Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1869 — The Fiftènth Amendment. [ARTICLE]

The Fiftènth Amendment.

TnDewoiteßjMtoi of lh. Indr to umlt up qiK>riini tAD& mm, to Ik* CoSMtitoliCM n oT th« United Staten. They allegs that they wnat the aabjMt to he voted npon by »• peoplein of. ~w LngWntom Tb* no lnJnry| >0 tt P b«ing* , hardly poMMe that the Repnbiicans ehould elect a twoAhtods majority In both brmaehea. Thsfedtiaws onpoddon now out, there font bn repeated hereafter. The real object to delay. The suggestion that they want to take theeeneeof the people to ab turd, becaoae the preeent Legislature was elected npon nearly the name queeU TOiTraoentriecUona do not .promise any oomfort to the Democratic party from an appeal to the people. The question of xulflmtioii of tIM Fifttinlh AiboiidßMßi taddding the tome or negro suffrage at home, was directly submitted to the peo pie of New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Inland, and the people have ordered its ratification. The earn of Connecticut to a peculiarly strong one. Two years ago, aa amendment to the State Constitution, granting negro suffrage, was rejected. The State also elected three Represents tires to Congress, who voted against this Fifteenth Amendment to the National Constitution. One of the Senators voted the same way. But the people of Connectieot, however much they may have been opposed to establishing negro suffrage in their own State alone, were heartily in favor of makiDg it the law In aU the States. The Senator and one of the Representatives who voted against the Fifteenth Amendment were candidates before the people at the recent election, and they ana the Democratic State Government made that amendment the issue of the election. The people have not only elected a Legislature under instructions to ratify the amendment, but they have repudiated the Senator and Representative who voted in Congress against it. That to the way the people of Connecticut have answered the appeal made to them. The people of New Hampshire and Rhode Island have made the same answer, and the people of Indiana and of all the other States will do likewise. It is a remarkable fact that the strongest objection now held in the Southern States to negro suffrage is the fact that it is not secured in all the Stateeas well as in their own; and the Democracy of Indiana and the North generally are, by their opposition, but making the people of the South exceptions to a rule which ceases to be offensive to any when applied to all the States alike. —Chicafo Tribune.