Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-07-24
To Colored Voters.

me rebeI Democracy seems IN +b;nl,
@ C.l1G coiored men have forgotten the rn1
1919. 1oLu 0I the party of slavery. treason an Il
&c ieU9illloh, .il and hence we find such stuff
IN the rebel papers as the foIlovving &c.
the Columbus Democrat. - - iio''i
"The Cincinnati Gazette has taken the
pains to hunt up the prominent colored
Republicans who will support Foste r
! Now if it would only furnish its readers
with list of those who will not support
him, they might have some idea of the
| attitude of the colored Republicans of the
State. If the Gazette wants the list the
! Democrat will gladly furnish it.''
When the 10Th amendment-the one
which gives cOlored men the right to
vote, was submitted to the States for ap-
prOval, the Republican Legislature of
Ohio ratified it. In the year 1867 the
Democrats had a majority in the Ohio
Legislature, and they undertook to revoke
and set aside that ratification. Here it is,
taken from the Statutes of Ohio for 1859,
page 426:
JOINT RESOLUTION,
Rejecting the proposed Fifteenth Con-
stitution Amendment.
WHEREAS, the general assembly has re-
eeived official notification of the passage,
by both houses of the fortietl congress
of the United States, in the words follow
ing, to-wit:
ga resolution proposing an amendment
to the Constitution of the United States.
ReSOtUed By the Senate and House Of Rep
TeSentdtjUeS Cfthe United States Of America
IN Congress assembled 1.-TWO thirds of both
houses concurringl, That the following
article be proposed to the legislatures of
the several states as an amendment to the
constitution of the United States, which,
when ratified by three-fourths of said
legislatures, shall be valid as part of the
constitution, namely;
ARTICLE 15.
SECTION l. The right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States or by
any state on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude.
SEC. 2. The congress shall have power
to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation
AND WHEREAS, Three-fourths of the
legislatures of the states, composing the
United States, are required to give assent
to the said proposed amendment to the
constitution of the United States before
it becomes part thereof; and
WHEREAS, The people of Ohio, by over
$4,000 majority have rejected "negro
suffrage;" therefore, be it
ReSOloed by the GenerGLAssembEyO of the JState
Of Ohio, That the legislature of this state
hereby reject the said XIV Article, pro-
posed as an amendment to the constitIl-
tiOn of the United States, and on behalf
of the state of Ohio, refuses to ratify the
same.
Resolved, That the governor be reques-.
teu to forward copy of the foregoing
preamble and resolution, properly attes-
ted, to the secretary of state of the Uni
ted States, our representatives and sena-
tors in congress, and to the governors of.
each of the thirty-seven states in the I'm
ion. F. W. .THORNHII.
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.,
j. G. LEE,
President efthe Senate.
Passed May 4, 1869.
On the 24ti day of August, 1864, the
Democratic State convention unanimous
ly passed the following, among other res
Olutions:
''7. ResoEced, That the effort now being
made to confer the right of suffrage upon
negroes is an insidious attempt to over
throw popular institutions by bringing
the right to vote in to disgrace; that the
negroes are not competent to the exercise
of that right, nor is it necessary to their
safety or protection, on the contrary, It's
exercise by them, if attempted would be
fought with terrible calamities to both
them and the whites, and we are, there
fore, unequiyocalIy opposed to negro
suffrage.
s. ResOlUed, That the experience of four
thousand years has demonstrated that
negroes are not equal to white men, and
all attempts to place them on footing OF
equality, politically and socially with the
whites, ever have proved and ever will
prove Injurious to both races
8. ReSolUed, That the Government was
made by white men, and so far as we have
power to preserve it, it shall continue to
| be Government of white men.
10. Resol0ed, That under the rule of
Abolitionism, and especially under the
recent military orders in Kentucky, the
emigration of negroes into Ohio is a
growing evil, and in order that white la
Dor be protected against negro labor, and
the people against negro pauperism, it is
the duty of the Legislature to discourage
| negro emigration into our State.''
| We hope to lay before the eolored vo-
| ters of the State much more of the Demo-
cratic records on this subject, from which
said voters will see that the Democratic
party not only put down the Democratic
rebellion, but it was that party which
freed the slaves. and gave the colOred
men the right to vote, and that out of
pure gratitude, if nothing else, the color
ed voters should rush to the support of
| Dem ocratic Naturalization Standard