The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-12-01
The Reconstruction question.

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was not in 1860, a Slave State, has Endorsed, by
popular vote, the Constitutional Amendment
framed by the Joint Committee on Reconstruc-
ton and passed by Congress at its late session.
Tennessee, by its Legislature, has done likewise.
Every other Southern State, it is now morally
certain, will reject the Amendment. The Legis-
latures of part of the former Free States have al
ready formally ratified the Amendment all the
others are morally certain to do so upon their as
sembling respectively. When each shall conclu-
sively acted the vote will probably stand:
For the amendment:
Maine, ew-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York. New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, In
diana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Min
nesota, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Nevada, Cal
ifornia, Oregon, with if admitted Nebraska
and Colorado Total-25.
against the amendment
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carroll
na, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tex
as: Totals
The assent Of three-fourths of the States being
requisite to ratify Constitutional Amendment,
it is plain that a ratification is not probable
Even if three of the hostile States could be induced
to change, they would not suffice to carry it,
What then? 1t is plain that the Amendment
will be rejected what new plan of Reconstruc-
ton will be fixed upon The following late tele-
graphic dispatches may serve to give solution
to the question
ST.. LOUIS, Nov. 23-The EUening Meas of to-
do1r Elotahor tho r ~ Rr0Wu
the Hon. Henry T. Blow, and other prominent
Radicals, have inaugurated movement in this
city, having for its object the rejection by the
Legislature of the Congressional Constitutional
Amendments and an amendment of the State Con-
stitution SO as to abrogate disfranchsement to
Rebels and substitute therefor Negro suffrage
WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. %, l866.--The Con-
sentative Army and Navy Uuion, at their meeting
last night, after warm discussion, passed by q
two-thirds vote series of resolutions declaring
that the proposed Constitutional Amendment
ought to be rejected and that in the judgment of
that organization, it is clearly the duty of the
Conservative press throughout the country to APP
peal to the Northern and Southern States to ex-
tend Suffrage to the Negro on such qualified basis
as may be deemed proper and just.
Here we have both Radicals and Conservatives
opposing the Amendment and advocating Uni
NtISdl suffrage, duu IL 10 plaiA lhS hSAS PA"H
of Reconstruction, no matter from which party
it emanates will have for its basis the enfranchise-
ment of the negro. President johnson is in full
fellowship with the g Army and Navy Union "
mentioned in the last of the foregoing dispatches,
and it is more than probable that their action
receives his entire sanction. These various de-
monstrations seem to indicate an approximation
rom opposite points towards a settlement of our
remaining differences on basis somewhat diff
ferent from the platform of either party.
g To the Victors Belong the Spoils."
There is no surer sign that the President of
the United States has % gone back - on the party
hat elected him than his appointments to office.
Every day we read of Unionists being turned
Dut and Democrats being put in, and it has been
aid that the strongest recommendation an appli-
amt can take to the White House is an endorse
ment from a Democratic polt clan, particularly
if the applicant can exhibit good Democratic
record. Service in the war for the Union now
amounts to nothing. A man, SCARED, bruised,
manned and crippled for life, may present his ap-
plication, but if he has a Democrat for his oppo-
cent, he may as well at once withdraw from
the canvass case like this lately came under
our notice. R. A. Conner, a soldier in one of
he Indiana regiments, who was wounded and
crippled at the battle of Chickamauga, and af-
forwards captured and confined in the different
prson-pens of the South for nearly a year and
half was, for his services in the field and his suf-
rerings while prisoner, rewarded with the post
office at North Vernon, Jennings county, Indiana.
Conner however-the ungrateful dog has
oeen unable to appreciate the beauties of the
Presidents policy as developed during the year,
md has been so unkind towards the head of the
government as to have mind of his own, and
that mind different from what he was naturally
expected to have What could R. A. Conner
reasonably expect but to be incontnently cleaned
out and he was crippled, lie and all-and
consistent supporter of our noble President "
indicted into the postmasterial chair But the
soldier of dozen fights and half as many rebel
prisons can't be subdued in that style. In one
of the papers published in his section he gives
fifteen reasons for being dismissed from Office
We give several of them that our readers may
see how he feels about it,
g. am removed because do not support the
UNANIMOUSLY rebel Democratic party, which syste-
matically tried to murder me fol fifteen long
months, by starvation and exposure
Z. am removed because do not support the
Democratic party, which starved me three days
and three nights, at Florence, S. c., for refusing
to point out to them the modes of escape of some
of my comrades.
g. | am removed because do not support the
Democratic party which caused me to be shot at
Chickamauga and because | shot some OF said
Democrats.
g. / am removed because do not support the
Democratic party for robbing me at Richmond,
Virginia.
10. am removed because do not support the
Democratic Johnson party, whose members shot
at and starved me at Belle Isle.
IL. ] am removed because do not support the
Democratic party, one of whom tried second
time to shoot me in Smiths Building, at Rich
mond
IL. am removed because do not support the
Democratic party, which endeavored to freeze me
to death, during the winter of '63-'64, at Dam
vile, Va.
10. l am removed because do not support the
Internal and reasonable Democratic party which
came near starving me at Charleston, S. G.
ID. am removed because do not support the
assassin President.
Gen. Lee for President.
The Mobile Register has the name of the rebel
General Robert E. Lee at the head of its columns
for President in 1858. The Register says there
is concerted organization now at work for the
purpose of elevating " the model hero of the