Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-16

therefore iIIcaNI HaH sl.0
~so.caliaa rEafi
were aHboniiulia
p0Wer 81 the Bn
were % no sense
form, not being the eaein "A tha
people, nor independents
The ao.caliod Faal aali1M Gl aha
amendment By thee Rsoglsioaal
Legislatures was not free and 4als
unIaFy, bat compulsory. The -
ton was enforced by the presence
aud command OF military officers
sent fnR that EXPRESS purpose
Therefore, even wefe fa eommu-
mites NAMED legal States with COM
petent Legialatpras, their agdoR on
the ratification Of e. amendment
could not be counted IS q was not
voluntary. ptig&W s4aa9
In proof OF the condition of these
eemmunities as other than legal
Ates4he action Of Congress Il re-
ferred 70. Each Of these aoscalled
States was admitted into The Unl0n
and allowed representation IN Con.
gress, after Il bad ratified the pro-
posed amendment and not before.
Therefore, their Inlaadad acts Of
ratification are illegal and cannot
be counted
IV.-The proposed aman0menk
II legally ratified, is null and yoid
on general principles Of law.
It is 9 well settled principle Of
law that q statute cannot be TO-
pealed by intimation. The. repeal
to be valid must be direct, clear
and unmlstakable. The sans rule
applies to constitutions. Whatev.
er is unrepealed remains Of hind-
ing force. The Tenth Amendment
ofthe Constitution, ratified I79l,
provides that 4r
"The powers not delegaaedto the
|, United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited BY Il 10 the States,
are reserved to the States respect-
' lively, or TO the people,
The regulation Of the right Of
suffrage wa one Of The powers not
delegated to the Untted States, but
reserved to the States respectively,
and has been ever aimee exercised
4 by them. The sO-called Fifteenth
=, Amendment directly conhicts with
this provision without repeating
n It. Its language 10 as f0llowsS
Article XIV, Section 1.-The rights
Of citizens Of the United States "a
. vote shall not b denied or abridged
BY the United States or any State
. on account Of RAGS, color, or pre-
Vi0us condition o fservltude.
= Sec. 2. Congress shall have powel
g to enforce this article BY appr0prl'
-. ate legislation.
To have made this article vallt
the Tenth Amendment should havI
been expressly repealed, when tn
implied surrender Of that p0wel
over the suffrage question nigh
h follow, from the language Of thl
present proposition. But We sun
? nit that, so long as the Tent
~ Amendment stands, General Gov
lie eminent con assume no control owe
4, this question, even by implication
and even the formality OF Q Con
lie stitutional Amendment, thong
H. regularly proposed and unquei
~ tionably ratified (Which has nc
been the case with the one undo
consider consideration, carries a
Q. carries no weight with 1t.
% On these points we rest the cas-
W The Judgment OF the court will
rendered much sooner than Ii
,r. Radical party imagine or DESIRE.
The very first election held vi
&c produce q case, and that case wi
90 with all possible dispatch to Il
Judicial head Of che Government.
80 soon AZ is reaches there the ILL
~ sion under which the Radlcals fame
they have added three.quarters
o million OfbarbaFians to the votIu
" pOpulatiOn Of the nation will l