AMERICA.
Southern advices are satisfactory, threefourths of the States having ratified the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery ; it is now the supreme law, and the great end of the war is accomplished. Carolina (North and South), Georgiana, and Alabama have ratified the amendment. Mr. Cowan, of Pennsylvania, submitted a resolution, asking the President to furnish the Senate with information respecting the state of the late rebel country — whether rebellion is supposed to be over, United States' courts restored, post-offices open, revenues collected, &c. ; and whether the inhabitants yield obedience to the laws and Government of the United States ? Mr. Summer Blaine, of Maine, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to reimburse loyal States for expenditure incurred by them in supporting the war. Eeferred to select committee.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 9, 14 March 1866, Page 3
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127AMERICA. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 9, 14 March 1866, Page 3
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