Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-11-30
Issues-Old and New.

Our State elections for 1866 are over
and their results ascertained. Erery one
Of the States which was not in 1860
Slave State has Endorsed, by popular
vote, the Constitutional Amendment franz
ed by the joint Committee on Reconstruct
ton, and passed by Congress at its late
session. Tennessee, by its Legislature,
has done likewise. Every other Southern
State, it is now morally certain, will reject
that amendment. The legislatures of part
Of the former free States have already
formally ratified the amer dment all tho
others are morally certain to do so upon
their assembling respectively.
The new Legislature of New York will
assemble at Albany on Tuesday, January
1st, aud will, We presume, ratify the
amendment by an overwhelming vote be-
fore the close Of that week. When each
State shall have conclusively acted, the
vote will probably stand:
For the Amendment:
Maine, New Hampshire Msssachusetss nnGae nsana
Ca Ss.s virginia.
consn Iowa Minnesota Kansas Missouri, Tennessee,
Nevada csorPs os0n with " Ns'''''A
a'u Against the Amendment:
c,pel;na eIeoras. Forid. Aabsma Mississippi kentuc
Ky, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas Iotai-ls.
The assent of ihree-fourths OF the
States being requisite to ratify Constr
tntional Amendment, it is plain that rat
iication is not probable. Even If three
Of the hostile States could be induced to
change, they would not suffice to carry it.
What then? =
The following are extracts from tele-
graphic dispatches that reached us IN the
course of last Friday
Ia ST.. LOUIS, Now 23;-The Evening
Star of to-day says: Gov. Fletcher, the
Hon. b. Gratz Brown, the Hon, Henry
T. Blow. and other prominent Radicals,
have inaugurated a movement IN tins CITY,
having for its object the rejection by the
Legislature Of the Congressional lonsti-
tutional Amendments and an amendment
of the State Constitution so as TO abrogate
Acknowledgement to Rebels and substitute
therefor Negro Suffrage.
WAsuINGToN, Friday, Nov. %, 1866
The Conservative Army and Navy
Union, at their meeting last night, after
warm discussion, passed by two-tnrds
vote a series of resolutions declaring That
the aproposed Constitutional Amendment
ought to be rejected and that, in the Judg-
ment of that organization, it is clearly the
duty of the Conservative press through
out the country to appeal to the Northern
and Southern States TO extend suffrage TO
the negro on such qualified basis as may
be deemed proper and just
The significance of this latter dis
patch inhere- in the strong probability that
President johnson will be found in SYM
patby with ..the Conservative Army and
Navy Union"
The following extract from Wendell
Philips speech on Friday evening at
PHILADELPHIA is worth considering in con-
nection with the above:
The people cannot be kept at white
heat Northern trade longs for the South
ern market. Hear All the machinery
of notifies and finances will be brought to
bear upon the commercial classes North
to be contented with any sort OF recon
struction that will give Them the south as
m;et customers. The efforts of this kind
n the coming six months viii be unmeas-
ured and incessani. Add to these the
democratic party of the North, and the
clamor of the Southern States, with the
patronage of the government at their
head. and who says it is not fearful
streneth, an incalculable danger The
real interest of Northern commerce and
bushes is 4 reconstruction that viii give
"a 100000 of thrifty, industrious and
eouteated negroes for customers. and o.
100000 of white men turning their atten-
ton honestly to industrial pursuits: The
South. under . recoustruction on NORTH