The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-12

Should the Constitutional Amend
ment which we published YESTERDAY
msrning be passed by two-thirds OF tne
House of Representatives, it will be snD-
mitted to the President for his approval
If he should veto it, it would be return
cd to the Congress and would probaDiy
receive the same vote given for it orig
inally, which would be suffcient to pass
it over the veto 1t will then be SUD,
mitted to the legislatures of the severai
States, and must receive the approval Oh
three-fourths Of the whole NUMBER pe'
fore il becomes a part of the oonsti'u-
ton or is entitled to any vaiai'y 90
such.
Under these circumstances, IL seems
TO ms that there is very little propaoli-
ity of it's ultimate adoption. Inc Ma
tional Iatelligencer, which is generally
supposed to reflect the sentiments OF the
President with considerable accuracy, is
unsparing in its denunciation OF the
scheme; and enough is known from the
speeches of the President himself to war
rant the belief that he will not exert his
influence very actively to procure the
ratification of the amendment, even II
he does not openly oppose it. he has
repeatedly expressed his disapprobation
OF all plans for the amendment OF the
Federal Constitution while the Southern
States are deprived of representation IN
Congress, and it is probable, therefore,
that, for this reason if for no other, he
will wish this amendment to come to
naught., Without his active efforts in
its behalf, the anti slavery amendment
would not have been ratified, and it is
fair to presume that the present propo-
sition will encounter as much opposition
as the former. - F.. 80
There are, if we have kept the run"
of recent admissions correctly, thirty
seven States. The amendment will
therefore require the sanction Of twenty
eight legislatures, and, il nine of the
States refuse to ratify the proposed
change, it will fail. There are eleven
States still denied representation and in
no one of these, except perhaps Tennes
see, will the amendment stand the ghost
of chance. 1t will also be rejected by
the legislature of Kentucky and 10y that
of Della ware. This will give twelve
States for rejection, or three more thar
are necessary to secure the defeat of tie
amendment, even if all the Northern
legislatures approve it.
But the proposed amendment will be
to certain extent, before the people IN
the fall election, and the probability is
that sufficient popular votes will be cast
in opposition to this and the kindred
schemes of the negro-sutfrage party, &c
elect Legislatures in at least some of the
Northern States to join with the South
in Withholding approval fron 50 unjust
and impolitic scheme as the proposed
amendment embodies. There are still q
great many people who believe thai
the old constitution as framed by tn,
patriots of the revolution, contains q
more perfect systerm of popular govern
ment than any invention of the
STEvENsEs and SUMMERS of the present
day. 1t secured and preserved the lib
erty of the, people during all the palDy
days of the republic, and all that we
need now is simply to have the old in
strument enforced and obeyed without
the alteration of single letter of its
text, and without the addition of sin
gle word,