The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-12-01
Tha Raoonatrnotion ouestion.

Our State elections for 1866 are over, aud their
results aseerAlned. Bssry one Of the States which
was not. In 1850, a Slave State, has Endorsed, by
popular vote, the Constitutional Amendment
framed by the Joint Committee on Recons,ruc-
ton, and passed by Congress a, Its late session
Tennessee, by lie Legislature, has done likewise.
Every other Southern State, IL Is now morally
certain, will reject the Amendment. The Lcgis-
lalures Of part OF the former Free States have al
ready formally ratified the Amendment; all the
others morally certain 10 do 50 upon their as
sembling respectively. When each shall concu-
sively acted, the vote will probably stand
f5r hc amendment,
Maine, New-IlaInpshirc, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, Vermont New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio ln-
DIANA Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Min
ncsoia, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee Nevada, CAL
ifornia, Oregon, with II admitted } Nebraska
aud Colorado Toial-25.
Agaiasf he .imendaeni
Delaware. Maryland Virginia, North Caroli-
IA, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tex
as: Tolal-l3
The assent Of thrce-fourihs Of the States being
requisite to ratily Constitutional Amendment,
it is plain that ratification Is not probable. -
Even three Of the hostile States could be induced
to change, they would not suffice to carry IL.
What then Il Is plain that the Amendment
will be rejected what new plan Of Reconstruct
ton will be fixed upon The following late ,clc-
graphic dispatches may scts, TO livc u solution
to the question
ST. LouIs Nov. 81. TIE Ersning Mars OF to-
day says Gov. Fletcher, the lion. u. q Brown,
the ilou. Henry 7. Blow, aud other prominent
Radicals have inauguraed movement IN this
city, having for its object the rejection hy the
Legislature OF the Congressional Constitutional
Amendments aud an amendment, Of the State Con-
sliiuiion 10 n to ahrogaic Acknowledgement To
Rebels aud substitute Therefor Negro suffrage.
WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. %, iS6G. The Con-
sentative Army aud Navy Uuion. at their meeting
last night alter u warm discussion, passed by u
IwO-thirds vote series OF resolutions declaring
that the proposed Constitutional Amendment
ought 10 BE- rejected aud that in the judgment of
that organization, II is clearly the duly ui the
Conservative press Throughout the country To- al-
peal TO the Northern and Southern Stats TO cX-
tend Suffrage to the Negro on such qualified basis
rs may he deemed proper and just.
Here We have 10th Radicals and Conservatives
opposing the Amendment aud advocating Int
versl suffrage, aud i, Is plain tia, the neg, Plan
VI Reconstruction, no matter from which patty
II emanaes will have fot its basis ,hrrnrap chsc-
aieui Of the negro. President Johnson i. in full
fellowship with the Army and Navy Union 90
mentioned In the las, Of the foregoing dispatches,
and 1t is more than probable tina, their nclion
receives his entire sanction. These various de-
monstraIions seem to indicate approximation
rom opposite points towards a settlement Of our
remaining differences on basis somewhat dit.
fereni from the platform Of either party.