The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-08-13


roads and highways, shodld also vote
+ was strictly in accordance with thi
t American doctrine that there should b
: no taxation without representation,
b This amendment, however, was ais
Z voted down, and jefferson and his doc
3 tri9s repudiated, BY strict party vot
r iOf yeas ~, nays 81. The Republican
{ in this instance standing by Jefferson
? and the=DemoeFass=oPPesiug him. 2
s Mr. Lee, of DelsEaTe, moved furthe
! to amend section Al, aWhere it wa
,olthe duty of the Sheriff of the county :,
q furniAh sufficient posse to enforce tht
: visible admixtare law, by adding The
! words 4or any other law Of this Stats
! regulating theiqualifestiOds Of voters,
] which was, as usual, voted down. They
I cared not a straw about any other stat
: ute, whether it was enforced or not
( only 50 the visible admixture bill passed
lin all its original defoFmity Again,
: after the clause in the salne section,
u providing against the possibility of fnl-
Deding 8 challenge under the provi-
sions Of this act Mr.. Lee moved to in-
sert the words, or the reception Of legal
: votes which was also voted down :
/. Thus proclaiming they would rather q
hundred white men, even, should be
, deprived of their legal right to vote,
! than one seven-eight visible admixture'
citizen, though loyal man, an intelli-
4 gent taxpayer, or a soldier wounded in
tdefense Of his country, should be per-
mitted to cast the ballots his State, by
her courts and laws declared him en-
titled to.
Mr.. Warren, Of Logan county, then
moved the following additional instruc-
tons: W ~ .aes seas b.
| Add another section in the proper
order and place, making provision that
ttif any persons shall hereafter willfully
do any act against the freedom Of
speech OF Of press, or against the pur
ity of any election, such person shall be
guilty of infamous crime, and upon
conviction thereof shall be liable to fine
and imprisonment 8
This was also promptly voted down
down by the Democracy. .uau oa3 I'd
! Mr.. Canfeld, of Geauga county, then
moved to amend as follows:
Add to section 5, the following: IF
the judges of elections shall be satisfied
that the person Offering to vote is a
white male citizen of the United States
and has all the other qualifications Of
an elector prescribed by the law and the
constitution, they shall receive his
vote @ j
To vote against the above amend
ment was a vote clearly and directly to
violate the constitution of the State they
bad solemnly sworn to support at the
opening Of the Legislature, as well as to
council and encourage the transgression
Of the laws made by every General AS
ssmbly that ever, previously, held q ses- |
sion. Look at il. They refused to let |
aUkite citizens, possessing all the other |
qualifications Of electors prescribed BY |
the lds5S and constellation vote Who |
will claim in this they struck at the lib, |
eFty Of the slightly colored citizen alone I
That vote means and says more than
that To this very Just and statesman
like amendment SO Democrats-the
entire strength of the party present
voted No, and 40 Republicans, sll in
the House, voted Yea. 5dl gofg s'b. 3
The Anal amendment offered to the
bill was by Nr, Eames, Of Ashtabuls |,
as follows: = Aa''si pay @I2A /
Amend BY adding TO section 1, line
I section 2, line s section 9, line 2
after the word blood, 'or who have
borne arms against the Government 4
during the late war
Here, as in the Senate the Democ-
racY were compelled to show their hand.
They did so BY declaring 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 Govern
ment, and itmsy be, was maimed and
crippled for life, by one of their favor
ito JEFF. Davis soldiers, exercising the s
right and privilege of a citizen in a t
country he had split his blood to de- t
end and save. Such is Ohio Demoe- 6
'acy. 1o a5lar .r7r o
On motion Of Mr.. Pennisten, of Pike r
county, Ia Democrat,) the previous g
question was demanded. K
The question was then upon the pas 8
age ofthe bill, upon which the yeas t.
nd nays were ordered and resulted- b
'eas 80, nays 45, as follows Democrats n
otiug in the afirmatiye-Republicans o.
q the negative. D'f 2l h
Ksas-Msssrs AckeE BelviIle, Boeb- oi
ler, Branch, Buell., Calleu, Cockerill, T
Iusac. Denmsn. Dilwortb, Dungeon, in
fielding, Finley, Fitch, Gason, Gerhart g
Fordon, Hesdly, Hendricks, Hill of re
Hord, Hughes of Butler, N
[ughes Of Highland, JsWett, Jones, b.
emp, Kennon, LaFWeI, Lawson, hi
este, Manu-, Marrell, Mofets, Neal q
'eWman, Nichol, Parks, Parr, Pennis- 10
N, Read, Richardson, Robinson, Ross, W
utter, Shaw, Stickney, Swain, SWEET ST
nd, Thompson Of Stark, Thornhill, su
7ilsoD, Worth and Speaker-55
Those who voted in the negative go
ere: si. aa1 / be
Messrs. Anderson, Belts, Borden, m
ronsou, Brooke, Garfield, Cannon, VI
srpenter. Coleman, Crist, Dennis pc
icksoD, Dunn, Esmes, Gallup, Hare, fec
III Of Erie, Hill of Fulton, Howard, tn
hnson, Ksin, Kerr Of jefferson, fsC
sWrence, Lee, LeWton, McMorran,
DOT, Parker, Pond Ritszell, Rough, ha
lkcnbrod, Sayler, Scott of Hamilton, ma
,ott Of Warren, Sherwin, Sissler, ap
iaats, Steward, Thompson Of Colum- SUI
ana, WaFDkiDg, Warren, Welsh, an
off, and Wood-45.3 do ri ti-io- 90. lhie
We have thus, at some length, taken cir
,m the official proceedings Of the me
neral Assembly the record the De sid
,cracy made in the passage of the POI
,ss infsmously outrageous and un- hoI
law ever enacted in any ses
ate. They, themselves knew it to
such, and in order to cover it over, 3
ssed another yillsinous bill, disquali- AS
ng the Supreme Court of the State ~
N examining into the character or for
lstitutionshty ofthe laWin question. rep
Every amendment proposed by the part
i - H"-.a
publicsDs was offered in good faith, bett
ping that some one of the number
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