The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-09-29
THE RADICAL PRESS OF THIS
DISTRICT. .--.s.

DISTRICT. .,.
The MarieHaRegistcr last year pro-
claimed the following:
"The Negro Of 1867 is a Man
And the Democracy even of
Monroe County (llke the rebels
|of the South) will yet be fore.
led to recognize DEMOCRATIC
doctrine REGISTER,
radical.
The Visible Admixture Bill, passed
by the last Legislature, was to ''preserve
the purity of the elections" by prevent
ing Negroes from voting. The Radical
press of this District shouted Justify for
their Negro Ravishers. Read:
"By the passage OF this bill the Dem
ocratic Legislature of Ohio have placed
the cap stone upon the column of infamy
which they have been erecting since their
Convention in January last"
The above is from the Athens Mes
senger, an intensely Radical sheet, whose
editor, in his salutatory a short time
since, said:
"What indeed is Republicanism It
is a term that wants no positive signifi
cation. 1t is that form of government
which is expressly lodged in the people.
1t is the legitimate FAITH of the friends
of equal law and equal rights (political)
for all men,"
From the Meigs County Telegraph
comes another wall, which means, if it
means anything, that the editor is sorry
he was not born Negro, or at least one
the hue Of tanned hog skin:
s'The Visible Admixtrre BILL as it
has been called, has passed both branches
of the Ohio Legislature, and for pure,
deyilish malignancy it exceeds anything
that ever before came under our notice,
dignified with the name of a statute"
The Marietta Register mourns the
loss of suffrage to its "Man of 1861
as the whangdoodle mourns over the
loss of its first born:
''To disfranchise voters who have in
them tinge Of African blood.
"Time enough to speak of these vii
lainous measures hereafter"
Last year when the Negro Amend
ment was before the people the editor of
the Morgan County Herald, Sept 6,
1867, said:
sAn the reasons why white men vote,
exist in favor of the black mans vot-
ing"
A case was made up to set aside and
defeat the laudable object of the AdmiX-
ture Bill. 1t was taken before the Rad
ical Supreme Court of Ohio, in May,
1867, and decision rendered, adverse
to the Bill, that
''Male citizens having a eisib1e admi.r-
ture of AFRICAN BLOOD, hut in whom
the white blood preponderates, arc
WHITE MALE CITIZENS within the
meaning of the Constitution of Ohio,
AND HAVE THE SAME RIGHT TO
VOTE AS CITIZENS OF PURE
WHITE BLOOD" |
That decision was made for the ben
eft of the Radical party of Ohio, which
persists in polling Negro votes. r
Voters, when party and its Judges
on the bench viii ruthlessly trample
under their feet all laws, for party pur-
poses, is it any wonder, outrages like
the following, are occurring every day
North, as well as South?
LAwLEss CONDUCT OF NEGROES IN GEORGIA.
| SAVANNAH September 2-The negroes
on the outskirts of the city are causing
trouble. They are armed and drilling,
and nightly stop farmers on the roads
leading to the city. In consequence,
the country people come to market only
in parties of ten to twenty. A boy has
mysteriously disappeared, and is sup
posed to have been murdered by the ne
groes. n
DIABoLIcAL OUTRAGE BY NEGRO IN
szBRooKFIELD, CoNNEcTIoUT-SCENEs OF
THE SOUTH REPEATED IN New En-
Il GLAND.
| Brookfeld, Connecticut, was the seen,
of a fearful crime on Friday last. A
negro, suspected of being one who hat
Just been let out of Jail at Danbury, call
! ed at the house of Mr.. Wildmau, il
Brookfield, and finding no one at hom'
but Mrs. Wildman seized her and at
tempted to violate her person. Th'
house being at some. distance from hel
lneighbors it was some time before lie
screams for help could be heard A
last a woman heard them and proceeded
to the house, when she was met at tn
door by the demon and struck senseles
by large stone. He then returned t
his victim, and after a severe struggle