The Portland daily press., 1867-11-02

amt tire Vest $
We ave informed that Tie afternoon tram
from, +his civ to Bosom, under the Fail ar
:, vii leave 1T p. n, instead OF
,,o,f ,,,st . the usual hour under former ar
.,,,,,a,,opts. This hour has it disadvantages
ooJ Is one that business men will object to-
ona of the most important connections made
Inv This train is the New York and Western
connection Tho New York and Western Ex-
press mail trains leaye Boston at half-past p.
NJ. The Portland trains, advertised to leave at
8 z. NJ, wait always 10 minutes alter this bour
if .tbe trains from the East are late,' SO az to
enable passengers to proceed to Boston. The
10 minutes delay IN Portland in heavy travel
ing cannot be made up between Portland and
Boston, 50 that all New Y ork passengers must
be detainedin Boston tin the next morning
together with all the mails for New York. Ii
connection were made Portland letters would
be delivered in New York the next morning;
if not. twenty -four hours are lost III delivery
of the same mail, as il must lie in the Boston
Office until the next morning, taking the day
train and arriving in New York at p. M, too
late for delivery till the nextmorning.
This arrangement is said to be made to ac-.
commodate eastern travel. Ne see no reason
why the trains from Bangor and Skowhegan
cannot leave under their Fall arrangements at
the same honr as in former years. AT any
rate, If the change is made to accommodate
the eastern roads, there will no longer be any
excuse for the fifteen minutes delay hitherto
granted them. The detention of the mails and
otthrough passengers in Boston is too serious a
risk to incur by unnecessary delay in starting
from Portland ~4gtfir
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THADDEUs STEVENS in his late correspond
ence with DR. Pfeifer, which has been pub
lisbed in view of the possibility that the au-
thor may be unable to resume bis seat in Con.
gress, boldly takes the ground that the four
teenthi amendment to the Constitution has
been ratified by sutlieieot humber OF States
to give il validity. IL is upon this amendment
that he bases his claim, that Congress has the
right to pass 4 national suffrage law. He
seems to forget with the greatest ease That on
ly twenty States have approveddii ont of the
twenty-eight that are required TO do 50 before
it can be Incorporated into. the Constitution
The following sentences are presentation OF
his argument in brief: Do ifs II
If by the amended Constitution every Amer
lean citizen is entitled 10 equal privileges with
every other American citizen; and if every
American citizen IN any one of the States
shonld be found entitled toimpartial suffrage
with every other American citizen in any
State, then il follows as an inevitable concur
sion that suffrage through out this nation is
impartial and universal, so far as every human
being, without regard to race or color, shall be
found concerned, and so affects the whole ma
ton. 1i8 $50 flsiiAe Gii q
1fevery citizen of any State is entitled to all
the inalienable rights, privileges and immuni-
ties of this Government, and if one of those in
alienabe rights Is the right to cast his ballot
for every man who is to take part in the Gov
dent as TO deny that suffrage by the ballot is
due to every being within tbs realm to whom
God has given Immortality atet - t3