The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-09-20
Very Respectfully
MATT. Ii CARPENTER
The Recent and the Coming Elections The
PrOSDeClS.


FROM the AZ. Y. Herald, Sept. 1871
| From the elections which have occurred
since the constitutional amendment was
adopted by Congress for the reconstruction
of tie Southern States q0e are SATISFIED thnj
that amendment is to become the basis of Southern
l'eStorGttora-thdt it will ca1T(ond be ecaYied bv all
the Northern State elections act 20 come and that
with New Jersey leading off it will be rati
he'd by them all aud become part and parcel
OF the supreme. law of the land Nor have
we any fear of the consequences. There rs
nothing, after all so UeTy Objectionable in This
Misunderstanding aghich president johnson
hinsSe.th0S not, at one time another reconncn-
ded to some Southern State or to Congress, and
nothing upon aotch there should hare been diso-
9reeneent 6etaoeen the president and Congress- Let
US tor u moment look at this amenement
again. 1t provides
1st That all persons born or naturazed in the
ted States are citizens thereof and of the States in
which they reside, and ON footing of equality in
regard to their civil rights,
I'd. THAI the enumeration ofthe people for renre-
sentation in Congress shall be abridged in proportion
10 The aoridgment of the right OF suffrage males
account of race color
I'd. That large schedule of persons. civil and mil
Itary, engaged IN the late rebellion, shall be inegi
Die TO any federal office hereafter until absolyed by
tWo-thlrds vote of-each House of Congress
4th 1hat the national war debt shall be held sa
cfed, ana tnat all rebel debts and obligations shall
be utterly repudiated and held illegal and void
9Th. That Congress shall have power to enforce
the provisions OF this article.
This amendment is the reconstruction nIan
ard platform Of Congress- and there is M
good reason we say, why it should not have
been adopted also by the President, mas
much as he stands committed in some shane
to all IFS provisions II is not the platform
Of IhddeetS degeaS, Sumner, or Gny of the noisa,
radicals Of Congress. They can do qaotHi3ao n
a0dS adapted against their rentonStr0nceS and IL,
spite Of their threats. 1t embodes substantially
i'll fact the Presidents original programme
and if carried in these coming October and
November elections-as we predict it will
be. from Massachusetts and New York west
ward-we trust that the administration IN
Difference to the will of the people, will come
back to it. Why not ? Surely this amend.
nent engrafted upon the constitution will he
amply sufficient for the restoration of the
Union, internal peace, sectional harmony.
and the security of the Government and
treasury for many generations to come.
against all disturbing factions of either par
ty. Parson Bfownlow, in leading off with
the State of Tennessee for the ratification
has shown that good thing may be done
by bad man and for a bad motive bu,
that Tennessee should thus lead off for this
amendment, is very remarkable and so
nificant fact-that New Jersey should next
follow is almost as strange; but from good
or bad designs. the amendment, thus started
will surely go through.