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OLUME XVIII. , -NUMBER 33
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SPEECH OF HON. G. W. SCOFIELD,
IN TEE DOUSE pi REPIII:SF.-9SATIVES, JAN. 19.
The liourhaviiig under consideration' the bill
to proliide for pstoring to the States lately in
insurrection their full political rights:, -
Mr. Speaker" as the confederate popula-
Lion, live or sixlinillion in minibers, is to re=
main in this claintry and te, some extent
shape Its destiny. it•is all-itriportant that
we so reconstruct the Union' that this pop
ulation :may become an element of strength!,
rather than of weakness to the Republic.,
Powerful as wi are we can Hardly afibrd to
allow apoptilat i ion so large, brave, and reek-,
less to Settle down into chronic discontent
—forever to be to America what Ireland
is to Great , Britain, Poland to Ruasia, or
Huligary. to Austria—an ever-ready. ele • :
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I ment of revolution.
To avoid thislresult is the avowed purpose 1
of both! political parties; but strange to say, !
with the same professed end in view, they
start opt upon !paths leading in quite op.
posite directions. • The Republicans claim
that thb Union" can be best preserved by re
moving: the causes of discontent and thus
eictingliishing the motives to disunion, while
the Democrats lthinkthe Union can' be best
preserved by ielerating, conciliating, and
fosterin cr..:, the errors and wrong from which
c os
disunion Sprang.
For insiani the preservation of slavery I
'was the original' motive for sece.ion. To
destroy this motive the Republicans pro
pose to abolis and the Democratic' to los- I
ter slavery. ... cting upon their theory, and I
anticipating the. final overthrow of the re-!
hellion, the RePublicans began early in the!
‘var the remoVal of its cause. They pre-
hibited' the extension of slavery, abolished
it in the District of Columbia, forbade the;
retorn of slave r i by the Army, repealed the
fugitive slave Ilaw, supported Fremont's.
Hutrtei , ,..7. Phelps, partial and Ur. Lincoln 4 H
' morefgeneral proclamation of freedom, and I
finally by an amendment of the Coustitn I
ion ptoliih4e it everywhere and:forever.;
rbus it wai hl)ped that when the rebellion
should he stml)ressed no conflicting interest,
would be left, labout which the North and
'South codld I quarrel. There appeared
however, to b 3 a lingering hope:• in the
minds of th I
B,e
t rte masters that in a separtite
republic th i stitution might still be' re
vived in in i e modified form and some
' thine. It
at leistl of their larg e 'VeStiuent
t,
salved, and to ibis extent the, motive tore 1
new the stru4,gie in more propitious timesl
survived. T4s hope and Motive' for diS-1
union would grow weaker and weaker as
the subject-race become more and more in -1
tellig-ent, tliri y, and self-replant.
To .facilitat i this result the, civil rights
and, Fder
reeet,'s Bureau, th franchiSe, and
trinity other Minor bills of li -e import were
pasied by C4gress. The advancement oft
thenegro was,thought to be a greater bin
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(Ira ice to thefteviVa. of.,thel disunion insti-
Lititiop and a greater 'discOuragernent of
confederate o„,tbreaks than repealable laws;
or amendable constitutions:l This was tip;
Republican plan of reunion: The DemOH
erats, 'acting }iron their theory of fostering"
and thus, conciliating the distubing etc-
ments, opposo a'l measuaes for emancipa
I tiein g
and are still ! opposing bills for the im-'
lprovingtlie colored race. I do not clues
-1 Lion their's , ineerity. Quite likely they sin
-1 cerely thought that the best way to unite
4, th'p North arid SOuth was to yield to,, ex
s tehd,•cheti'sh and propitiate the cause of
idiSaffreerne4 I3ltt. this is passed. The
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(! great w i
hrk s nearly accomplished, and I
,I refer to the Course of the two parties upon
I it only to ille+rate my position, that "they,
seek the press I t of the Union in di- I
1i , I
ametrically! ,
Opposite directions. , !
