The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-05-07
ohiO,s Disgrace.

oA~hSaSS " VIZ 'N 70 'Ss~sN'S
some time since. They wore q.
fraid Says the GAINESVILLE Courier.
with trush,) to pass it before the
spring elections, They know it TO
DO unconstitutional, and were
afraid to have il tested before the
fall elections, Then is when they
want IL to count They have
learned that colored men, moro
white than black, are too intelli
gent TO vote tho Democratic tick
ct, and as thore are probably two
or three thousand OF them in tho
State, they have done what they
could, by passing an unconstitu-
Lional act, 10 relatively increase
the Democratic vote that much
next October. But tho Democrat.
ic Legislative Solons have forgot
ten one thing. They have not yet
legislatcd that thcrc shall not be a
special election in the State of
Ohio, where u test case OF this law
can be made up and carried TO the
Supreme Court, between this and
next October. We call their at
tention to this fact nov, that they
may as woIl enact tuch law, other.
wise some Office holder will die or
resign and a test case be made and
their painful labors and product
prove an abortion.
The pitifui mcanness of this de-
basing work of she Democrats OF
the Ohio Legislature can be seen
in the following questions which
this bill makes II The duty of eve,
! fy Judge of an election to put ia
every person having II distinct and
visible admixture Of African blood
viz =.
"In what State were you born
and when, and where?
"Were your parents married
and if so when and where?
"Ilad yonr parents, or either o
them visible admixture of Afri
can blood?
"Who wero your grandparents
and where did they live; and wer'
they married, and had they, o.
either of them, an admixture oil AT
rican blood?
"Do you associate, and are yo'
classed with whi,o or colorod per
sons?
"llavo you children; and If SO
are there schools for colored chill
! drcn in operation in tho township
village, or ward where you reside
and if so, arc your children pei
mittcd to attend tho commO
I schools organized for whito chi
dren under tho laws OF this State?
Commenting on these tho Cir
cinnati Commercial u few days az
8 said
The impertinence of many {
these questions, and their irrclt
, vancy, are so apparent that we ca
!, attribute their appearance in III
law only to tho malignancy
hearts bIackcr than The heel {
' Ashango. What business is it
y the judges of election whether ii
!, parents OF tho challenged part
were married or not? Ii not ma
}, ried-as in many cases tho fa
y would probably show--it is duo
- - that accursed system Of cnforct
! !, harlotry which the Democracy
: Ohio dcvotedly upheld. cringir
y and fawning at tho feet
= the men who dcspisod them (,
u it, for half II century. Every co
= lession Of bastardy extorted by th
/" law from men whose parents I
: grandparents were slaves, is
" publication of the fruits of u sham
70 less system which Democratic pc
- :, itics and theology toiled TO porpc
y uate and nationaize. Aud VIII
. business is il of the judges OF ele
= ton, whether the party challcng,
- associates with white or color,
people? II he confessed to ass
u citation or remote knowledge
, men who could devise such u la
y and such u series of questions,
ought to DO excluded from I
!" polls But does the fact of II maj
~ associations in society detcrmi
= the question OF race or blood? Al
~ rs though the latitude OF this !
" Quisitorial section were not sui
:. cient, tho law goep on tosay: ~
u judges of election, Or party CHI
:" longing, may put to tho person u
V poaring TO vote such other On,
's' lions us may seem to thom prop
" and necessary
" But assuming that the pers
u answers all these questions in 81
% % u manner that tho judges cam
~ refuse to receive his vote suppO
~ ho does reply, under oath, that
~ parents were not of African {
~ scent, that they were married, u
y he associates with white peop
w w and that his children attend
Is schools of white childron-is
" allowed to vote? Arc Lhe JUDI
To- even allowed to receive their vo
!" il satisfied that ho has no taint
III African bloodp Not at all.
I" must have n crowd of witnes
u" with him to corroborato his swC
' statements and they aro required
ho know hun whom. whero, and
what State he was born, and whe
y" or his parents were married, or |
cy a visible admixture OF African bl,
IN, in their voins, lfthey don't ku
,c, these facts, though tho pei
4 y. a .