The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-02-17
The Fifteenth Amendment.

ment to the constitution of the. United
States as adopted By the Senate on
the 9Th ofFebruary:
"TLe constitutional amendment
having been considered as in the Com
mittee of the Whole, was reported to
the Senate.
The joint resolution having been
ordered to be read a third time, was
then passed-yeas 40, nays Is, .
A joint Resolution, proposing amendments
to the Constitution of the United States.
Be IL rssotvsd by the Senate and House
Of Representatives., &C., (two-thirds Of
both Ho.Res concurIing), That the
following articles be proposed to the
Legislatures of the several States as
amendments to the Constitution of
the United States, either of which
when ratified by three-fourths of said
legislatures shall be held as a part of
said Constitution.
Article 18th. No discrimination
shall be made in the United States
among the citizens of the United
States, in the exercise of the elective
franchise, or in the right to hold efice
in any State on account of race, color,
nativity, property, education o: creed.
Article 18th. The second clause
| of the first section of the second arti:
Gle of the Constitution of the United
States, shall be amended TO read as
follows: EacL State shall appoint by
a vote of the people thereof qualified
to vote for Representatives in Con-
gress a number Of electors equal
to the whole number of Senators an !
Representatives to which the said
States shall be entitled in Congress /;
but no Senator or Representative or
person holding an Office Of trust or
profit under the United States, shall
be appointed an ~elector, and Congress
shall have power to prescribe the
manner in which such electors shall
be chozen By the people"
The joint resolution now goes TO
the House for concurrence.
The House will undoubtedly crncur
in the Senate amendments and then
the question of adopting these amend
ments will be referred to the Legisla-
lures Of the several States, when the
people will be called upon to give their
assent; and if three-fourths of the
States vote for these amendments,
they viii become a part of the Con
stitution, and be enforced by Congress?
Two years since, the question of ne
gro suffrage was before the people of
Ohio, and the people decided, by a
majority of over fifty thousand that
negro suffrage could not be tolerated
in this State.
A fair construction of the fifteenth
amendment, will allow Africans, Chi
nese, Red Men and the California
Digger Indians the right of suffrage.
No such sweepingproposition was ever
presented for the consideration of the
American people. The issue issquare-
ly made and our people will have to
meet it.
If this wild and monstrous propo-
sition should be accepted by three
tourths of the States, our couatry will
be overrun by mongrels, mongols and
savages from every part of the globe.
The bare suggestion that such a prop
osition will be concurred III by the
people of the States, is enough to
alarm every we'll wisher of his country.
The most abhorrent feature of the
new amendment is, hat it not only
enfranchises all the mongrels, but ex-
plicitly confers on them the right to
hold Office whenever and wherever
they may be in the majority. This
will give over to negro rule several of
the Southern States; and to the do
minion of the Chinese, California and
New Mexico.
It has long been 3 maxim, that
whom the gods would destroy, they
first make mad" This last devilish
and malicious attempt of the radical
leaders to fasten themselves upon the
country, by calling to their aid the
barbarians of every cline, will be the
Feather that will break the Camels
back"
This question must be met at the
polls this fall. We feel assured that
the freemen OF Chic will meet and
settle the issue in such a way that it
viii remain quieseent in the future,
by casting a majority of seventy-fve
thousand votes against the infamous
fifteenth amendment.