The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-09-21

Facts for the COlOred Voters
Showing Henry l.. Dfckey's
love for the COlOred d Man.

Facts for the COlOred Voters
Showing Henry l.. Dfckey',
love for the COlOred Man.
In the Ohio House of Representa-
tives on the Oath day of January
1861, that body having under con
sideration bill from the Senate 'tc
prevent slave holding and kidnap
ping in this State, the following
amendment to the bill was offered.
Sec. l. That if any person shall,
by force or violence, hold or control
or attempt to hold or control, anoth
er against his will as slave, he shall
be deemed guilty of false imprison.
ment, and, on conviction thereof,
shall be fined in any sum not exceed
ing five hundred dollars and impris-
oned ia the county iail not exceed
ing six months.
Sec. 2. That any person who shall
kidnap, or forcibly or fraudulently
carry off, or decoy out of this State,
any person or persons, with an in
tention of having such person or
persons carried out of the State, un-
less it be in pursuance of the laws
thereof and shall be thereof duly
convicted by indictment, in the
Court of Common Pleas in any
county in this State, shall be guilty
of misdemeanor, and shall be con-
fined in the Penitentiary at hard
labor for any space of time not less
than three nor more than seven years
at the discretion of the court, and
shall moreover be liable for the costs
of prosecution.
Sec. 3. Nothing in the preceding
sections of this act shall apply to
any act done to any person under
the authority of the Constitution of
the United States made in pursuance
thereof" >"
Against this amendment Henry
L. Dickey voted. Thus, recording
his will, that men might, without
fear of punishment, carry off free
negroes from Ohio and sell them
South.
On the 18th of March, 1861, the
House having under consideration
a bill for the supervision and main
tenance of Public Schools. Mr..
White, of Hardin county offered the
following amendment to this bill:
"But in no case shall the directors
admit the colored children in the
white schools" And for this amend
ment Fl. L. Dickey voted.
On the 25th day of March, 1861,
Mr.. Dickey himself offered in the
House of Representatives the follow
ing resolutions:
"Whereas, The Supreme Court of
the State of Ohio has heretofore de-
cided that all male persons of the
age of twenty one years being resi-
dents of the State of Ohio, and hav-
ing more white than black blood in
their veins, are, under our present
citizens, and thereby
eligible to Office, &C., therefore.
Be it Reso1ced By the General As-
senaNy of tile State Of Ohio, If the
same shall be agreed to by three
ffths of the members elected to each
House, that it be and is hereby pro-
posed to the electors of the State of
Ohio to vote on The second Tues
day of October, 1861 upon the ap-
proval or rejection of the following
as substitute for Sec
ton one article five of the constitution,
viz:
SEC. 1. 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, such time as may
be provided by law, shall have the
qualification of an elector, and be en-
titled to vote at all elections: Pro
yided, that no person haoi'ag any
of african blood shall
be considered achite male citizen
,oithi'e the meaning of this sectiora;'"
and on the 8th day of April, MIR.
Dickey's vote was given in favor of
this resolution.
This was the winter when our
was flooded with peti-
tions from various parts of the State
asking for measures to prohibit the
further immigration of negroes and
mulattoes in Ohio" and Henry L.
Dickey appears as active in further
ance of such measures.
And yet Henry L. Dickey, with
such record as this, has the face to
ask that the colored citizens of the
7th Ohio District should give him
their votes for seat in our National
Congress, along with the scores OF
Southern rebels now controlling that
body!
Who's Scared.
Tho Hi1lsbOrO GaZette. sDeakinO