The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-27
Issues-OId and New.
From the Tribune.

Our State elections for 1866 are over, and their
results ascertained. Every one of the States
which was not in 1860 slave State has endorsed,
by popular vote, the Constitutional amend
ment framed by the Joint Committee on Recon
construction, and passed by Congress at its last
session. Tennessee, by its Legislature, has done
likewise. Every other Southern State, it is now
morally certain, will reject the amendment.
The Legislatures of part of the former free
States have already formally ratified the amend
ment; all the others are morally certain TO do
so upon their assembling respectively.
The new Legislature of New York will
assemble at Albany on Tuesday, January lst,
and will, we presume, ratify the amendment by
an overwhelming vote before the close of that
week. When each State shall have cOnclusively
acted, the vote will probably stand:-
FOR THE AMENDMENT:
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New
jersey, enrsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, In
diana, Michigan, Illinois. Wisconsin, iowa. Mime.
sota Kansas, Missouri, Tenn1 sseei Nevada, Cali
iornia, Oregon, with Gf admitiedl Nebraska and
AGAINST THE AMENDMENT;
Delaware Mary land, Virginia, North Carolina,
iTpR Tota, isen'u0AS %. A0ai''"n"' ArA'n'"'' feN''-
The assent of three -fourths of the States
being requisite to ratify a Constitutional
AlueuulHeHt, III Is pam tudt TaCluCaClOQ is not
probable Even il three OF the hostile States
could be induced to change, they would not
suffice to carry it,
What then?
The following are extracts from telegraphic
dispatches that reached us in the course OF last
Friday
ST, LOUIS, November 23.-The kvening Ne,cs of
Brown the Hon Henry i. slow, and other promi.
neht radicals, have inaugurated movement in this
I nHes OF for Its object the by the
amendments, and an amendment of the State Con-
stitution, so as TO abroPate disfranchlsement to
Rebels, and su bstitute therefor negro suffrage.
WASHINGTON, November 2o.-The Conservative
Army and Navy Union, at their meeting last night,
after warm discussion, passed by a twothrds
vote q series OF resolutions declaring that the pro.
posed Constitutional amendment ought to be re-
jected and that, in the judgment OF that organiza
ton is clearly the duty OF the conservative press
throu ghout the country to appeal to the Northern
and southern States to extend suffrage to the negro
on such qualified basis as may be deemed proper
and just.
The significance of this latter despatch in
heres in the strong probability that President
Johnson VIII be found in sympathy with The
Conservative Army and Navy Union"
The following extract from Wendell Phillips
speech on Friday evening, at Philadelphia, is
worth considering in connection with the
aboye:-
Northern trade longs for the Southern market.
(Hear All the machinery OF politics and finance
will be brought TO bear upon the commercial classes
North TO be centented Elth any sort OF reeonstruc'
on that will give them the South as quiet customers.
1he efforts of this kind IN the coming six months
will be unmeasured and incessant. Add to these
the Democratic party OF the North, and the clamor
of the Southern States with the patronage OF the
Government at their head, and~whO saws IL Is not
fearful strength, an ncalculable dangers The real
interest OF Northern commerce and business is
reconstruction that will give 100000 of thrifty,
industrious, and contented negroes for customers,
ana 5000 600 OF white men turning their attention
honestly TO industrial pursuits The South, under
O reconstruction on Northern model, would be
customer to the extent OF 800 10000 500 100000
more than she ever has been or be the Presi.
dents plan"
These various demonstrations seem to indicate
a settlement of our remaining differences on a
basis somewhat diverse from the platform OF
either party, and probably better than that of
either At all events, let us now have a settle
ment that shall be all-embTacing and final.