The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-04-03

Sec. 3. Electors shall in all cases ex-
cept treason, felony or breach of the
peace, be privileged from arrest during
their attendance, at elections, and in go
ing to and returning from the same.
Sec. 4. The Legislature shall have
full power to exclude from the privilege
of electin or of being elected, any person
convicted OF bribery, perjury or any 9th
er infamous crime
Sec. 5. Nothing contained in this arti-
Gle shall be SO construed as to prevent
white male persons above the age of
twenty-one years, who are compelled to
labor on the roads of their respective
townships or counties, and who have re-
sided one year in the State, from having
the right of an elector.
The Constitution formed in the year
1850, provides:
ARTICLE v.-ELECTIvE FRANCHISE.
Sec. l. Every white male citizen of
the United States, of the age of twenty
one years, who shall have been a resident
of the State one year next preceding the
election, and of the county, township or
ward in which he resides, lch time as
may be provided by law, shall have the
qualifications of an electer, and be enti-
tied to vote at all elections
Sec. 2. All elections shall be by bal
lot.
Sec g. Electors, during their attend
ance at elections, and in going to and re-
turning therefrom, shall be privileged
| from arrest, in all cases, except treason,
! felony, and breach of the peace
| Sec. 4. The General Assembly shall
have power to exclude from the privilege
of voting, or of being eligible to office,
any person convicted of bribery, perjury,
or other infamous crime
| Sec. 5. No person in the military, ma
| val, or marine service of the United
States, shall, by being stationed in any
garrison, or military or naval station,
within the State, be considered resi-
dent of this State.
Sec. 6. No idiot, or insane person,
shall be entitled to the privileges of an
| elector.
By the first a voter must own proper
ty. or work the roads. Ever so wise or
good a man could not vote if he owned
no property, or was crippled, so he was
not able to exercise brute power, in dig
ging dirt upon roads. Any drunken
fool could vote if he was charged with 6
tax on a jackass, shotgun, coon skin ol
wolf scalp. But it had this redeemins
quality: an inha6itant for one year could
vote, whether he was q citizen of the
United States or not The Democrats
who had control of the Convention O
1850, had sharp eye on the "nigger,
as usual, and so they provided that tht
voter should not only have resided on,
year in the State, but that he should ais,
be citizen of the United States The,
were then getting up their infamou
Dred Scott decision, whereby it was de
clared that negroes never could becom
citizens of the United States, and pos
sessed no rights which white men wer
bound to respect. Both these Constitu
. tions required that the voter should be
: male, should be white, and should hav
Z resided in the State one year before h
could vote.
Ny article on this subject would be
short one, and to the point 1t would b
something like this;
e ARTICLE l.
= Sec /. Every person who is an actuf
4 resident of any township or ward of
: city, in this State, who shall have arrive
at the the age of twenty-one years. @
n who shall have served in the army G
J. navy of the United States, or the Stat
Il of Ohio, shall be entitled to vote at a.
elections held in such township or ware
Sec. 2. The Legislature shall neve
's pass any act abridging the right to vot
e as guaranteed in the preceding section
o By this plan, all men and women wh
o. are over the age of twenty-one years, an
le all boys who serve in the army or nav
O. could vote, without any previous res
n dence. We will suppose that a ma
1t comes to Jackson from Germany,
Id any other country. He is man of gre
IN ability, honesty, integrity, business c
q pacity, and he is worthy, well educate
I'd Christian gentleman. He bnys lar
is amount of property here, builds rolliI
SO mill, or&half dozen furnaces, and pa
it more taxes than all the balance of tt
people in town. But he can have !
lg right to say by his vote, who shall NAL
IL and administer the laws for him, and ii
ly drunken, worthless, lousy loafer w
Ill never added n dollar to the wealth
ne the country, can vote a tax upon tt
N, mans property. sit on juries, and enj
to all the privileges of citizen. But v
as will say. This is an extreme case. HC
to about the foreign loafer2 Well, til
Such fellows are pretty apt to vote q
[r. way. and being aliens, disfranohised
he the government their enemy, they fl
20 like being an enemy to the governme
be which taxes them, but does not gi
IN. them personal interest in its perpet
to ty or stability. If yeu want to ma
Zip your boy an Industrious, good farm
IN, give him motive to perform his labo
on Give him an interest in the crop. Gi
pit him say one-tenth, or q corner of I
re. field for his own, and see what mary
lu- GUS interest he will take in the grow
nd of the grain just so in government
ty- matters. The man in New York ei
1n. fresh from Ireland, who registers a
'ur votes in twenty places, will not think
doing SO if you permit him to vote or