| Valley Spirit, "The Negro Government of the Black Republicans--Ohio Election," November 7, 1860 Summary
Democratic editors pointed to black voting as the evidence for their accusations that Republicans intended to bring social
and political equality for blacks.
EXCERPT:
"Their votes carried the election. Ohio is thus ruled, not by white men, but by negroes, and that, too under a Constitution
that excludes negroes from suffrage."
Full-text web version of newspaper  Points of Analysis to this Data:
 "Franklin County's papers spent more ink--almost all of it negative--on its nearly two thousand free blacks than Augusta did
on its five thousand enslaved people."
Citation: Key = E176
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