Litchfield enquirer., 1869-03-18
THE BREAKUP OF THE INDIANA LEGISLATURE-M DEMO
 CRATIC LAUNDERING. r

The proposed fifteenth amendment of
 the constitution, sent out the other day
 from Congress to the States, and endorsed by General Grant in his inaugural, pro- vides that ssthere shall be no abridgement
 by the United Sates or by any State of the 1 right to vote on account or race color or previous condition of servitude, and that
 Congress shall have power to enforce l tn!s
 provision by appropriate Legislation: HIS means impartial suffrage to all male cltl-
 zens above the age of twenty one years
 whites. blacks. Indians, and Chinese. Half a dozen States have already ratified this
 amendment, and it was about to be taken
 up in the Indiana Legislature the other
 day. when the democratic minority bolted,
 seeded and went home, leaving both hous-
 es without quorum, and consequently
 incapable of any legislation at all. To meet
 the emergency the Republican Governor 1 (Baker) has issued Q call for 8 new election 1 to fill the places of the seeding members in time for new meeting of the Legisla- t1re on the 1st of April, the main idea be- 1 ing the ratification of said fifteenth amend ment. .s.. ,...s,-s-<>-sq ,....es The democrats, in this act of secession,
 have been playing ridiculous game If they fill all these vacancies they will be on l ly where they left off; but the probability is
 that from fear that if they have the chance
 they may paly the same game over again; {;
 there will be quorum elected to both
 houses without them. In any event the
 the nigger. They still dream of t.the con
 stitution as it was' under Buchanan, when
 by the Dred Scott decision, a negro had ''no rights which white man was bound to respect" But since that day two amendments have been added to the con stitution-the thirteenth, abolishing sla-
 very, root and branch, and the fourteenth, declaring, among other things, equality to niggers in the matter of civil rights, and that suffrage and representation shall go together. Now comes the fifteenth amend mennt, giving to the black man, the red man, and the yellow man, the everlasting nigger, the Indian, and the Chinamen citi- zenized the same right of suffrage as the white man. General Grant, too, thinks this amendment will settle all this busi- ness, and so he hopes it will be duly rati- fled by the States. This endorsement, there is every reason to believe, will carry this amendment through; for, says Richard,
 ''the kings name is a tower of strength.
 Why, then, will the democrats persist in this folly of fighting the nigger, when they have been almost destroyed in their suc- C0SS1t0 ulodStV1o OA OAO AA6S3S@ 1uSSoAoA since 1854? But for the stupidity of their copperhead and rebel leaders of the Tam many Convention they might have run General Grant tight race, and they might have secured handsome majority in the present House of Representatives. But instead of recognizing the fixed facts before them, the stupid managers of the party proclaimed the reconstruction acts of Congress 'unconstitutional revolutions ", null and void," and so they were swamped again in '6S, as they had been un- der Johnson on the same issue in '65. So they are out in the cold, watching and waiting for some providential smash-ap of the republican party, apparently incapable of seeing anything to fight against but the almighty nigger. He is to them what 8 bit of red flannel is to an enraged bull or to turkey cock-an intolerable insult, to be resented, reckless of consequences.-N.
 r. Herald.