The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1865-02-09
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Adjustment OF slavery.

or our NaLlOnal eElSteuEC--thO PAOlIHO
source whence have emanated the untold
evils now affecting US as people-Slavery
is no more 1t was killed in the House
of Representatives on Tuesday of last
week, 31st ultimo, by the decisive vote of
I19 to Sc, and it only remains to the
States in their sovereign capacity to bury
the loathsome carcase fathoms deep out OF
sight, and we will be troubled by it or its
ghost no more forever. We give on to-
DAVIS outside the Associated Press account
of the deliberations Of the House on the
subject, together with the yeas aud nays,
to which we refer the reader.
1t will be remembered this Amendment
was introduced and passed in the Senate
On the 8th April last, by the vote of SO to
6. 1t came before the House June 10Th,
following, where, after much debate, 1t
was defeated by 81 yeas to 64 nays-two-
thirds of the members not concurrlng.-
Fresh instructions having been issued to
Congress by the people at the late cleo
tions, a reconsideration of the question
was moved by Mr.. Ashley, Of Ohio, and it
came up before the House again the
present session. Wiser counsels prevailed
this time, and, after twenty or thirty
speeches thereupon, the Amendment was
finally adopted by 63 majority, or three
more than two-thirds of all the members
voting. Nothing now remains to make it
the supreme law of the land but its ratif-
cation by the Legislatures of twenty-seven
States, OF three fourths of all the States of
the Union.
The States that may be counted on as
certain to vote for the amendment are,
Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Nevada,
Oregon, California, West Virginia-in all
twenty-five. New jersey, Delaware and
Kentucky are doubtful. We think, how
ever, that both New jersey and Kentucky
will finally give their consent to it. If the
present Legislature of Delaware refuses to
do so, as it possibly will, the people will
next year elect those who will do it. The
vote of the reconstructed States of Ten
nessee, Arkansas and Louisiana may be
counted on with certainty, and will settle
the question No time is fixed by the
Constitution within which the ratification
must take place, the votes of the States
being valid whenever cast.
The Amendment has already been
adopted by the following States-Mary-
land, Illinois, Rhode Island, Michigan,
Massachusetts,, New York, Pennsylvania,
and West Virginia.
Three Pennsylvania Democrats, Messrs
Bailey, Coffroth and M'Allister, voted age
on the question. The country owes these
men, with the other Democrats who voted
with them, debt of gratitude it can never
repay. They have shown themselves the
men for this crisis in a great country's
affairs lovers of their country and their
country's good fit representatives of the
progressive principle evoked by the war
that Slavery and whatever else opposes
must De wiped out to the end of the resto-
ration of the Union "WelI done, faith
fGI servants "
With regard to our own Representative,
Hon. Archibald M'Aliister, we may be
permitted word. Born and bred a Dem
oc-at, and elected to the position he now
fills on purely Democratic platform, he
has proven himself a patriot Of the first
water by cutting loose from his old associ-
atoms and ranging himself on the side of
Right. and Justice. The moral courage
necessary to the performance of such
step should not be underrated. The man
who walks up to the cannon's mouth
unmoved, or faces danger in any form
without the tremor Of muscle, is brave,
as the world counts bravery. Bet how
infinitely Drawer, in a more exalted sense
of the Vord, is he, who, turning his back
on his party, OF which he is the favored
exponent, and on all-its principles and
traditions, with prayer to God for sue
soss. and unmoyed bv-tho storm Of defa.