The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-01-21
SENATE DISCUSSION OF THE 18th
AMENDMENT.


AS one of the most interesting OF
the events of the past week was tht
passage Of the 18th Amendment by
the Senate, we give some extracts OF
the speeches delivered for and against
the Amendment.
The question came up on Wsdnes-
day of last week, but was deferred un-
til the next day. 1t then came up,
and the following discussion was had:
Mr.. Hubbell, formerly a Republican
Congressman, but now a Democratic
State Senator, led off. 1t is but due to
him to state that he was a consistent
Republican until his constituents re-
fused TO return him to Congress for a
second term-thereupon he found out
that the party was not at all his fancy
painted it, and he went elsewhere:
Had the amendment been submitted
some years ago, said he, l should
probably have voted for it. The COM
paratively few cOlored men in Ohio
are amongst the aristOcracy of the
race, and have some knowledge and
culture, They might vote without
detriment to the State; but in MiSsiss-
ippi, for instance, the negroes are
densely ignorant, and comprise three
ffths of the population. Mr.. Lincoln.
in this very city, years ago, pronounce
ed against the social and political
equality of the white and black races.
and he reiterated it in various speech
es throughout Illinois and other States
during the campaign of 1860 At the
close of the war he held the same
Views, only he said he was willing to
give the ballot to those scolored men
who bore arms during the war.
Mr.. Hubbell went on at some length
TO show that the Republican party of
Ohio, as late as 1865, and General Cox
its candidate for Governor, openly
that year pronounced against it, and
was elected on that basis, and would,
had he taken the opposite position
have been defeated by an overwhelm-
ing majority. He himself in compa-
ny with General Warner NOW of Al
abama) stumped his Senatorial Dis
trict, declaring everywhere that the
assertion that the Republican party
favOredne suffrage was false. The
Republican party succeeded to power
on this basis, and now to 90 back up-
on their record and profession after
having attained power, is no better
than sWindling.
Mr.. III. spent an hour in his arraign-
ment of the Republican party. But a
comparatively short time since, Gov.
Morton, of Indiana, everywhere ac-
knOwledged as good Republican au-
thOrity, told him (H.) that the idea of
allowing the ignorant negroes of the
South TO vote was ridiculous and alb
surd. The convention that nOmina-
ted General Grant declared that so far
as the loyal States were concerned,
the question of suffrage should be left
to the States themselves. On this
platform General Grant was elected.
and could have been elected on no
other. Yet, no sooner had the people
clothed his supporters with power
than the 18th Amendment was intro |
duced, and all propositions looking TO |
a asubmissiOn of the same to the neonIe
were steadily voted down. Yet the /
party favOring the amendment calls
itself Republican,
M d: then examined the record of
the parties In pheir opinion itWas
wiser ana better that the question of
suffrage should be left to the States
hold, said Mr.. H, to their views.
and Will not follow after the new
lights ofthe present day. / think Civ
ing the ballot to the negroes would be
unwise. / do not think we should en-
courage them to come to Ohio, bv |
holding out to them the inducenlent
of the suffrage and of office. Wherev-
er the negroes are most numerous in |
Ohio, there the value of property and |
the material prosperity of the locality
has declined in proportion; and if for
this reason alone would be opposed
10 the measure. But there is another
reason. This amendment will give
up the whole of our Pacific sIope to
the Chinese; in a quarter of a century
there viii be, perhaps, $4,000, 900 of
these people in the United States, and
If they can not vote their children
VIII. But if the interests of the Re
publican party require, we have no
guarantee that it will not strike the
word white from our naturalization
Jaws, and admit to citizenship the
Hhoie body Of the Chinese, as fast as
they arrive.
:. Mr.. d quoted from the history of
Solomon TO show the evils of mixing
with strangers. Mexico. too. was
specimen of the evils of that
system. If You want the limited
States to be another Mexico isn fbo1
adopt this amendment f-slaH. ia M
fear OF Heaven, oppose it.
Mr. Welsh, Of Meigs, said that he
was elected with the full understand
ing that he wouldyO for this amends
nent The people of Ohio have in
aorsed that amendment by voting for