The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-07-18
The c Constitutional Amendment.

Lie Y COnStltutlOnal Amendment.
To carry the Negro Sufrag,
Amendment to the Constitution o.
Ohio, it must receive a majority o.
the votes given at the election for
members of the General Assembly
at which the amendments passed
upon. Any vote not given for Ne
gro Suffrage counts against it. This
Is required by the express terms Of
the Constitution, for the makers OF
that instrument determined that it
should not be changed for light OF
transient causes.
In the law providing for taking
the sense of the people on the Ne,
gro Suffrage Amendment, the Leg
islature of last winter, failed, or
negle oted,to provide separate polls,
and hence no one can vote tor State
and county officers without his vote
being counted for or against Negro
Suffrage. The Aboli tion Ticket will
be printed with the words "Consti-
tutional- Amendment giving Ne
groes the rights tovote. Yes! while
those of the Democracy will be
printed constitutional Amend
ment" giving Negroes the right to
vote with a most emphatic ''NO,"
to the proposition.
This fact, must of necessity make
the Republican Ticket, with Hayes
at its head, the "Negro Suffrage
Ticket" because if voted, as it will
be printed, it is vote in favor of
giving negroes the right to vote, to
hold office, to sit on juries, and in
ell other matters, giving them a
political equality with the whites.
The Democratic Ticket, headed
Judge Thurman, must of necessity
be known as the "Anti-Negro Suf-
frage Ticket" because every man
on it is opposed to social and politi-
cal equality with the negro race,
and every man who votes the Dem
ocratic Ticket, votes fair and square
against giving the African race the
right to vote.
No man not willfully blind can
be deceived into voting for Negro
Suffrage who is opposed to it, IN.
less he votes the Republican Ticket
and Negro Suffrage members of the
Legislature. He who tears the
words Unconstitutional Amendment
Yes" from the Republican Ticket,
or even strikes out the word Eyes"
and in serts "No" in its place. still
votes for Negro Suffrage, if the pol
ilical party which has adopted the
Negro as its God and his political
equality as its platfrom, is success
full in carrying the Legislature.
And for this reason: If the Consti.
tutional Amendment fails in Ohio,
the proposition now pending in
Congress so to change the Consti.
tuition of the United States as to
give Negroes the right to vote in
all the States, passes that body, ,and
if adopted by the requisite number
OF States, it will become the sup
rene law of the land. All that is
necessary for State to adopt an
amendment to the Constitution of
the United States is for its I.egisla-
ture by vote to agree to it and
hence although Negro Suffrage
may be voted down in Ohio by one
hundred thousand majority, yet,
if a majority of Negro Suffrage Rep
ublicans is elected to the Legisla-
ture-and not q man an any county
of Ohio, IS allowed to be a candidate
Of that party for the Legislature IN
less he IS IN facor Of it-then Ohio
can, and will without doubt, be
Negro Suffrage State, and Negroes
thus, against the will ofthe people,
expressed at the ballot box, will be
allowed all the rights that the white
citizen now enjoys.
The only remedy against this