The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-04-21
IDAHO CITY. THURSDAY. APRIL 81, 1870. a4


THE BOGUS FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
The Secretary of State has issued his motto
announcing the ratification of the Fifteent
Amendment by the requisite number Of State,
and Mr.. Grant has, by special message, not
fed Congress of the fact that the revolutionar
and disgusting amendment has become Dol
tion of the Constitution of the United States
The negroes throughout the length and breadtl
OF the land have been for several weeks pas
holding jolli6cation meetings and burning CON
siderable powder in their joy at being, as they
consider, placed upon an equality in every re-
spect with the white race. Mr.. Grant char
acterizes the false and bogus ratification al
"a measure of grander Importance than any
one of the kind since the formation of the Gov.
ernment." Among the States enumerated by
Grant as having ratified the political abortion
and which are counted among the number
necessary to secure its adoption we will refer
to few. the ratification of which we consider
as invalid and to all intents and purposes, le.
gally and morally, null and void. Among the
Southern States, we may mention Arkansas,
Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and
West Virginia-ten in all. In these States,
with the exception of West Virginia, the very
persons or class of individuals whom it propo-
ses to make citizens and voters under the
amendment to be adopted voted upon the pro-
position, being illegally aDd unconstitutionally
admitted as voters under the infamous so-called
laws of Congress, while large
majority, probably aggregating three-fourths
,f the white population, were denied the priv
lege of expressing either their assent or dis
'ent to the measure through the ballot box
Through systematic course Of fraud and vii
Amy practiced towards the people of those
States by perjured Rump Congress, resolu-
ions ratifylng this Radical infamy have been
orced through the bogus Legislatures of those
states against the wishes of large majority
# the people. The ratification by the Legisla-
ure of New York was rescinded before the
equisite number of States was claimed to |
ave been received, and consequently is i'm
roperly counted among the States ratifying. |
he Indiana resolution of ratification was
dopted by caucus of the Radical members
both Houses of the Legislature, there not
eing constitutional quorum present, and of
curse the action of that body is null and void.
he people Of Missouri, Kansas and Ohio re-
'cted the negro suffrage proposition by over
'helming majorities when submitted to d.
ect vote, and the Legislators of those States
olated the rights of their constituents and
the will of the people, as ex-
ressed through the ballot box, when they
ent through the form OF adopting resolutions
ratification. Deduct the Southern States
herein the resolutions of ratification were
reed through at the point of the bayonet,
ew York, which repealed or rescinded its
the bogus State of West Virginia :
hich, under the Constitution, is not o State,
it forms part of the Old Dominion, the State
Indiana, whose ratification was farce and
burlesque, and we find that only sixteen h
ates have ratified the Amendment legally, n
say nothing of Missouri, Kansas and Ohio, o
hose ratifcations as we have said were against f
e will of the people. lin
We contend that the so-called Fifteenth 7
nendment is not legally, justly or rightfully ]
part of the Constitution; that it was con- n
ived in iniquity and went through the forms J
adoption by means of fraud, force and vii v
ny, in violation of the Constitution itself r.
regardless of the will and wishes of the te
ople. By every known rule of law, equity
justice, either human or divine, it is binding
ther in law nor in conscience, and the peo- 81
will sooner or later teach the scoundrels &C
o are secretly sapping the foundations of the in
and centralizing all power, both 50
tie and national, in Jacobinncal clique of ia
ngressional usurpers, that villainy may tri- W
ph for time, but that justice will yet over w
Q them and the vengeance Of deceived "N
outraged people be visited on the heads of th
perjured traitors.
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