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The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified...
The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified...
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March 31, 1870
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE, March 31, 1870
* Fifteenth 15th Amendment ratified
* Right to vote - race - color
* President Ulysses S. Grant
The top of the first column on the front page has: "ALL MEN FREE AND EQUAL" "The XVth Amendment Proclaimed" "Message To Congress--Proclamation of the President--Text of the New Article of the Constitution".
The text begins with the document issued by the Secretary of State that recognizes and includes the text of the original resolution proposed by Congress in 1868, section 1 of Article 15 which reads: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude." The Proclamation continues by announcing that the necessary number of states had ratified the amendment, reading, in part: "...be it known that I, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State...do hereby certify that the amendment aforesaid has become valid...as a part of the Constitution of the United States...", signed in type: Hamilton Fish.
Following this is a message from the President to Congress in which he discusses the importance and significance of the Fifteenth Amendment. The President's message begins: "It is unusual to notify the two Houses of Congress by message of the promulgation by proclamation of the Secretary of State of the ratification of a Constitutional amendment. In View, however, of the vast importance of the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution...I deem a departure from the usual custom justifiable..." with more, & he concludes: "...the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment...completes the greatest civil change, and constitutes the most important event that has occurred since the nation came into life....I would therefore call upon Congress to take all the means within their...power ...to see to it that all who possess and exercise political rights shall have the opportunity to acquire the knowledge which will make their share in the Government a blessing and not a danger...", signed in type: U.S. Grant.
See the web for much more on the Fifteenth Amendment.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, just as sold on the street, minor wear at the right margins, good condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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