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PERBYSBURG, O., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1867
NO. 10
Perrysburg Journal.
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BUSINESS CARDS.
PE'ltiybURG MEAT STORE.
'joiiV '.' iioFrniAN "
TTAS reWiAKd Vis &it Store to the bailding ro-
' XT. centlr occunied by the Hardware Stoic, on
Louisiana AVetiue. i An excellent quality of Meat
:s always kept on hand,t whichhe Infitesthe at
teation of all loTergof a juicy Roast, or a tender
Steak.
Perrysbarg.' November 6, 1885, .,, , ,3z
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STJItGEON DENTIST.
. . PKUKYSHClin, OHIO.
ttChargca moderate, and all work warranted.
tifOlIice over O. Beach's' Store, on' Louisiana
Avenue. ozz
J. iHwBEID, '
'Attorney - at - law,
HA3 resum sd the practice of his profession, at
Perryjlmrj;, Ohio, where ho will tire prompt
attention to all lec ii hiuineKS eatmste
u to nis care.
Office in tlio. Bank building.
7zz
WILLIAM H.,.JONES.
,J mH. 4- 8HAM.SON
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
OFFICE OVER KREPS' STORE,
4Sn : ( , i , . , , Perrysbiirp, Ohio.
,A.'; MCMAIIA.N1. ,;. :
(Late Brevet-Colonel U. S. Volunteers,) .
w txxr Claim u3Lg;ent
PostofGoe Addivss Enst Tolodo, Ohto; "'
ALL Honest Claims ngainst the Oovernment
can ba tolletteS.! "Many. of Iha -late olllecfd
and soldiers of the a,rmy, and ahio widows and
huirs of deceased olUccrs and Soldiers', do not keep
well informed of the hnvs relating' to them. All
claimants for whom I transact business are
promptly informed, by mil, of any laws affuoting
them. 1-3" No charge mado unless claims are
successfully. proecu,ted.f-J .,, , -j ,,.,43i'
Civil Engineer & Deputy
.'"Coiiiity; Sarveyor, 'r
Westpii, .Voott Cquuty, Ohio.
L,ana ana iimoer are getting vaiuapjiej i
while original points can bs identified. ' '
survey
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tOROJCQQ-STAlIV - ,
ATT6R!iEfAT-LiW, pfcakTSBBof to?,1
WILLatteud to allbuaintscoRAdedtohi8care
in the several Courts of Ohio. Military
Claims wHlTacaive particular attontioa,; ,: ; y
Also Insurance taken at reasonable rates.
Oflloe NokwHafdwarefBullriirnr.a tair, cor
ner of Louisiana avenue and Front street, lzz
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.' Perryalturg, Wood Co., O.
Attorneys-at-Law j'lfotarici' Piiblic'Cnveyano-
ers ; ColleQtinff Agents ; Real Estuto Agents;.
Having larg quantities "of Wild Lands aud bwdy
, ,s . Improved Farms, for sale ; , , ,
Agents to-Pay Taxes, aud redeem lands sold (hi
taxes ; also, to purchase lands and investigate
titles. )t "itod'O 'tr, t..T n 'f lli
War Claim J gents,
To procure tht bnl'k 'pay and bounty fldevi rel
atives of deceased soldiers ; - -
To procure pensions for those entitled, to them ;
To. procure for. soldiers liberated from prison
commuUiion of rations wbilo they were confined,
tC, etO. f - !. 'j;r4itot,J
iioss;', & cook,1"''
AQBNTS FOB IBM
MUTRQPPWTAN INSURANCE COj
Kates as low as any good, arst-cWia Uompany.
Business, solicited. Office, corner of Front-street
arid Louisiana-avenue, Perrysburgr 59 -
Attorney s-atrLaw,
'Verrysburg, Wood County, O.
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E have largt mt'ilita wf Rsi Estate for
tale ; attend' to Tax-payfhg ; ttlso, procure
jjour.uet aoa rtosiona lor JJ iiuiera. : i i t t.
All business promptly attended to.;
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INSURE I INSURE ! ;
- INSUREJWITH JIIE
Fl REMEN1S ' INSURANCE.' COMPANY,
or DAYTON. OHIO.
KAki ; it: :
THIS Company has fairly earned the, right to
sollolt the patronage n'f tht eitixni of. this
county, having paid $5,700 in Losses in the county
within tht last year. ; Rates as low as any re'.iuble
Company. Losses equitably adjusted and prompt
ly Pld-Af griAifb'; PerrVsburg, 6.', ' ' '
41 -'' General Agent for Northwestern Ohio.'
W. IJKDEKiIIt.1V
n , .Dealers in :. ',.
& to.
American & Italian Marble
. and. Granite Htone,
Ko. ttpt corner or.'SummV and.0heyryv Toledo, 0
l'kloaunenU furnished to order:- Address by
. . mail or otlier ue. 4Uu
JOHN . A.' SHANNON , .
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Lawt
OFFICE OVER KRErS' STORK,.
ferrysburg, Ohio.
AlWotion given (o the collection of Soldiers
Vlaim, .... 41
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REAL ESTATE AGENCIES.
Posirablo Fat-lii, for Said.
We have for sale, tli excellent farm of Gen. D.
W.Day, near Bowling Ureen, consisting of 240
acres, .nearly all under fence, over 100 acres under
v..,., anuu- ainiuins,-gofu orchard, thor
eugly ditched t-nd is in wry view a first-class
larm, in the best yf condition. .Price low and
icrniseasy, - -
ROSS & COOK.
FOlt SALE.
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(lesirnblo resiltenVies in Poh-fuhnro
L1 Fricfc rftnKiiilr from $1,200 to tl .800 : for aU
by
liO.SS A COOK.
ijuusii. and LOT rr sale in Perrrsburg. It
oiusi ue som. Wilt bu told cheap for rash.
' ''' !.: Roaa a cook.
