Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-20

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OF these there are Freshmen, $40; Soph-
mores, 344; Juniors, 164; Seniors, l59. There
is no record, unless the record of matric-
ulation in each college, which will show
the proportion of voters among these stu
dents. The matriculation record will show
the ages. 1t is fair to presume that the
seniors are most of them voters, and per-
haps a portion OF the juniors. 1t is doubt
full whether there are more than 200 voters
In all. So the Democracy have made a
very cheap exhibition of meanness with
out very fruitful results. They made all
ambitious effort, but it yields penurious re-
turns.
Our statistics are gathered from the re-
port of the State Commissioner of Com
mon Schools for 1S67.-Ohio State Journal.
Doubtful whether there are. more than
200 voters in all'' among the students in at
tendance on the Colleges in Ohio. Then
the Black and Tan Editors and Black and
Tan Students of this State have made con-
summate asses of themselves in their COM
ments 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 acquiring 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 be-
rated Senator REX and the members of the
General Assembly for enacting this law in
terms most outrageous. They were de-
nounced as animated by narrow, big
oted prejudice against education, who
sought in every way possible to
shackle it with disabilities, becaus g
it was detrimental to the spread
aud perpetuation of Democracy. 1t was
alleged, without qualification, that the col
lege students who had thus provoked the
wrat Democratic General Assem-
bly, in consequence of almost to a man vo-
ting the Republican ticket, by reason of
their pursuits, of their study of political
economy and all that, were in an eminent
degree qualified so than other peo-
pie whose education was not acquired in
side of a oollege-to vote, and that in
point of capacity to legislate, they were
greatly superior to the Democratic MEM
bers of the General Assembly. No sneer
was too contemptible-no reproach too
mean-no vituperation too outrageous-to
be applied to the Democratic members OF
the Legislature. On the 11th inst.s the
Ohio State Journal published what is dig
nitied with sensation head lines as the
"Tenth gun of the Disfranchised"
All this abuse through Black and Tan
editorials and the resolutions of Black and
Tan students was intended to impress upon
the minds of the people that diabolical
and indefensible outrage was committed,
and committed for the basest of party pur-
poses. Even Representative GARFIELD.
from the Ashtabula Congressional District,
made judy of himself in the Federal
House of Representatives on the 18th inst,
touching this matter. He sought occasion
to say:
"By some strange inscrutable dispensa-
tion of Providence-perhaps to make the
victory of the party of freedom more GER
tain at the next election-for the first time
in ten years, the State of Ohio has been cursed
By a Democratic legislature, and it became
Democratic by very small majority.
Knowing very well that wherever
patriotism and education are paramount,
there is but small hope for them, they
passed g law forbidding any student in the
colleges and academies of Ohio, If not
permanent resident of the place aohere the in
stitution is located, to vote. Now, there are
twenty nine or thirty colleges in the State of
tenths of the students in all the colleges,
academies and high schools in the State are
and vote with the Union party;
and this Democratic Legislature haze attempt
ed to put out the light by uepriving the Ohio
students of all share in the legislation OF
the State.''
Mr.. GARFIELD will see, upon re-exam-
ination of his remarks, that he contradicts
himself. After stating the fact that the
law forbids any students OF colleges or
a cademies from voting at the colleges or
academies where they do not hold per-
manent resiuence, a circumstance which
does not disfranchise them, but requires
them to go home to vote, and therein en-
forces on them no greater hardship or in
than is enforced upon all other
legal voters in the State, Mr.. GARFIELD
charges that the Ohio "Dem-
ocratic Legislature have attempted to put
out the light" OF patriotism and educa-
tion" by depriving the Ohio students OF
''all share in the legislation of the State
Nine-tenths of the students, Mr.. GARFIELD
says, are Republicans. After an exam
ination OF the facts and figures, the Ohio
State Journal declares that not over two
hundred of the Ohio Students are voters.
of which number, according to Mr.. CAR
FIELDS estimate, one hundred and eighty
are Republican voters. So all this denun-
citation and fuss has arisen from the fact
that one hundred and eighty Republican
students must go home to vote. This is
discriminating against education. patriot
ism, light, morality and culture. Ii, as the
Journal contends, the Democratic Mem
bers of the General Assembly, in enacting
the students voting law, shave made q
very cheap exhibition of meanness without
fruitful results" and if their ''ambitious
effort" 'yields penurious RETURNS" it is
thus made apparent that the Journal got
its Black and Tan contemporaries and the
Black and Tan Students, and Mr.. GAR
FIELD to make consummate asses of them
selves in regard to this subject. viii the
Journal inform the public whether they
have herefrom realized fruitful results
and whether their "ambitious effort
'yieids returns" that are remunerative?
Praying Against the NOmina-
tion of Ben Wade for Vice Presi-
dent.
By a special dispatch. we learn that the
Reverend Faculty of Wesleyan University
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