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ftrgiof* Voting In Ton Boren Toonftblp*G ho Ison's dcc'sion had been put in-' to practical operation in Van Unroll township. At the lato Spring election there were TWELVE NEGROES VOTED who never bad the 1 right of exercising the elective fran-( cbiee before! but now elevated to an equal political privilege with wbito , men by tho Issuing of tho edict from• the mandate ol the Gram! Mogul of the Oberliniti'S, they boldly step up to the polls and deposit their ballots toI the utter shame aud disgrace of this 1 white government.,| We understand that some of these negroes voted who liuve not the right to, even under GljoLons’ decision.— f hat decision requires that the/ must possess one more drop of whits blood than black, before they can vote; but some of these negroes voted who are just half and half. Joel W. Goings,| whose lather was full-blooded black | man, and his mother a white voujhu, i voted, aud he had no more light to i tlmu a minor or an alien. That is the•; effect of Gbolson t decision. No dit-[ icrcueo how dark u person may be or I how little white blo»*d ho may possess, i he xcill vote. Goings is now boasting •land crowing “that he has douesoniu-• thing lie has not been allowed to since the framing of the Constitution ofM.Some of these negro votes were at first refused by the Judges of Election, but this so shocked their dignity and importance that they at once .'threatened dire vengeance on the Judges, it they didn’t allow them toj vote, thereby intimating that they would either ru/e or rain.These twelve negroes arc now on a par with wuite citizens. They hate a right to enjoy all the privileges and immunities that white men have.— they have a right to sit on the jury,, and’ they have a right to hold oflicu.— Shelby Co. Democrat.
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The Mcarthur Democrat
Mcarthur, Ohio, US
Thu, Apr 26, 1860
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