Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-04-16


to parentage shall be received, unless th
parents are first proved TO have been mar
fried. So difficult at times is the direel
proof Of marriage even In the first genera
tion, that Courts admit proof by reputation
when dissolving by decree Of divorce, tbe
most sacred Of ties, but by this bill, posi-
tive proof Of the marriage Of parents in the
second and third generation is demanded
before the challenged vOter--who perhaps
has been voting for a quarter Of century
can be allowed TO deposit his voiel
More than this. Any party challenging
may call and have examined other wit
nesses, Without limitation in number,
amounting in number to hundreds, il it
may seem to him proper, and if any one Of
the witnesses interrogated in bebalfof the
party challenged, shall refuse TO answer
fully any question as prescribed, the judg
es shall reject the vote Of the challenged
party. And what is the remedy if vote
is wrOngfully rjectedf We cannot con.
dense the shameful conditions upon which
justice is TO he obtained, as set forth in
section ten. 1t is enough to know that
before the injured party shall be entitled
to recover, he must fulfill the impossible
conditions and present the absolutely un-
ObtAinable proof of his pedigree, that was
required when the cause Of action accrued,
and the failure in this, as in the first in.
stance, Of a witness-not called by himself
to answer iully any question put to him,
will defeat his action and secure the tri-
umph ofthose who wroDged him aud rob
bed him of his rights.
Language fails to convey an adequate
conception Of the contemplate deception,
narrOwness and meanness Of this bill
Can any one with the least admixture Of
eolored blood. can one in twenty Of those
having no adnixture Of African blood.
present the proof necessary to entitle him
to vote under this bIll7 Will any man
v it'll q particle of self.respect submit TO
be publicly questioned as to his own lie.
gitimacy, and on failure to prove that his
grand parents were Of pure white blood
and were lawfully married, to rest under
the imputation that they were Of African
blood and were not lawfully married. Le-
gitimacy of birth is the last test of citizen.
ship set up by the bastard and bogus De-
mOcrscy. PERSONS father or grand-fa-
ther may have been thief, murderer, or
traitor, and no one under this bill can
object TO his vote; but if there is taint Of
LEGITIMACY or a faint of negro blood, his
vote is rejectet and a public record made
of the ground upon which ic is
rejected, to disgrace himself and
his descendants through all time.
If we can conceived case possible in which
a challenged voter is able to present the
proof Nc to pedigree required BY this act.
and his vote received, public record is
still made of the fact that the voter was
challenged on account of a "visible admix- !
ture of African blood" So that in any
event stigma is fixed upon every man
whose baseSt enemy may see fit to ehal- !
lenge his vote, and from such challenge (
and such a stigma, no man can assert that |
he himselfis safe. 4
The purpose and intent Of this act is to
keen all against whom there is the least
as to the purity of their blood,
rom the polls. By this bin of attainder
md intimidation, and by threats on the
art of th6ee who have been for years the
.nemies of the children and descendants,
n the remotest degree, of the colored race,
his bastard Democracy deprives of the
ightof sufrageall against whom the least
uspicion can be aroused, and thus pun. !
shes them tor having heretofore voted with
he friends instead Of the enemies of their
ace. .#
The inhumanity of this legislative act,
he malevolenee and malignity to which
is inquisitorial character will give scope,
is triumphant assertion of the inequality
If men, each forms n subject of curious
peculation. 1t is injustice systematized,
he creation of disorder by law, the out
awry of a race, the las stroke of defeated
ppresson, proclamation of defiance
gainst courts and constitutions, bigotry
nd barbarism organized into code. 1t
3 the true Gaping stone of the Democrat
9 edifee of rascality and infamy.-ColunI-
us MOraiag Journal.