BARGAIN'S IH REAL ESTAT E
For Snle cheap, in nromut
Pay or in dt.
ments, a new dwelli
I lot, 110 feet front
and 1 J3 feet roar, of jn-lota Nos. JB3 aud tOO, Per-
'J3wulg vino,- -
40 acres of. land, n of o l of n ' .
In PcrrySbnrg; good log dwelling house, and other
lufrureamnu. 6o, prompt pay, tr B70O iu
payments' ,. : , ,. , .,. ,. ,
lflO acres of land for sale cheap, in Warren
oountr, Illinois. , . .,
' Ingots Not. 34'and 34 f.ir'nla"ln" Pbilinns' addi
tion to Toledo, Ohio j at a bargain, in jiayments if
' Also, a business lot in lies Moines, Iowa low.
80 acres, nseqrfteC 21, Middlatu, good land,
at 910 per acre in payments,
80 acres, n i no nr mm art. Welkin
paid for, at 10 por uor in'piwmenis: '
100 acres, nw qr soo 29, in IVytage, good land,
,n,t 0 per acre in payments.
80 acres, w yA aw qr sec 27, iu Lake, at a low
80 .acres.'w snr qr sec '5,Wn 3, range 10, ju
Uenry, at $3 per acre. ' '' ' ' 7
0 ....u.ui-r uueioc-iots torBaie cueap.m for.
Cf sburg. - '
Dosinvbla lands! in. Lnporttf Bnd StcubeB Cd's,
Inn., for sale at a bargaiu. r. ;j ...
300 acres of tax title lands, in Wood County, for
sale cheapj. . . . i .
1 will show my lands with pleasure, and in tell
ing, will make payments to suit. - . , i'
.' rJ. RICKETTS.
Ferrysburg, February 8, 1867. ' 41iz
JAg. W. ROSS,'' ' ASHER'COOKi ' ELBERT D.ROSS
KOSS ; & COOK,
ABSTHACTS of TITLE.
OFFICE: ' ' ,
Corner I,onllanu Avrnue and Front
' Street, 1'crrjnbnrg, Ohio.
WE h&ve the only set of Abstract Itnok
now in Wood County, containing a complete
Index to all Lots and Lands therein. ,
tW Certificates of Title given upon reasonable
terms.
"tiT" Also, Agents for purchasing and selling
Real Kstateigetting up Tax Titles,, paying Taxea,
&.C., eoC. i t j ? " : ' . ,c i . , -Business
solicited. ' , 87s
OEOHOE weppkll.
, WEBBELL
W. t. FBE1ILT
1JBEHI.Y, :
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GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
l'errf sbare, Wood County, Ohio.
Wjll -buy and) sell Lands, examine titles, pay
taxes, redeem Lands sold fur taxes, &c, Ace.
Jrr.Otflce in .th(j Court-house. , . 3771
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VALUABLE REALESTATE FOR SALE.
'"PHE umlersigncd having stsbl,ishd a Beal t's-J-
tate ,A;eiioy in Perrysbnrg, oiler for gale the
following Real Estate, situated iu Wood C'uuntv
Ohio: .'' '
O In-lots ju Perrysburg, with pood House,- Bam
Orchard, Well, Ac Very desirabla.' Can be had
at i bargain, and on liberal terms
A Farm of 120 acres, in" section 10, of Plain
Township, under good, cultivation, will) 300 Iruit
treesyfeood, biliftlings,- and well- jjraiped .Two
miles from Tontngany.
An Improved Fnrm of 16.0 Acres, in sec
tipn 34, Plain Township : 90 acres under cultiva
tion, and ncarlr all under fence : a lurfn orpltyrd
n ffood well, toiretlier with a irood fritmn llltlaa
od barn. . " ' - ' !,
A Farm 'contafninsr 09 'Acres. In
tection.all under fence mostly improved; orchard,
j(om utti u biiu mrRo nouse, wuu gooa Hume Uoase
in course of Construction. "
- The NE. ii of the NE. U of section 2R. too n 1
north; ?f rhgiW. eas,t.! Good House and Orchard.
a.ii unuer ience.
WDIPROVED s LANDS..
E K soq'r section 35, tp 5, range 1180 acres,
N 4 sw qrsoo 35, tp 6, range 1180 a ores. ;
SO Acres, in section 4. (! CLLJr Townshin. well
.timbered with'bladk walnitt.iwhlte-wood, tc.i
Acres, in section to, i,ibeily Township,
prairie. .ft , w
3 o Acres, in section .IB, JUItoh-Townshiii
ftot No. 8. ; ... :; .,, , )
80 Acres, in section 12, i Henry TownshiTl
timbered. : ;..' 'i-i .'
, JBOO Acres in section 11, Fortngd Township'j
ntavily timbered. . ...
TwJK i wrifteen choice TOWN LOTS, in Par.
rysburg. ' .' '.
15?" The above Real Estate. u ill, li..,(TurcJ .m
low.ratcs, ou terms to suit the puiohatwr. i i .i
t Real Estate AaqntB, Perrjsburg.O. -
33 33 KT 1? O IN" J3 '
": pinetkee;'
. . - . : . fl . . r : . . ' : '
For tho 'immediate Relief and Speedy
Cure of Coughs; Colds,' lloarse
;nMs,.7 gore Throat, Bronchitis,-; ; :
y Tickling in ahe Throat,
' Catarrh.' etc etn.. etn. .
ELI EF OBTAINED IN FIVE MINUTES.
