The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-01-25

h,rns. their residence, to be citizens
of that county, and therefore you are
to upset the Whole charity of ou- home
in order to give them a right tp vote.
.-Oh, but it viii be said, are they
not meritorious men, and ought they
not 10 have a right to vote ?sls not ev-
cry man in your regular army me j.
torious man,, almost eve.y one of
whom served through tue war! And
yet he has no right to vote. You nave
thirty Thousand men in your army,
You have eighteen thousand sailors I'D
your navy, and most ot the men IN
both army aud navy were men who
~gtlIantly fought during the whole four
ye;r, OF the war, and not one of them
can 20 e. From your General of the
army down 10 the lowest private o i the
ranks. from your Admiral in the navy
down 10 the lowest seaman or mai inc,
not. one Of these men can Vote, except
som. few who are no longer in the nc
tive service of the country.
"And now. pray, where is the hard
ship? II my friend general She' man,
himself, were stationed in the State
vi Indiana ior ever 50 long a time, he
coald not, under the constitution vote,
because Nv, resid, nee az an officer oil
the army o. the Unitesi States could
give him the risht-to WIFE. II Ad
miral Porter were stationed in the
State of Ohio, and were to reside
there.five years, lie Gull not be emit
tied to vote. No residence there as a
naval officer could mike him, untler
tire constitution of the State of Ohio.
a citizen of that State. Where. then,
is The hardship in respect 10 these
men: SIR, it IS in Imagination a'ont;
i.othing hut imag nation. l am rs
far from wishing to deprive these men
of amy right they ought to exercise
as any man canr be- drew with my
one hand the fir.t resolution that WAS
pissed bv n popular assemblige in
Ono in favor of giving the soldiers in
the army the right to 10 That was
il the year 1852. With that hani 1
drew the first resolution to that effect,
wfIi: III was passed by al popular conven
t OIL III the State OF OHIO. l have al
ways been in favor of giving them
the right To vote, as far as ii could be
done consistently with the Cunstitu-
ton and laws OF any country
"But this Is a wholly different case
from that. This a question which
goes to the '%nstitutio Ial power.
1t goes to the question neither or
not vol shall take men who are sub
stantially in the army of the United
States, men who form part of the
lad forces at the Uuiiel States with
i'll the mean ng of the CONSTITUTE m,
men who are subject to military law,
men over WI ON the criminal Jaw ot
O..i3 has no SWAY whatsoever, men
who pay no taxes To Ohi.', are unIer
nno5iigttirnsto perform duties in that
State; Whether o shall take those
ruem. coming from all the STATES OF
tie Union, aud of This mi. ratury
class described by the managers of
the institution Itself. who again and
again call them v;igal,ohd>, l%ea;lin. Al
v.gabond life. doling out do'e:ui tunes
fr.m Il h~aud-orgln in the streets, for
the benefit, not 80 much of themselves
as of the hirer OF tirese poor instru-
men S of music; whether you shall
take men who they describe in that
way, and in order 10 give fifty or one
hundred of them the right TO vote in
Mo itgomery county, Oh o, shall "ver
rifle the Constitution of tho Slate and
the Constitution Of the United States.