Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-04-17
Education Made Odious.


The Democratic General Assembly
having pretty thoroughly put down the
African is now trying its hand upon
the white man. Its first assault is nat
urally directed against the Intelligent
class who have dared to invade Demo-
cratic principles BY trying to acquire
an education. These it proposes to rob
Of the franchise, and a bill has passed
the Senate which practically denies
them that privilege,
The animus of this diaballcal sssault
on intelligence may be best Understood
by a brief expose Of the provisions Of
the bill. 5 ea5ca
It's first section re-enacts- so much of
the present law as requires a voter to
have resided one year in the State, thir-
ty days in the county and twenty in the
township prior to offering his vote.
But it allows the head Of "a family to
vote who has resided in the State aud
county the requisite time, though he
may haze came into the to1ouslstp only the
dag prior to The. election.
The same section forbids that any
person shall gain a residence for voting
in any township who shall have come
into it to attend any school, seminary,
academy, college, university, or other
institution of learning, egasIess his pareats
had an actual residence IN the tolvnsIip at
the time sltch attendance commenced.
tn the same section are specified a
series OF questions which shall be pro-
pounded to every voter challenged on
the ground Of attendance at an institu-
ton Of learning. The questions are
substantially As follows:
l. Were you a qualified elector Of
this township when you commenced at
tending college? .......
2. Did you come into the township
to attend college -T
8. Did your parents actually reside
in this township when you commenced
such attendance
4. Did your parents remove to this
township with the intention to make it
their residence at or before the time you
commenced such attendance?
Tbs penal clause of the bill imposes
penalties for voting upon three classes
ofpersons: /, those who have not re-
sided in the township twenty days; 2,
those who have come into it for tempo
rary purposes merely, and 8, those who
have come to attend an institution OF
learning, thus clearly distinguishing
the latter class from temporary resi-
dents and indeed from all others and
making them an especial target for
Democratic venom.
All the iniquity embodied in this bill
cannot be pointed out in the short space
of a single article, and we shall not at
tempt now it's thorough ventilation. II
would disgrace a colony of Hotteutots,
to say nothing Of a free and intelligent
people. lis a blow at civilization, a
rufhanly assault on learning, and there
is not sane man who does not know
that it IS made solely because the large
majority Of students atour colleges are
in the habit Of voting in accordance
with the advancing civilization of the
age and not 10 suit the retrogressive
Democracy. ''These colleges are abo-
lition holes which we are going to stops
was the remark ofa Democratic member
in reference to the bin, and it fifty sig
mites the spirit and purpose of this van
dal raid on science.
It is idle 60 demur that this bill only
imposes conditions of suffrage. Tt goes
ce punctually as ~ o'cook. Tick writes
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