The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-29

after President Grants Inauguration. In
pursuance of the provisions of this act seve-
raj clauses in the Constitution which was de-
feated in june 1868, are submitted to q sepa-
rate vote, as was done in the case of Virginia,
and the chances are that, while these clauses
will be again defeated, the remainder of the
document will receive the approval of the
people. Both the radicals and conservatives
are confident of the election of their State
tickets, but as the President has thrown the
weight of his official influence against his
brother-in-law, Judge Dent. the conservative
candidate, and the radical candidate, Judge
Alcorn, is sustained by the whole adj
ministration influence, it is quite probable
that there will DO no material split in the Be
publican ranks, and that the conservative
ticket, which also claims to be the representa-
tive of the true Republican party of tho coun-
try, will encounter defeat.
In the State of Texas the progress of the
reconstruction movement has been much
slower than in any other of the States which
entered into the Rebellion President john
son appointed General A. J. Hamilton Pro-
visional Governor in July, 1865. A conven-
ton was soon after held which annulled the
ordinance of secession, decreed the abolition
of slavery, and repudiated the Rebel debt.
Amendments to the State Constitution bring
ing it into harmony with the new state of
affairs were also submitted to the people at
an election held in the summer of 1866, the
vote standing 2S, 119 for, to 20, 400 against
them, At the same time an election for
State officers was held, j. w. ThroclImorton,
the Johnson candidate, receiving Is, G3l votes,
and L. NJ Pease his loyal opponent, but
l2,05l votes. On the 10Th of October follow
ing, an election for members of Congress was
held, but the Republicans took no part in it,
and the Rebels had everything their own way.
Throckmorton, meanwhile, was inaugurated,
and an out-and-out Democratic Legisla-
ture commenced operations by rejecting, by
an almost unanimous vote, the proposed anti
slavery amendment to the Federal Consttu-
ton, the Senate containing but two members
who favored its ratification and the House of
Representatives only five.
When the Reconstruction policy of Con-
gress was fully enunciated, General Sheridan
became commander of the Fifth Military Dis
trict, in which Texas was embraced, and on
the 30th of July, 1867, he issued an order re-
moving Throckmorton, who had been recog-
nized as Provisional Governor since his inau-
guration, appointing Mr.. Pease to the posi-
ton thus vacated. The latter continued to
hold this Office until about the 1st of October
of this year, when he resigned to become an
active canvasser in favor of the conservative
ticket. In the troubles which led to Presi-
dent Johnson's removal of General Sheridan
from the command of the Fifth Military Dis
trict Texas had but little share the time of
the people being principally occupied with
shooting each other, and rendering the State
generally about the most uncomfortable place
to live in on the face of the earth. A regis
tration of voters under the Reconstruction
acts was, however, made in the latter part of
1867, when the names of 5G,67S whites and
| AZ, ,5S1 blacks-a total of 1Ot, 259, and a white
majority of 9O97-were placed on the lists.
From the 10th to the 14th of February, 1865,
an election was held upon the question of
calling q convention for revising the State
Constitution, the vote resulting in 1869
votes in favor, to II, ,440 against it.
On the 18th of June following, the conven-
| ton assembled at Austin, frittering away it's
time until the 31st of August, when it was
| obliged to adjourn without having accom-
| plished its task, in consequence of the refusal
of General Reynolds, who had recently been
placed in command, to approve of an addi-
tional appropriation for paying the salaries
of the members On the 4th of November,
1868, General Reynolds was relieved by
General Candy, but he was reinstated on the
9Th of April of the present year, and still
retains the command. The Constitutional
! Convention reassembled on the 7th of De-
| cember, 1868, the date to which it had ad-
journed, and completed its labors by submit
ting to the people of the State Constitution
of such liberal character that the President
did not think it necessary to designate any
clauses for separate votes, under the act of
Congress of April 10, 1869. 1t contains no
disqualifying or test-oath provisions that will
affect the participants in the Rebellion, and
will unquestionably be ratified by an over
whelming vote.
There are three candidates in the field for
Governor, two of them, Generals Davis and
Hamilton, claiming to be in harmony with
the administration and the great Republican
party of the North. Hamilton, who was the
leader of the original loyal party in the State,
depends however, chiefly upon the Rebel
element of the population for support, and
will receive every Rebel vote that is not cast
for Stuart, the extreme Democratic eandi-
date, who opposes the new Constitution and
the new order of things generally.
| Such is n Succinct acoount of the nroopeSS