The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-07-12
The Constitution MutiIation.

was offered and the yeas and nays were
called on it. II was passed unanimously.
The Constitution MutiIation.
1t is becoming almost clear demon
stration that the bantling of the committee
of mutildtion, called the Reconstruction
Committee" which STEVENS, SUMNER,
ScHENcK & Co. incubated as an amendment
to the Constitution, win stand little or no
chance Of adoption. A letter inm Wash
ington to the Chicago Times takes this
view of it : Ratified by three-fourths of the
States, this constitutional amendment
would have enabled the Radicals to elect
the next President, to keep the Southern
gress, and to retain permanent possession
of the Government. President johnson
has prevented this. His message TO Con-
gress of June % will have far greater effect
than mere veto. 1t will kill the amend
ment; it has already given it a mortal
wound. OF the Northern States, it is now
certain that Maryland, Indiana, Delaware
and Kentucky will reject it. Ohio, New
York, and one or two Western States, will
not vote upon it till next winter, which is
as good as rejecting 1t, so that even if
Tennessee votes for it, it will be defeated,
for all of the other ten Southern States will
vote against it. As an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, there
fore, the measure is as much nlillity as if
it had been defeated in Congress"
But take the other side TINT the amend
ments will be adopted and be made an OBJ
legation of the Constitution-take the view
of it that the New York Journal Of Com
merce has--that if these proposed amend
ments can be properly affirmed and incor-
porated in the Constitution by a vote of
three-fourths OF the States, then by the same
process New York, or Massachusetts, or any
other State, may be legally divested of all
powers, declared territory, annexed to
any other State, or sent adrift out of the
Union to take care of herself. 1t is this
fundamental change in our whole system
which is the most prominent objection to
the amendments. The rampant character
of radicalism, now confined to one party,
will hereafter manifest itself In other par
ties. If the South ever returns to the I'm
ION. its interests win be rapidly identified
with those of the West and Northwest.
Who can say what political changes may
take place in very few years, and who
dare say that the time will not come when
the power of New England in the Senate
will be the object of radical anti New Eng
land legislation? We trust the time will
never come when the Senate is to be changed
from its present character as the represen-
tative of States, or when any State, either
Rhode Island or New York, will have more
or less power in that body. But mark the
prophecy, If these amendments are adopted
by three-fourths of the States, depriyinp
them ofelements of sovereignty never here
tofore disputed, the result will be, that in
less than twenty-five years the Senate of
the United States will be popularized, or
else certain States will be deprived of their
present representation in that body.
sBr In debate, the other day, on the
prohibitOry tariffbill, Mr.. HARDING, of Illi-
nois protested against the principle of tax
ing the people of the West for the benefit
of the Eastern manufacturers. He said that
it would be better to pay three hundred
millions OF dollars out of the Treasury. TO
those for whose benefit this bill was de-
Signed-the New England pickpockets of
the nation.
az SAM CAREY is still in Washington, |
boring for his confirmation to be one of |
ANDY JoHNsoN's offlce-hOlders." A spec |
al to the Commercial says that he denies
laving branded Congress, in his Indianapo-
is speech, as "a set Of d,tnkardsi'
This is by no means the first or the half
iozenth time, that SAM has tried TO lie him
elf out of unpleasant positions, into which
lis defamatory and vituperatiye tongue
ed him. On one occasion, at a public
Meeting in Cincinnati, his vulgar and fierce
of President JoHNsoN's per-
Onal character
"Out-yenomed all the worms of Nilel' Ii
lie tried to lie out Of that, too. In tolera-
ing such a fellow-to say nothing of {
OnorinO him toith an oFce-the President
only scandalizing himself s
10 The Ffeemdn's Journal pays the ''Hon- ,
able" JIM this graceful eulogy r
DEAD AND GoNE!-The telegraph brings
ord that Jim Lane, the Free-soil ruffian
ID murderer OF Kansas, has shot and Y
lied one of the most thorough miscreants p
Mt ever escaped the halter. Jim Lane A
S shot and Killed hfmself. The reason ii
IS, persuasion of the devil" This earth "
well rid OF him, and some other black h'
t as Omitted States Senatorr' nj