The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-09-10
The Fifteenth Amendment,


Still another State has gone Democratic,
and will fail to ratify this so called Amend
meat The election in California was held
on Wednesday of last week, and the first tel
egraphic news announces that "the next leg
islature will render verdict against the
Fifteenth Amendment" and that the Demo
cratic ticket throughout the State is success
FIJI. San Francisco returns n full Democrat
c legislative delegation. The question of the
ratification of this Amendment entered prom
incntly into the campaign in that State, and
the people there have decided against it. 1t
may be that the presence of so many "Celes-
tials," added to the negro clement had some
weight in deciding the matter for them, and
as aQuestion of selfpreservation, they decline
to allow the white race to be flooded and
overwhelmed by the Chinese and Africans
combined. What will they say, if it is at
tempted to be imposed upon them nolens
colens? The truth is that grave doubts are
already arising whether a sufficient number
of States will be found willing to ratify the
obnoxious article. The longer the matter is
delayed, and full discussion allowed the
smaller the chance for its adoption seems to
become. Some of the States that under the
pressure of hurried action, and with legisla-
lures elected without any reference to the
question: pledged their support to it, seem in
clined to annual their proceedings in the
premises, when opportunity arrives. The
following article upon the subject, from the
Yorh Gazette, reflects the feelings of large
portion of the people of Pennsylvania
That the proposed Negro Suffrage amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States
can be defeated there is no doubt. The re-
cords of the State Department at Washing
ton show the following status of this infa-
nous article:
Complete Ratification-North Carolina,
West Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin,
Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Connecticut, Flor
ida-12.
Defective observation-disclosures and Mis-
Souri-2.
Rejected in Delaware and Kentucky-2
The Lancaster InteNigencer says Of the
States which have not yet acted upon it we
still hope enough will be found to secure its
defeat. The people of Pennsylvania were
denied their right to express an opinion upon
the quest IN. Geary made indecent haste to
urge its adcntiol by a Legislature which was
1Sccted witllolt Hry reference to the question
on platform which opposed any inter-
zoe With The right of the peopl. of each
ss9to decide ..e question of suffrage for
semselves. Every effort made by the Dem
s'ats e secure n submission of the question
TO the people of this State was promptly yo-
ted down by the Radicals. But, the oppor-
IL ,Jol,
remains All that is necessary is to elect q
Democratic Legislature and Democratic
Governor That can certainly be done if
those who are opposed to Negro Suf
frage, and opposed to arbitrary and UNI
lawful interference with the right of each
State to regulate the elective franchise with
in its own limits, will only go to the polls
prepared to vote their sentiments without re-
gard to party. Let there be little indepen-
dencc of action in Pennsylvania, and the
force work of Geary and his corrupt Legisla-
ture will be speedily undone
1t will be seen by this, that it is a question
entering into the contest in Pennsylvania,
whether or not that State shall withdraw its
assent and in the event of its so doing, a
severer blow will be given to the Fifteenth
Amendment than it has yet received The
truth is that it has been too long delayed to
render its adoption by any means certain
Like other measures enacted by the late Re-
publican Congress, it should have been hurried
through without the chance of calm and de-
lberate discussion, to insure its success
The opportunity for this weakens its pros
poets daily, and the calm anu sober reflection
of the people upon the subject may yet de-
liver us from the weight of so great oppres-
sion