The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-19
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THE RnnslD1NF,s RUPryND WITH
CON0REHo a YATAk MYDTAKE.


We print below several extracts from tho
New York Herald, which speak for them
selves: S4
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMYEDNKNr.
From the elections which hove oecurred
since the Constitutional, Aneadment was
adopted by Congress for the reconssrpction Of
the Southern States, We are satisfied that
that amendment 10 to become the basis OF
Southern restoration-thAt Il viii carry and
be carried by all the Northern State. elections
yet to come. and that with New Jersy leading
of, it will be ratified by them ell and become
part and parcel of the supreme law Of the
land. Nor have We any fear of the conssl
qrences. There is nothing, after all no, very
Objectionable in this amendment nothing
which President johnson himself has not, at
onetime or another, recommended to some
Southern State or TO Congress, and nothing
upon which there should have been disa>
greement between the President and Con-
gress. #a
This amendment is the recon
struction plan and platform of Congress,
and there is no good reason, We say, Why it
should not have been adopted also by the
President. inasmuch as he stands committed
IN some shape to all its provisions.
II carried in these coming October elections
AS we predict it will be, from Massaehu-
sets and New York westward-we trust that
the Administration, in Difference to the Will
of the people, will come back 70 It. Why
not? Surely this amendment engrafted on the
Constitution will be amply sufficient for the
restoration of the Union, internal peace,
sectional harmony and the security Of the
Government and the Treasury for many gem
erations to come, against all disturbing fac
tons of either section. Parson Bfownlow,
in leading off with the State of Tennessee
for the ratification, has shown that a good
thing may be done by bad man and for
bad motive; but that Tennessee should thus
lead off for this amendment is very remark.
able and significant fact-that New Jersey
should next follow is almost as strange but
from good or bad designs, thus started, the
amendment will surely 60 through.
The Presidents quarrel and rupture with
Congress was an unfortunate mistake. From
recent events, South and North, it is clear
that it will prove fatal blunder to his adj
ministration, unless he abandons it as the
issue before the people. The old contest in
England between King and Parliament are
full of instruction on this subject. /
THE Albany CONVENTION. Il
The Albany Democratic and Conservative
Convention has done its work and settled its
manifest destiny in the nomination of Mayor
Hoffman, a local Democratic politician Of
Iammany Hall, for Governor His manifest
destiny is an inglorious defeat, unless reyolu-
tons sometimes go backwards Seward,
Weed and Raymond have been buried in
Tammany Hall, and the Tammany rumps,
with these accessions, will, in all probability,
be buried out of sight in the November cleo
tion. If General Slocum, a distinguished
soldier Of the war. for Secretary Of State, |
could not touch bottom against the Repubh |
cans by thirty thousand votes last year, what
is the chance this year for Hoffman, man Of
the Treasury ring, against Fenton, who, in
1864, ran ahead Of the Presidential ticket Of
Lincoln and johnson? We understand that
the Maine election satisfied the Albany Dem |
ocrats that Seward, Weed and Raymond |
could give them no strength, and that General
Dix, as genuine Conservative johnson war
Democrat, was accordingly set aside as en-
tirely out of the question. In falling back, |
however. upon their own party ranks, these
Albany Democrats have apparently given up |
the contest in advance Having given them |
our candidate, our opinions, and our condi-
tons touching this election, we have, at all /
events, nothing further to say.