Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-18
The Vote ON the Amendment
What is 10 be Counted

The Vote ON the Amendment
What in TO be Counted
The Journal in analyzing the vote OF
county, has the following:
THE Amendment falls behind the Repub-
llcan vote for Governor in the city Zli
votes, in the county 56S votes; Constltu-
tional Amendment No-runS ahead OF the
Democratic vote for the Governor in the
city 149 votes, in the county 452 votes.
This shows that some officials have taken
authority to decide that no vote shall De
counted as Uote against the Amendment.
That all votes cast at said election are
to be counted as against the Amendments
unless the Ticket has on it the words, Soon
stitutional Amendment, Yes" is a fact ad-
mitted by the Republican Executive Com
mittee in their circulars. Besides this, we
have better authority, the Constitution it.
self, which declares that sail amendments to
the Constitution shall be published tor six
months preceding the next election for
Senators and Representatives, at which
time the same shall be submitted to the
electors for their approval or rejection, and
j a n'qjority Of the electors VOTING AT SUCH
sLECTIoN, shall adopt such amendments,
che same shall become part of the Consti-
oution," SC.
Some years since, when the question of
annual sessions of the Legislature was sub
mitted, as an amendment to the Constitu-
tion. it received a majority vote, but the
minority vote, and those who voted at said
election, but did not vote either for or
q ha;n lor kha,
the vote in its favor the amendment was
declared lost.
1t is fortunate for the people of Ohio op-
posed to Negro Suffrage, that the Legisla-
ture elected this fall is nota Negro Suffrage
one, and that the positive vote against Ne
gro Suffrage overtopped that in its favor,
or else the fraud by which the scheme of
the leaders to swindle the people into Ne
gro Suffrage when they were opposed to it,
would have been carried out if the Courts
had not prevented it.
Every vote cast at the last election, not
decidedly in favor of Negro Suffrage,
by the letter and spirit OF the State
Constitution, are to be counted against it,
and will be, when the votes are counted
and canvassed. Such has been the well
understood practice in former attempts to
a mend the Constitution, and such will be
the case with this latest attempt to
amend it.
Another Congressional Com mfttee
Needed.
The action of the people of this State in
the late election has cut out another job for
the Radicals in Congress. With pervers-
ity peculiar to Democratic instincts, the
people of Ohio have rejected the PROPOSE
tion to give the Negroes the right to vote.
and, as in the philosophy of Radicalism, the
white race cannot be republican in princi-
pie unless they embrace Sambo as an equal,
the ST. Louis Republican asks, is there not
room to doubt whether Ohio has Repub-
lican form of government? A committee
of Congress is now investigating the po-
litical status of Maryland, with view to
revolutionize that State by Congressional
usurpation, because its Convention and
people have decided that the Negro
lowed the example of Maryland and Con-
necticut, is it not the duty of this commit
tee to inquire whether the white people of
Ohio have a republican form of govern
ment? 1t is plain that the white race in
this State is perverse enough to maintain
that this is a white mans Government,
made by white men for the use of white
men; and as this, according to Radical
logic, is heinous offense, there is another
job for this investigating committee. In
deed, it seems extremely probable that
most of the States, as opportunity occurs,
actuated by like principle, will do just as
Ohio, Maryland and Connecticut have
done, so this committee is likely to have
plenty of work on hand, quite sufficient to
keep them busy until the 4th of March,
1869, when, in all human probability, the
people will conclude that they are
able to maintain republican Common
wealths without the enlightened aid of
Radical Congressional investigating COM
mittees. No doubt the handful of men
composing this committee have vastly
more wisdom than the people of any one
State as to what constitutes a republican
form of government in their respective
States, but the people may be perverse
enough to think otherwise, and may be
stubborn enough to carry their notion in
to overt action. This may be hard on the
committee, and little embarrassing to the
Radical Congress and party; but they can
no doubt find abundant consolation and
sympathy by going with their grievances
to the odoriferous and melli-
fluous "American citizens of Afri-
can descent" Oh how sweet is sympa-
thy under aff1iction! What poet shall sing,
in all the beauty and voluptuous flow OF
rhythmical measure, the sweet consolation
of BEN. WADE and his affiliated Congress
sional brethren, as they and Sambo water
the droughty earth with their mutual tears
over the perversities of the "white trash.'
AS for BEN. WADE, his case is peculiar
ly hard one. The Presidency he thought
almost within his grasp. when the cruel
White folks of Ohio took notion to sour
on his hands. Give him committee by all
means; he deserves one. Let inquiry be
instituted by a Congressional committee
whether Ohio now has Republican form
of Government, and let BEN. WADE be put
at the head of it.
WANTED by several Democratic man.
ayers, purchasers tor divers transparencies
of humorous character, designed to illus
trate the triumph of the Democratic party
in the election of Governor Thurman. The
festive torch having tailed to blaze on that