23 NOVEMBER 1867, Page 2

The American correspondent of the Daily News, an exception- ally

good authority, is of opinion that the result of the Republi- can defeats will not be to deprive negroes of their suffrage, but to abolish the disfranchising Acts, so that the whites will be with- out excuse for abstaining from the polls. The effect of this will

be to make it worth the whites' while to conciliate the blacks, and worth the blacks' while to elect just whites, instead of men of their own colour—on the whole, a good result. The Alabama negroes have petitioned for a general amnesty to the whites.