Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-15
The constitutional Amendment

The Constitutional Amendment.
To carry the Negro Suffrage Amendment
to the Constitution of Ohio, it must receive a
majority of the votes given at the election
for members of the General Assembly, at
which the Amendment is passed upon. Any
vote not given for Negro 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 or transient causes.
In the law providing for taking the sense
ofthe people on the Negro Suffrage Amend
Tnent, the Legislature of last winter, failed,
or neglected, to provide separate polls, and
hence no one can vote for State and county
officers without his vote being counted for
or against Negro Suffrage. The Abolition
Ticket will be printed with the words
Constitutional Amendment" giving Ne
groes the right to vote, Yesi while those of
the Democracy will be printed ''Constitu-
tional Amendment" giving Negroes the
right to vote with 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
all other matters, giving them a political
equality with the whites.
The Democratic Ticket, headed by Judge
THURMAN, must of necessity be known as
the "ANTI-NEGRo SUFFRAGE TICKET" be-
cause every man on it is opposed to So
cial and political equality with the negro
rice, and every man who votes the Demo-
cratic Ticket, votes fair and square against
giving the African race the right to vote.
No man not willfully blind can be de-
ceived into voting for Negro Suffrage who
is opposed to it, unless he votes the Repub-
lican Ticket and for Negro Suffrage MEM
bers of the Legislature. He who tears the
words Constitutional Amendment Yes"
from the Republican Ticket, or even strikes
out the word '.Yes" and inserts "No" in its
place, still votes for Negro Suffrage, if the
political party which has adopted the Ne
gro as its God and his political equality
as its platform, is successful in carrying
the Legislature. And for this reason: If
the Constitutional Amendment fails in
Ohio, the proposition now pending in Con-
gress so to change the Constitution 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 num-
Der of States, it will become the supreme
law of the land. All that is necessary for
State to adopt an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States is for its Leg
islature by vote to agree to it and hence
although Negro Suffrage may be voted
down in Ohio by one hundred thousand
majority, yet, if majority of Negro SUIT
frage Republicans is elected to the Leg
islature-and not a man in any county of
Ohio, is allo,oed to be a candidate of that par
ty Jor the Legislature unless he is in fauor of it
then Ohio can, and will without doubt, be
a Negro Suffrage State, and Negroes thus,
against the will of the people, expressed
at the ballot box, will be allowed all the
rights that the white citizen now enjoys.
The only remedy against this attempt to
thwart the popular will of the people OF
o lio is not only to vote against Negro Suf-
frage, but against those who advocate it.
Judge THURMAN elected Governor, and the
Legislature Democratic, the last hope of
the Negro Equality advocates is blown in
to the air.