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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1860., [Electronic resource], Negro Suffrage to be Tested in Congress. (search)
Negro Suffrage to be Tested in Congress. --In the Sixteenth Congressional District of Ohio, Cutler, Republican, was elected by sixty-four majority over Jewett, Democrat. In a large number of precincts negroes voted the Republican ticket, and in consequence the Democratic candidate was defeated. The Marietta Republican gives the number of negroes voting in several precincts.--enough to decide the result — and intimates that the election will be contested. As the Constitution of the State provides that no one shall vote if he is not a white citizen of the United States, all persons of negro blood are disqualified from voting. This is a plain proposition, which the House of Representatives affirmed, in the contested election case of Vallandigbam vs. Campbell, two years ago!