The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-06-28

Saturday week meeting was held
to elect delegates to the Republi-
can State Convention on the Goth.
The Radicals disregarded the wish
es of the Conservatives; refused to
pronounce against negro suffrage,
and appointed Radicals as dele
gates, There appears to have been
informality about the business
Some thirty-five Republicans there
upon issued a call fekanother meet
ing, to be held at Hamilton on last
Saturday; and a good large meet
ing-infnitely larger than the
meeting ofthe preceding Saturday
was held. 'A'.,iu .-J1q o. .')H
Hon. l.. d. CAMPBELL was called
on for speech, and an able speech
he made, from which we extract the
following, as reported to the Gin
cinnati Gazette: I'D .'.' ...- -. ~.
NRGRo SUFFRAGE AN ISSUE. cJ
1t has been charged that this
Union party of Butler county, who
are in favor of public discussion
and publicly resolving upon this
great question of negro suffrage,
are mar-plots, having no Other in,
tention than to breed discord in
that party. am one of those who
oppose negro suffrage, and l shall
proceed to give you the reasons
why l am opposed to negro suffrage.
But, I am told, you are premature,
this is not an issue; it is not a ques-
tion properly before the country
for consideration; it has not been
presented by the Republican or
Union party as an issue; it has only
been presented as an issue by the
so-called Copperheads. aaan.I
Let us consider the question
whether it is practically an issue or
not; because if it is a mere vague,
abstract idea, that has no practical
bearing upon the present condition
of the country-one to which pub
lie attention should not be directed
then l confess there would be a.
degree of improperly on my part
in forcing this matter before the
Union party of the country for.
consideration.
Not an issue? The Congress of
the United States for more than
six months have been engaged in
considering the great problem of
reconstructing the Union of the
States; and underlying all the diff
ficulties between Congress and the
President of the United States, is
this question of negro suffrage. ic'
Not an issue? Why, my friends
l care but little whether the State
Convention, which Is to assemble
on next Wednesday, present this
issue to the country or not. The
issue. will come; and if they don't
resolve for or against negro suf-
rage, the candidates who are pre-
sented as the representative men
Of the Union party will not have
been nominated a week before the
people, through their committees,
will interrogate them on this point.
Not an issue? Let us go back a
year and see what the Union par
ty did at Columbus. They got to-
gether, and then this fire brand, as
il is called, was thrown in; not by
the men opposed to negro suffrage,
but by the men from the
Western Reserve, who are for me-
gro suffrage. The committee on
Resolutions ignored the question
and took up as pure man, as gal
llllU uIiu OIufO q man 90 OilO OVoVS
of Ohio sent to battle during the
rebellion, as our standard d-bearer
for GoVernor-Gen. j. d. Cox
And yet three weeks had not clap!
sed until gentlemen from Oberlin,
the very place where Gen. Cox had
been educated, came out with a
letter interrogating him on the
question of negro suffrage. You
will remember the manly and fear
less manner in which Gen. Cox
met the question; as fearlessly as
he met the enemies of the Union
on the battlefelds of the South
He came out against it. And soft
will be again; your candidates, if
you don't resolve on the subject,
will be interrogated, and what will
you think of the man running as
candidate for Gnn oraeu nr for ono