.Mi;' I T f -!; 1 !1
TtTJBLlC Sneakers and Air!?ftr''wlll findlhnao
''X. Tnjches nnvafualjl-for ; atrtoethenipor knd
clearing the voice, and allaying all irritation, of
tlw Throat tud Uonohial Tubes inoident to vocal
exertion. As they contaiu no Opium or any
thiug in the least injurious to the most delicate
constitution, they oan bt taken as freely at necca-
Sary. blight Colds, Coughs, Hoarseness and Sore
' i-oat, which readjlf yiul4 V tht Piso Tree Tar
Troches, should be checked immediately, and be
fore the inflammation readies the Bronchial Tubes
and Lungs, which would produce Bronchitis and
ContUBipiloaj' The valualile medicihal -prepertieS
of the Tar of tha Yhita Pjna Tut a so almost unit
versally known, arnd is regarded as on of the
best remedies for disease of tli. Throat and
Lungst ' It soothes and abiyt all Irrltaticn, re
duces inflammation, and hat a peculiar and marked
beneficial effect oh the Orpins of Respiration. . Tha
White Piua Tar,; when refined, poxsetotM these val
uable properties in tha highest degree, and bat
bean, com blood with other valuable ingredients to
form the elegant snd convenient preparation,
known as" Benton's Pini Tkei Tab Tuoches."
Ubsarve the lae-tiuille of tha. Proprietor's signa
ture on the wrapper of each box, without which it
cannot be genuine, j ., . ... .. . .
B.'ntou'a Piut Tree Tar Troches art prepared
only by
. O.'llENTOV, Chemist and Druggist,
1311 aud 141 Detroit-street, Cleveland) 0;
For Sale by all r)rugists.
Prlce-85 CeHts.'" , 4zs
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J; K. Hokp, Fremont. '3'. M. HdKD, Perrysburg:
J. It. tf ,T. M. IIOIID, !
A T TOIt.'X KVS . . . . Pn aburs, Oj
' , -'Q.lflca in Paird House. 35zz
17011 Toilet Soaps andoap for ol.aoiug silver
and taking ont grease-spots, etl., call apun
CfllMl'.NEY A WKIGHTi .
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The Castalian Fount.
THE DYING WIFE.
Many a sorrow -ttricken heart will biota afresh
and many a manly eyt grow dim with tears, over
the remembrance of a reality which the following
btautitul lines will awaken t .,
Lay the gem upon my bosom,
Let .me feel her sweet, warm breath
For a strong chill o'er me presses,
And I know that it it death.
I would gaxo upon the treasure
Scarcely given ere I go
Fel ber rosy dimpled ringers
f Waudvr o'er uiy cbeek of tnow,
. T am passing' through" Oi waters,
But blessed shore appears ;
Kneel beside me, husband dearest,
Let me kiss away thy tears.
Wrestle with thy grief, my husband,
Slrivt from. midnight until day,
It may leave an angel's blessing
When it vauishes away.
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Lay the gem upon tny Ijosom,
..'Tit not long she, can be thcrt;
See I how to my heart tht nestles,
'Tit the pearl I lova to wear.
( If in a'ter years bvsido thee, ,
i Sits another in my chair, . '
.Though her voice be sweeter music,
Aud her face than mluo mors fair J
If a cherub calltlife " Eyuhorl"
Fai mure beautiful than this,
Love thy first-born I. Oh 1 my husband!
Turn not from the motherless.
Tell her sometimes of her another
. You may call her by my name) : ..
Shield her from the winds of sorrow j ,
If sht errs, Oh 1 gently blumt.
' Lend her sometimes where. I'm sleeping,
I will answer if she calls,
And my breath will stir her ringlets,
When my nice in blessings falls.
Then her soft black eves will brighten,
And shall wouder wlieuce it came;
, ' Io her art, when yoars pass o'er her,
' '. She Iwil find a mother's name. .
It is snid tiint every mortal, .
Walks between two anaels hercj
One records the ills, but blots it, .
, If before the midnight drear
, Jfan reptiitetli if uncancelled, .
Then he seals it fur the skies;
And the. right-hand aogel weepith,.
' ' - Bowing low with veiled eyes.
I will be her right-hand angel,
, Sending up the good for Heaven ;
' Striving that the midnight watches .
Fixed no misdeeds uuforgiyen.
, , You will not forget me husband,
When I'm sleeping 'nea'fh the sod? .
Oh, love tho jewel to us 0iven, .
, As I love thee next to God I . .
THE DYING WIFE. Campaign Document.
THE PENDING CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
An Unanswerable Argument in Favor
of Manhood Suffrage.
Speech of Hon. WM. H. WEST. Attorney
General of Ohio Delivered at
Columbus, June 18, 1867.
As wave succoeils wve" in tlie ocoiui'r
tide risiijg, l(intniii);, culuiiimtiiig, and Hiuk
in ngxin to iln ntitive duplliR, so pi ollcin
hiiecreilH f loMt'in in tho hff.iira of inen, to
lie ugitnttil, disciiHHed, and solved, thon
pass into history, giving 'liso to new rol.
loins iu. turn, l'lioir cgilation in sometimes
gentle, often tempestuous urn! full of peril,
yet ever essenliul to avert that Btunntion
which is the precursor of decay, and im
part a licaltliful life-giving, vigor, respec
tively to natuio and to nations.
, Scarcely tins the oounlry emerged from
oiih of these periods ofstoi ui, when it is
called upon to grapple with resulting , is
sues kindrtd to iIioho which produced it.
Shall tliiH lesson of the past be lost oh the
Inline: bhall. the error winch precipitated
that natiomtl convulsion be' repeated in the
solution of existing questions ?
EMANCIPATION DESTINED TO RESULT FROM
PHYSICAL CAUSES.
WIieti.Abraliani Lincoln announced the
great truth that this nation could not per
manently endnro under the equal domin
ion of in edom and slavery, the bcii t irnon t
was greeted as tha ebullition of i-cckless fa
t'lilicisin. Cut this wub erroneous. It was the
prophetic utterance of sagacious statesman-
ship, nailing results in the future through
the logic ot their mating causes. It was
the announcement of no new theory. Noth
ing writtetnn the book of fate was more
certain,- skl Jefferson in substance, near a
century before, than that African slavery,
and the institutions founded upon it, were
destined to perish and disappear. The fa
naticism' of the period was its' blind refusal
to reciigniza this dentiny ; its lolly, Hie ill
ndvtsed "attempt,, to ,Jiiwart its progress,
Emancipation was-inevitable1. U the re
cognitiohof this ultimate fact bad controlled
the councils. of the nation, its calamity, and
great sorrow .might. have been averled. In
stead, however, blind fury prevailed, but
was successful only in prevnuting emanci
pation finin peaceful causes,' that it might
arise from a baptism pf blood.
