The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-12
Interest On the Alabama Debt-The
Protest against the Constitution.

MONTGOMERY, Alb, December 11.-Go-
vernon Patton has perfected financial ar
rangements in New York for the payment
of the interest on the foreign debt due
January l, 1868, and also secured an e1-
tension of time for the payment of the
temporary loan, heretofore negotiated in
New York, until the same can probably be
paid from the collection of taxes which
saves the sale of State bonds under the
present depressed condition of southern
securities.
Messrs. Henry G. Semple, of Mont
gomery; Joseph Speed, of Perry; and
eleven other Conse rvative Republican
members of the late Reconstruction Con.
vention who protested against the Consti-
tuition vindicate their positions. They
assume that the action of the Convention
is in opposition to the sentiment of the
northern people as expressed in the recent
elections, and that it violates the condi-
tions Of the formation of the Republican
party in Alabama by transcending the re-
quirements Of the reconstr uction acts,
and adding features of prescription and
disfranchisement not authorized by those
measures. They believe the northern
people will not permit the power OF
their Government to be directed to
the abasement and degradation Of the
white people of the South to be
the servants of their former slaves
even as punishment for rebellion
They argue that the civil liberty of the
northern people will be endangered by the
continued exercise Of pro-consular rule
maintained by force over an impoverished
and ruined people. They admit the tho.
roughness of the conquest, but trust to the
magnanimity Of the conqueror, and appeal
now to the tribunal of last resort-the
people. The political power of the blacks
is coveted, under the proposed system Of
suffrage, by political adventurers having nc
interest in common with the southern
people, as weapon Of offence, to be welded
for the accomplishment of their selfish
schemes of personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and
that race will readily surrender itsell
to the arts of designing persons who
flatter their vanity and encourage
them in jealous hate of the white PEG.
pie of the State. The colored delegate:
in the Convention moved as subsequently
at the beck and call of their Radica
managers as ever slaves did at the com
mand of their masters. The amendment
to the Bill of Rights, introduced by Keffer
relative to common carriers, designed t.
make hotels, cars, and steamboat berth!
common to both races, reused much oppo
sition, and was withdrawn by its authors
but the colored members (the protesting
members are informed) obliged the Radi
cal majority to promise them that thu
next Legislature should and would carry i
into effect.
The address alludes to the fact that tn
Convention refused to provide separate
schools for the whites and blacks, so as t.
force the children of the two races to
gether. The defeat Of the law forbiddinl
white and black intermarriages is alluded
| to.
The signers of the address further de
clare that, entertaining the views they do
they owe it as duty to the people t.
warn them against lending themselves t
the ratification of the constitution. The,
know not what fate is in store for the pee
pie, but it can hardly be worse than tina
which they will bring on themselves b.
aiding in carrying the constitution into Ell