Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-01-02

Ireemen laboye twenty-one years OF
agel shall have the right OF
suffrage" \ \ \ = \ = =
NORTH CARoLINA.-"That all freemen
Of the age of q years, who have been
inhabitants of any one county with
the State II months Immediately e
ceeding the day of election : and
at the day of election shall have the
right to vote"
GEoRGLA.-"The electors of members
of the general assembly shall be cIti-
zens and inhabitants ofthe State, and
shall have attained the . of q. <
DELAWARE. THE representatives
shall he chosen annually by the citizens
residing in the sever Ieounties respect
Ills well known mat all the other
States North Of De ware and Mary
land by a Ike gep-ral law extended
the right Of suffrage . all citizens, and
by a like uniform property and resi-
dent qualification.
SoUTH CARoLINA-The only State
OF the Is during the revolutionary war
chargeable with, loving aid to the
enemy" and extended the hight
of suffrage thus: Every free s0kite man
OF the age of p year being a citizen.
shall have a ! ght to vote for a
member or members to serve in either
branch of the lie stature" X <
South CarOiina wa at the formation
OF the government the only State OF the
IL who excluded tie c0Lored freeman
from the right OF sIffrage, and gave
evidence in that earl, period ofher de-
termination to repu4iate in that State
the cardinal principi-s adopted by the
founders OF our government, and TO
make stQUsTyinstead OfEberty perpetual.
The pertinacity auth which South
Carolina clung to he idea of making
sLaOery-the corner st"ne of the Repub-
lie finally brought over to her policy
the other slave-holding States, and
within less than hall a century the
other slave States hseIng adopted the
South Carolina slavery creed, the en-
influence of slavery came to be used in
the restriction of suffrage, by introdu-
cling the South Carolina phrase "lVhits
citizens" into the constitution of new
States, and, by amendments, into ma
ny of the old.
But now when the nation has been
plagued with all the direful calamities
OF a four-years war. an acknowledged
result of the great i~nfraction of the
cardinal principles OF our free govern
ment by the slavery propagandists, it
seems passing strange that our politi-
clans should still, in utter disregard Of
the past, be willing to follow SOUTH
CARoLINAs precedent. and adopt her
policy in regard to Suffrage.
1t is a matter of regret to see an Ohio
Senator at this time adopting the view
of u governor, urging the admis-
sion of new States with the right of
suffrage restricted 10y the old South
Carolina prefix will te" to citizens
word which excludes nearly a quarter
million of soldiers who put their lives
in peiil to defend our government and
at the same time permits the soldiers
who waged war and bore arms for the
overthrow of government, to exer-
else the right o. suffrage. 1t is
to be regretted that two Ohio
Senators should pro- ss their readiness
to admit South Carolina and all other
States, with he old South Car
DINA restriction q" hite." excluding
the loyal majority f 10000 colored
citizens Of that S;.s'e, and admitting
the diSLoyaL minority of 100000 white
to the exercise of t. right of suffrage;
and TO exclude the only loyal class South,
BY giving to the disloyal class the er-
;hHSiUe right of suffrag e. S.