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Those amendments were engrafted upon the constitution of the
country, and proclaimed to the country as part and parcel of the
constitution by force and by fraud, and not in the legitimate way
laid down in the constitution. Ten States of this Union were tied
hand and foot, and bayonets were presented to their breasts to make
them consent against their will to the passage of these amendments.
The procuring of these amendments was a fraud upon this people, and
upon the people of the whole United States, and having been thus
obtained, I hold that they ought to be repealed. There may be some
Democrats who are not for their repeal, but the great body of our
party is for it."

The Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor, Mr. Carlisle, was
equally decided. Said he: "In the first place, I do not think that
the resolution passed by the Ohio Democracy, declaring that these
constitutional amendments are no longer political issues before the
country, will have the effect which they appear to have supposed it
would.

"Instead of withdrawing them as subjects of political discussion,
it will give them far more prominence than they ever had
heretofore, and they will be confronted with them throughout the
entire canvass. The only way in which any question can be withdrawn
from the arena of political discussion is for both parties to
ignore it altogether.

"This can not be done as to these amendments, because they present
real living issues, in which the people feel a very deep interest.
They are not dead issues, and politicians can not kill them by
resolutions. The Ohio Democrats seem to recognize this to some
extent at least, for they have simply attempted to turn the
discussion away from the validity and merits of the amendments
themselves to the question of their construction. In this I think
they have made a grievous mistake."

In Indiana, the last authoritative Democratic utterance on this
subject, was the passage, in January last, by the Senate of that
State, of the following resolution, offered by Mr. Hughes, every
Democrat supporting it:

"_Resolved_, That Congress has no lawful power derived from the
constitution of the United States, nor from any other source
whatever, to require any State of the Union to ratify an amendment