The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1868-06-19

| A Sensation from Washington.
-, southern reconstruction sis me
with an unexpected cheek in the Pc
siiion which the telegraph tells NJ
wa. i.ss" |. sas Senate On Thur
day by Senator Drake, Of Missouri
Mr.. Drake Is the most Radical n
Radicals the more intense tina, %
used to be fiery States Right
Democrat, ana hates the e.u-r he
has deserted with all the veaom of a
renegade, who has to make reason,
for himself by msligning his old as
socia,cs, and secure his place among
his new ones by ouidoing them IN
the fierccncss Of his aeal Vie IL the
last man from whom anything is ic
be- looked for in the way Of modcra
ton towards The South, or taking
any back ward step in the prosecution
of the intense Rsdicnlism to which
he has devoted himself
Yet Mr.. Drake on Thursday op
posed the admission Of Arkansas
until the fourteenth anne dment To
the constitution has been adopted by
the requisite number. The Radical
plan has hitherto been TO admit each
State under its bogus constitution As
soon as il came, with = ratification
Of the amendment on the part Of the
applying State. This is, indeed, IN
opposition TO the express terms OF
the reconstruction acts, which re-
quirc not only that the State shall
have ratified the amendment, but
:" that said article shall have become
u part Of the constitution Of the
United States before the State shall
DO entitled To representation ia Con
gress.
The manner in which Sumner
Stevens, and the Butler Radicals
have disposed OF this objection, is to
assume that the ten uhfoconstfuciod
States are rot to be counted on the
lists OF the voting States, but that
three fourths of the number of
States actually represented in Con
gross, il sufficient to ratify an amend
ment to be part of the constitution
Mr.. Sumner has all the time insisted
that the amendment is already rsii
fed by II votes out Of ~ the rep.
resented number, aud denied the
RICH, Of Ohio and Now Jersey to re
call their assent when once MED
MI Drake rejects this, and nvows
the doctrine taa' there are thirty
seven states to DC counted, ana 'ha'
twenty eight are necessary 10 the tat
,hcat'on OF amendment NV He
holds therefore, That ny the terms oil
the reconstruction laws no recon
structed state can be admitted to
representation until II shal' nave
previously rat'''cd 'he amendment,
and until all the Publications amount
TO rs Ito increases the perp'ex'ty
by stating his opinion that ONO and
New Jersey have rgh'inl'y changed
their votes, aud must be counted '"f
rejection
" tho Senate snsin'n TINS view,
the prospect OF Immediate "dn,'ssion
for the carpet bag senators Is SUD
denly darkoned
The condition 81 the vote 0" TINS
question now II as follows
~ the .tgea'y seyeql. .IsRr,assalsd
land, Kentucky, and Ohio have voted
against ratification. The California
Legislature Is 40 divided one House
being Republican and one Demo
eratic-thst no vote can be cast, and
the vote is practically negative
One other State, Nebraska, No be
l.eve, has not yet voted. The Leg
stature does not NEE, until Noyem-
Der. Here arc seven States which
are not to be obtained for ra,i6cs
lion. leaving thirty, of which ten are
Southern. II requires, therefore, on
Mr.. brakes theory, the ratification
of tho amendment by eight Of the
unrocous,racted States to mako the
amendment n mart of the constiiu
ton and until this Is done none of
the senstors or Representatives can
be admitted in,o Congress, or have
vote. at the election Ia November.
II /. plain from the report of Mr.,
brakes argument that he eontcm
mates this as possible. lie says
there il no hurry. I'VE have done
without these States seven years, and
va ean do without. them seven months
more
We do not wonder tina, these 10.
marks created a sensatien at Wash.
inptou They will create a sensa.
ton here, where the carpet bag gen
t,v have luxuriated in the idea Of
entering al once into the fraition Of
their political hopes, Of dominating
in the State. aud 80 reveline us full
grown oauals 10 tho conclaves n,
This Is bar thrown across thcir
path from an unexpected quarter II