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The Republicans had hoped that by the;
l removal of this original cause of quarrel all
1 incentives to diso mon N. onlti disappear; hilt
son theAresh hold of reconstruction another 1
and to some extent tin unexpected trouble
! presents itself! : The confederacylhad four
and 0 quarterlyears of nationality. Dir-I
this time vast interests, paqions, and
resentments 'grew up under" and centered
in it. She eentracted many debts, a debt,',
in bonds and Currency to her capitalists, of
damtiges to her propertpholders, ,of honor
to her s - I,ldier . :•', memory to her fallen, and
alms .to the,,Suffering. ' The dead claiin
homage, the maimed, widowed and orphans.;
pensions, the, iMpoverished pavrhent, and
the leaders hi !brie honors: These inter,
estS and passions embrace all classes and
appeal to all'hewts within the circumfrence
of confttilerate power: This makez.. a cause
ILtrotae than Slavery. There is more moa
t 2, 1 ~
I et' ill it by. half, and quite as much to awak
,
en resentment...or provoke resistance.
-' If:these people come back.with these in
terests unbarred by a constitutional amend
ment, how co they avoid struggling to
sme in the Union all that was risked in
thi4 confederacy? . if they do not ; they
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1 m :st be % use th an men or better than
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ian els. But these interests are in direct
I cot tlict with the corresponding interests of
Ith Federal oov:ern . nt, The reunited
nit ion cannot honor ;Tent for preserving
the Union and Lee for attempting to de
' stroy it. 1
We cannotimourn for the three hundred
thousand Union dead and pension the men
a t whose bawls they fell. It will be anoth
c4 war of sectional interests to be fought,
bebote to tiit ?Enclitics of DcitioehOg, Ana ti)
RECONSTRUCTION
OUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY,
'over in the Halls of Congress, thi State
,Legislatures, on the : husting and then
again,if opportunity presents, on the field
of blood. The "lost cause wid take the
!place of th., slave power" . with a larger in
'vestment to back it, and a less repulsive
face to defend .
What shall be done with this new ele
ment of disintegration and strife? The Re-
I, publicans propose to dispose of it as they
!did slavery—bury it by anotherl amend
ment of the constitution. And why shall
not this be done and the Union tlius purl
tied and harmonized, restored a once ?
Does Congress stand in the way Y I No, sir
for eight months the two policies4Repub
lican surgery and DemocratiC opiates
were discussed and contrasted in thes.c Halls
!and almost everybody here camel to the
(conclusion that it was better tol cure than
palliate the disorder. The amendment was
agreed to four to one. Do the peOple neg
beet their duty? No, sir; the amendment
was sent out to them and for' three or four
months rediscussed. They approved it, and
in twentyithree of the twenty-sift States
elected Legislatures instructed to adopt it.
Do these legislative servants disobey iristruc •
tions? No, sir; they are now assembling
and State after State is recording : its ver
d id. Very soon these twenty-three States,
having a population in 1860 of twenty-one
million five hundred thousand, and not less
than twenty-seven millions now, Will send
to a perfidiqns Secretary the official ev
i-1 deuce of the people's will. Delaware , three
I counties large, Maryland, betrayed to the
(confederates by a servant less treacherous
I than weak, arid Kentucky, whose piltriotisni
in the great strugglelardly rose ,above
Idissembling neutrality, alone a negative an
swer.
By the census of IS6O the entire popu
lation of these three Sates, white and black,
was only 1;955,000, and cannot Much ex
caed'those figures now.. Who. th4n stands
in the way? Not the Democratic party;
:the amendment was beyond thOr reach
when it passed Congress and was indorsed
!by the people: not the President; the con
stitution withholds from him any authority
over the question of amendment.. Who,
then, stands in. the Way Y One iold man
who is charged by law with they duty of l i
proclaiming the adoption of the amend-1
ment, bu who (the Chicago def4at being
still unavenged) has determined Ito incor
porate into the Union the debris of 'the'
late confederacy; to be in place of the ir
repre sible conflict" the breeder of present
broils and future rebellions—he stands in
the way. He has contrived a theory of
estoppel. The amendment, he tells us, is
'void without confederate sanction. The
will of the people of twenty-thiee States,
nay, the whole twenty-six if they' had been
' unanimous, must go for nothing unless ap
proved by a few millon, rebels', seal tered
through the confederate States.j Having
set up, his theory, he undertakes to procure
from these "misguided people"---oever more
misguided.than when led by him—an ex
pres,-•in of dissent. His machinationS are
likelytto be successful.
