Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-19
The Political situation in washing.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial writes as follows

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial writes as follows
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THE WORK BEFORE CONGRESS.
In the absence of military topics, poll
tics form our only staple commodity, and,
even in this usually fruitful field, you need
no more than a daily glance at the dis
patches to convince you that new items
are pre-eminently scarce. Eight weeks
from to-day the thirty-ninth Congress VIII
open its session, andthe mighty job beforelt
is no less than the restoration Of the Union.
Will it prove equal to the task?-men
ass with solicitude. Well, there are pre-
m6aitory symptoms of a division OF opln-
ion such as will shake the old Capitol with
n ahicb debate" u~nequalled since thedays
If the formation OF this Government ] II
the magnitude and interest oil the ques-
tions it will involve.
On one point there Is no doubt. Hnas
is known as the radical wing Oh 'He
Union party has a heavy majority in the
House of Representatives. No newly
pardoned rebel Congressman, or scarcely
white washed secessionists have Il ghost OF
a chance of participating in the early de
Hberations of that body. Even in the
Senate, it is probable that the candidates
elect from such seeded States as may
present themselves will be chung up" in
committees until a late period of the ses-
sion. Even should the loyalty oath of
July 2, 1862, be repealed, which now
operates as an efTectual blockade to the
~pretensions of any man to hold office un-
der this Government who has participated
in the rebellion, it will only be after a
protracted and bitter contest. The points
of difference between the friends of Il
~lenient policy and the advocates of 4 Sc
we're punishment for traitors, between
such champions of radicalism as Thaddeus
Stevens and Charles Sumner on the II
hand, and such conservative Republicans
as Senators Doolittle and Cowan on the
other, are too wide and too vital 10 DC
recOnciled easily or at once.
COUNT GURowsKI ON THE SITUATION
1 met the Count Gurowski yesterday III
the street. The Count is a character, as
everyone knows who has seen the grim,
cynical Polyphemus, who spends most cl
his time, since he was turned out of the
State Department, III growing at what
ever Administration is in power. Now
GuroWskl is a radical, OF the Most prO-
nounced and impracticable description.
"Vat you tink ~ was his instant saldta-
ton as he accosted me: "Meeseeseep1 has
elected one damned rebel Sheneral for her
Governor, and President Shonson pardon
ed him by telegraph the same dayF And
the indignant Count wiped the perspira-
ton from his bald head, and glared at me
fiercely from his one flaming eye. A lit
tie later in the evening, 1 met a New
Yorker, of the rugged issue school of
Republicans, who was lamenting over the
leniency shown to prominent rebels in
the last three weeks-"pardoning the
damned rascals by regiments" as he ex-
pressed it.
"But don't you think" 1 interposed,
mildly, 'that JEFF. Davis Will be hanged2'
"Hanged? h-lll' was the reply.
"Why, he'll sooner be invited to succeed
Stanton at the Wal Department and
my interlocutor INDUCED in another ex-
plettve by no means complimentary to the
fidelity of his Excellency, Andrew john
son.