CAUSES WHICH TENDED TO EFFECT IT.
Tbts Indicia which, pointed to this des
tiny were Unmistakably palpable. Two
centuries and a half ot worse than Jewish
captivity, or Saxon vassallage, or Celtic op
pression, had fettered the soul and drunk
the blood o( the African race. An inefitu
tional wrong of such magnitude had not
failed in .the progress of thepe centuries to
concentrate against it the enlightened sen
timent and active .sympathies of mankind.
It could hot long have resis'ed the moral
force and omnipotent power of this , pub
lie opinion ofthe world. .''"
But i'a fate was not dependent on moral
forces -alone. Co-operating witli.wid supe
rior (o them, was the resisileHs agency of
physical causes. Slavery was essentially
ariatocratie aud manorial freedom as essen
tially democratic a'rd agrarian. To tha one
the plantation was peculiar and indispen
sable; the homestead was the animating and
vital principle of1 the other.
These organic differences renderod it im
pqesible for them to occupy tha sauifl ter
ritorial 1 i cu i t,a in coiumon. The homestead,
iDvited population the plantation excluded
it. The domain was necessarily separate
and distinct from that of the other. II
permanent . aud impassable ' bounduiies
could have been established for them. Ilia
existence of slavery might have been in
definitely' prolonged. Bat tha immutable
laws of population for Lid this. Tha ex
pansive capabilities of , each system de
manded a corresponding expansion of. ter
ritory. A collision of interests and a strug
gle for empire was therefore inevitable, as
population drove them iu quest of new
foundations.
While the oppoBlny systems were -In
their infancy, each having a separata do
main greatly in excess of its iminediuto
wants, with the boundless range of the con.
(incut before them, apparently ampla tor
the future of both, their race for empire
was without serious collls:o'n or active
jealousy. But the rapid growth of ii'.mi-
bers, measuring with augmented ratio from
the sources of. nature and of. emigration,
toon demonstrated that tht capacity of the
continent was not unlimited. Its exhaus
tion was only a qutitiou of time: YYheu
at
It
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In
this should bccurVH could not fail to result
in an aggressive contest lor the means 0f
further expansion not a mcro nonfliot f
opinion proceeding1 from the agitation of
a mot bbt sentimenratism, Mit a Iife-atrnir
gle of compressed and overcrowded human
ities of the homestead interests of t e in
dnstrial millions, against tho manorial in
terests of plantation aristocracy. It was,
tnereioro, paipaoty apparent to sagacious
statesmanship, that (he inexorablo laws of
population must ultimately produce sg
gretsive collision, when tho teeming mil
lions, pressed on mid crowded forward by
other millions coming, would overrun and
crush out slavery, and cut into homestead
its manorial estates. Ullimate extinction
was. therelore, the fate which awaited it
iu any event.
Hut to await tha period of territorial ex
haustion was as irrational as it was unnat
ural. Tha immenso interests of freedom
could riot a (lord to hove slavery in the
meantime augment its power and strength
en its defences. To interpose and pre
serve a future; theater for homestead aud
industrial life, commensurate with the in.
tcrcsts of a rapidly augmenting free popa
lation, winch, if Yielded, it would havo to
reconquer and repossess, Was, therefore
the natural prompting of that feeling of
concern which ancestral regard bat for the
well-being of posterity. 'Hence the strug
gle ot statesmanship and the arts of cliplo
macy which preceded the Teccnt convul
sions. ',',
THE MISTAKE OF ATTEMPTING TO PREVENT IT.
But the exigcitotua of future population
could not he controlled by paixdimeut com-
pacts or conventional diplomacy, . Tho
fairest portion of the continent was already
under the dominion and .suO'eriiig tho curse
of manorial vassalage. Its peculiar civiliza
tion and profligato social system were cou
testing the dominion of the remaining por
tion with tho more rugged systems of the
North.' One or tho other must yield : to
the pcacelul arbitrament of matetial inter
eats and physical laws, if they wisely choso
tn direct their councils by it to force, if
blinrr obstinacy made that the alternative
Slavery, reading its fate in the foot prints
of western empire, if poaceful causes were
left to work out. their results, rashly chose
tn Imswrd the experiment of torce against
destiny, aud perished iu blood. . '
ITS LESSONS.
I have recurred to' this stern logic of the
past tor the lesson which it teaches. 1 he
misfortunes of a nation, which so neaily
foundered in its blind effort to thwart this
march of destiny by attempting to hold
race of slaves forever excluded from the
rights of manhood, should' warn it egninst
the kindred peril of attempting to hold a
race of freemen forever excluded from the
privileges of citizenship.
ENFRANCHISEMENT AN ISSUE RESULTING FROM
EMANCIPATION.
Enfranchisement is un issue naturally and
necessarily arising Irora emancipation. To
ignore it is vain to successfully resist its
ultimate consummation is impossible. Im
partial manhood suffinge is but a question
of time. t Emancipation was not more surely
the deHliny ot tho slavp, than, enfranchise
ment is of tho ficcman. - This cnvmtinent
cannot permanently maintain a stable peace
and tranquil unity, whild it contain' within'
it a numerous and powei'lnl nice alienated
and made enemies by exclusion' from those
privileges which, alone give enduring
strength to the .ties of allegiance, and last
ing firmness to the bonds of union.
SUFFRAGE AND SLAVERY INCOMPATIBLE.
Disfranchisement was an inseparable in
cident of servitude.1, Slavery could only
be maintained under color of law, which in
popnlar governments is the expression of
tho pubhc will, Br on.) that expression the
voice of the slave was necessarily excluded.
It ws unnatural that it should be given to
sanction or sanctify the riveting of his own
chums. ' ,. .
