Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-06

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countenance, in which the generous soul
of the man was seen-his earnestness of
manner and fine delivery, marked him as
an orator of no common fame. He was
loudly cheered, and yet the very men whose
burst forth, seemed 10th to give
vent to single cheer, lesta single word
the orator spoke should be lost.
Soldiers VOting-SOldiers Starving.
.Dispel his sophistry. in vain
The creatures at his daily work again" |
The Journal has another spasm on the |
repeal of the law which allows soldiers at
the. so-called, Soldiers Home at Day ton, no
matter where their residence, to vote at
township, State and Presidential elections,
in the election precinct where the institu-
ton is located. The Constitution of Ohio
says a man to vote must be free white
male citizen of the United States, and must
have resided and had his home in Ohio one
year next preceding the election. This
latter clause Of the Constitution, the law,
which the last Legislature blotted from the
statute book repealed, and under its pro-
visions man employed or residing in that
institution could vote i'll Ohio if his resi-
dence was in Indiana, and then, by taking
the train to Indiana, could vote in that
State the same day, and no power on earth
could punish him for this double voting.
Every inmate of the institution, under the
law as it now stands, If he is voter in
Ohio, and makes his home at the so-called
Soldiers Home, is voter, and nojudge of
lola do oil ~ l.;
1t is new doctrine, one much more to be
''honored in the breach than in the observ-
ance," that a law of the Legislature, even if
it is passed by Radical Legislature, can
repeal and set aside the plain requirements
of the Constitution.
| The men that control this Soldiers Home
have made it Soldiers Prison, for men
of suffrage unless they vote as the men
that control it deem right and proper
Without other cause than that of an ankle
ty to hear Democratic speakers, and for at
tending Democratic meeting, wounded
soldiers have, within the last month, been
discharged from the institution, ,and yet the
Jonrnal editor whines like sick puppy,
because the Constitution is not violated,
in order to allow the men who committed
| this outrage, to vote in Ohio all the soldiers
from other States they may choose to al
low to board few days at the institution,
and when they vote in Ohio to send them
to their realhomes TO vote again.
Just at this particular moment, when
the Journal finds the soldiers who fought for
the Union still anxious to do battle for it
by voting for the gallant BLAIR and for
SEYMOUR, its editor has much to say of
'maimed veterans, with three OF their four
limbs, perhaps, retting on some rebel bat
tlefield;" but when the noble veteran of
Ohio, sunk into poverty and suffering for
bread, and the widow of those who fell in
battle, were suffering for even the necessa-
ries of life, the money raised by taxation
to provide for their comfort was taken from
them by the last Radical Legislature and
by the Radical members of the Board of
Fund Commissioners and used for another
and different purpose-this stealing (for
that is robbery which is unlawfully taken)
the editor of the Journal has no word to
censure-then, the rights of the 'smaimed
veteran, with three of his four limbs, per-
haps, rotting on some rebel battlefield" !"
had no word in that paper against the rob-
berry of the $SO0O00 raised for his benefit,
but taken and used for another and wide
ly different purpose.
To refuse to aid in violation of the
Constitution of Ohio, is crime in the eyes
of this Radical editor, but to take food
from the mouth of the crippled soldier,
his wife and children-to rob the widow
and the orphan of that which justly be-
longed to them-to leave over six thousand
soldiers penniless in Ohio, to starve, for
the money raised tor their benefit, and
which, when raised, was as much their
own as if it were deposited in an honest
bank to their credit, is virtue that the
Journal can see no reason to censure.
tits because the Radical leaders have been
false to their professions of love for the
Union, shown by their efforts to dis
rupt it-false to their promises to care for
the soldiers and their families, shown by
their transfer of the Soldiers Relief Fund
false to their profession of respect for
the rights of soldiers, as shown by the ex-
pulsion Of crippled soldiers from the So
called Soldiers Home for attending Demo-
cratic meetings, that has made more than
three-fourths of the White Boys in Blue in
this city-veterans who fought in every
battle from Bulls Run to LEE and JOHN
sToN's surrender, Democrats who will vote
for SEYMOUR and BLAIR-for the Flag,
with all its stars, and for the States, with
ali their rights--tor the Constitution and
the rights OF white men to rule white
Republic.
The protection which Radical leaders
give to the soldiers families and to the
crippled soldiers, now the war is closed, is
the protection which the vulture gives to
the lamb-the protection which avarice
gives to honest poverty-the protection
which the inhuman master gives to the
horse whose strength has been worn ont in
his service, and who is turned out to per-
ish, because there is no more work in
him.
Such facts as these make the White Boys
in Blue a tower of strength in the present
canvass. God bless them, and may their
ballots save the Republic, which their bull
lets, in consequence of Radical treason to
the Constitution, failed to do.
Meetings In Union County.
W. M. RANDALL and R. w. THOMPSON
addressed the Seymour and Blair Club, OF
Darby township, at Unionville Centre, on
the evening of September 26th. The hall
was full and overfiowing with conserva-
tive voters. The Democracy of Darby are
wide awake to their interests, and are