The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-05-27


Western Reserve College !S2
Marietta -''.'''.' d5o
Mt. Union ooo
NharIin go |
Miami University. laI
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Otterbein University III
Wilberforce (color ............. 81 |
Antioch College. IoS
rot0, .s,6Ss |
OF these there are Freshmen, $40; Soph- |
mores, 344; Juniors, l64; Seniors, l59.
There is no record, unless the record OF
matriculation in each college, VIII ch will
show the proportion of voters among these
students. The matrieulation record will
show the ages. 1t is fair to presume that
the semi ,rs are most Of them voters, and
perhaps portion of the Juniors, 1t Is
doubtful whether there are more than zOo
voters in all. So the Democracy have
made very cheap exhibition of meanness
without very fruitful results. They made
an ambitious effort, but it yields pGnunous
returns.
Our statistics are gathered from the re-
mort of the State Commissioner OF Common
Schools for 1861 Ohio State Journal
Doubtful whether there are more than
200 voters in al among the students IN at
tendance on the Colleges In OHIO. linen
the Black and Tan Editors and Black and
Tan Students of this State have made con-
summate asses Of themselves IN their com-
n,ents and resolutions in regard to the law
that forbids adult male students voting at
the institutions of learning, where they are
in attendance merely for the purpose OF ac-
ouiring an education; but prescribes that IN
voting, they shall do as other voters are
compelled to do, vote at their places OF
permanent residence. These fellows berqt-
ed Senator Rex and the members OF the
General Assembly for enaeting this law IN
terms most outrageous. They were donounc-
ed as animated by narrow, bigoted, pre-
iudice against education. who sought IN
every way possible to shackle IN with dis
abilities, because it w@edetrimental to the
spread and perpetuation of Democracy. 1t
was alleged, without qualification, that the
college students who had thus provoked the
wrath of the Democratic General Assembly
in consequence of almost to q man voting
the Republican ticket, by reason OF their
pursuits, their study of political economy
and all that, were in an eminent degree
auali6ed-more so than other people whose
eduction was not acquired inside OF col
lege-to vote, and that in point Of capacity
to leeislate, they were greatly superior to
the Democratic members of the General
Assembly. No sneer was too contemplate
no reproach too mcnn--n0 vltuperaton
too outrageous--to be applied to the Demo
cratic members of the Legislature. On the
lth inst. the Ohio State Journal publish
ed what is digniGed with sensation head
lines as the Tenth gun of the Disfranchis-
ed"
All this abuse through Black and Tan ed
itorials and the resolutions OF Black and
Tan students was intended to impress upon
the minds of the people that alabollcal
and iudefcbsibe outrage was committed,
and committed for the hasest of party pur-
poses Even Representatives Garfield ,
from A-htabula Congressional Dfstriot,
made Judy Of himself in the Federal House
of REPRESENTATIVES on the 18th inst, touch
ing this matter. He sought occasion to say:
S'By some strange inscrutable dispensa~
| ton of Providenco-perhaps to make the
victory of the party Of freedom more GER
ain al the next election for the first time
ten years. the State Of OHIO has beea curs-
ed bu a Democratic Legislature. and il
became Democratic by very small ma
iority. Knowing very well that
whatever patriotism and education are. par
amount there is but smell hope for them
they passed law forbi lding any student il
the colleges and academies of Ohio, II not c
permanent resident Of the place achere the n
stitution as located, to vote. Now, there arr
twenty nine or thirty colleges in the Stat
of Ohio, and it is very we'll known tha
nine fenths of the students in all the colleges
academies and high schools in the Stat
are Republicans, and vote with the Unioi
party: and h,s Democratic Legislature hdr
ottenl 3fed to put out the light by deprlvin.
the Ohio students of all share in the legis
lation of the State
Mr. Garfield will see, upon re-examina
ton of bis remarks, that he condradct
himself. After stating the fact that th
law forbids any students of colleges Or acad
emics from voting at the colleges or acade
mics where they do not bold permanen
residence, circumstance which does no
disfraucaise them, but requires them to g
home to vote, and therein entorces on then
no greater hardship Or Inconvenience tha
is enforced upon all other legal voters in tn
State, MIR. Garfield mcndaciously charge
that the Ohio Democratic Legislature hav
attempted to pnt out the light Of pat
riotism and education" by depriving tn
Ohio students of ''all share in the legisla
ton of the State. Nine-tenths of th
students, Mr.. Garfield says, are Republ
caus. After an examination of the fact
and figures, the Ohio State Journal dt
clares that not over two hundred Of tn
Ohio Students are voters, of which nun
ber, according to Mr.. Garields estimate
one hundred and eighty are Republican vC
ters. So all this denunciaton and fuss ha
arisen from the fact that one hundred an
eighty Republican students must go hom
to vote. This is discriminating against &c
ueation, patriotism, light, morality and Gu
ture. IF, as the Journal contends, tn
Democratic Members OF the General A:
sembly, in enacting the students votIn
law, 'hayc made very cheap exhibition
Of mcanness without fruitful results, an
il their ambitious effort yields pepu
rious returns" it IS thus made apparen
, that the journal got its Black and Tan co
temporaries and the Black and Tan Stu
dents, and Mr.. Garfield to make consamat
asses of themselves in regard to this SUI
iect. Will the Journal INFORM the publ
whether they have herefrom realized fruit
full results, and whether their ambition
effort" yields returns that are renumel
ativc?
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