Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-11
Tine JournaT FeIIing TaIes About
Hts Party Friends.


/ In labored editorial on the defeat of the
Negro Suffrage Amendment to the sConsti-l
tuition of Ohio, the Journal after an attack
on the Irish laborer-the ''illigant artist of
the hod," as that sheet calls him y and
upon Judge THURMAN and Mr.. PENDLEToN,
for opposing it, says:
"But there is another class-and large
one = composed of persons who voted
bagalnst the amendment, not because OF any
prejudice against the negro, but because
the negroes, as a class, are supposed to have
less property and to be less educated than
these persons, necessary for the just and
proper exercise of the elective franchise
J, This class ofvoters are as ready to-day to
h Idisfranchise every poor man and every un-
j educated man of the white race, as any
other. They have no prejudiees of color.
Their prejudices are against the labor
1 ing poor. They believe the fran
ch1se should be restricted, rather
than extended. They claim sep
arate representation for property, in
some instances; and. in Others, claim that
property only is entitled to vote, and that
rights OF persons are to be secured, not by
the consenting voice of every citizen, but by
tsuch safeguards as may be vouchsaied by a
select aristocracy ofproperty holders, hav-
! ing two, three, or four hundred dollars or
more. This is the opinion of Charles
Reemelin, and, other Democratic leaders
1t is the opinioniof many Republican voters
VINO struck the word les" from their
tickets last Tuesday,. 1850 7.E afiii fR
These persons, as we have said before,
have no prejudices of color. From the
high plane. upon which they dwell, and
lthrough the rarified atmosphere OF the
nigh, aristocratic surroundings, they look
upon the laboring white man without prop
erty, and the 1aboring black man without
property, as exact equals. They canno,
distinguish color at that distance. They
lsee only that the iaboring person is slow
demd low" that he has no property, anC
none of the responsibilities of property
and should not therefore be permitted tc
put in ballot with his grepsy hand, wher
that ballot may tax the property of thu
rich for his benefit" aa0f ftIt n
The charge against CHARLES REEMELIN, o
holding to such opinion, has not one word o
truth to commendit That tbs the opinion
7 of many Republican voters" that the fran
chise should be restricted to those owninS
property, we have the word OF the editor
of their own organ, who ought to know
whether it is true or not. If true, anC
the Journal vouches for it, they look upoI
the laboring man as ''low--denad loaop anC
Il SnOulu iilOu, IucEcioIC3 10 pCiLHltOCu W pu
in ballot with his greasy hands, whei
the ballot may tax the property OF the ricl
for his benefit.p That such are the senti
ments of a portion of the so-called Repub
lican party, we knew, long before the Jour
nal proclaimed the fact. But it is not tn
class who voted against negro suffrage tina
holds to n such Opinions. 1t belong:
to the class who voted for negro suffrage
not against it-men who fear that, tn
white labo. ing men, already crushed will
unjust taxation will vote for men, in tn
future, who will pay off the national deb
in Greenbacks-the currency in which i
was contracted, in order to stop the interest
instead of increasing their burthen by pay
ling it in gold, thus Increasing the debt
by putting the difference between rlega
tender notes and coin in the pockets o
the owners of these untaXed bonds. Will
anegro voting population to back them
to vote as they direct, they hoped the, ent
might be ayerted.- But this cannot now b
done-Negro Suffrage is dead failure ii
o Ohio. The Legislature is Democratic, ant
Congress may pass as many amendment
to the Federal Constitution sit pleases t.
4 give them he,right to vote. Ohio, through
her Representatives in General .Assembl.
convened, will refuse to indorse them, an,
4 thus, Ohio will again give most emphati
no on Negro Suffrage.
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