Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1870 — The Enforcement Bill. [ARTICLE]

The Enforcement Bill.

Speaking of the bill to enforce the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment, the Chicago Post says: “ It may be stated that the words of the act throughout are in earnest. There are no make-believes anywhere in the measure. Providing for the exercise ot the right of franchise by every man in the whole land who is entitled under our present liberal rules to vote; providing for the establishment of justice among men in respect to the rights of all to sue for that to which just laws entitle them ; providing severe penalties against those who prevent fair elections, or deprive any man of aDy political or civil right, it is the embodiment into a single law of all those just and liberal principles which have attained success in this Republic during the last memorable ten years. Its pains and penalties being against those only who are the enemies of freedom and of complete justice, the measure will receive the hearty denunciation of the Democratic party. Were its pains and penalties against those only whp would retuse to send men. and women, and children, into slavery and unutterable misery, in that case the measure would receive the plaudits of that party, who would ring all the changes on the cry of 1 the enforcement of the laws.’ Now that the laws, instead of being disgraceful to human nature and monstrous in the sight of Heaven, are such as to leave men free and equal, and, therefore, will result beneficently, the Republicans must see to it that their enforcement shall be constant and effectual.”