The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-10-05

to acquiHsce in negro Suffrage, in order
to wheedip Republicans into voting for
him, but in oar opinion he is at heart
Just as bitterly opposed to the rights of,
colored men now. as he was when he
insulted the House Of Representatives by
Offering protest" sEainst the amend
ment by which those rights were forever
established and secured.
It will tie remembered by our readers.
that the Democratic Legislature of 1868
-aH6 1864 repealed che law allowing the
crippled soldiers at the Dayton National
Asylum TO vote in the township where
the Asylum is located. Mr.. : Hughes
was active in his support of the meas
ure, by which these MANNED and Grip
pied soldiers, who lost their limbs and
7 nealth in defence of their country. were
deprived Of the right of suffrage. A
more disgraceful partisan measure was
never enacted BY any public body-its
object being well known and apparent
to all-nsmelg, to punish the soldiers
for having dared tovote the Republican
ticket al the preceding electioni 1t was
necessary to prevent their voting again,
in order TO carry Montgomery county
for the Democracy
The "visible Admixture Law" was
another of the pet measures of the same
Democratic Legislature, whereby the
Democratic party attempted to prevent
colored citizens of Ohio, ''having pre-
ponderauce Of white blood" from vOt-
| ing any longer, as they had been in the
habit of doing for years under a decision
of the Supreme Court of the Stste.s ThC
pure, tlnSullied Democracy were deter
mined that no man having even the
slightest "visibIe admixture" Of the ha'
ted negro blood, should vote, and hence
thew attempted to override the decision
Of the Sapreme Court, and disfranchis'
The small number of eolored citizens
who had enjoyed the right of suffrage by
virtue of that decision.
In this bitter and unrelenting persecu
ton of the negro, the Hon. J. L. Hughe
was a conspicuous leader and in fac
he lost no opportunity as a-member Q
ths Legislature, 70 show his desire t.
keep down the despised race, and carr,
out the doctrine OF the bred Scott deci
sion, "that negroes had no rights whicl
white men were bound to respect." p" For
tunateiy, however, for the coIored mel
the Supreme Court sgain interfered 70
their protection, pronounced the ''Fis
ible Adnixture" law upconstitutiona
and restored them to the rights Of whic
the liberal minded Mr.. Hughes and hi
Democratic co-legislators had so meaPl
attempted to deprive them.
The ssstudents' Voting Law" was ar
osher law of the same memorable Les
islature of 1888. which will go down i
history as the meanest and most viz
dictively partisan legislative body
The annals of Ohio Nearly all is prir
cipal measures were aimed at The Re-
publican party, and designed if poss
ble TO continue the Democracy in pow
nr. Itv legislation for that express pm
pose It tried to rescind the l4t
Amendment ito prevent the passag
of the 18th; to prevent manned an
disabled soldiers from voting; to di'
= franchise the few cuiorpd vntes who a
-eady exercised the right of suffrage
and finally, to prevent students at Co
legps from voting un3ess they wei
J home to their place Of residence, ihl
putting them to an expense which man
could not AFFORD, and practically di
81 franchising them. And why ? Becaus
being educated aud Intelligent, most
them voted the Republican ticket.
Such was the Democratic Legislatu
ID of Ohio Of 1869, and it is almost nee
less to add, that our late Representativ
the Hon. J. L. Hughes, was one Of
DISTINGUISHED members. In all the u
q fair and partisan legislation to viii,
we have referred, he was an active al
leading spirit. His "record" is MAJ
up, and cannot be changed. BY it
must stand aud be judged and in Il
light which it throws upon his polite
career, we appeal to every Republics
= whether he should again be chosen
misrepresent lhe intelligence, the ia
tice, and The moral sentiment of d
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