,0‘itheir aiders and abettors.The so-called; 15tb amendment was not intended to ben-•.'fit the negro, but to make an-0 other link to the galling chain of a tyrannical, centralised despotism. It is an infamous, dam-liable fraud, against which a s\ large majority of the American s'j people protest, and they would 11 have utterly annihilated it, could they have had the opportunity. It was never ratified by two-thirds of the States in the manner provided by the Constitution, and is an infamy s I placed upon the people by the _ | usurpers who are rapidly destroying all that remains to us of the original government, the sovereignty of the States, and the rights of the people.