...lor or previous condition, equal privileges in public conveyances or places of public resort......Jan. 4, 1869 Fifteenth Amendment ratified by Senate, Feb. 27, and by House......March 1, 1869 Crescent City Live-stock and Slaughter-house Company, a monopoly in New Orleans which excited opposition, and was finally declared unconstitutional and restrained by perpetual injunction, was created by the legis...