The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-11-15
Washington Correspondence 0fthe NY News.

NOS acTa5T
w es1AA- VIZ . = - -
y AshINGToN, oGtopeI ID ioo9
come ulscusson pestis W - ~ ne ~ - d
70 'lS P.9'aoii.'! u - ~ TTni+a9 CFfa+os
aneHulieht 70 Vlie !, i - - - s.
declaring ihat slavery sila uere ~ ~ t ~ =;
ana thaV aii powers u - - &C., !
slavery, SHAH oe taheu rom tiie
conferred upon congress; II ST. $50 IN 49, -
douotIul now, Nnethef tue 'li ~. ~ e. - -; -
1t VIII require he vote OF 20 oI = '''a1s - .
senator DooHtte say q au .ie Tai rtoi+
IMAM 10 OF ~ lotftteS can oe Couteu oi - ~. :
II the votes OF y states are required y Ciig - tI
votes OF y States VIII defeat ~ anu 1t -
prooaote thaI the votes o. r u - .7taee 4 - ~
agalnstIt ihere Is no douot OF the Iact tiat 9 9 @
OF the southern states VIII anehQ IheF oa.e
nous 50 us 10 looish slavery, edci ! otfse ~
paI tii'V - 'eiS = eau 70 80
ana tlgt Is PIooapl3 the extent 70 "LlcH .e -
lhree states nave iifeauy voted on tie question H
defeated l-haey, NeE Jersey DeaWaTe any ny, y ei,
toehy ~ y t.,I o.el s1tg
against tie {atLoet7 :, -
one Of them either mas or VIII aoosn sIaT9ry 9y 'he
own 17t.vg @ 80; + ~; ,; S14 r, 80 -;
S J.i - - , iilli = aerie -; - M
south Carolna' 9ll AM 49, ~ .t
souri,. Even II tlis u 80. S - ! -
amendments tile Note9 - " Wv o + - -,
Inc aaFocates oi tlg i ne TIa1 Sfii
upon tde votes OF the states " -"i o. 81 ,
and, dQabtless, me votes OF Ihose wv ,2'ste? e
tWlsleo IN Jay OF Tue alIen'ii i -? - A.
!ie9ai coHstltHt!ohS, anu u,Iaet ~ p - ,a
Illegal registration Ia" OF Mary 3uV u'0S5" .
are ALREADY on 1901 by 8hlch te actual cNiAsS u 9e
States will be allowed to vete. SO far Maryland IS
concerned, the new so-caled constitution OF that State
fairly defeated by the vote of the actual citizens OF
the State; and only carried by the votes OF few
hundred soldiers, whose votes, according TO the real
constitution OF the State, were illegally cast. Ii the
Illegal registration act can be repeated IN Maryland as
it probably will be, that State will vote against the
amendment BY Il large majority.
The fear that the twelve States last named will vote
against and defeat the constitutional amendment, will
make the radical republicans still more unwilling to ad
NIT their senator's and their representatives to their
seats in the next congress- for there are among those
fanatics some who are fool enough to believe that if
these States be kept AIT OF the Uuion, that the
amendment to the constitution can be ratified by the
votes of twohirds of the other States which are in the
Union This allacY absurd as it is still finds advocates
here Mr. Sumner and his friends support it. and it is
said with how much truth know not that Mr. Stevens
and his friends will do so also 1t will be impossible
however to keep the southern senator's and represen-
tatves of their that ground The president
recognises their constituencies as States and in this he
will be sustained not only by the democratic members
but also BY senators Doolit1e Creswell Cowan, and
doubtless some Others and by senator Harlan who will
undoubtedly be elected and by great many other CON
servatye republicans in both houses
hear facts every day which confirm me in the belief
Messrs Sumner and Stevens to join them in opposing
the admission of the southern members will on the