1865 · Columbus
by [Oberlin Committee]
Columbus: Ohio State Journal Steam Press, 1865. 13, [1 blanks] pp. Disbound. else Very Good.
The people of this Ohio town, an anti-slavery stronghold, seek assurances from Jacob Cox, Union candidate for Governor, that he favors "modifying our Constitution so as to give the elective franchise to colored men;" and that, "in the re-organization of the Southern States the elective franchise [should] be secured to the colored people." The Committee says, "the distinction made... between white and colored people was made in the interest of slavery, and is both wicked and absurd."
Responding only three months after Lincoln's assassination, (truncated)
The people of this Ohio town, an anti-slavery stronghold, seek assurances from Jacob Cox, Union candidate for Governor, that he favors "modifying our Constitution so as to give the elective franchise to colored men;" and that, "in the re-organization of the Southern States the elective franchise [should] be secured to the colored people." The Committee says, "the distinction made... between white and colored people was made in the interest of slavery, and is both wicked and absurd."
Responding only three months after Lincoln's assassination, (truncated)