In 1860 the southern heart was fired by
the taunts and promises of northern Demo
crats. "The election of Linc4dn," they
would say, "is an assault upon your insti
tutions
and an insult tti the South." They
promised in case of trouble to take care ofl
the abolitionists. • There should be no co
ercion; but when the trouble dame they
shrunk away front the ,people ithey had
thus prompted, perhaps- unintentionally,
to resist. A good deal of half-tremonable
criticism on the action of the Government
when deeply embarrassed and struggling
for life, a little secret encouragement and
silent sympathy, for the fue were, the only
noticeable departur'es from a strict neutral
ity. Their promise was broken', Let me
warn these confederates who bare ahan
dolled their scheme of separation in good
fah to beware of their old advisers and
their new leader: ,
Mere,. then, arises an intermediate ques
tion. It is not whether confederate assets
shall be buried in the ,same grave' with
slavery as the Republicans propose ; nor
whether they shall be tenderly I taken up
and warmed into venomous life in the
bosom of the Union as The Democrats pro
pose; but whetherthis-question 'shall be de
termined by the •Staees in the Union or by
the confederate States.
What then is the status of the ten con
federate States! Are they Stats or Terri
tories in the Union! if Stateg, they can
control the other twenty-six on la question
of amendment; if not, not. They mast be
one or the other. Some suppose :they:strike
intermediate ground by calling them over
thowni disorganized ; or suspended States.
But certainly a State overthrow or guspen
ded is not at present an existing State, nor
is' a disorganized an organized State. If
they have no present existence as States
trey are only. at the most theoretic' States
9hich are 0 Suites; or prospective States,
•s
o•
% hick are' Ilrritories. They have certain-
I: • not been lactin as States during the .
I , t siN year 4 and aro =l,lcl:rimed to
ble sb becausle no way for the sere:awe of
al State from' the Union is provided in the
donstitutior. Once a State therefore al-
Ways- a State. If they are Statue now they 1
hai'e been so for the last six years. L i ook 1
DisseNiqptioß of Yoh 7..iiehigho agil
, TIMSDAY° FEBRIJAII I i 5, 18
. the consequences. By article one, sec-
Elm five of the Constitution, no bUsiness.
In be done in the absence of a quorum,'
Id a quorum is there declared to be •Et
i f ijority of all the membere. Nov, if the
hzetz
mlederate States' were also Statt in the
aion for the last six years this House coz
Ited of two hundred and forty-tw'o•me -
irs, and no business could be constitu ic.n
ly done without the presence of o hun
ed and twenty tWo members. ut for'
this time we have acted on t e hypoth-
Cuat the House was composed of onl/]
one huadred and eighty-four members, de
dUcting fifty-eight for the rebel States end
that ninety-three made a quorum. The
Senate has acted'on a similar presumption,
counting twenty-six instead- of thirty-seven
as the ed . nstitutional quorum, Probably !
more than half.of our legislati+ lifts peen
enacted, as will appear of record, When ei
ther the House had lees than one hundred'
and twenty-two, or the Senate less than
thirty seven members present. All this
must therefore be unconstitutional and void.
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Again, a presidential election occurred
during the war". lithe confederati3 States
had not forfeited their privileges as States
in the Union they were entitled Ito cast
eighty electoral votes. These eighty votes
might have decided the'contest, and they
might thus bare chosen the Conitntider-in-
Chief of our Army and Navy to e i encitict
the ar against them; or by casting their
votes for Jefferson Davis tiey might have
defeated an election by the peooe and
thrown it into this House. Whatl then?
we vote by States, (article two, l section
seven,) and two thirds of all the States
must be represented. If Kentu i cky and
Missouri had joined the confede+cy as
they attempted to do—and they lactually
were represented in it during the entire war
—more than one third of the States would
have been absent, and the election 'Of Presi
dent would have become impossible. The
I Senate: would have encountered the same
difficulty in the election. of Vice President.
To perform this duty two thirds of all the
Senators 'must be present. That; number
could not be. had in the rase supposed, and
so we must go without executive officers
until the rebel States choose to relieve us
by sendino• ° representatives to aid in choos
c.. in them for us.
