The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1869-11-20
The Fifteenth Amendments EseaG
and Damned

The Montgomery Mail contains an
editorial on the Fifteenth Amendment, from
which we extract the following for the in
formation of our readers 1T is now
absolutely certain that the proposed amend.
Inent to the Constitution of the United
States forbidding State to qualify suffrage
on the ground Of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude, viii NOS be ratified
by three fourths Of the States Granting
that the bogus ratification purPorting to
have been made by the Indiana Legislature
when less than a quorum of members was
present, and the enforced ratifcations BY
provisional Legislatures in Yrginiu, Texas
and Mississippi are to hold good under the
usurpation of an INSCRIPTIONS Congress,
there are still ten States (which win refuse
to ratify and thus defeat the propositions
These ten States are New Jersey, Delaware
Maryland, Kentucky Tennessee, Georgia
California, Oregon, Ohio, and New York.
Besides these States, the opponents Of rati-
ication have just carried the State Conyen-
ton Of Illinois. The Legislature Of West
Virginia has become Iibcralized, and the
next Legislature of Nevada viii be Dem
ocratic. The State Legislatures now in
existence viii not give a three .lOurths ma
jority in favor of the Fifteenth Amendment
The next Legislatures Will block the game
still further, because the people will have
had an opportunity to speak, Virginia and
Texas will rescind Connecticut will in all
probability go against it. The amendment
is not only dead now, but it will be doubly
dead hereafter
What then? Having killed off The
Fifteenth Amendment and rendered it
possible for Alabama, or any other State
which sees fit to deprive the negroes Of the
right to vote, what will be the line Of policy
of the Democratic party In its national
character 1t has nothing more to do with the
question of suffrage, except to prevent the
Radicals from extending the period required
for citizenship under the naturaiiza-
ton laws. The National Democracy, In
securing to the States the right to regulate
suffrage in any manner as may seem best
to each individual State has preserved to
us one Of the most important Of the liber-
ties of the people. For that it is entitled
to our lasting gratitude IN the face OF
successive defeats, of time-serving and
trimming, against the power Of the purse
and the sword, against Grant and his myr.
midons, it has won at last the most impor-
tant victory which has been gained over the
CONTINUATION party since the days of Jefer
son. The Democratic party has been the
last hope Of Liberty in America. The rank
and file have never wavered in defeat; but
atlast, when many people at the South have
grown sick at heart and were standing ready
to ground their arms, our friends at the
North marched forward, shoulder to shout
der to drive the enemy to the wall in Ohio
and Pennsylvania, wrested the Empire State
for the first time in twenty years, from the
hands of the oppressor, and elected an anti
Radical Convention IN Illinois, State
which last year gave to Grant majority. of
$4,000. Nor bas its victory ceased with
these brilliant results STOPPING down to
make the backward spring more elastic, our
friends have thrown their. oppressOrs in
Virginia, Tennessee and West Virginia.
The Pacific slope has become unit, and
all along the line, from West to East, and
from East to South, the noble Democracy
have pushed back the enemy, and have
carried a majority of the aggregate white
votes by tens of thousands"