CAUSE FOR DISFRANCHISING FREE NEGROES.
lint the fettering of his limbs was of itself
not enough.' In order to prevent his restive
toss and discontent, . bis unpiialipn for
freedom, were discouraged and repressed
by crushing from his heart every'niotive to
seek "it. To this end uothing was omitted
which could render the condition of the
freedman more intolerable, if possible, than
that ot servitude. He was cxolndod from
citizenship; the temples of juttce were
closed against him ; he was denied the com
monest rights of humanity. Ho was made
a vagrant and " vagabond by the enforced
disabilities which hemmed him around,
and for being such was condemned as a
criminal, and returned to his chains, or
voluntarily sought them as a relief from
tho miseries of his freedom. .. .
ORGIN OF NEGRO DISABILITY IN THE NORTH.
Nor were these barbarous disabilities
confined to the doininipns of slavery,, Thp.
young Siates of.the Northwest jmilated their
example. Originally settled by emigrants
from the slave titatcs, they inherited their
prejudices and emulated their inhumanity.
Out of compluisa'ncy lo them, they voluntar
ily constituted theiuBtdves out-posts to the
citadel of slavery, and Janizaries to guard
its portals. .
a
THE BLACK LAWS.
To this work of barbarity and outrage
the earlier legislation of Ohio was prosti
tuted.' Her code of black laws is the
record of her greatest inlamy, and deepest
shame. This Dracnnean codo refused
asylum to the black man, except under
heavy bonds ; denied him settlement and
the privileges of education; virtually closed
aguinat hiiu the onurts of justice, by ex
cluding biin from the witness stand made
a crime to give him employment; re
quired his departure or removal on failure
to comply with Conditions to him practically
impossible ; withheld from. him both pubfio
relief and private charity ; decreed for him
nothing but degradation or exile; Where
soever he turned he was an' alien and out
cast, compared to which condition shackles
were a refuge and tender mercies, point
ing to these oppressive laws and barbarous
disabilities, the Southern master quieted
the awakening instincts aud quelled the
piiations of his slave for freedom. . .
oi
to
THE WORD "WHITE."
It is doubtless historically true that the
word " whit", was -incorporated into the
Constitution from the same complacent re
gard, for the iut?reis of slavery .-which
prompted the enactment of the black code.
bad its origin in that spirit of servility
which the earlier part of this century mani
fested toward the haughty dictation of
Southern power the spirit which ' bends
the supple hinges of the knee, that thrift
may follow fawning."
But the citadel is now stormed, and the
slave net free, Over him Is extended the
aegis of universal emancipation. Why
then keep tip . this out-post of servility 1
hy lot ger maintain the attitude of the
Janizary 1 The purpose of ber humiliating
complacency having ceased to exist, why
not the humiliation a'so, and Ohio stand up
the pride of her dignity as a State of ex
act justice and impartial law Lot) r ago
the revolted tense i f her people swept Irom
the statute book her black code of infamy i
whV not relieve the honor of her nam, and
the glory of her escutcheon, from ibis last
tettige of her St.eient lubscrvieney t
Ii
his
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
The pending amendment to the constitu
tion propose this, and nothing more. Can
any rational objection be urged against itt
IT IS NOT AN INNOVATION.
It is contended tkat the extension of tin.
partial suffrage to the black race will de
grade the elective franchise, and tend to
bring popular government Into contempt
But is the objection founded in reason T
It inaugurates no new or revolutionary
principle. The authors of the first consti
tution possibly intended to exclude the
African race, and ita dependents of ever?
shade. Bat the courts, actuated by senti
ment of siucere regard for the priuoiple
which rest at the foundation of popular
government, gave to its terms a more lib
eral construction. Under that oonstruotion,
emanating ' from Democratlo Judge of
the school of Jefferson, bofore Democracy
had lost its significance, persons of mixed
descent having a preponderance of Caucas
ian blood are entitled already to the equal
privileges of full citizenship. The pending
amendment therefore, does not propose to
inaugurate any new or startling principle,
but onlv to enlarge ait old and long estab
lished Dotnooratio priuoiple, aud extend its
operation to the entire African race, a large
portion of which already enjoy it.
To (his extension of the principle, thus
giving to the whole race a privilege which
a patt only now enjoy, it i difficult totbvtr
ceive any rational, muoli lee tsupetable
objection, ruder the constitution a it
now is, persons , having fifty on percent,
of Caucasian blood are electors, while those
having forty-nine, being only two per cent,
less, are disfranchised. Can this insignifi
cant difference in blood afford any just
grounds for the invidious distinction made?
Or can the extension of suffrage now on
joyed hy Iho African of fifty -one per cent ,
to the African of forty-nine per cent., be re
gal ded as a revolutionary innovation T
Surely not.
OTHER OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
The priuoiple of African suffrage being
thus established by constitutional law and
immemorial us ige, its impartial extension to
the whole race is, therefore, neither an in
novation of principle, nor a degradation of
practice. ..Docs any other just reason exist
then why the same entrauchiaement con
ceded to, and enjoyed by, the African of
half blood, under the existing coiU'titntiou
shall not be conceded to,' and onjoyed by
the African of whole blood, as proposed by
the tMiiendinent ? Two only are seriously
nrged the toildcncy of impartial eunV.a;e
ti miscegenation, and the inferiority of tho
.ce.
MISCEGENATION.
The fust is stale, flat, and unprofitable
For half a century it was employed by the
power ot slavery, which was itself a sys
torn of universal concubinage,' against the
interests and progress of freedom, as it
now employed against tlie enoria lor ex
tending enfranchisement. It wjm the im
pitdent aKfiumption of the Devjv preaching
righteousness. II I wfue disposed to treat
the assumption with the dignity of respect
ful oonsiduiatioii, 1 can discover ; much
stronger motives for miscegenation under
tho existing Democratic Constitution, -vhich
ci.ulei'R distinctive r vileges in those only
ot mixed ijlQod, than could possibly ex
is't i; tbcBo privileges wire impartially
onjoyed liy all. Jlut I have too exalted
an opinion ot tny own race to believe
its taste 'can be corrupted, or its virtue
prostituted, by an act o( justice to an un
lortunate people ; and he who ultcra the
sontiinout libels , hi mother aud slun
dcrs his kindred. . May 1 never , so far
forget my sense of dignity, and the feel
ing of respect due to my countrymen, as to
thuiK it necessary to detenu, them niainst
so disgusting an imputation. Let him who
utters it believe it ; 1 will not. The domes
lio duty of the two races iu Ohio, the iudi
cial statistics of the State, the candor of
intelligent observation, aed truth, alike re
luto the calumny. :
SUPERIORITY OF RACES.