° Suppose, again, that pending the war it
had become absolutely necessary to amend . ,
the Constitution, that all parties concurred
in its propriety, and the loyal States were'
unanimous upon the subject, it could not
have been done without the consent of the
confederate States. Though formed into
a seperate republic and - conducting a war
with this, not the slightest change in our
fundamental law, however necessary to our
salvation, could be had without their con ;
sent. i And this state of things would have
continued as long as the war continued,
even if it were a quarter of a century; worse
,than that, sir, in the light of this theory
they were 'States in the Union until releaS
ed or, expelled by an amendment of the
Constitution. such tin antendment requir
ed the consent of all the States. No mat
ter, then, bow the war should terminate or
whether it terminated at all, their power
over us could never be severed withont
their Consent. Seceding and fighting would
not do, you say, because these were uncon ; ,
stitutional acts. But whipping qs, I would
suppose, would be quite as unconstitutional
as fighting. If they had succeeded in the
war and maintained a separate republic
they could have run their own government
and in part controlled ours in spite of us.
The absurdity of this hypothesis protes the,
truth of the other. When a State rebels
and levies war against the Union, it there
by forfeits its privile g es as a State, and can
a
' only be restored by Conress,
Absurd as the other theory - i Upon it
the Secretari - of State has undertaken to
brinet back to the Union the confederate
population, freighted with all the helligar
ent interest collected by four and a quarter
years of nationality and war. IlloW7 Not
by conrineing the people; that! . has been
tried and failed. Not by executive ration,
age, that has failed also. Not by Corrupt
ing Congress, for biS old lobbyist is power
less berg No, sir; he Meditates Ithe se:
ductibn of another old man who happens
I to bold the balance of power in the supreme
Court; va,(4ne rumors of a mission to Eng
land 'are afloat: The Secretary seems to
thitil that a man who can betray his con
stituents and misrepresent his State will
make a good mistepresentative of 'the na
tioni abroad ; and why not send' a second
chaMpion of his theory to flaunt his' soiled
ermine at the court of St. 'James and nego
tiate i treaties for th epaytnenvof confeder
ate cotton bonds or a release of claims fur
! the piracies of the Alabama?
Bat his judge must have somethincr to
stand upon. The courts follow precedents
and the Rhode Island case stands in the
i
way. This question s. there held to be a
political one, to be decided by the political
department of the Government. Eventu-
Ally he will insist that. this decision has been
made atd made in his favor. ' To meet I
this emergency he is now and has been for
some time preparing his facts. The email:
cipation amendinent was agreed to. by
twenty-three States out of the twenty-five
thenin the Union—many inure than the
ff etos
number •qmred for its adoption; but in his
proclamation ( h , e chase to omit firm his count
a portion ot i tam Stated and seven con
federateleOmmunities to make the number
required/by his construction. There' is a
recedebt for his judge. So he submited
withotit authority to these same communi
ties iihe amendment now under considera
tionto be acted on by them in the apse
itY of States. There is another precedent.
The Interior is prompted to issue agricul
tural land scrip_whieh can only be given to
States to the Union, and the Treasury and
Post Office Departments are ordered out'of
their line of duties to make some small rec- ,
ognition of thtse communities as States.
These will make so many more precedents
for his judge. -
The Secretary first declares they are!
States, treats them- as States,:procures other j
Executive Depattments to do likewise, and
then cites his acts and declarations to ena-i
ble a willing judge to decide that they are
States, and thus launch into the heart of
the Republic a confederate shell with fuse
still burning by a single ; twitch of his
gown.
Mr. • COOPER. Mr. Speaker,' simply wish
to ask the honorable gentleman from Penn
sylvania; whether this House did not adopt
a resolution making it the duty of Mr.Mc-
PUERSON, its Clerk, to forward the very
constitutional amendment about which he
is arguing to the different States lately in
rebellion before he knew the Secretary of
State had forwarded it?
Mr. SCOFIELD. Ido not recollect any i
such action of tha House. But if sent tot
them by us it was only to =allow them an;
opportunity to proie their loyalty by giv-I
ing it their assent. 'ln the preamble to the ;
bill readmitting Tennessee their assent to:
this aMecdrnent is recited, among other
things, as evidence, of the loyality of the
government de facto, and as a reason, for
legitimatizing it and admitting it into the
Union. Fur this purpose we of course de
sired them to have a copy, but, unlike the
Secretary of State, we did not expect that
the assent of these communities would
fasten this amendment upon the country
without_the_soncurrence of three fourths of
the adhering - States, nor that their dissent
would defeat it if that concurrence was
bad.
