Historical Broadside: Republicans! Democrats! A word with you about negro suffrage [15th Amendment]

Historical Broadside: Republicans! Democrats! A word with you about negro suffrage [15th Amendment]

c. 1869

Historical Broadside

The Library of Congress presents an 1869 historical broadside, written by Oliver Ellsworth, of the 15th Amendment proposal in which the amendment is described as a "gross perversion of the authority of Congress."


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