The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-02-26
The Fifteenth Amendment,

Texas and Nebraska having adopted the
Amendment, thirty states now count for it,
and the Proclamation of the President, II
not issued this week, announcing the
adoption of the fifteenth article as part OF
the Fundamental law of the land, will be
issued at an early day.
The Republicans of Baltimore held
rousing mass-meeting ON Monday night
last, to express their qualification at the
event, and to advise in reference to future
action in the premises. The meeting was
addressed at length by Judge Bond, and
several leading Republicans Of Baltimore,
and letter read from c. c. Fulton, editor
of the american, who was prevented from
attending the meeting by sickness The
letter from Mr.. Fulton concludes with the
following paragraph:
Having been present when Jefferson
Davis, Toombs and Wigfall abandoned
their seats in the United States Senate,
predicting that the National Capital would
soon be inhabited only by bats aud owls, ii
would have afforded me pleasure to join in
welcoming Mr.. Revels-whom l have un
wav to occupy the seat left vacant by tn,
chief of the rebellion. That he is of that
prescribed race for whose retention III
Slavery the rebellion was waged seems a
providential retribution. That he Will
prove worthy of this high honor, the char
acter he maintained whilst resident OF
Baltimore gives full assurance.
Judge Bond, in the course of his remarks.
said a great hue and cry was raised when
the question was first started about grant
ing the right of suffrage to the colored man.
New the colored man has the tight, and there
is an end to it. 1t is no use for the Demo
Gratis to say that the colored man shall not
vote, as vote he will, and such vote as
that people will deposit at the next state
election will astenish the party who has
had full sway over the destinies Of the
State for the past three years. The time
is not distant when this party will be hurled
from power and its place supplied with men
who will legislate for the agricultural in
terests of the States progress, the cancella-
ton of the Militia law and n system of ed
ucation for all classes, and it will sweep out
of the Constitution everything which dis
eliminates between the citizens of the
State. He wanted the men to whom the
right of suffrage has heen given to be edu-
Gated, also that it shall not be said that
tweRty-seven per cent. Of the white popu-
lation of the State cannot either read Oh
write. He was willing to agree with the
Democrats that no man should place his
hand upon the ark of the republic unless he
could read and write, but at the same time
he wanted the satisfaction of teaching those
persons how to become the custodians OF
that ark, and he was satisfied that if the
colered people were literally educated the
country would not be loser by the infor-
nation impaired. lie closed his remarks
with an appeal to the Republican party to
stand firm in its purposes, and work with
renewed zeal and ardor in the approaching
campaign.
The Fifteenth Amendment will add
34,000votes to this State, which are conceded
and secured to the Republican party by the
last vindictive act of the Legislature in
thrustlnS OUT the AmeAaiheht' "lIhouI
single dissenting vote. The majority
against us in 1868 was 81 1868, and in 1863
S0,252. The next election throughout the
United States sweeps Dem ecracy from its
moorirgs, to roam the world like the Wan
dring Jew, or the Flying Dutchman, with
out a habitation OF home. 1t now trem-
bles like an aspen before the impending
storm, and is laying its robber hands the
treasures of this State with that reckless
voracity the death of hope inspires.