The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-04-11
The Constitutional Amend
ment.

A reference to tho Legislative
proceedings wiIlshow the passage
Of the proposed amendment with
the rebel, disfranchising or skedad-
die clause embodied. The result
Of conference, although not such
as many of the warmest friends Of
the measure desired, was on the
whole, highly satisfactory. Wei
may now go towork with energy
to sweep away the last anti demo
cratic distinction Of caste from our
organic law.
The Enquirer has already fur
nished the cue to the Opposition
press, by saying that the proposed
amend dment will disfranchise white
men, while it clothes "the niger"
with the right to vote. When one
reflects upon the kind Of white men
to be disfranchised, there does not
seem to be anythingin this beyond
the reach of consolation-although
this clause of the amendment will
undoubtedly bear hard upon some
OF the Enquirer's party.
All that noble army of martyrs
who invaded tho Queen s domiuions
upon every successive recurrence
OF the draft will vehemently protest
against the adoption Of the amend
ment. Every coward who ran
away; every knave who jumped a
bounty every miscreant guilty OF
the infamy Of dcsertion, will have
much to say about this being a
white mans government. AS to
those who have actually taken up
arms in rebellion, there is not in
all the Democratic party within
the border of the State a man who
was guilty Of that iudiscretion.
aMoral effect" was their "best hold. :"
They did not contract to expose
their own persons. Their tongues
were at the service Of tho South.
They were ready to shed any guam
titY of ink. But blood, look you,
is something which is not to be
parted with lightly.
1t is Of great importance that our
friends of the local press should
promptly publish the advertise.
ment in another column, without
waiting for further directions from
the Secretary of State. These di-
rections may possibly misearry, or
arrive too late. The Secretary
desires us to call attention to this,
! and request tho papers to secure
the matter by giving prompt pub
lication.
1t has been decided by compe-
tent legal authority that tho Con-
stitution contemplates aweeklypub
lication for six months prior to the
election, and a publication at any
time during the first peek of the six
months preceding thc'clcction,is is in
time to fill the legal intendment
1t is not necessary that the publica
ton should be made on or before
the first day of the six months
This will enable every paper il
the State to lay tho amendment
/, before its readers in ample time Il
comply'with the constitutional re
/ quiremcnt.
And now what we need through
out the State is organization, sys
tenn and Dork. That the amend
mont will bo adopted by the pco
= pie there is no room to doubt; bu
D It is due TO our noble State that thu
: mai ority in its favor shall be
|, large one. Let Ohio, in this werl
= of progress, bo placed where sh'
: was through the dark days of thu
+ rebellion-in the advance. Let il
/ be said of her, as a distinguished
mmander was fond of saying o
:, o favorite command when sharI
. work was to be done, "Placo Obi
n in the advance, and keep the columi
closed up," Columbus Journal.