Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-05-27
Three Infamous COpPerhead

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Senator-elect Thurman had drafted
9 bill, which the Copperhead majority
OF the Ohio Legislature is expected to
pass, ''to prohibit the Supreme Court
from considering cases out of their
order" The object of the bill is to
prevent three infamous acts which that
Infamous Legislature has passed from
getting before the Supreme Court of
Ohio previous TO next falPs election to
test their constitutionality, as they
well know that those acts will not stand
Judicial scrutiny for a moment. The
first of those laws is the Visible Ad-
mixture" act, which DISTINGUISHES every
dark complexioned white man who
cannot prove that he is of pure Euro
pean descent. IL matters not if his
grandmother was an octoroon aud his
grandfather a pure white, he is dis
franchised, though he may have been
a legal voter since the admission of
Ohio into the Union. A man is also
DISTINGUISHED if he cannot prove that
he was born in lawful Wedlock. This
new Copperhead law presumes that
every such man is a negro. If it be
enforced a good many Democrats will
find themselves suddenly stripped of
the elective franchise. Men of less
than half negro blood have been voters
in Ohio for thirty odd years, by a decis-
ion of a Democratic bench of Supreme
Judges. This Copperhead disfranchis-
ing act, therefore, undertakes to nulli-
f. the decision of the highest court in
the State a. to who may vote under
the Constitution of Ohio.
The second act in question disfran-
chises all the students and professors
Of all the colleges, seminaries and
academies in Ohio, which has created
a tremendous indignation in every
school of learning in the Buckeye
State. 1t has been a rule in Ohio
always that students who were single
men were legal voters 10 the precinct
where the college is located, if they are
citizens of the State. But, as four
ffths Of the young men who are seek
ing an education are opposed to cop
perheadism, rebeldom, Pendleton and
Reputation, the Copperheads of the
Ohio Legislature who happen to be in a
majority for the first time in fourteen
years, have passed an act disfranchls-
ing those young men, unless they
leave school and travel back to the
places where they previously resided,
and stay there for a certain length oil
time before the election. 1t is calcu-
lated by the trainers of this villalnous
act that it will deprive six to eight
thousand young men of their suffrage,
and weaken the vote for General Grant
to nearly that extent. But the scoun-
drels have oTer-reached themselves
and damaged their own bad cause,
These young men thus degraded all
have friends and relatives who sympa-
thize with them, and will resent the
wrong and indignity, and help to pun.
ish the authors. Every young man in
the State possessing a spark Of man
hood or decency viii espouse the cause
of the disfranchised students, and
thousands Of votes will be lost to the
Copperheads for committing this das.
tardly deed.
The third in the list of acts of perse
AeACA v OBAAAOA oahG Capo luC CAlDd1
of Tillainy. 1t DISTINGUISHES all the
worm and wounded, battered and
bruised, legless and armless veterans
in the Soldiers Home in Dayton
This cruel outrage was perpetrated fol
the purpose Of securing the election tc
Congress next fall-of whom does the
reader suppose? Of Clement l.. -YaE
L~andigham, the traitor and REBEL There
are 400 wounded soldiers thus disfran.
chised and prevented from recording
their adherence of the traitor Vallan.
digham. 1t is Pendleton's body-guard
which has enacted those measures. Is
it safe to entrust the government of q
country in the hands of ignorant,
vicious, despotic brutes like the Cop,
perheads of the Ohio Legislature
What decent honest mans liberties are
safe, if rufians of that description are
allowed to make laws? The people
mourn when the wicked rule Chicago
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