, 1866-05-01
DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY,
T1E nECONsTRUcTIoN ItEpoR'

eFAhdrcfs .x;li1cAGo TR1BuEE,~ Chicsco. nj.
TUESDAY, MAY I, 1s6a
THE RECONSTRUCTION REPORT.
It IS yet too carly TO judge OF the degree
Of acceptance with which the Report Of the
Committee OF Fifteen on Reconstruction will
meet either in Congress, nmong the Kcp1bll-
can party, or at the South. The fact that 1t
Is proposed By representative body Of abic
Republicans Ike those who compose tn.
committee would carry with It considerable
weight, md il IL should be endorsed. by
two-thirds vote In Congress, IL will no doubt
he gencraly accepted as, II not the best thing
Of which the circumstances admit, at least
the best thing which can be conveniently OBJ
tained ut present. Yet in failing TO guar
autce an extension Of the suffrage, 1t
falls short Of accomplishing what very
tnnny Republicans, insluding. ourselves,
had earnestly desired. Hardly State elec-
tian was held last fall IN which the Rcpublf-
can paFs5 did not adopt n plaiform more or
less PLAINLY taastee for m extension Of the
suffrage, The Coplr-'-ad party in every
6tatc adopted a platform ot,rostpc the cx.cn-
sion Of the suffrage, mud thus ia epitit the
question was between suffrage and liz anti.
sutIrasc party, Il is true that In some OF tt.
States tlerc WIS reluctance on the part Of 4
small minority of the party TO vote for this
principle, especially in Its application to
SoffllsSs1a -: where the necessity for It Is
-las.4S tatt 70 the tnslsnifc: Mt number
OF their co1ord people md the fact
thnt there is no danger here OF their
being oppressed. While tue Ccppcrhcads
polled ncaxly lall party yoto ngaiat tho cx-
tension OF tue suffrage In Wisconsin, Colora-
DO and Consecticut, many OF the Republi-
cans tailed to xcle on the question. This
WIS moi 30 much. becnuse Republicans per
sana1ly opposed Tic extension Of the su1ease,
rs because they feared that others opposed it..
The opposition to II was ail based On the cry,
What will Mrs Gruudy eays" Like Scna-
tor Doollttts t:Aey were willing to votc tdcu'-
selves fox, IN extension OF Tie suffrage, but
voted nsninst having the who1n party vote
for II. Thus they succeeded in partially
defeating IT when the result proved that their
tIm,dIly alone prevented the principle from
realizing complete SUCCESS We;luee never
shared in tho fears which were at the
bottom o9 this policy ot balieyiug
one thing and voting nnother,, or 0,
seeing one Thing md denying the capacity OF
all other Republicans to see the same thing.
But for tue detection Of Senator Doolittle, the
extension Of the suffrage would have been
carried in Wisconsin By popular rote at the
last election. But for Senator Di1on's dcfcc-
ton like result would have occurred in
Connecticut. The danger which these tinId
men dcpsecste they alouu produce
We fcur the same ttmid counsels have Ind
undue weight with the Reconstruction Com
mistce and may hare with Congress.
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