The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-05-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
Assignments of Generals.
Stanton Not Going to Berlin.

Stanton Not Going to Berlin
Resisaatisn Of Gen. warren- -Tennes
see Army % be Transferred 20 Louis
vilIe-Money Ready to Pay the Arm!
-Breckinridge In Texas-Fredericl
Stewards Health,
Press Dispatch.l
NEW YORK, May 30. The Herald'I
| special says the Generals of the regular
army have been assigned as follows =
Halleck takes command of the Pacific
States; Sherman, the military division OF
the Mississippi, comprising Ohio. Ken
lucky, Tennessee, and probably Louis
lana; Meade, the Atlantic States; Sheri
dan, the Mississippi Thomas
North Carolina and perhaps other South,
ern States.
General Warren has resigned his com
mission as Major General of volunteers.
General Logan has received orders to
transfer the Army of the Tennessee to
Louisville.
The Times special says Mr.. Stanton is
not going to Berlin. He intends to re-
sign, however. 1t is believed that Breck-
inridge has reached Texas
The Radicals Show Signs OF a War
Upon the Proclamation - Denial
that Stanton will Leave the Cabinet
Application for a Provisional Gov
ernor of South Carolina-Sherman
Statement Before the War Commit
tee.
Press Dispatch.
NEW YORK, May 80. The CONNER
cial's Washington special says the proc
lamation for the reorganization of North
excluding negroes from suffrage in the
Southern States, and there are already
signs of an active political crusade by
the radicals on this question.
Secretary Stanton's friends indignant
ly deny that he will leave the Cabinet.
The Posts special says sex-Congressman
Boyce, of South Carolina, is in Washing
ton, to urge upon the Government the
of Provisional Governor
for that State
The Commercials Washington cores
pondent says Sherman's statement to the
Committee on the Conduct of the War,
his negotiations with John
ston, is not as hostile to Stanton as it was
Stanton is master of the sit
uation. He has more patronage than
pressing his advantage.
Response of Attorney General Speed to
President Johnson's Letter Of the
21st of April.
Press Dispatch.l
WASHINGTON, May 30.-AttoIney Cen
,ral Speed has given al elaborate opin-
on in response to President Johnson's |
etter of the 2lst of April last He ar
yues that the right and power of the |
President to pardon and to issue any
of amnesty are derived
flga tit, g, congress &hic6 he quotes The
high and necessary power of extending
pardon and amnesty can never be right
,ully exercised so as to enable the Presl-
lent to say, to offenders against the law,
I now offer you a free pardon for the
past or at any future day, when you
,hall from bafaed hopes, or after being |
'oiled in dangerous and bloody enter
orises, think proper to accept, will give
;ou a pardon for the then past" When
men have offended against the law, their
appeal is for mercy, not for justice. He
proceeds to consider the questions pro-
bounded by President Lincoln in the
proclamations dated respectively the 9Th
of December, 1868. and the 2Oth OF
March, 1864, commonly called the amnes
ty proclamations No doubt, he says,
many persons did, between those periods,
take the oath, who could not have done
so had the original proclamation contain
ed the exceptions set forth in the second.
What the rights of those who took
the oath in that intermediate space of
time, and who could not have taken the
oath prescribed on the Goth of March,
1864, are, is purely judicial question.
The Attorney General, in reviewing
the proper operation and effect of these
comes to the conclusion
that another proclamation should be is
sued. Persons, he says, should not be
invited to take an oath and to comply
with the terms under which they cannot
obtain firm, legal rights. 1t Is especially
to those who have heretofore, and would
now, avail themselves in good faith OF
the benefits of pardon and amnesty, that
another proclamation should be submit
ted covering the now past, Persons
who have been constantly engaged III
the rebellion should know distinctly
what they are to do, and when and how
thew are to do it. Such as have been at
fected merely by their reasonable asso-
Citations should be forgiven. and an ap-
propriate condition should be appended
for the pardon of many. The grace and
favor of the Government should now be
large and generous, and the operations
and effect of its profound mercy should
not be left uncertain.
As measure to aid in the suppression
of the late rebellion, the late proclama-
tion has done its full and complete office.
Now, one is desired to aid in restoring
order and reorganizing society in the re-
bellious States. Reconstruction is not
needed. That word conveys an errone'
GUS idea. The construction of this gov
ernment is as perfect as human wisdom
can make it. Ours is not duty to re-
construct or change society in the rebel
States. That society has rebelled against
and made war upon the principles and
powers of our government. In so doing
it has offended and stands convicted
culprit. Some of the great leaders and
offenders must be made to feel the eN-
treme rigor of the law, not in spirit OF
revenge, but to put the seal of infamy
upon their conduct. But the mercy ex-
tended to the great mass of the misguid
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