The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-09-20
The COnstitutional Amendment .

volved in the measure.
have alluded to the strange fidelity 10
our Government, during and since tho war
OF the oolored race. have said that 10
have, in our methods Of reconstruction
pleoed this loyal race under the heel Of the
rebel race, and to have deprived them of
the civil and political power necessary to
their existence and protection as race,
would have boen an example of ingratitude
aud humanity not matched in the practice
OF any civilized goVernment--a wicked.
ness which, ii We may learn aught by the
retributions Of GOO which we were made
to feel on account Of our treatment Of these
people during the war, would have brought
to our nation either extinction or new dis
aster, But it would have been strange
folly. Then We were anxious, soon as
possible, to restore to these States loyal
republican governments, aud TO complete
again our glorious Union Of the States.
These State governments must, by an ex.
press term of the Constitution, bo Repub.
lican, that is, must be founded upon the
assets and suilrages of the great body OF
the people. We had found, by the over
whelming proofs to which have elluded
that the white race, ns body, remained
as Intensely disloyal as ever, aud through
them tho nation. We found there race
exhibiting to our Government devotion,
fidelity, love, having, under their strange
ciroumst tancss, no parallel in the history OF
governments and race which, at call, and
soon az permitted, sent two hundred thous.
aud soldiers TO our army. To have re.
iected from all power in these States this
faithful and loyal race, to have put them
and the governments exclusively under the
power Of the traitors yet hating and
smeared with the blood of the republic
would have been the sublimity of madness
We did not do il. Aud now in the won
derful fidelity of this race to our Government
find an argument for his eufranchsemont
in Ohio which, it seems to me. no patriot
can afford to overlook. | find, moreover
in the fact that we were forced by irresist.
ible considerations of safety and right to
enfranchse him in the South reason why
we in Ohio should enfranchise him also,
and not declare to the world that we will
compel our Southern white citizens to en-
dure in their State vote so large as to
compose halfof the people yet so degraded
that seven thousand OF them in vote OF
five hundred thousand, endangers or in.
jures Ohio Here are two considerations,
then, to my mig 1 irresistible, why the
amendment should be adopted.
INTEILIGENcE TEST FOR VOTING.
1t is argued that these people lack the
requisite intelligence for electors. have
already said that they did not la5s the
requisite intelligence to remain as an entire
race, the friends of our beloved Govern.
ment in its time of peril and this at places
where it was not safe 80 to remain, be-
cause all other men had become the Gov.
ernments implacable foes, They did not
lack the Intelligence which led them to
help our, starving or wounded soldiers
wheuever they coull. They did not lack,
the intelligence which led them to go, two
hundred thousand strong, into our army |;
nor the intelligence requisite to make them
vote on the side of loyalty, the other day
at Washington and in Tennessee. But
grant that they lack intelligence, let us
adopt the amendment, and then. ii that be
right, apply a reading, or some other test,
to all voting. Ignorance in d white voter
is as dangerous as in others. ur,
SEPARATION OF THE RACES. '' i''
Mr.. Vallandigham tells us-and we like
to hear from that gentleman, especially on
the subject OF being excluded from our
as he understands that-thatlit
ia not a question OF intelligence or of which.
is the superior race, but that God has made
the black race so different from the white,
that the white ought alone to vote, and
tho other ought to leave, or if stay, not to
take part in our affairs. Now this is o dis.
covery. We once did have in Ohio "black
laws" one express object of which was 70
do what Mr.. Vallandigham wants to do, by
not letting the negro vote, that is, drive
him out OF Ohio. But Mr., yallaudighaul
and his party repealed these laps, thereby
inviting them to come to Ohio, to be wit
lesses and suitors in courts, to have their
schools, churches, homes, and all the civil
tights of our people. Besides, there are
other races, as the jew, who do not mingle
with ours in, marriage or, socially. Are
hey for that reason to be driven off 7
EQUALITY WITH THE NEdno. - 'ea
My fellow citizens how unutterly stupid
may, low self-degrading this talk is
bout your being degraded to an equality
n moral, social, Intellectual or any. other
aspect, with any other man of any race,
because our GoveFamenthappens to accord
o him and be exercises the rights Of man
n common with you. 4
ING COlOIGu man 10 HDtVs ny 2uN hh
merican citizen" and as snch is entitled,
equally with myself, to all the rights grow,
NJ out of citizenship. This citizohship
ntitles him to eat his bread, hold his land,
,wn his child, have his wifo. breathe Our
.ir, sue in our courts, enforce his contracts,
estify as witness, demand protection
rom his Government, march and fight uuder
,ur flag, and to do all othF things which
-. - -;,.ht ID al tbAua
le ie, before the law, as much entitled as
myself, marries a wife, has home, owns
lis children, eats bread, tights for his
and pays taxes, am brought down
o his equalY II am, | was pretty easily
owered. No, my fellow citizens, all this
waddle about our being made the negro's
DUAL because he gets a freeman's right
lnder our grand and beuehcent Govern
nent, is unworthy of us,
Let us, Americans, arise to the dignity OF
icing JUST. We are about to cousummate
he work which it has been the high mis-.
ion of our party to do, In that work was
included the resotie OF the republic from an
verthrow by o stupendous and most foul
reason; the rescue Of continent from the
pread, and at last from the pOluting pres
enee OF human slavery the elevation of
he four millions Of slaves to being Ameri
an citizens dnd friends and defenders OF
he republic; the re-establishment of the
Government, by restoring, with free 3on-
titutions, each State to a renewed Uni9n-7r
ew in lie strength and new in it's glory,
,ecause new in its equal justice to all its
,sople, and new in the love OF its people,
ipch, men Of America, has been the work OF
he Union party. Let us now make the
york symmetrical and complete, by make
ng symmetrical. complete, mdestrnctible,
he sublime aud awful structures OF the
latioual edifice, laying their foundations