The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-08-13

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| A borrowed tool, if broken, should
be replaced by new one. A nice
sense of honor in such matters Ii
much to be recommended.
1t seems strange that housekeepers
can't buy pals and tubs with brass
hoops and trimming. They cost lit
tie more at first. butlast wonderfully
Status of the Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Constitutions
amendment, prohibiting any state
from denying suffrage to any on ac
count of race or color, is the great
issue at present before the nation
and it is interesting to know what
progress its ratification has made
The Washington Chronicle publishes
corrected table of the states which
have thus far ratified the Fifteenth
Amendment, as follows: Alabama,
Florida, Maine, Nevada, North Car
olina, West Virginia, Arkansas, Illi-
nois, Kansas, Massachusetts,, Misou-
ri, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana,
Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New
York and South Carolina-21. The
action of Missouri was imperfect, and
that ofIndiana is OF disputed validity,
though we presume that Congress
will decide it valid. The imperfect
ratification of Missouri will be cor
rected and completed at its adjourn
ed session next January. Ratifca-
tion by seven other states will be
necessary TO secure the adoption of
the amendment. OF Vermont there
is no question, and its Legislature
will meet on the second Thursday in
tOctober. Iowa is equally sure, and
its Legislature meets on the first
Wednesday in January. In Mime.
sofa the legislature will meet the
Tuesday alter the first Monday in
January, and another affirmative vote
nsy be looked for. 1t has been sup
posed that this state, with Iowa, had
already voted, but if the Chronicle is
correct they have not. In Rhode
Island one branch has passed the
resolution of ratification, and the
other will doubtless concur at the
adjourned session in January. In
Ohio, if the Republicans get a major
ity of the legislature, as we hope
they may, the vote of last year may
be rescinded and the amendment rat
flied; the Legislature meets the first
Monday in January. Early in that
month, therefore, we shall have the
result in all the northern states, and
may hope that the ratification by
twenty.six states will be completed.
In the south, according to the
Chronicles table, their remain eight
states which have not yet acted upon
it-Maryland. Delaware. Kentucky,
Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Mis-
sississippi and Texas. The first
three OF these are hopelessly Demo
cratic. In Tennessee, if the Chroni-
Gle is correct, the legislature now to
be elected will have to vote upon the
question. Though there is pessi-
bility of a Democratic majority,
owing to radical dissenslons, the
Democratic candidates are running
upon the Virginia platform and
pledging themselves to sustain the
amendment, and it seems reasonable
to expect that enough of them will
do SO to give it majority there. In
Georgia the legislature, as constitut-
ed since the expulsion of the colored
is Democratic, and will
of course, withhold its consent to
the ratification. Should the colored
members be restored, however, as it
is probable that they will, under the
recent decision of the supreme court
Of the state, the Republicans will
again have control. In Virginia the
members elect, of both parties, are
pledged to vote for ratification, and
the Democratic papers assert that
there will be no opposition from
them, but the order OF General Can
BY, requiring the taking of the test
path, may interrupt proceedings. 1t
8 reported that if this order is en-
iorced, enough of the newly electe d
who can take the oath, will
remain absent to prevent a quorum
until the matter has been finally set
led or new elections held. In Mis-
'issippi there seems to be no dispute
factions as to the amend
nent or as to the question of fsuffrap,..
both Republican wings equally ad,
1ocating the adoption of the amend.
neat and the defeat of disfrsuchis.
ng clauses. The same is true in
Texas, and unless the situation
changes, those two states in which
he elections take place in the last
week of November, may be expected
o ratify the amendment before Jan
lary ends. As the admission of
Mississippi and Texas
depends upon this ratification, and
s the Democrats in those states
'laim to have placed themselves on
IN entirely new platform, and to |
accept the situatiOn," it seems res.
onable to hope that these three votes
will be secured. With them tn, ,
will have twenty-nr -
tates, one more than is neeess -,
o secure its ratification wit Co.,
Tennessee or Georgis t.
s not unreasonable, theref ,re to
lope that before the fourth fMnrob
lext this amendment will 20 nart of
he national constitution ond tho.
he odious distinctions of raoa a ono. ana
olor which have hithsr To d;sorscod
he country wiil be VI ped awsv for.
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There is a boy Of Is years faps in
.laekhawk county Iowa, whose father
led three years ago, leaving his wld
W ana son an eighty acre farm bur.
ened with a 81, 900, mortgage. He
as @ taken sol charge otthe farm, paid
IL the mort gage. purchased q harvest