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to the determination Of the several States,
and It cannot 5GtdEG7 from them lUithOUt
q UiOlOtiOH Of the letter and spirit of that
Instrument: But without stopping to
discuss theories or questions of cOnstitU-
tiOnal law, and leaving them out of view
it would, in my opinion, be unwise to
make the work of reconstruction de-
pend upon a condition of such doubtful
utility as negro suffrage"
The Governor goes on to say:
1T is fact so manifest that it should
not be called in question by any, that
people who are just emerging from the
barbarism of slavery, are not qualified
to become part of our political system,
and take part, not only in the govern
ment of themselves and their neighbOrs,
but of the whole United States. So far
from believing that negro suffrage is
remedy from all our national ills, J
doubt whether it is a remedy for any"
&c, ia.
Such We're thcviews of Governor Nor
/ ton i'm 1865, OH the subject of negro suff-
rage. We await his Openingthe canvass
i in Ohio" to see what they are now
propose to give further sketches, from
/ time to time, as he progresses with, and
/ in telling the people Of Ohio how to
vote.
/ Our own Attorney General West, like
/ Senator Morton, once had honest views
on this same subject Perhaps he has
/ them now, To refresh his memory, we
/ give his former views an airing in our
columns, to the end that, if his political
/ friends should succeed in inducing him
| to train in the company Of the men who
are now in the field for the COngressiOn-
al imposition of negro and Chinese
COOlie suffrage in Ohio, he may do so
with his eyes open to the fact that
change has come over the spirit of his
views OH the rights Of the State to man
age their own domestic affairs i'm their
I own way, within the last fifteen months
/ In March, 1868, Mr.. Attorney General
/ West, as the counsel for Jones, claiming
/ to be elected and having the certificate
as Senator from the Gallia District. by
the aid of negro votes, whose seat was
contested by Henry NJ. OnderdOnk, ar
gUed the case before the Senate. In the
| Senate proceedings of the 1lth of March,
I as made out by the Official Reporter, in
/ answer to a question prOpOunded to him
/ by Senator Berry, Mr.. Attorney Gener-
al West said he was opposed to the Su-
/ Dreme Court, or the Congress of the
/ United States, OR ANY POWER OUT
SIDE OF THE STATE OF OHIO, PRE-
/ sCRIBING WHO SHALL VOTE IN OHIO
| He had ncUCr fduOrCd, AND he NEVER
WOULD FAVOR, any such interference
/ lCitb our domestic affairs"
/ "He Mr.. Vest never would favor
/ any assumption of power on the part of
/ the Senate of the United States to de-
pTive any State of its Constitutional rep
/ TesentatiOn i'll that body, provided such
State was in d condition to be represent
ed in Congress"
In reply to a direct question by Sena-
. tor May, Mr.. West said that CON
/ GRESS HAD NO MORE ERIGHTTHAN
THE ''AIANINTHE MOON, =" TO SAY
( THAT COLORED MEN SHOULD
/ VOTE IN OHIO"
Efforts are now making to get Mr..
West to take the stump-the efforts
made to force him are of the ''Help me
Cassius, or I sinkn order, but as yet
they fail of success. If the inducements
held out are in the end successful, the
extracts above given will be as good
reading to Vests friends as those given
from MOrt0n's speech Will he to thf
friends of the Indiana Senator, who, on
the subject Of negro suffrage, as in Othel
matters,
Turns about and wheels about, and does just so-
And every time he turns about jumps Jim Crow