Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-07-04

ment is the equal right of every citizen in his
person and property, and in their management
Try by this a tally every provision of. our
constitution and see if it hangs directly on the
will of the people. Reduce your legislature
to convenient number for tull but orderly
discussion. Let ecery man erho fights or pays,
exercise hts Just and 6quM right tp their election"
,jefersons Works, vol. I, page II.
And again, in a letter written April
! 10, 1924, he said:
However nature may, by mental or physi-
cal tisqualifications, have marked infants and
the weaker sex for the protection rather than
| the direction of Government, yet among DseIa
soltO either pay fight Tor their country no line
Of right can Be drd,on. Works, vol. T. page 345.
And to claim that persons of visible
admixture, who by the laws of the state
were compelled to work on the roads and
public highways, should always vote,
was strictly in accordance with the A
merlcan doctrine that there should be no
taxation without representation.
This amendment, however, was also
voted down, and Jefferson and his doc
trine repudiated by strict party vote OF
yeas A., nays 54. The republicans in
this instance standing by Jefferson, and
the democrats opposing him.
Mr.. Lee, of Deleware, moved further
to amend section IL, where it was made
the duty of the Sheriff of the county to
furnish sufficient posse to enforce the
visible admixture law, by adding the
words,-"or any other Laao Of Mis State
regulating the qualifications Of Uoters," "
which was, as usual, voted down. They
cared not straw about any other stat
ute, whether it were enforced CT not,
only so the visible admixture bill was
passed in all its original deformity.-
Again, after clause in the same section
providing against the possibility Of sim
oedtng challenge under the provisions
Of his act" MIR Lee moved to insert the
words,-or the reception Of loyal cotes,"
which was also voted down. Thus pro.
claiming they would rather hundred
white men, even, should be deprived of
their loyal right to vote rather than one
seyen-elghth 'visible admixture citizen,
though a loyal man-an intelligent tax
payer, or soldier wounded in the defense
OF his country, perhaps, should be per-
mitted to cast the ballot, his State by
hor courts and laws declared him entl-
titled to.
MIR. Warren, of Logan county then
moved the following as additional in
structions
Add another section in the proper or
der and place, making provision that if
it any persons hereafter willfully do any
act against the freedom of speech or Of
the press, or against the purity of any
election, such persons shall be guilty of
infamous crime, and upon conviction
thereof shall be liable to line and impris-
onment.
This was also promptly voted down
by the democracy.
Mr.. Garfield, OF Geauga Co., then NOV
ed to amend as follows:
Add to section 5, the following: "If
the judges of election shall be satisfied
that the person offering to vote is
white male citizen of tie United States
and has all the other qualifications of
an elector as prescribed by law and
the constitution, they shall receive his
VOTE"
To vote against the above amendment
was vote clearly and directly to vio-
late the constitution OF the State they
had solemnly sworn to support at the
Legislature, as well rs TO counsel and en-
courage the transgression of the laws
made by every General Assembly that
ever, previously, held a session. TO
this very just and statesman-like amend
ment, So Democrats-the entire strength
of the party present-voted No, and
45 Republicans, all in the House voted
Yea.
The final amendment offered to the
bill was by Mr.. Eames, of Ashtabula,
viz:
To exclude from the elective franchise
all who have borne arms against the
Government during the late war.
Here, AS in the Senate, the Democracy
were compelled to show their hand.
They did so, by declaring they were
united in the desire, as party, for the
"rebel who had borne arms against the
Government to vote;' but opposed TO
the soldiers who .toaGght for the Govern
ment, and it may be was MANNED and
crippled for life, by one of their favorite
JEFF. Davis's soldiers, exercising the right
and privilege of a citizen in country
he had split his blood to defend and
save. Such is Ohio Democracy.
On motion of Mr.. Pennisten, of Pike
Co., "a Democrat), the previons question
was demanded.
The question was then upon the pas
sage of the bill, upon which the yeas and
nays were ordered and resulted-yeas
So, nays 45, as follows Democrats
voting in the affirmative Republicans
in the negative: Yeas-55 ,Nays-45.
We have thus, at some length taken
from the official proceedings of the Gen
eral Assembly, the record of tie Democ-
racy made in the passage of the most
outrageous and unconstitu-
tional law ever enacted in any State.
They, themselves, k,aeao it to be so, aud
in order to cover it over, passed another
yillainous bill, disqualifying the Supreme
Court of the State from examining into
the character or unconstitutionality of
the law in question. .,a
Every amendment proposed by the
was offered in good faith,
hoping that some one of the number
would carry, thereby breaking, to some
IL