The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-08-06


without representation.
This amendment, however, was
also voted down, and Jefferson and
his doctrine repudidted, by a strict
party vote of yeas AZ; nays A. The
Republicans in this instance stand
ing by Jefferson, and the Democrats
opposing him.
Mr.. Lee, of Delaware, moved
further to amend section IL, where
| it was made the duty of the sheriff OF
the county to furnish a sufficient
posse to enforce the visible adns'ztafre
law, by adding the words, cor any
other law of this State regulating Ms
qualifications of voters,' which was, az
usual, voted down. They cared not
a straw about any other statute
whether it were enforced or not, only
so the Visible Admixture bill passed
in all its original deformity. Again,
after the clause in the same section,
providing against the possibility Of
''impedlng challenge under the pro-
visions OF this act,' Mr.. Lee moved
to insert the words, DOR the reception
of legal votes," which was also voted
down. Thus proclaiming they would
rather hundred white men. even,
should be deprived Of their legal
right to vote, than that one seven
eighth "visible admixture'' citizen,
though a loyal man, an intelligent
taxpayer, or a soldier wounded in
defence of his country, should be
permitted to cast the ballot In his
State, which her courts and laws de-
clared him entitled 20.
Mr.. Warren, of Logan county,
then moved the following as addi-
tional instructions
Add another section in the proper
order and place, making provision
that if any persons shall hereafter
willfully do any act against the free
dom of speech or of the press, or
against the purity of any election,
such person shall be guilty of infa-
nous crime, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be liable to fine and
Imprisonment.
This was also promptly voted down
by the Democracy.
MIR. Garfield, of Geauga county,
then moved to amend as follows:
Add to section 5, the following ::
off the judges of elections shall be
satisfied that the person offering to
vote IS a Wltite male citizen Ofthe Unit
ed States and has all the other qUalit-
cations of an elector as prescribed by
the la,o and tie constitution, they shall
receive his vote"
To vote against the above amend
ment was a vote clearly and directly
to violate the constitution Of the
State they had solemnly sworn to
support at the opening of the Legis-
lature, as well as to counsel and en-
courage the transgression of the laws
made by every General Assembly
that ever, previously, held a session.
Look at it. They refused to let
,chas citizens, possessing all the other
qualifications of electors prescribed
by the id,os and constitution VOTE -
Who will claim in this they struck
at the liberty of the slightly cOlored
citizen alone2 That vote means and
says more than that. To this very
Just and statesmanlike amendment,
So Democrats entire strength OF
the party present-vOted No, and 40
Republicans, all in the House, voted
Yea.
The final amendment offered to the
bill was by Mr.. Eames, of Ashtabula,
as follows:
Amend by adding to section l, line
1; section 7, line 3; section 9, line
2; after the word blood, ''or who
has borne arms agsinst the Govern
ment during the late war"
Here, as in the Senate, the De-
mocracy were compelled to show
their hand. They did SO by declar
ing they were united in the desire, as
a party, for the ''rebel who had
borne arms against the government
to vote )" but opposed to the soldier
who fought for the government, and
it may be, was manned and crippled
for life, by one of their favorite JEFF.
DAVIS soldiers, exercising the right
and privilege of a citizen in cOun-
try he had split his blood TO defend
and save. Such is Ohio Democracy.
On motion of Mr.. Permission, of
Pike county, "a Democrat, theprev-
ious question was demanded.
The question was then upon the
passage of the bill, upon which the
yeas and nays we're ordered and re-
sulted--yeas 55, nays 40, as follows,
Democrats voting in the affirmative
Republicans in the negative:
Yeas--Messrs. Acker, Baker, Bel
vile, B@hmer, Branch, Buell., Callen,
Cockerill, Cusac, Denman, Dilworth,
DUNCAN, Fielding, Finley, Fitch,
CASTOR, Gerhart, Gordon, Headley,
Hendricks, Hill of Defiance, Hord,
Hughes of Butler, Hughes of High
land, Jewet Jones, Kemp, Kennon,
Larwell, Lawson, Leete. Mann, Mar
rell, Moffett, Neal, Newman, Nichol,
Parks, Parr, Pennisten, Read, Rich
ardson, Robinson, Ross, Rutter,
Shaw, Stickney, Swain, Swetland,
Thompson of Stark, Thornhill, Will
son, Worth, Speaker--55.
Those who voted in the negative
we're:
Messrs, Anderson, Betts, BORDEN,
Bronson, Brooke, Canheld, Cannon,
Carpenter, Coleman, Crist, Dennis,
Dickson, Dunn, Eames, Gallup,
Hare, Hill of Erie, Hill of Fulton,
Howard, Johnson, Kain, Kerr of JEFF
ferson, Lawrence, Lee, Lewton, Nc
Moran, Moor, Parker, Pond, Rite
zell, Rough, Rukenbrod, Saylor,
Scott of Hamilton, Scott Of Warren,
Sherwin, Sissler, Skaats, Steward,
Thompson of Columbiana, Warkning,
Warren, Welsh, Wolf, Wood--45.
We have thus at some length,
taken from the official proceedings of
the General Assembly, the record
the Democracy made in the passage
of the most UNANIMOUSLY outrageous
and unconstitutional law ever enacted
in any State. They, themselves,
knew it to be such, and in order to
cover it over, passed another villain
Gus bill, disqualifying the Supreme
Court of the State from examining
into the character or constitutiOnality
of the law in question.
Every amendment proposed byl
the Republicans was offered in good
faith h0ninn that some one OF the |