New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-09-26

yersal and perpetual, so we understand the Union,
from and after the attack Sumter 70 have symbol
led and embodied Impartial aud Universal Freedom.
That there we're many who did not perceive this
proves no more than does the fact that do not
even vet see it, Their blindness does not, aud can
not affect the essential truth. And the one remain
ing source Of embarrassment uncertainty, agta-
ton, disrust antagonisn and pel, is the inability or
stubborn unwilngness Of many Americans torealize
that Slavery is dead and that all It's incidents and
trapping5 should be buried in its grave.
Our platform of restoration-Universal Amnesty.
Impartial Suffrage-was long ago proclaimed, aud has
not been modified. We believe il simpler, broader,
more humane, more benefcent than any rival. And
we believe Congress might have secured its adoption
last Winter by prescribing and insisting that each
9ate which had been in rebellion should be restored
only on condition that it should guarantee irroyocaby
to all its steadstly loyal inhabitants every right fran
chise and immunity with which that State should see
fit TO invest its citizens who had been implicated IN
the Rebellion And we believe this requirement
would have been sustained by the people.
But Congress was not prepared to take this gnlnd.
For variety of reasons it saw fit to adopt instead
the Constitutional Amendment now awaiting ratit-
cation by the States. And our recent State Cmven'
ton in its Platform Committee voted down our dis
tinc affirmation of Jefersons doctrine that every
one who fights or pays" should be invested with the
Right of Suffrage and declared instead lover our vote
also1 that any State now unrepresented in Congress
which shall ratfy the Amendment shall thereuPon be
admitted to representation in accordance with the
provisions of that Amendment.
rb;- ratand In he the nOiitIOn OF
the Republican Union party Of our State-tha. every
State lately in rebellion which shall, with reasonable
promptude and in hearty good faith, accept and rati
fy that Amendment. shall thereupOn be entitled TO
immediate representation in Congress in accordance
with its provisions. And as we believe We can do
more for the cause Of Impartial Freedom by setting
with that party than by boiling from and batting
against It. we hold ourselves bound to conform IN our
action to its professions and virtual pledges. any
of the outlying States SHALL during the lifetime Of the
present Congress, ratfy the Amendment as Aforesaid,
we shall feel bound 10 advocate the admission there
upon of their loyal representatives to seats in Con.
gress As to those which shall see At 10 stand out
beyond the 4th Of March next shall feel at liberty
to act according to the circumstances then existing,
and TO the ripper and clearer convictions which we
trust the loyal States and People wmoanwhils have
attained.
And whether the revoted States shall be sooner
or later restored to their natural relations % the
Union, we hold that the signal triumph Of Freedom
over Slavery in our late struggle requires for its
logical and perfect consnmmaton that all our States
shall yet recognize and embody in their Constitutions
the doctrine tersey expressed by Horace Maynard of
Tennessee in these words
Let our laws and institutions speak not Of White men,
Rrd OF Back Of men Of any race or
complexion: but like the laws of God the Ten Command
aud the Lords Prayer. let them speak Of PEOPLE