New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-13

The rcport OF the majority OF the Committee on Current
Ind DAILY CDcrn New-YoIl announced the pre- sence
in Albany OF the Hon. salmon T. Chase, ChetJustlce ~
The limited states and asked unanimous consent 10 IN
trodnce resolution extending 20 him the cOteses oil
the nOOr. $1,000. ,,,,,,r,,,,,., III. - .i,.. IT, go,
nouncencnt i'm behalf Of the Hon John T. Hoffman,
Mayor of New York. with like result. - .
Later in the session. ON motion OF Gen MEl,ilT tAe
Convention took OF ten minutes Ia pay their re-
spects Mr.. Chase which was Followed Dy similar res
cen MORRIS OF Putnam Both of these gentlemen were
The recipients Of much attention on the part OF members
The Convention then went into Committee ofthe Whole
on the report Of tho suffrage COMMITTEE MI AyOd be
i' Mr GREELEY desired to amend the report of the
Committee suffrage by the insertion OF Two words ac
cdentally omitted rs 10 read that person may be
challenged for paying or offering TO pay ANYTHING to IN
huence reward vote gNeh or 10 DC gwen at suSh
election. Permission 10 lius -N'"" was "''o'"'"bp
mi Mr. MURPHY Dem, Kings said that when the Com
mttec rose yesterday, ne was about 10 reply TO some
structures of the gentleman nom Rensselaer, Inc object
of his amendment was to submit 10 thc people me qes
colored race, and whether they might all vote. The
province of the Convention was to amend me Consttl
non The amendment OF the gentleman rom cayuga
dwight covered portion Of ms own amendment but u
did not put forward airmatNey ana distinctly hepropo-
ston that the right o slIYc WIS 10 DC eHl.heu ny ne
consent of The people II did not contemplate separate
Ncaton should exist with regard To c0ored persons lie
did NOT believe in such qualification Tor any man ut
he found It in the present Constitution and he wanted
the question OF q change snpmIed sepdIaeF 10 lhe
Electoral body wanted II submitted First, Because
il was the only way OF accurately aseetang the VIII OF
the people in this regard Ihefe may pn "a hgorIty IN
favor proposition may not be willing To votetor
be def aed. lie would NOT be UNDERSTOOD as opposed
personally TO negro suffrage; Tor he VAS now arguing
about separate submission Ss9onaig rms question
pccuary belongs to the electoral body because II con
cerns their enlargement III II the peoples question, ANA
they ought TO have the opportunity to indicate their
personality nddig he would place II upon the ground
Of precedcnt This had been the course In 1896 and sub
seducntly and any other plan would show hoy want OF
the state are in favor OF negro suffrage, why
not let them have the 9PPSWSn OF sayns so
argued that It would be confusing TO the electors n
~ nrOpositions submitted with the COnstitu
ton He believed that the people we're capable OF voting
integenty upon this and an oihg points The gentle
man from Clinton ONT Axteil had gwen singular
reason for refusing 10 have separate submission lie
fapcd The question might thus he lost Gamblers and
bachegs would vote against H. he SAID He supposed
there We 5sr s%c mlEs %sdG ey was po
dton TO make this a party question. IL was
IT. concerns GOOD government and therefore concerns us
all IL should be met squarely and honestly Sir above
the seat where you SIT abov, yonder canopy, are In
snrled The words OF whom the majority of this Con
vcnfion delighted 70 honor above the Speakers desk
in tbe Assembly Chamber is this inscription: IL have
The most solemn oath registered In Heaven 10 preserve
protect aud defend the oyemment-Lincon.'J lie
held IN 1855 with Mr. Douglas He then went TO read
reply of Mr. Lincoln 10 question proposed at that time
from hch II appeared that MI Lincoln then held that
N would not best 10 admit negroes upon the jury ana
10 the privileges ~ the DhllOt'
Mr. 1IJRTIs-I should like to ask the gentleman from
Kings whether he not aware that these views OF Mr.
Lincoln were expressed in 1855, and that he had changed
those views before ms death.
MIR MURPHY was quite aware that during the Rebel
lion and subsequently necessity had arisen for the po
c Acknowledgement OF the negro at the South, which
had radically hanged the views OF the Republican party,
md doubles Of its chief. Now the gentleman from
Rensselaer TOwnsend) has quoted Thomas Jefferson as
second only the Savior OF ourrace Mfr Jefferson wrote
hook called Notes on Virginia. which certainly hadn no
aspect In that book he responds TO % supposed
nuerv as 10 the wisdom OF Incorporating the blacks into
The state by speaking Of the real distinctions which
nature has made" between the races and says; In
memory they dhe negroesl equal 10 the whites; IN
reason inferior in imag nation, dull etc" Mr. Murphy
10 read further extracts from the Patriarch Oh
pemocracy whom his friend from Rensselaer, professed
70 follow Jefferson, the founder OF Republicanlsl;
sDeoks of the negro as belonging to yscay anu
nentally our interiors pamphlet had been laid upon
Ma fable omanating from Professor Lleber ana Tor
~ arded 10 the Convention by the Union League
He found no Ia that pamphlet for extending 'ho