The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-05-15


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eonetttutional ID . country whore thsrs 10
ahootute eopssttutionaI separation Of
church anA seats. re sndsavors 10 inset
this objeeaion b. s6yine thas ''ths consti-
tmttea has been frequently amended and
may ~ aeain-s NJ. Mating undertakes
the Obstacles - The amsndmsnt Of our
coostitution. The constitution vas
e1eptsd n i7se; he First eongrsss mst
u I'm. and hstwssn that dats and the
Afst term Of President Jeifs1on. who WAS
1aaogusatsd In 1901. but swsivs amend.
msats - shs constitution vsrs added.
rtem thai tins forward. In spite Of ~
Yoatsd e9ofts. Ne constitution for more
IAN sixty ysafs was not amended. Then
eams the voioanis eruption Of the civil
war. n The coufse Of which Lincoln issued
hts proelamatiea Of emancipation - .
uaf measure, and this sxtinction Of slav-
~ b the war Apd the reconstruction
which followed Il compelled the adoption Of
~ Ihireeenth. 1ourtssnth and fifteenth
ansndmsats. The Thirtssnth amendment
prohibated slavesy c. involuntary eesvituds
except - . punlohmsnt for crima So
dl1keult was - 70 anend the constitution.
evsn under the stress Of civil var. that
This amendment VS. oncs beaten and did
net bsoons Law until DscsmbsF, 1855
The Fourteenth amendment did not be-
come . Law until 1857: the Fifteenth
kAsudmsnt became . law In ls7o. The
Fourteenth amendment made the negro
eitsasn. alzlrmed the validity Of the public
var debt. rspudiatsd eli debts incurred In
cid q rebellion OF any claim for che loss or
smaneipation Of any slave. The Fifteenth
ameudmsnt conferred the right Of suffrage
% I'll men defined a. citizens In the
yourtesnth amendment, "wlthout die.
tinctlou Of ra,e. color or previous cousii.
ton Of ssrvituds." The war had prac,i-
eally sxcissd slavery from the cons situsion
b smancipat,on; the Thirteenth amend.
nsnt declared this fact, and was necessary
10 the new situation consequent upon the
ARLINGTON Of slavery. and the rourteenth
snd fifteenth amendments were the iosi.
cal factors Of the new scheme Of recon.
etruction.
Dor moro than sixty years our constitu.
tion hAd remained without amsndmsnt.
and its last three amendments were forced
b. The stress Of . new and strange situa.
Ven consequent upon . terrible civil war
an1 its evolutionary rssuiss. During the
twenty-five year, that has elapsed s,ncs
the passage OF the Fifteenth amendment.
sspeatsd efforts have been made to amend
tAs conatitution to permit woman suffrage,
- prohibis the sale OF liquor, and they
hsvs eli died In birth. An amendment
nust b adopted BY . two-thirds
vote Of both houses. and must b
sati6sd By the lssisiatures Of three.
1sarshs Of the states. This constitutions
provision makes the amendment Of the
eoassisution practically impossible excep,
h times Of exceptional public upheavai
like great civil var. which destroys some
condition like that Of slavery. or necssss.
eatss . scheme Of reconstruction of the
Union. AZ IL was. the ten insurrsctlonary
etatss Of the South. together with Mary.
land. Delaware and Kentucky. rejected the
rourtssnth amendment. and the fifteenth
amendment only became Law because /,
vas made "a indispensable condition "a
The readmtssion OF the rscascitrant states
al kGa Sauih Ai&houRh n W Al adootsa e,