Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-04-22
Columbus Letter.

Since I last wrote, quite q number OF
bills have passed both branches, three
ffths being local in application. Outside
of the several political measures which
the Democrats have driven through in
the especial interest of their party
comparatively few general laws, OF
merit. have been passed. Their great
purpose is to legislate so as to cut down
the Republican vote. Their visible ad-
mixture bills are intended to disfran-
chise Republican voters, so is also their
bill to disfranchise students attending
schools and colleges in this State. They
know that the eolored people sympa-
tbize with liberty, hence will not sup
port a party of pro-slavery principles
Thew also know that nine-tenths OF the
Young men attending the colleges.
academies and normal schools IN this
State are in sympathy with the enllgnt-
ened, humane and progressive prInci-
ples of the Republican party, and there
fore vote with that party. The Demo
cratic representatives in the Ohio legis-
lature. in their mad, blind struggle 10
gain political ascendency, venture to
d~isfranchise hundreds of noble young
men who are struggling to acquire an
education. Young men, in some in
c who have no home, no resi-
dence. save that of their alma mater.
Under Democratic rule in Ohio, it is a
crime TO have a colored complexion,
and also a crime to attend institutions
of learning. When sparty has sunken
so low as to find it necessary to resort
tosuch measures to keep its head above
xater, it is quite evident that it has no
confidence in the virtue and intelll-
of the people" 1t prefers
ignorance, as bad men prefer darkness,
because its deeds are evil.
It is believed that the bill which the
Democrats passed through the House
a few days since to exclude colored
children from the common schools Of
the State, will not pass the Senate.
Two or three Democrats regard If as too
infamous to become a law, and say
hey will not vote for it. The fact is,
the Democrats came here to wreak put
their long pent up wrath against the
colored people, and have been in con-
slant pursuit of them like blood-hounds
after a poor fugitive. The contempt
BILE trihing of that party, this session,
is graphically set forth in the following
puugent criticism which we find in the
editorial columns of the STATE Journal:
The reader of Gulliver's Travels will
remember with what infinite pains the
Iilliputjans worked, to restrain the
Iooomotion snd restrict the liberty of
that ~yeracious traveller, when he made
his appearance in their country.
The Lilliputian legislators of our
State Debating Society have a CULVER
on their hands, and the task of tying
him I'D so he cannot move hand OF foot
has occupied them al winter, to the
exclusion of all other business except
that of drawing their salaries punctu-
ally. and making bi-weekly holiday
visits to their homes
The giant Of our legislators is the
-Colored Person-or, to put it in the
Democratic vernaculer, The Niger.
Finding the Colored Person laid out
nv the defeat of the Constitutional
amendment, all these little pismire
politicians have industriously crawled
over his PROSTATE carcass, fixing q little
cord here and a little stake there, with
the design of keeping him down forever.
Rinderpest Baber has been detailed
on special service, to assist in the work,
and stick his Visible Admixture Bill in
wherever he found an opening.
True. il is a dangerous service these
Democratic knights have set for them
selEes-that of attacking the PROSTATE
Colored Person-snd 1t is perhaps as
well that some doughty warrior like
Rinderpest, who has seen actual service
lin the Pay Department. should be put
forward as forlorn hope.
His giant intellect conceived the
plsn Of requiring a man to swear who
and what his grandmother was, and
state on his personal knowledge when
she was married, befeEe be should be
considered eligible as a voter, unless he
Would agree TO vote the Democratic Tor
whitel ticket. This would be prims
facie evidence of white blood.
The great onundrum of the day is
~ho is your grandmother? And the
msn who cannot show that he had q
thorough bred grandmother by descent
shall no longer be a voter. This Is
taking an Unfair advantage in favor Of
the Democracy Of the peace sex, but
what will not a party do IN order to re-
tain political power?
However, we have not space 10 note
all the little stakes that have been
driven about the helpless COlored Per
son Nr. Baker, of Darke, drove the
Lost one. 1t vas proposed to issue to
each discharged soldier a card of beau-
tifnI design. embodying the thanks of
+ba Stste To her Sons who went forth 10
battIe other States, including thrifty
Cornect;cut and God forsaken New
Tersev had done as much. 1t was
little enough to do, even Tor q Demo
cratic Legislature. Mr.. Baker dlscov-
ed a cbsnceto load down the Colored
Per.on still further, and moved to IN
sert the word white. Another little
stake driven.
II is nothing that the colored man is
made to pay taxes without representa-
tion. Ii Is little that white children
are schooled at the expense OF black
taxpayers. tits Y to g borne that
The coiored man, who had never been
admitted to any privileges in our gov
eminent. was invited TO take up arms
snd 6ght for the nation when its eX-
-.-,Iy;,n IN tho balance