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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1865., [Electronic resource], Latest from Washington by mail. (search)
ailed themselves of the privilege yesterday accorded to them in the House of occupying seats on the floor. Universal (negro) suffrage in the District. A large number of memorials in favor of universal suffrage are being presented in the House under the rule. Senator Morrill, of Maine, Chairman of Senate Committee on District of Columbia, is preparing a bill for enforcement of qualified negro suffrage in the District of Columbia. It is proposed to have it take effect at the next June election. So many intimations are heard in intelligent and influential republican quarters of the certainty of the passage of an act authorizing negro suffrage here, or the alternative of the repeal of the city charter, that the public are satisfied that one or the other will prevail in Congress. The mass of the citizens desire the latter. Henry Ward Beecher delivered an address to-night in the Hall of Representatives, before an immense audience, in favor of immediate universal suffrag