New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-25
rHE coNsrr1ur1oNAI AMENDMENT.

tiueuuInenG. ana now declares tnHp lL1e billeutt
ment must be adopted because the people Of
the Northern States so will it. The New
York print says:
We can assure the CRESCENT and IFS readers
that, however they may lock upon the matter,
this view of the subject has so Incorporated itself
with the public mind that it forms, at this mos
msnt, the great difficulty in the way of admitting
the late rebel states to their place in the federal
government. More than any distrust of Southern
loyalty, more than any desire to punish the South
for the part it has taken this conviction that the
Southern States, if admitted TO the right of rep
| resentation in Congress without change of the
Constitution, will have disproportonate in-
fuence in that body, possesses and governs the
public mind at the North.
How strong and overmastering this feeling is,
| and how widely it prevails in all the northern
i quarter of the Union, the late elections show.
| Maine followed Vermont, in an expression of its
4 adherence to the cause of Congress against the
/ administration, 50 emphatic as to astonlsh even
i those who expected a victory. Pennsylvania,
i Ohio, Indiana and Iowa are now swept by the
1 same irresistible tide Of public opinion. which
1 bears down all opposition like barriers of straw.
Now this might be a good reason for the
Northern States to ratify, or rather, it
might be good explanation of the ratification
on their part; but it certainly is nothing more
than the simple statement Of political fact;
! and it can have no force whatever when adj
/ dressed, as an argument, to the Southern
States If the Northern States are determined
to TatilS 5he amendments leO tlielli EaellS ano
Pc content 4 thelf Iatlhcaton can secure
lts adoptlons they vii nave aeeomphsnea
their purpose, whether that purpose-be just
or unjust. If their votes are not sufficient for
me purpose they nave no moral ElsflV % INSIST
tlaV Ine SCUM snal lelp vheln' 01iAi isSs
nFe eaey tae IlgliS Y impose 'eii1i'iss III ~
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1o't w oeiissitS5sSs = ii''Iot4's aiu ioF tne
purpose q FeJecslLs q allehellaell@ any num-
per per q otates greater tnan ohe-1ourth eonstl-
tutes majority.
we presume that the Post VIII not deny to
the southern states. the right 70 relec6 the
amendment1f they please to relectlt II they
have this right, on what ground are they
threatened With the penalty Of exclusion from
the benefits Of representation Il they choose
g exercise ltf Why are they told that they
l.ss t.ss.s 10 ,tisll'sS 'se az tls pSo
T at +bis am, ,,raotieo1l,, ~ tpa
sart af 90 o,aiT, - Az ~, = -
!, o1te, r. evsn e oIol;sl, H. c,onsti
frtion IL ! Vote Il las M, f,ree-f,,,rfbs IF
IT. statss and co,saoI,e,t1r ~ ro+o e
1sss +bsr IN, oonstit,,tionaI ,,,,,nbar9 And
If lass than me oonstitntional nI1rsbar have
tI,is riol,t i II not ,,ossassa5l IL rinataan
states ont Of tbirf,1-sir ma q veil i h.
twentv-six States ont Of tbirtv-six--in Other
words H. J have r,aioyity # statas
viz too ~ ma, Ill el,orld u fa8,. M
resnlt Il case "a refnse 10 ratifv ! Have We /
riaht d sunnose That The majority Of M
Northern 5neople ava sroino 10 subject ms 10
WONG, outrage. or Injustice because tbev
cannot have their Swn way II every tbino
without VIOLATING .tbe constifntinr9 A. +l,e9
Y v;ndietiva tbat NAV 7vo7la 7a,r;--a q e
our rights. because We ID not apree with HEM
II opinion2 IF 10 We certainly conld have
no security that next wear thew would not
aaaip exclude rs from the Union n Il order to
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