Diit tue great argument against impar
tial suffrage is inferiority of race. .. This is
the Alpoa and Umega of the opposition
in it all reasoning ou the subject has its be
ginning and its end. I'hysiology," ethnol
ogy and theology are exhausted .' with
learned essays iu its demonstration.
mit ooncedmg the intcnority of the Am
can to the Caucasian; what then t If, not
withstanding, he have the rights of mall to
protect, the obligations of the citizen to
porform', the burdens of 'citizenship to Lpar
it, in point ot manhood, he is not too in
ferior to be the subject of government and
law, as man,- is not the very fact of hi
inferiority a most powerful and convincing
reason for arming him with the' ballot, that
he may 'defend hnnself against uiiiubI gov
eminent and tyrannical law T What is the
purpose oi popular1 suffrage but' that the
weak may protect tlmmselves against the
strong, the feoble 'defend their rights and
persons and liberties against the injustice
oi tne poweriui r ii tins is not its purpose,
tlien sullrage is an empty privilege, bur
densomo rather than bonctioial, aud the
theory of popular government a cheat and
delusion.
IT IS THE PLEA OF OPPRESSION.
For ages the plea of inferiority hold the
masses ot matiKinu in me grasp ot oppres
sion, and subjected them to the tlouiina
tion of superior caste and nobler blood.
Patrician and plebean. Bourbon aud sans
culotte, Cavalier and Hollndhead, were the
inexorable distinctions maintained by the
arrogance of nobility and the diviue right
mnga. ,
THE THEORY OF OUR GOVERNMENT DIFFERENT.
But the justice of Heaven did not bleep
always. Imparling energy to the resolu
tion of despair, manhood burst its fetter,,
and asserted the, i m mortal sentiment, that
secure the equal and inalienable lights
with whicji all men by i.atuit are endowed,
governments are instituted among ihem,
derivb'g their just powers from the con
sent of (he governed. . . ' -'
Iu defense of this principle in which our
own liberties are anchored, the sword of
Buiikci Hill was drawn, and the equal dig
nity of manhood vindicated alike by the
blood of the Prlgrim and the Ilugenot. Nor
it sheathed until the recognition was
rui'g from reluctant 'and discomfited tyr
anny, and (he doctrines of divine right Mid
hereditary superiority which had justified
the hoary oppression of centuries, were ut
terly exploded, . ;
NOT INFERIOR IN RESPECT TO RIGHTS.
Concede, then, that the African is the
feelier race aye, inferior if you please ; is
his inferiority of such degree as to place
i its below the reach bf this just principle
thus asserted by the authors of the Revo
lution, and subiect him to the absolute die
cretinn aud uncontrolled will of hi Cau
casian superior T If he were so far infe
rior as to be without those SKrihu'es of
manhood, those rights of man, which are
subjects of g ivornment ami law, ihis
might be so. But is it so It You concyno
equal right to life in comniou with your
self, for you visit hi homicide with the
same dsadh penalty you concede the equal
tacrednesl of his person, for you have pro
vided lor it llio tamo guaranties ot invio
lability you concede his equal tills to ber-
tonal liberty, for you ahieloi it by the im
partial privileges of haha$ corf us you
concede the equal dignity of hi right to
property and tho. fruits of his own labor
and enterprise, for you guarantee to them
the impartial protection of judicial reme
dies. "It Ii not, then, In the nature or the dig
nity of these rights that hit inferiority con
sists, for, in respect to them, aud the meas
ure of protection and security to which
lliey are entiilod. you concede him to be
the equal of all other men,
NOR IN RESPECT TO OBLIGATIONS.
Dor it consist In tlis nature of hi obli
gation a a member of community J In re
speut to these you alto regard him as on
having the attributes of manhood. You en.
lorce against him tho rigid performance of
his contract ; yon exact rrom him his equal
share of publlo burdens; you bold him
equally amenable to tho taws, and inflict
upcu him the impaitial penultie of their
violation ; you bind him by the ties of at
legianoe, and punish his infidelity to the
Htate as treason j jon treat him in reapeot
to all these thing at having rational, in
telligent, equal manhood. It is not, then.
In' the nature of his obligation as a member
of community that yeu regard his inferior
ity as consisting.
But the.e rights are the rights of man
these obligations are the incidents of ra
tional fhauhood. For the protection and
enforcement of these, and these only, gov
ernment i instituted. It has no other pur
pose; those are. the only subject of its
powers. Dues it not follow then, as a
lofical sequence, that an the African has,
iu equal degree with alt other men, the
rights and obligations of rational manhood,
(or the protcution aud ' enforcement ol
which government is instituted, he ought
to have and exercise, in common with them,
tnbh measure of political power derived
from his consent, as will muke them per
mauiutly socuie t This neueesailly result
from the principle upon which popular
government is founded, and iu which our
own liberties repose for security, un
less he be so inferior In rational capacity
as to remtor him incapable of intelligent
consent.
DEFECT OF CAPACITY CONSIDERED—SEPARATION
OF RACES.
Can Buch' defect of capacity be iustlv as
serted of him ?' Hit can, then the separa
tion of the races, and the colonization of the
African, consigns him In anarchy; for if he
be not capable of i. teltigeutly exercising
the ordinary functions of citizenship in con
junction Willi a superior race, much loss is
he if cast upon his own resources ) and hi
civil r.iul political condition in a state of
separation would therefore, be one of in
deacribablo miseries, exposing him to the
cupidity of commercial udvt utttri rs and tlie
misfortunes of liis own incapacity. Unless
tl'.s theory of separation be the suggestion
of a barbarous inhumanity, its advocates
must be satisfied of his capacity of sslf.gov
eminent, and tho exorcise of political pow
ers with sufficient intelligence to guarantee
the proteolion and seomily of his rights.
