- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- The attitudes of five selected republican political officials in the state of Ohio concerning the ratification of the fifteenth amendment: 1865-1870, 1975
- Creator:
- Collier, Cynthia Ann
- Date of Original:
- 1975-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
dissertations - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The main object of this thesis is to investigate and describe the attitudes of selected Republican political officials in Ohio concerning the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment from 1865 to 1870. An effort has been made to display the separate and distinctive attitudes which were apparent within one political party towards granting the elective franchise to the Negro. The Republican officials described had specific ideologies for their attitude on the Fifteenth Amendment. Salmon Chase was a strong believer in states' rights. He endorsed the adoption of the suffrage amendment; however, he wanted voting rights and qualifications to be left to the state to decide. Benjamin Wade, James Garfield, and Rutherford B. Hayes, to varying degrees, supported ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. Ben Wade, who had forcefully supported the amendment, suddenly altered his attitude in an attempt to become a candidate for president and defeat his political enemy Salmon Chase. Wade impulsively began to air his support of states' rights in regards to voting qualifications and privileges. Jacob Dolson Cox was in favor of Negroes voting in Northern States but opposed the enfranchisement of four million ex-slaves living in the South. He was an early advocate for the separation of the two races. Ohio's geographical location was significant in determining the attitudes of its citizens toward the Negro. The state had both Southern and New England attitudes and lifestyles. The principle secondary sources consulted were: North of Reconstruction* Ohio Politics 1865 to 1870. By Felice Bonadio; the Negro In Ohio by Charles Thomas Hickok; and The Color Line In Ohio by Frank Quill in. The main primary sources consulted were papers, letters, and speeches, and documents of each political official.
Degree type: thesis
Degree name: Master of Arts (MA)
Department: Department of History - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1975_collier_cynthia_ann.pdf
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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