The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-01-27
RAvEssNA. THURSDAY. JAN. ~, 1870
The Iniauity Consumated.

House of Representatives, the resolu- |
- ~ ton passing that body by q vote of |
:, - 81 yeas to 55 nays, and the State of
Ohio now stands recorded in favor of
80. depiping her sister States of the rights
which they respectively reserved to |
themselves when the Federal Govern
meat was formed, in favor of extend
ing the right of suffrage to negroes, |
40 o,a notwithstanding the people of the |
State by over fifty thousand majority
-, refused to amend the State constitu-.
tion for that purpose but little over
- two years ago. knowing that the, |
;5s s4I IksVRlg :, .ns =
LOO :0I e'.u !, 9, =. oppPYs.H o''ns
'''''''' fused to entertain amy and every prop7
,., . osition to submit the question to the
-F-o-- people for their decision or instrue7
=. 'i'' stion, well knowing that that decision
.,, sI,oJa. would be what; it has always been
heretofore. - Co., Eae 81
- The people of Ohio hayethe unques-
80 9. tionable right to grant the ballot to
negroes if they. so desire, but they |
.s,., have always refused to do it. What
legal, constitutional, or moral right
ISM = have they TO compel the States ofl
r. ~ - New. Z ork, New, Jersey, Maryland,
Delaware, Kentucky, or any, other
c. State to surrender a right which they
-. expressly reserved to themselves re-
o,ss spectively when, the Federal Union
was formed, and without which itnev-
-, +, would have been established? !? asg II
a-.esa.o,'L Let the reyolutionists who are en-l
~ deavoring TO plant centralized des-
bsIe6;Io potism upon the r9ins Of the Federal
Union rejoice over the consummation
47g of their iniqnity7 W The days Of tlieir4
tood.s !, rejoicing will be of short duration.
Their treason, in attempting to, over
6,idv throw the organic law, Of the Repub-
go 80, lic, BY force, fraud and usnrpation will
meet the reward it merits in the mot
4,;t., tar off future, when, the, people assert
o5nj 5oi their rights and the rule of the Con-
stitutisn shall be estaGblishsfd PaG lfd and re,
ii d3id sspeetefda efda...L11 ac..s.L....1L =,
se5 ,5sOGdThursday last-the same day on
Ill d9id9whieh the Ohio House of Representa-
3g7 ,5otfiEes set cat edefanceS the will of the
sssDod-l people by ratifying the 18th amend
.01Gl merlb iniduity ity-theilegislatur elected
-auod-ionhder fIeirulel of the dbay0net III Mis-
.bs3nsl sissippi, elected III. gI. Revels, acoal
black negro, to the Senate ofthe United
-t5a d9dStates from that dependency. There
-qs nasdis,not a man withsa particle of sense
or honesty who does not know that.
this is not the free choice of the peo-l
9-oa 2eple Of Mississippi, but the work of
oh5 u tyranny and despotism, in utter SUBJ
ysn version of the constitution and every
Dhs pfihciple Of free government. .odF 81
E noqn b5iTsts-l-21 2sLL4 T., al .3.tis
10 anFhe Fifteenth Unoe%P7 IN
Won s1a The Fifteenth Amendment can new
ssiid Ier be legally a part of the Constitu-
s9iim hstion for the following reasons: a1flistls
doid" NJ 4aIt is as1ffender Of q f1ndamen-
1i6i's 9l trlreserved right of the States, and
binods that cannot be accomplished without.
a17d 10 the unanimous consent Of all the
h9tii7 States. 70 no three -fourthsI of the
9 i1Hq legislatures was the power delegated
poE ,lo to change tile Constitution In this re-
% li9srgafdlo bsaiaii@a 81 q s.4he -. ~
1of ihTaA92l! tThe Legislatures Of all the South
ern States which adopt ted it have done
vgedl 4 sounder duress-of, force and com
-rils1 ypulsiop-which 9vitiates4all contracts,
nsa4o and which the Federal Government
-fao srse had no right to employ f.,s
cd; dsoo43 The Amendment was not esub-
stnsmu4 mitted tolthe President of the United
.sel;eiAWStates for his approyals which course
esis Wi required by the Constitution. ii;
yaiq vsdi Al If the Southern States were not
-dto4d in, the, Union at the, time of the adop-
2niFnuott of the Amendment, they had no
10 ssoFbTright to ratifga and without them the
necessary constitutional Ythreet fourths
has not been obtained. 4d1 m
-haA e92aa9 We have little doubt that, ere leng,
,eon9i the questions to which we refer, will
2nifodd come before the Supreme Court of
bihs the United States and viii be deter
-fan 9fi mined inthe sense in which we, ,iqdi-
bs5aoqs pate.n The Amendment has always
s'19Teh been fraud. Most of its ratifcatiens
by State Legislatures come from
sssse States that either had rejected it upon
la saw "A popular vote or were know n, to be
-ssat,l,a opposed to it. -, They were elected
.Fsf.uo1. before the question, was submitted,
syI iRd and their SUCCESS had noireference to
4dpi1 rs the issuea There is not to-day hall
IS dozen States that would affirm the
doctrine negro Suffrage on a. popu,
OF 9di1oslar vote. It may go into the Constitui
ciofGisl tion, obutit goes there as o fraud and
-hAd9nda Misrepresentation Of the people, which
sts Oh slwin be- easily corrected when ths
bo5tsn Government lis administered upor
constitutional principles. =
,yItasosT 7dMMEDIATEDY upon the passage o.
yjnGo3 the resolution u ratifying the 15tl
ni namel amendment by the Ohio House 10
s1siiGnr Representatives, the African Chafel
or BlIo in Columbus passed q resolution ii
s'nnn s1enterthe names of the 10 Senators ant
81 Representatives voting for the rati
fication- enthe books of the Church
cid no $50, if we can't have an out and ou
tnbib negro Legislature, like some of ith
5dt diNSouthern provinces; we have one II
.vaws ii which the members composing tn
Radical majority belong to the4 hegr
woGd Of Church. HsA f'sIf34f f.
-9Yonr sidgiI '---------4-
sr,ys THE two Radical papers of CleFe
:; .of = land, "",both dailies,Yi are in terribl
ro Mirage at Mayor Buhrer, for putting
a,i,s.,,l stop to the darkies Of that city firing
cannon on the public IS square in homo
of the passage of the 18th amendmer
i'm ~ by the Ohio Legislature Z The firm