Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1870 — The Fifteenth Amendment. [ARTICLE]

The Fifteenth Amendment.

Tiui formal proclamation of the fact tb*t the Fifteenth Amendment has been adopted has not yet been Issued, but on the Isth Ot March the President addressed the following messago to the Senate: “ I transmit a report from the Secretary of Slate in answer to a resolution, of the Senate of the 3d instant asking to bo informed what Stall's have ratified the Fif; teenth Amendment to tho Constitution of the United Stales, sa far as official notice thereof lias been transmitted to the Department of State, and that information from time to time may ho communicated to that body as soon as practicable of such ratification hereafter by any Slate:’’ The communication from- Secretary Fish, to which relcrcnco is here made, gives the following States as having ratified the amendment: “North Carolina, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, Soufijj Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York, New Hampshire, Nevada, Vermont, Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, <Hdo,Georgia, lowa, Kansas. Minnesota, It hodo Island and Nebraska.’’ This settles the question of the power of New York to withdraw its ralftcaliun. The official decision is that the assumption of the Democratic Legislature is illegal and void. —Chicago Journal. March 21.