for white men, and nc
distinction can any longer be made
on account of color or race fol
| the rights of citizenship, both State
and National, with all the concom
liant rights and immunities belong
| ing thereto, are conferred upon the
I negl o race to the same extent that
they are now enjoyed by the white
| race, and secured by, the same con
\ stitutional guarantees. 1t is
/ claimedsby Governor Morton thai
because the States Jnow regulate
| the elective franchise, and thai
4 power is not directly taken away
\ By the proposed amendments, thai
after the adoption the States may
| still prohibit negroes from voting
or holding Office. Tothis I answer
that under the Constitution, as i
now stands States may not only
regulate the elective franchise, bu
| each State may for itself determine
| who may become citizens thereof
and on what terms In the exer
ciselof this right, Indiana adopted
the Thirteenth Article of her Con
| stitution, aided, | have no doubt
! by the vote Of Governor Morton
/ by which she in effect declared that
negroes should not acquire the
\ rights of citizenship here; but tht