Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-09-18
the BORDER STATE CONVENTION.

! The Border State Convention which as
!, sembled at Baltimore on Thursday, fin
S ishingiits business and adjourning on tn
@ same day, seems to have attracted Blu
{ moderate public attention. 1t was re
, specially attended, and was composed o
the best representatives of the sterling
: Union sentiment of the several bordel
, States. The meeting. too, was marked
!, by much enthusiasm, and must have con
tributed essentially to refresh the spirits
and strengthen the patriotic determine
ton of all who were present on the occa.
sion. We can only attribute the compa.
rative want of interest manifested by the
public generally to the apparent abstruse-
ness of the question whether the General
Government, through Congress, has the
constitutional power to establish uniform
suffrage in all the States, and also to the
prevailing conviction that other topics
raised by the national exigency are of
more immediate interest. The belief is
quite general that impartial and uniform
suffrage is yet to be the rule throughout
the United States but the process by
which this 10 to be brought about is yet
the subject Of considerable difference of
opinion.
1t is somewhat curious that the speech.
es in the convention dwelt less upon what
would seem to have been their main topic
than upon the general features of the po-
litical situation. The resolutions, also,
are marked by the same popularity, the
argument for the equalization of suffrage
being confined to the following:
"Tbat it is the duty of Congress, nnder
the National Constitution, to protect the
equal voting rights of all loyal American
citizens, regardless oftheir complexion,
Tor the reason that to admit The right Of
State to limit the franchise to one class
admits its right to limit it to any extent
AN abuse effectually guarded against by
he Constitution in requiring that the
United States shall guaranty to every
State in the Union republican form of
Perhaps tho best statement Of the pres.
Mt position ofthis question evoked by the
invention was contained in the following
otter from Senator Wilson, which the 70.
ort observes was read amid general ap-
lause:
NATIoK, Sept Q, 1867. Q
My DEAR CREswELL: had hoped to Q
at your convention but the sickness of ,
y wife may prevent it. I suggest that /
our convention declare for suffrage either =
y law or constitutional amendment. We
IN carry the amendment if we cannot the 9
w. At the last session / offered an =
nendment on the 18th Of July, allowing b
Il, without distinction of color, to vote 7
hold office, making no distinction of 4
ghts or privilege. Some of our strong !,
It men doubt our power to pass bill. I,
we cannot do it. let us set about amen. ,v
ng the Constitution. Our State Con. q
'ntion will 60 for suffrage either by law b
amendment. Success to your conven- .,
on. In haste. Henry WILSON" q,
AS we have remarked, the general tone
the convention was spiritedly loya. f
ID patriotic. We copy in full the ninth tn
solution, which was greeted with tire.
sndous applause: tv
"That it is the duty Of the House of "
representatives., as the paramount neces- II
y of its approaching session, to present ar
licles of impeachment to the Senate for 2
0 trial OF Andrew johnson for high ra
mes and misdemcanors against the con. tw
tuition and the laws passed in pursu. ty
&c thereof; for usurpation of powers
egated to the legislati oc department of ag
government for obstructing, hinder. qu
and delaying the reconstruction of the di'
ties lately in rebellion; for the removal mo-
faithful officers in violation of law it.
indccency and indecorum Of his pub ma
administration; the pervorse obstina- the
by which no intensi6es the disloyalty VIII
unrepentant rebels. and his persistent sea
osition to the will Of the loyal people is
the nation. Boston Journal ter
ant
Senator Wilson. in letter