With them, theiefore, no controversy can
be had no vindication of the negro's ca
pacity is necessary, for they concede it.
A HIGH ORDER OF CAPACITY NOT THE RULE
OF SUFFRAGE.
That he is inudeqnato to those higher
efforts of genius and intellectuality of which
the Caucasian is capable, may be possible.
But the capacity ol genius is nut the rule of
enfranchisement. If suffrage were re
stricted to those possessing extraordinary
capabilities, not only the African, but the
great body of the Caucasian race would be
excluded. A government conforming its
practice to such a standard would consti
tute an aristocracy of intellect, highly
Utopian in theory, yet no less tlespotio and
tyrannical than an aristocracy of wealth or
birth. Our whole political system is at
war with a standard so practically unat
tamable, It rests upon the fundamental
and liberal idea that rational manhood
however huuible its endowment, however
incapable of reaching the higher attainment
of statesmanship, iB tho only practical
standard of restriction. Tlie masses of
mankind, although . ungifted . with those
powers which uiuke men illustrious, are
nevertheless competent to constitute an
ultimate tribunal, a grand inquest of the
nation, by whoso will' selections from the
gifted are commissioned to t-xersiso the
more delicate aud difficult powers of state
and at the bar of whoso united judgment
they are rightly required to account for the
manner in which they discharge their high
trust, Ou this depends the security of the
weak against the strong of the feeble
against the powerful. I his is their bul
wark, their only ehiold, the palladium of
their safety, . . " '
ONE STANDARD FOR ALL RACES.
Shall a more stringent rule he annlied to
tlie African T Concede that he is unequal
in capacity to tlie niore-giltd ot the Can
castan race ; i what .then T ' Doe it follow
that because he: may not excel, he cannot
attain mediocrity f That because he may
not rival the efforts of genius, he cannot
have the ordinary rationality of 'manhood?
That because. he may not reach the first
rank in statesnaiiahip, he cannot intelli
gently exercise the ordinary functions of
the citizen T That because he may not be
Caisar, he can he nothing T If this stand
ard were applied to our own race, its
electoral ranks would be , fearfully deoi
mated. As to it, however, the ordinary
capacity of rational manhood is the test and
rulo ot sullrage. I an impartial justice de
niaml d lest liberal rule for tlie .African t
Ue iins the same rights of life; liberty and
property to Ue protected ; shall not the
same ordinary powers of Intellect entitle
him to exercise the menus 'of protection?
tie is sutiiect' lo the like Obligation and
duties of ci.ticeiiship in common with oil
other race of men; shall not the like ordi
nary capacity eiditlo him, ju common Willi
tlieui, to share in tempering apd controlling
meir entorcement T ite is exposed to Itku
acts of tyranny and oppression ; shall not,
the same orUiiiury rutionality entitle him
to the mean -of 'resisling hi oppressor?
Li impartial justice answer, '
HIS INTELLIGENCE.
That he possesses this rationality, tho
cundur of intelligence, ami bis own achieve.
raeuts under tlie most adverse circum
stances, bear witness. It is a stubborn
fact, abundantly sustained by the educa
tional statistics ot the country, that uhet-
ever the heel of oppression aud the hand
of prejudice have been lifted from the
negro, his progress' in riiditueutu! kuowl-
euge has not been less llun that of his Cau
casian superior. ' In ISM), before the facil
ities of a pariialiy jiiHt educational system
were extended to luui in the North wei'.
its proportiou 6f illiterate blacks was not
greater than the whole Soulheru white
opiilatiou. ho keenly sensitive were
oiilhern statesmen to ibis fact, that in
1860, they prevailed on the aulhurltiea then
in power to omit the coll'iction of educa
tional statistics in the census of that year.
What bis rank in the scale of intelligence
might have been it stimulated by tlie pride
manhood rec-OKiiif ed. and his sense of
tlie dignity and duties of citizenship con.
tarred, is only conjectural. LIiihtMto he
has been outlawed, biillcted, despised.
without motives to ambition, or incentives
tn excel, or opportunities to grow. With
the humiliating sense of his kindred in
chains) aud hitntoll the object of scoro aud
t-a.l
contempt, il it only rtmtrkablt that h t
not more barbarous, nor vicious aa
Ishmael lit resentment', a Baton despoiler
of hi npprtttor. It i basely ungenerous,
therefore, to fetter tbt limbs of a raca
w hicl'i has rio country, no government, ltd
laws, no land of civil and religion liberty;
whereon to et its feel, aud then jeer it for
lagging behind us in the rce, It i men
nreles injustice tn perpotoale1 hit ignor
ance by enforced disabilities, and then per
petual , hi disabilities because bt it
ignorant. .
But let us be frank with onretlves bo.'
candid with our conviction. Instead of
mental incapacity, or Inferiority of rce, it
uot the real, tht sole causa, of our opposi
tion to the enfranchisement of the negrd
grounded in prejudice of color?. Suppose
he were divested of his sable complexion,
aud clothed in that of the Caucasian would!
his exclusion be nrged on tha ground ot
incapacity .or any othor cause? Frankness,
csfldor, will antwer no 1 Then our whole
opposition resolve itself Into prejudice of
color that incident of hlf nature tipoti
which neither manhood,' nor ttrlfte, nor
patriotism, in aught depend; and which!
neither augment nor diminishes tht claitud
of justice to the right of man.
WILL SUFFRAGE BETTER THE NEGRO'S CONDITION?
