Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-18

THE Resembling of OhIo's Consent
80 the Negro Suffrage Amend
ment to she Federal COnstilu.
tiOn.
The Columbus correspondent of the
Wydndot Democratic Union, in noticing the
passage of the Resolutions resembling
Ohio's consent, as given by the late Legis-
lature, to the Negro Suffrage amendment to
the. Constitution of the United States,
says:
Already has the present General Assem-
bly, taken most important step in the di-
rection pointed out by the people in the
elections last fall. by resembling the joint
resolution adopted by the last Legislature.
-atitying and assenting to the Constitutional
Amendment proposed by the 9th Congress,
known as the 14th article of the Constitu-
tion of the United States. The resembling
OF said resolution and the withdrawal of
the assent of the State of Ohio to said pro-
posed amendment, was accomplished yes
terday. by strict party vote. Your read
ers may wish to know by what authority
Ohio can withdraw her assent from an
amendment to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, after it has been adopted by her
Legislature. By virtue of a precedent in
the action of the Republican Legislature OF
1884, (by reference to page 100 OF Ohio
Laws ct 1861, vol. $50 your readers will
find joint resolution adopted by The Cen
eral Assembly of that year, ratifying pro-
posed amendmentt to the Constitution Of the
| United States. It is known as Tom Cor
wins amendment, which prohibits any; fu-
ture amendment of that instrument, which
| will give Congress the power to interfere
with the domestic institutions of any State,
&c.,-and by a further reference to page
lS2 of Ohio Laws of 1868, vol. 81, you can
find the resolutions of that year rescinding
the above cited resolutions. ] am thus ex-
| piicit In explanation of our action, so that
ifany of our Abolition friends, deny ouI
authority. any of your readers can polnl
them to their own action for an example
| So much for the precedent which shows
that the resembling OF similar resolution
solemnly passed, was commenced by the
party that now denounce as wrong similar
action. ,..-.,.., .,-e-..,.s ,...--7s
The Protest of the Abolition members
complains that the previous question was
demanded 10 cut off debate, and that it was
| the first time that question was ever de
manded in an Ohio Senate. So far from
this being the fact, the writer of this has
seen that question demanded time and
again in the Ohio Senate, by the party op-
posed to the Democracy on party questions,
but never when it was SO clearly right to
do so, as In the instance complained Of in
the Protest of the Negro Suffrage members
of the Ohio Senate as entered. upon the
Journals. ,.r..tt..ss i..ss .,of.sa,s' s-,.,,,.s
,ov,fe fr tho EpfInraI Cnnctitn-
ton require the assent of three-fourths of
all the States. With Ohio added, the
Negro Suffrage amendment of last winter
received three-fouths of twenty-seyen
States, leaving the ten States of the South
out in the, cold. Pending the proposition
of the Ohio Legislature to rescind the con-
sent given by the-la Legislature, the
Radical majority in Congress introduced
into the Senate joint resolution to declare
that three fourLhs of twenty-seyen was
sufficient to amend the Constitution of the
United States, thus ignoring States OF the
Union, four of them-Virginia. North
and South Carolina and Georgia-of the
original States which formed the Constitu-
tion of the Union, which Radicals now
seek to trample under foot a1
The so-called Republican Senators re-
sorted to filibustering to gain time, SO as
to prevent the resembling Resolution from
passing until after Congress had declared
the amendment part and parcel of the Con-
stitution. This would have been virtual
defeat of the resembling resolution, for no
State has right to take back its assent to
an amendment to tho Constitution after it
has been declared carried and engrafted in
the Constitution. sio II 1afi5 -a 8z
To prevent the minority from thus
thwarting the majority. the previous ques-
tion was demanded and sustained, and it is in
precisely similar. cases, that the le1 Parlia-
ns;ntari intended to cut off all debate, in
order that the clearly ascertained wishes
of the majority might not, by delay, be
rendered an abortion. It was successful
The resolutions passed-Ohio's assent was
withdrawn. Congress dare not now pass
its resolution, which even if Ohio's
assent had not been withdra avn
would have been a fraud Negro
Suffrage has no place whatever in the Com
stitution of the United States. So much
for the previous question in the Ohio SEN
ate, and the necessity for resembling and
Withdrawing the assent of the people of
Ohio to proposition which they gave fifty
thousand maj jority against at the late elec-
ton. and in SO doing changed Ohio from q
Radical to Democratic State.