FROM WASHINGTON: ABOLITION OF SLAVERY; Passage of the Constitutional Amendment (2/1/1865)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 2/1/1865

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Special Dispatches to the New-York Times.

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Jan. 31.

The great feature of the existing rebellion was the passage to-day by the House of Representatives of the resolutions submitting to the Legislatures of the several States an amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery. It was an epoch in the history of the country, and will be remembered by the members of the House and spectators present as an event in their lives. At 3 o'clock, by general consent, all discussion having ceased, the preliminary votes to reconsider and second the demand for the previous question were agreed to by a vote of 113 yeas, to 58 nays; and amid profound silence the Speaker announced that the yeas and nays would be taken directly upon the pending proposition. During the call, when prominent Democrats voted aye, there was suppressed evidence of applause and gratification exhibited in the galleries, but it was evident that the great interest centered entirely upon the final result, and when the presiding officer announced that the resolution was agreed to by yeas 119, nays 56, the enthusiasm of all present, save a few disappointed politicians, knew no bounds, and for several moments the scene was grand and impressive beyond description. No attempt was made to suppress the applause which came from all sides, every one feeling that the occasion justified the fullest expression of approbation and joy.

The House Naval Committee having received a reply from the Secretary of the Navy to-day, unanimously instructed their Chairman to report a joint resolution, referring to the Navy Department the petitions of contractors asking for relief for losses in building double-enders, marine engines, &c., to be settled upon the principle of equity and justice. This is all the petitioners for relief ask, and without some such legislation

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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From Washington: Abolition of Slavery – 2
Thirty-Eighth Congress: Second Session – 2-4
The Peace Question: Its Latest Aspect – 4
From Gen. Grant’s Lines: The Commissioners Appear in Front of Petersburgh – 4-5
The Confederacy and Its Slaves: The Question of Arming the Southern Negroes Discussed in the Confederate Congress – 5-6
Editorial: Glimmerings of Peace – 6
Editorial: Northern Feeling Toward the South – 6
Editorial: The Abolition of Slavery – 6-7
Editorial: Secession in a New Form – 7
Editorial: The Pacific Pirates Again – 7-8
Free Fight Among the Supervisors’ Clerks – 8
General News – 8

[ABStrauss]

They should have picked their own cotton!

But then we wouldn’t have a Clarence Thomas or a George Washington Carver, et al.

OTOH no Al Sharpie, Hakeem, Maxine and lots of other undesirables.