The Bectetary is clever in work of this,
kind, An English nobleman was at ones
time ethibiting his kennel town American
friend, and passing by natty of his show
iest bloods they mime upon one that 'seem
ed nearly tired up. "This ; " said the noble
mai, "is the most valuable Animal its the
pack although he is old, lame, blind, and
deaf.'' "Ho* is that?" inquired the visi
tor, The nobleman explained t "His ed‘
ucation was good, to begin with, and his,
wonderful sense oarsmen is still unimpaired.
We only take him out to catch the scent'
and put the puppies on the track and then
return him to the kennel s ' • Do not sup=
pose that I intend any comparison between
the Secretary of 'State and that teteran
hunter. Such a comparison *mild be nei
ther dignified nor truthful; because the
Englishman went ere, to say! "I hate
owned that dog for thirbsen years, and - hard
as he looks he never bit the hand that fed
him, nor barked on ti false trail." t Laugh--
ter and appladse on the. door and in the
l l'galleries, promptly checked by the Speak
er.] I mistook the fall of the hammer for
s notice to quit. However, I have but
little more to add. The charge is often
made here aft i elsewhere that the Repub=
liean policy of reconstruction leads to disin- .
tegration father
. than retittion. In reply I
to that chargel am eucleavoring td show 1
that its tendency is to harmonize and ce- 1
ment the Union. I follow,this narrow line,
1
i of argument because it has fallen to others.
1 to discuss that policy in connection with'
' the abstract principles of republican gov
1
ernment, justice, religion, hunianity, and 1
civilization already. 1
When interrupted I wasgaing on to sat -
that the Secretary, in his efforts to ;baffle!
the Union policy of the Ilepublican party,
will even claim that his guekrilla govern
ments have the implied sanction -of Con
gress. For more. than a year'' these organi
zations have usurped the control of public
affairs in their several localities and'system
atical ly oppressed and persecuted the Union
people there. For more than a year we
have teen inactive, if not silent witnesses of
these usurpations. We have takea no steps
to suppress them nor to provide thelpeople
with constitutional governMents. The ex
isting ones are only the confederate govern
ments ferived —mare opprive, ma' iguant,
and resentful tinder the feeble restraints or
a cowed opponent., than under the iron rule
of the confederate, president himself. The
despotisin and bartetrities of Davis were not
wanton. They had a purpose—the suc
cess of the confederate cause. The "stern
'statesman" hlloted no further license; but
( under the Settard dynasty lynching and
murder has become a pastime. Better by
far for the Union men of the South :f their
governments Were again placed under the'
restraining despotism of Jefferson Davis:
At least he would not allow helpless and
unoffending people to be mobbed and inur
dered for no' confederate or public purpose.
How M'LV:I2 lonis,r shit* we tuln a deaf
ear to . the cry of the oppted? How 1
S..SLSO.PER AN:puur.
much longer shall we stand- here Mid see the
brute men who for foul , years, maid citdo=
quy, persecution,imprisonmenti abd tortu
refused to forswear the dag, now wheti the
flag is triumphant, in part through their
suffering, driven from their homes or shot
down itt the streets like &Vs? If %e Ebbs
Meanly desert our friends the rebels theme
selves will despise' us. ;But how about Lb d
Secretary, his etittning,hii precedent% and
his judges? .They are not to be feared,
dhey may protract our national ttonble and
elay, the restoration of the Unit* 9 little
! l onger.; but that is . all. .The people have
Concluded that the bst. way to harmonise
and cement the Union is to bury Whatever
is left of slavery and confederate nation:4x
ity in a common grave; and it will be done:
The Nile may be dammed with bUlruslim f
but the just i benignant, and well considered
purpose of forty-million nation eAutidf,
turned aside by the tinkle of one old man's
bell nor the rustle of another's gown. For
one lam ready for the tote, •
A Ornkard Menagerie.
The most foolish predieament a man call
get into is to get drunk. In drunkenne-s
every man shows his strenge-t and most
ardent passion. There are six kinds .cif
drunkards, and if you go into a city
drinking place,: *here there ate a dozer!
men under the influence of liquor, you will
find these six different animals:.
