Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-05
Associated Press Report.
General News.
From california.


San FRANcIsco, January 3.-Mining stocks
are weak. Gould Curry, s92; Savage, 1852;
Chollar POtosi, IS5; Yellow Jacket, 435; I'm
perial, lis; Crown Point, 555. Legal tend
ers, 674. Choice New York Butter, Acc.
Z -la lVaIedietOry Address.
BosToN, January 4.-Governof Andrew,
to-day, delivered lengthy Valedictory ad-
dress to the two branches of the Legisla-
ture, in which he ventures the opinion that
the Government of the United States ought
to require the people of those States lately
in rebellion to reform their Constitutions by,
first, guaranteeing to the people of color
now wards of the natiOn-their civil rights
as men and women, on an equality with the
population, by an amendment irrepealable
in terms; second, regulating the elective
franchise according to certain laws of uni
versal application, and not by rules merely
arbitrary, capricious and personal; third,
annulling the ordinance of secession fourth,
disafirming the rebel debt; and fifth, to
ratify the anti slavery amendment of the
United States Constitution by their Legisla-
eures.
The Governor continued: !: He would have
all these questions, save the fifth, the dis
position of which is regulated by the Fede-
raj Constitution, put to vote of the people
themselves. -4
the day arrives, which must surely come,
when an amnesty substantially universal
shall be proclaimed, the leading minds at
the South, who, by the temporary policy
and artificial means had been for while
disfranchised will resume their influence
and their sway. The capacity of leadership
is gift, not device. They whose cour-
age, talents and will entitle them to lead
will lead, and those men, stopped by their
own consent of participation in the business
Of Reorganization, may not be slow to
question the validity of the great public
transactions enacted during their own dis
Reimbursement. If it is asked in reply
what can they do and what can come
Of discohtent? I answer, that while
do not know just what they can do,
not Whist may come of it, neither do |
know what we may attempt, or not.
TO accomplish. only know that we
ought to secure the cooperation of the
strongest and ablest minds and national
leaders Of opinions in the South. If we
cannot gain their support Of Just measures
needful for the work Of safe reorganization,
it will be full Of danger, and in regard to
negro suffrage why not demand the suffrage
for eolored men in season for their vote in
the business of reorganization answer
that fassume that the negroes are in favor
Of those measures which the Union needs TO
have adopted, but it would be idle to reeOg-
nize those States by the eolored vote, if the
popular vote. Of the white race is, not to be
had il favor Of the guarantees justly requir-
ed, tAen I am IN favpr.o holding ON where,
WE now are. lam not in favor Of the snr-a
render of the PFeseRtTights of the Union, to
struggled esbetween. white minority, aided by
the freedmen on one hand, against major
| ity Of the white race on the other. have,
however, no doubt 81 our right to stipulate
ffor ce5fiooiflea sutirde The question is one Of
sthte Hhehship, Is p Question of constitu-
tirnSI1;ldftatioli. H.iU + fiH=-l .ee
b1s sGreat Fire I'm Racine.
z RacfHE, WIS, january 4.-A FIRE this
morning destroyed the Racine House block,
Titus block, Telegraph office, Episcopal
church, and six or eight stores and other
property. Loss 81 100000. s.- -s.
J ssOT. COney's inaugural.
,AregsrA, NE, January 4.-Governor
| Coney was inaugurated to-day. He takes
grolndsscin support of tho. Presidents
policy for the return of therevOlted States
TO thair Teistiens with the Union, p the
| spfif Ta9gd purpose. OF Fwh ch Glpl .ji9ns, he
says, no loyal man wOul5 E.-s "a dissent.
| The restoration Of thc ms Of he
rsyoited States 70 t1 lpou any
| other basis than that -- the exer-
else Of political gjgI g .lly loyal