The Fifteenth Amendment

THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
The number of States which have passed the Fifteenth Amendment is twenty-one, and of these, four cannot be regarded as having legally ratified it. The St. Louis Republican (Democratic) accuses the Radical papers of publishing incorrect lists of the States which have either ratified or assumed to ratify the Amendment. It is well to bear in mind that Iowa, Tennessee, Minnesota, and many other States claimed by the Radicals have not acted upon it, the following States only having done so:–

Alabama, said to have ratified.
Arkansas, ratified March 15.
Connecticut, ratified May 13.
Delaware, rejected.
Florida, ratified in June.
Georgia, rejected.
Illinois, ratified March 5.
Indiana, assumed to ratify May 14. No quorum present.
Kansas, assumed to ratify Februrary 27.– The second section was imperfect.
Louisiana, ratified March 1.
Maine, ratified March 9.
Massachusetts, ratified March 12.
Michigan, ratified March 5.
Missouri, assumed to ratify March 1. Did not act upon the second section.
Nebraska, assumed to ratify. Certificate on file at the State Department is informal and insufficient.
Nevada, ratified March 1.
New Hampshire, ratified July 1.
New York, ratified April 14.
North Carolina, ratified March 5.
Pennsylvania, ratified March 26.
Rhode Island, the Senate ratified May 27. The amendment will probably be rejected, because the Rhode Island Radicals believe that under it they can no longer disfranchise their Irish Catholic laborers.
South Carolina, ratified March 10.
West Virginia, ratified March 3.
Wisconsin, ratified March 3.

This makes only twenty-one States that can possibly be claimed for the amendment thus far, and of these only seventeen have legally ratified it.

Now, we have a strong conviction that the abomination will be knocked in the head by the result of the fall elections in the Northern States. The indication are certainly most favorable to a Democratic triumph in California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, and we need not despair of even Maine and New Hampshire, under the ground-swell of popular disgust which the Grant administration is exciting throughout the country.– With the four first named States under Democratic control, the amendment would certainly go under– a consummation devoutly to be wished.