The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-11-19

9si There is now no longer doubt,
bat tina. among the first things to
], be done by the approaching session
Of Congress, will be the submission
of proposition to the State Legisla-
lures, to make manhood suffrage, ir-
respective of color universal oil over
the United States by an amendment
s, Of the constitution.
gaa8sWe hail this movement with espe-
e rslal appreciation, as tending
; to give the final, everlasting quietus,
to the negro-qucstion, by settling it
upon the eternal principles Of Right
and Justice, after which the negro
wants to be let severely aloue, to hoe
his own row, just exactly like other
!, men more or, less white or black
THAN he may be. 49,, 6 sfeal
There are now 81 States in the
s94 Union while it is earnestly hoped
that Virginia, Mississippi and Texcs
ss8 viii come to thoir senses enough, at
an early day, to accept tho terms OF
the Congressional plan of recon
e struction, and be admitted to their
$, originalstatus, thus giving 81 as the
number Of the states, -
Ga# Ofthese states it Will require 90
e or of the total number, to adopt
this amendment ~
~ The following 10 states already
allow impartial suffrage, and they
may be fairly relied upon to adopt
this measure, by their present Legis-
& latures, which are all overwhelming
Y ly Republican, to-wit: mo
Maine ps.g North Carolina
rs Vermont aai South Carolina
q New Hampshire Georgia
Massachusetts, Florida li
Rhode Island Alabama
&e Wisconsin Louisiana
Minnesota Missouri
al Iowa Arkansas
aa Nebraska West Virginia
Tennessee
Mississippi, Virginia and Texas
will be kept out until Gabriel blows
his horn, unless they. adopt this prin-
e ciple in accepting the plan of recon
struction, and they may therefore be
counted in, making % states sure, to
start on.
1t now only remains for lis to pro.
at cure more states, and the final
cmancipation,of the last man of the
four millions erected to the stat.
ure of manhood, by Lincoln's procla-
nation, and the power of the sword,
q is an accomplished fact.
The following nine states all have
Republican Legislatures, competent
to pass upon this question, as soon as
80 convened in regular, or extra session
and every one of thom may be re-
led upon to adopt the amendment
as soon as submitted to them, to-wit
Come cticut New York
Pennsylvania Ohio
Indiana Illinois
ssa Kansas Michigan
IA Nevada
So that we have three more states
Z than the required %.
% The only doubtful states are Ore
gon and California, while those Ger.
tain to so against tho proposition
are Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky
and New Jersey. @
- Other and recent Congresses have
@ had the honor of submitting the
constitutional amendment, abolish
~ ing slavery, and of passing tho re
q construction measures, making suf
rk trage equal except for crimes in the
rebellious states, and now let the ap
preaching one eclipse all their glo-
Ss ries, BY submitting the God given
principle, to the different states fol
their ratification, that manhood ane
n. loyalty, and not the conventional
ties of color, race, or religion, shall
be the full test of citizenship, from
Maine to California, and from tn,
81 sGulfof Mexico, to the tarthest nor
s,a 81 thern limits of Alaska's frozen shor,
n u -