It is urged, however, that the extension
of iiitrtartinl SIlfTrsir til' tllA African itnk
cannot give him any better government, of
hia rights the proteotien of more impartial
laws, than he now enjoy'. This hmy be
possibles An enlightened seme of justice)
might long mete out to him an equal meas
ure of impartiality.. But cat) it be rationally
contended that tho rights and liberties of
a nice of men art equally secure when sfib't
joet to tbt absolute discretion, uncontrolled
win, ana exujusive keeping ot anotuer and
distinct race? This subverts the whole'
theory upon which popular government is
founded. It is unsiiBtained by the politi
cal hislory of mankind. It la a return to
the exploded doctrine of the divine right
ol oastes anil hereditary nohilitv. u era
the rights of the sansculotte equally safe in
the hand of their hereditary tyrants?
Wbatcauso had they then to overtiifn tho
throne of tho Bourbons? Were (he Al
pine shepherds equally secure under, (ho
guardianship of the Hapsburgs? Why
then did they storm the Quardralateral ?
Aro tho liberties of the Celtic peasant hot
ter guarded in the exclusive keeping of tho
British Fin liumont, than in their own hands? '
What motive then existed for tht Fetiiad
uprising against tho protection of the Han
overian dynasty?' Or, why are tho opera
tive.", of Manchester and the cottagers of
England , clamoring for the extension bf
suffrage? ' Is not' the enlightened justice
of F.Xeter Hall an enduring guaranty of tht
rights and liberties of these humbler peo
ple?, The keeu anguish of their oppres
sion does not pormit them to think so.. Yet
these people are of one origin and one raco
with their oppressors. Can a sense of jus--tioo,
coupled with uncontrolled discretion;
oonstilutu a more permanent or ehdiirihg
guaranty of impartial protection to a dis
tinct, aye, inferior rnce? The witnesses of
1 nibs scarred by the fetters of recent seiT-.
itude must disappear; ..the. bitter rooilleo
tion of inhuman Vagrant laws must bt for
gotten ; the spirit which dishonored tht
name and tarnished the glory of Ohio by
the barbarous enactment of the blrtcR coder
must be purged from huinau nature, before
it can be assumed that power, united with
unrestrained discretion, will cedse to bt tlb1
surd. : . .",-''."' 1 ,
The people of Ohio are enlightened, mag-
: i til. L :.. t ..
niiiiiinuii auu jusi. i ue bui! in uie oirciui,
of the globe shines not on a nobler type of
manhood; yet not' ten times has he com
pleted his ahilital cdurse Kilito it was dlf
tinctly proposed and strongly urged in her
legislature, by the representative of a pow
erful party, to revive her black code of in
fa tny. 'What the past has attempted; tho
future tnny accomplish, as interest, or ca
price, or ambition , may direct. Tht exist
ence of discretion implies tha power .td
abuse it, whenever tht molivp shall prompt.
It is vain then to oontmid that the rights;
and persons, and liberties of the -African,
are as secure undor the.bi'Mection .bf pow
ers wiuiucu exclusively Dy uancasiaii nanus;
as if restrained by hit Own right bf cotl
currefnee or dissent; ,''"' 1, ' ' .
But the assertion inat ehligtitehed jus
tioo sufficiently guarantees the rights of
the nero, has this virtue : It is a full con
cession that he possesses rights which,'
from their nature, ought to have tho im
partial protection of just ftoverntiletit and
equal laws. No reason, then, can be
urged why the iamb enlightened justice'
Which concedes him the right. Shall not as"
well concede to his own bands tb'e power;
in comtnou with other men, trf making that
protection secure, permanent and endur
ing. "" ''. ' , '. ' .'., '"
WILL SUFFRAGE BETTER THE NEGRO'S CONDITION? UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.
It is objected that this reasoning' lends lb"
universal uffratre, irrespective of sex ? If
this were so, the reasoning would not Le
weuKenon, or its conclusion nestroyeu; -But
is it? - Governments are instituted for
the reciprocal protection and biuthul de
fense of those between whom -the tie of
nature are insuUloieot to insure justice and
prevent oppression, . Tho family is the
primary element iulo which all popular
government molvcs itself.' The ties of na
ture, the relations of onnunlifliiliitv. 'tlin en!
dearinenls of nurental aud filial affection:..
are, as a general rule, sufficiently stroug to
secure (lie whole power and Vigilance of
the family head in guarding the interests
Sod I rolAf'tiliu. IliA riirlila of tta mmhnrfl '
Hit existence ot the family relation bo- -
ing so universal, embracing within its mnU
munitions anna the individuals of the race;
with few exceptions, the exercise bf politi
cal powers by aud through its re present a-
live lieaa,ia an adequate guaranty .against,
the enactmeut tjf discriminating taws iujit
rinislv ArTer-tiii'ir therm' 'intn whnrpej.r : pt :
dition or aituation ol orphanage or widow
hood they may pass. The teuderuess of
patriarchal regard will not fail lo provide
for their protection and care; in tho con;
tingeucy of his being removed. A ne-' '
cessity for universal Suffragei ' therefore;
does not eiisl. .'' ,
But betweeu the different heads of fam
ilies, and more especially between the dip '
ferent races and nation of men, these ties
of nature have no existence. Their are
(be relation of rivalry, ambitiou antag
onism it may be; tending rattier to the ele-,
vation of the one, where Uncontrolled
power exists, by acts of injustice tb the
other. Ilvnce the i econeity in popular gov
ernment that the rights and interests and
liboi tics bf all the races aiid nations of men ,
composing it, be represented in the crea
tion, exercise and control of political pow
ers, by ami through (lie impartial reprt'
sentation 61 their roppecllve beads of fam
ily; This ii liberty, this IS popular free
dom, this is Impartial justice. " - '
[Concluded next week.]
It is not enough that you are praised by
lie goon you navu laneu eoiiiewnere in
i : j. . :j l. . e : .. I .. . i.
your duly it you are not cursed by the Dad.
A person of genuine tact, if u' tacked by
ferocious men or savage beasts, will always'
manage to set then) to fighting each other.
Sheridan being asked what wine he bked
v,,ltt. T1,J Will, fti JltllM .,M,.ltM.''