1. The . ape-drunk. He leaps,atid sings,
and yells, and dances, making all sorts of
grimaces, and cutting up all sorts of mon‘
I key-shines to excite the hughter of his fel ,
lows! 0, terribly silly is the drunkard
clown. •
2. The . tiger-drunk, He bre:ls - the tot ,
1 ties, breaks the chairs, breaks the heads of
fellow carousers, and is fUll of blond and
thunder. His eyes ate full of ventreance;
I I and his soul raves with tnurdeous fury. Of
this sort are those who abuse their Jinni
liei. - :
3. The hog-drunk. He rolls in tile ditt
on the floor, slobbers at.d grunts, and go
ing into the street makes his bed in the
first ditch or filthy cotter he may happen
to fall into. I He is heavy, lumpish and
sleepy, and cries in a grunting way for a
little more to drink.
4. The puPprdrunt. He *ill sweep for
kiciduess, and 'w pine his love and hug you
in his arms, an kiss you with his slobber- , P
aim how much he loveS
ing lips, and
c."
you. You ate, e best man be evef saw f
and will lay d wn his money or life foe'
you,
O. The owl drunk. tte' is 'wise in his
crUli conceit: . No man mustdiffer with him,
for his word is law, He is true itt politica t
and all matter must be taken as authority:
His afttl is the sttongest, his vette the
sweetest, his horse the fleetest, his tutnipt
the largest ; his town the finest 'of all the
land.
D. The sixth and last animal of out thetf
%fetid is the fat-drunk mutt 14.4 is etatlyi
ready to trade horses ; and cheat if he cane
'Keen to strike a bargain ; leering *found
Keith ljny cunning; peeping thfotigh 'Citcke
listening under the etives,watchina fof some
auspicious tbing i sly as a fox ; sneaking as *
wolf, he is the meanest drunkard , of theta all/
1
Ind coliistitutional
The number of States which have actel
upon the Constitutional Amendment if ref ,
eteixe to restoration, excluding the disloy
al States, is not as great as many trout!
suppose: Up to this tilde the ratification
of the Amendment in the States fepreseu- - -
ted in Congress have been as follows: Cfm-
necticut, June 27th, 1806, T.tiatt;see, July.
19th ; New Jersey, September 11th ; Creg
—; Ohio; Jar:nary 4th; New York, January
10t10 g.ansa4, January 11th The oniy
rejection has ,been .by Kentucky; January'
Bth. The future probabilities are that;
addition to the. seven - States friivd
already ratified the ainendnient; it will be ,
Confirmed by CalifordiN Illiriois, In4iawk;,.
lowa, Maine, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, J.iss..uri, Ne:i•ada, New Hair* ,
shire, Pennsylvania. Rhode Island, Vefniunfe
Virgit4 add Wisconsin, ritealciug: :a
total of twenty-iliree. •It will be fej&t.gli,
by Delaware add Maryland, maliing a t , .tas
of three Ori that side. If the do trine is
established• that it only requires- thre.4--
.
fourtlis'of the loyal States' so ratify - fir 4
amend Men t, its sucCess is estabiisice . .i. Tire'
'Southern States have Urns:far vottedmr:Mirst
the amendment as follows: Ge0q, 1 44 t•-• 1 1 - k- -
teriabce 9th; Alabama, Decernbv.r
South Carolina, December 19th, ViFf b intia r
January 9th. There are yet to i he beard)
from, Arkar. - ra•;; Florida,. IJoiiisherr;
sippi, North Carolina; and Theses
it may he yrresurned; wid go the sane way
imaking the votes of the .States it Retr.d.-
lion, ten in number, a*tiirst nve a r„ L ire.
If it is assumed that these Stat6s
right to: vote upon the subject, the 4.
draw the votes of li-entucky,-Maqla:adantl
Delaware,., making the total rejeetioti- -
teen. The total ,of adoption' Will he
twenty-three. The ConstittPion fe4frirtl.#
three-fourths of the States shall' mi.let:
Constitutional Amendment, and # the
Boutheta SEttes have any t4i; is the . fnat. ,
-
ter it will be rejected.
c&'P s hilii. Johnson, lAlember 00tIv
gress from this State, died MA, watk.