The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-28
Reconstructon-O Ofthe
southern Press.
From the Richmond Examiner.

SIlIuIlOUal
requisite majority of two-thlrds. Ihe
radicals are thus provided with platform
for the fall elections-or counter policy to
that of the President which they have re-
undated Some of their mere unscrupu>
lous presses have not hesitated to aflrm
that the President was willing to agree to
the amendment. but our information to
the CONTRARY is direct and positive. The
issue is now made up for the country ana
the people will be called on to say which
thew prefer-a settlement Of the question
9r continuance of strife and agitation.
II they desire the latter, the radicals have
pointed out the way.
Not less mcndacious than the allegation,
that the President favors their plan, is
the pretence of the radicals that the a.
mendment stands even ghost OF a chance
for ratification. TO demonstrate this will
not take many words, and we proceed to
do it at once.
There are SOS tates in the union, and
the assent of three fourths by their res
pectiye legislatures is requisite, according
to the mode Of amendment which has been
selected by Congress. The refusal or fail
urc ofI0 States to raitfy therefore is suffl
cent to defeat Twenty-seyen States must
he secured or the amendment is lost.
Nine of the States which seeded, we may
count. we're most positively against The
amendmont-viz Virginia, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana: and Tex
as. In none Of these States can this vile
proposition be otherwise received than
with contempt and Indignation. They
will not agree to make the negro the equal
of the white man. though they will give
him equal protection before the law; they
will not agree to negro suffrage under pen
alty of losing representation nor will they
ever sonsent to distranchise, by their own
act. their noblest and worthiest citizens
such men as Lee, johnson, Forrest, Cobb,
Hunter. Davis and Clay-for the crime o.
standing by their native soil against tie
inya Ter. Such baseness as this IS not IN
our nature We may count these nine
States dead against the amendment.
Kentucky and Delaware are not less
certain. This give us II, aud is one more
than enough to defeat this monstrous OUT
rage until reason at the north shall have
found voice and hearing.
TThc Examiner editor. after speulatlng
as to the probable action of certain north
ern states on the amendment, says fur
ther:
The amendment. therefore, stands no
chance. 1t will be secuted at the south,
aud in fall elections. by the conservative
masses of the north. 1t will consign the
authors to speedier and more lasting POI
litical grave, and in this aspect perhaps its
introduction will prove beneficis, south to
the union. Tennessee and Arkansas will
be adj tied this month, probably to save
appearances, and after the laundering and
lightning of the fall elections shall have
cleared the political atmosphere there will
be little difficulty in the way of the rest.
The present ferocious body OF radical Con
eressmeu are net the fiery and audaclous
body of conspirators that they were when
they first met They no longer talk OF
impeachment; on the contrary, they are
studying best how to save their own ba>
con. After much tribulation they have
brought forth platform, but this progeny
Of sorrow and sin has been born too long
after the proper time ever to live and :ut a
figure in the world.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
This Journal. after showing low unjust
it is for Congress to pass laws for the en-
tire Union when states OF that Union
are allowed no representation IN Congress,
proceeds to say:
LESS than one-half Of fall Congress,
by force of position which they create
for their own benefit, exercise powers
which constitutionally belong to two thirds
of the whole, for the distinct object and
with the unconcealed purpose OF maintain
ing minority in power. The party which
does this calls itself sometimes republican
but mostly, of late, Union. The funda'
mental idea OF its policy rs party Is to
keep the Union divided in order to pre-
vent majority from ruling. There viii
be plenty of occasions for examining the
shallow pretcnces and systematized false
hoods with which this course OF action Is
excused, allowed or justified, as the party
convenience of its authors dictates for the
needs OF a particular election. The Whole
is summed up in Faneuil hall resolution
the other day, that the south must never
be permitted to resume political power
that is, the power to affect an election
against the interests Of the radical party.
"The vote in Congress discloses the ez
tent to which the agreement on this resclu
ton has been accepted as the bond of cohe
sion of the republican party at the coming
elections 1t is party platform, as dis
tinctly as if it had been framed in a party
convention, assembled to hsrmonize fac
tions for joint voting at the polls. In ihe
"erate, in addition to the regular radi
yote, Morgan OF New York, Lane o
Kansas. and Stewart of Nevada, who have
been now and then voting as conserva'
tives. voted straight out with the majori'
ty. -Four republican Senators refused
viz: Corwin of Pennsylvania, Doolittle o
Wisconsin,, Norton of Iowa, aud Van
Wrinkle Of West Virginia.
'In the house Of representatives The
consolidation was complete. The dis
patches say not solitary republican
shrunk from the republican test-not q
peootiye vote was given. excopt by q demo