Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-04-20
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
A Day Of Reioicing in Cincinnati.

The colored people of the city of Cincin-
natl celebrated the adoption of the Fif-
teenth Amendment on last Thursday in
an appropriate manner. From the Com
mercioi we extract the following particu-
lars of its detailed and interesting account
of the days jubilee:
As early as o'clock, the colored people
had left their houses and went pouring to-
wards the Sixth street Market space, with
the Clifton House for rallying point AT
8 O'clock the Committee of Management
and Marshals of the day appeared at the
Clifton and proceeded to distribute badges
and arrange for the procession.
Delegations from Walnut Hills, from
Avondale, from Clifton, from Lockiand,
from Cumminsville and from Covington
riages and wagons, on horseback and afoot.
THE PROCESSION.
The outdoor feature of the jubilee was
managed by Isaac N. Delaney, First Grand
Marshal, and five assistants.
The procession formed on Elm street,
with carriages containing the orators of the
day and the colored pioneers, David Smith,
Stephen Irwin, Elliott Clark, Maria Casey,
Samuel Wilson, William Darns, Oscar
Gaines and others, in front. Then fol-
lowed eight and four-horse carriages, filled
with young girls, representing the Goddess
| Union, private vehicles filled with richly
| dressed, wealthy colored people, q company
| of United States colored volunteers, under
Capt. Liverpool, and the following benev-
olent societies
The United Brethren, one hundred and
| fifty strong; the Good Samaritans, two
hundred strong; the Good Templars, two
hundred strong. The procession was also
swelled in number by the colored Ameri-
| cans and the Masons, who did not how
ever, appear as body.
The notable features were banners and
notices, prepared for the occasion. Por-
traits of Abraham Lincoln and President
Grant were conspicuously displayed. The
notices were specially worthy of note as
| expressing the gratitude, political prOclivi-
| ty and feelings of the enfranchised host
and while Curriers' and Walters cornet
| bands headed the Cincinnati division, and
| the Newport Barracks band headed the
Kentucky delegation, fill the joyous air
with enspiriting music we will glance at
| the moving panorama as it passes along
the street, viewed from both sides by win
dow and doors full Of sympathetic people.
THE NOTICES.
peace, Prosperity, and Good Will to all
| Mankind" with picture of Lincoln wri-
| ting the Proclamation of Emancipation,
and picture representing a colored man
depositing his vote in Il ballot-bOX, in con-
| trast with colored man tied to post,
while an overseer applies the lash, to rep
| resent 1880.
Avondale is represented by a wagon
with the motto :" Trust in God" while
little school-boy stands under canopy
with his hand resting upon the pages OF an
open bible. In God We Trust" Labor
| and Liberty" The Colored Orphan Asy-
| lum occupies a wagon and carries a mann
moth American flag.
"In the War for the Union 3W,ooO
strong"
"John c. Calhoun builded better than
he knew"
"In time to serve the Bible"
"Circleville don't like the Fifteenth
Amendment Picture of a stubborn ass,
and a bull attempting to butt locomotive.
"The Declaration of Independence used
to be called glittering generality 1t Is
now an accomplished fact"
nThe American Eagle no longer a buz-
zard"
The Kentucky delegation, mainly from
Covington and Newport, displayed mot
to promising the Southern Railroad 10000
votes in the affirmative.
i A wagon bore pyramid, on the sides OF
which were inscribed the names of the old
time distinguished abolitionists, and the
later prominent friends of universal suf-
frage.
Also the names of battlefields in which
colored troops distinguished themselves.
"Honor to Grant and the people, ana
the Fifteenth Amendment"
"Truth and Justice have at last pre-
vailed.H
1--WE Praise the Lord, We Thank our
Friends"
"Red, White and Blue-no distinction
of color.n
Emancipation 1868, Suffrage 1870"
Fremont 1861, Hunter 1852 Lincoln
1853"
"Grant our next choice"
Speeches We're made by Judges Storeri
Taft and others, which we are sorry we
have not room to publish.