New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-02-10

Convention and heads its scuTrlous reports
of the proceedings with the picture of sentry
| standing guard before cannon.
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| PROGRESS ~ RECONSTRUCTION-F LORIDA
ALABAMA.
! But for the accidental presence of q member
of The TRIBUNE staff in Tallahassee last
week, the kilograms daily received thence by
| the Associated Press would bc utterly unin-
telgible The babble of the minority over
bearing the majority, making a Constitution,
SC, &c, is plainly wide of the truth; but
what the essential truth is, those kilograms
nowise indicate. But Mr.. RobinsOn'S letters
make everything clear. There was a dark
intrigue, engineered 10y a Johnson office
holder and sustained by a lavish outlay
of money, to break up the Convention
in a row, and thcreupon set mp shout to be
echoed from Maine to Arizona, that Recon-
struction under tie acts of Congress had failed
-exploded-gone mp. How far the Treasury
! has been bled in aid of this conspiracy, we may
never know; but the engineer was evidently
! lavish Of other money than his own. The game
was to set the Convention quarreling over the
| return of delegates-twO on three oil whom were
! declared too recent immigrants TO the state,
| while another was 60 lac exclude" b"
cause of an error IN printing his name and his
defeated competitor fostcd into his seat, though
he received but fourth of the popular
vote. desperate struggle to master, disOr-
ganize and dissolve the Convention on these
prctexts was maintained through several days
but to no purpose The Rebel telegrapher to
the Associated Press ruefully telegIaphs at last
that Constitution has been perfected in spite
of the disOrganzers whom he funnily terms
"the majority" aud that the four colored
members who were induced TO join in the Rebel
intrigue are in danger of Lynch-law discipline
for their trcachcry to THEN race. Just read in
the light shed upon them by Mr.. Robinson's
letters in our last-these latest dispatches from
this model correspondents
TAIIAHtS>ET. Fla. Friday. Feb :.
ing adopted Constitution they awaiting instructions
from Gen Meade before adournng The majority refuse
subjects nonrcsidcnts 10 seats in the Convention The
majority consists of negroes and y whites, all ehgibe
The minority members number ~. OF which one II col
Orcd British subject and three are non residents the
balance of 10 or 10 arc negroes The President OF me
Convention and Chairman OF The Committee ON Eligibility
and Elections included in the minority. The Presi
dent rules that foreigners ana nonTcsidcnts are eligible
to seats refuses entertain appeal from his de-
cislon without two-thrds vote, which enables the mi
/ nOrity to govern the Convention.
-"These lies are like mountain, gross and
"palpable" The President rules, of course,
! that members duly elected returned and COM
missiOned are certified to seats mauHe
naked assertions that they are Ineligible and
until the Convention shall vote invalid their
claim TO represent those who elected them. He
would not he much Of a President if he ruled
| otherwise. And the fact that the pretended
majority" is composed according to its own
accounO of twenty one Whites and four Blacks,
while of the alleged minority" but three or
four are Whites, while fifteen or sixteen are
Blacks shows that THIS sham majority is g the
Whites mans party" under a new disguise,
aud its object the defeat of Constitution and
the ultimate disfranclisemcnt of the Blacks.
- Now look at tins genus's dispatch of
Saturday:
TALLAHASSEE. Fla. Saturday. Feb
The Minority Convention held three sessions today in
Fire hare SgHed he Constitution Many Of
them have reluctantly. having the CON
cnsOn that they have been proceeding regardless OF
jour until they hear from Gen Meade. They have
mated state ticket consisting Of Mr. Billings for Gov
and Mr. Gibbs (coored) for Member Of Congress. The
regular Republican Nominating Convention is called by
sent night 10 the neighborng plantations, calling the
to ATTEND mss srnSSn 'H
speech by colored minority delegate called Tor the
The speaker said Burn them" The portion claiming 10
be the majority will probably assemble on Monday, and
proceed as though there had been no interruption
Here we are told that give more" have
signed the Constitution of the so-called mi
"nority." More than what? lie does not tell
us; but these are doubtless five of the twenty
five which he has hitherto claimed as the
majority" If so, where is that majority
Then how is it to proceed" to-day,
with but twenty out of forty-fvc members
And why does he call his majority "tle seced-
ing membersq" Majorities are not apt to Sc
cede. They can do great deal better than
| that.
From Alabama, the Associated Press CORE
spondent at Montgomery telegraphs on Satur-
day, as follows:
MONTGOMERY, Saturday. Feb. g.
The full vote OF Montgomery, Macon Lee, Elmore,
Taapoosa Chambers Bulloch and COosa Counties, foos
up 1859 OF which all are negroes hut IL The vote cast
i'm the same counties the Convention question was
1880 The registered vote Soo3 1t is too soon to es,
tnnte but the indications are that the Constitution VIII
be defeated
The vote in these Counties before was