The Placer herald., 1870-04-09
BASED ON FALSEHOOD.

low device the Presidsnt of the United
States has descended, il be ever was above it.
Grant has sent a message TO Congress an
nouncing that the Fifteenth Amepdment ut
has received the constitutional sanction OF
three.fourtbs Of the States Of the Union, and
is therefore part Of the Constitution Of the
United States. 10 this message he enumer-
ates the States which be declares have ra,i-
| fed il, which are as follows:
Alabama, Arka nsas. Connecticut. Florida. III.
| inois, Indiana Iowa Kansas, Louisiana. Maine,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada. New York, New
| Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas. Vermont,
Virginia. West Virginia and Wisconsin -
| twenty nine in all.
Of these States Louisiana, North Car
oliua, Arkansas, Florida, Virginia, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Texas, making eight
States, ratified the Fifteenth Amendment
like traveller donates or makes present OF
his money to the robber when a cooked
pistol is held to bis head. As well might
the highwayman appear in Court when &C
cused Of robbery and plead that he did not
forcibly take the money, that he only po-
ltely asked for the money and that it was
willingly and cheerfully handed 10 him as
a voluntary present, as for Grant to an
uounce ,ha. the people Of these States,
by their proper representatives. freely and
voluntarily ratified the Fifteenth Amend
ment In the estimation Of all honest, SEN
sible, decent men, Grant and his co-villans
stand precisely with the robbsr, except that
be and his minions commit a high crime
against their country and millions Of men,
while the robber Injuries but one man. And
yet there are men who, in the blindness Of
their partisan zeal, justify this high crime
against The country. government, and hu.
manity, 10 Grant and his satraps and con
gresslonal thieves. This is not all the infa-
my contained 10 this message. He classes
New York, Indiana and Nevada as hav-
ing ratified the Negro MongoIian amend
thout "bl'u 10 I" ui'oCt duu pOaitNo id'oo-
hood. What are the facts in reference to
these three Stalesl In New York, a Leg.
islatrre, not elected on the issue involved iD
the Fifteenth Amendment, passed resou-
tions ratifyiug it, but never bad its action
certified TO the Secretary Of State at Wash
ingtou. A subsequen, Legislature, elected
on the issue, when the STATE went against
the amendment by aome thirty thousand
majority, rejected the amendment, and now
in the face Of this plain, legal and direct
rejection by New York, she is proclaimed
by Grant as having ratified the amendment.
In Indiana, when there was no quorum 10 the
Legislature to do or perform any legal act,
a sham resolution was pre,endedly passed
ratifying the amendment, when it was not
worth the paper it was written upon, and
she, too, is shamelessly proclaimed as having
ratified the dirty thing. 10 Nevada, our
ne neigbboring sage brush State, then the
property of Nye and Stewart the Legisla-
.urs ratified a teIegraphc dispatch before
even the Fifteenth Amendment had been
legally proposed by Congress, and this State
too, is proclaimed by Grant as having rati-
fed this Fifteenth iniquity. The term of the
legislature OF Nevada was about to expire
by limitation of the State Constitution and
the fifteenth Amend ment had not not ye,
been enrolled, compared or reported TO
Congress, when Bill Stewart telegraphed to
Carson city that they must ra'ify; the mem.
bers had his dispatch read and ratified il
when no one Of the whole body had ever
seen the amendment and when it was yet
incomplete and three thousand miles dis
tant. 1t takes twenty>nins States to ratify
an amendment TO the Constitution Of the
United States. and but eighteen States have
ratified this Fifteenth Amendment. Are
not all tho facts we have above laid down
clear and iudsputabs Reader when you
hear a man say tha! the Fifteenth Amend
mept is ratifed-is part Of the Consllu-
lion Of the United States, take good look
at him and say 10 yourself "lhere is fool, "a
liar or a william" Fl.ven States are pro-
claimed by Gran, as having sanctioned this
Fifteenth enormity, when all know that the
proclamation is falsehood.
STATE LIBRARY.-A meeting Of the Trus-
tees Of the State Library was held in Sscra'
mento on Tuesday last. The election of r.
o. Cravens, as Librarian, was made unan-
nous; after which the Board adjourned.
Thus the question was settled and a CON-
petent gentleman takes possession Of the
Library. Mr.. Cravens took psaceable pos
session of the State Library on Wednesday
last, in defiance Of the tricks Of Stratton h
Co. Leeches are not equal in blood.suckng
qualities to Sratlon u Co., nor did bsrua-
cles ever adhere more closely and firmly TO
,be keel Of ship than Sttatton and Hart