The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-19
From the Cincinnati irl Enquirer
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
The Administrafien..a and the Elections
+" The Views of the President-The
Radicals for Conciliation-The Elec-
z tions i'm the seuiherns states-The
President Busy on His Message-A
Cabinet fren the Whole Country
The Trial Of IJef, Davis-Washing.
ton Fan sf soufheth Men.
WASHINGTON October l6, 1865.

Political wire -workersare swarming to
Washington, to ascertain what are the
opinions of the Administration upon the
recent elections. They are all at fault.
Mr. johnson has decidedly announced
his platform, and he rests entirely con-
tent that the masses of the people will
approve it. he goes on recOnstructing
the Southern States, and bringing them
into line, and the Radicals who proposed
to fight his policy are now trying to
conciliate. A little while ago they boot
ed at the idea of admitting representa-
tives from any Southern State which did
not adopt negro suffrage, Connecticut
took this starch out of them, and they
proposed to compromise, on the adoption
by the Southern States of laws giving
the right of suffrage to all male adults
who were citizens, and could read and
write. Now they are willing to compro-
mise by admitting all the representa-
tives who can take the Congressional
oath, from such States as have placed
the negro on an equality in the courts,
to sue and be sued, and appear Us wit
Straws shows which way the wind
blows. The President has simply refused
to allew the patronage of the Govern
ment to be used by the Radicals for cleo
Acknowledgements, andlaown they come
to. his platform. a. TheysHay try to raise
row in the next Congress. but they
can not make any Roadway against Mr.
Johnson's constitutional position that
each State has the right to decide for
itselfwhat shall be the qualifications for
suffrage. This is the cornerstone OF the
policy of the Administration and North
ern, as we'll as Southern men who come
here, admit its propriety
For the last few days there has been
but little done here except to watch the
progress of the elections t
1t is regretted that in some of the
Southern States men have been elected
to Congress who cannot take the test
oath, and will therefore be excluded, as
it will that far weaken the Administra-
tion party. .l.,... ",U 80 .H'''
The President is busy in the prepara-
ti0n of his message. IL will be devoted
chiefly to the restoration Of the unity of
the Confederacy. This is with him the
vital poiut of his Administration 1t is
his highest ambition to be able to select
National Cabinet from the whole coun-
try, and to present to the world reunit-
ed nation, as the fruits of his Admins
tration. - ue... .
The details of the department business
will be left to the heads of departments.
The Secretary of War has nnder con-
sideration the awards of the rewards
offered for the arrest of the assassina-
tion conspirators, and has promised to
promulgate the award this week
It is now doubtful whether jeff Davis
will,be brought to trial at all, or if he
should, it will not be done until the uni
ty Of the nation shall have been COM
pletely restored. ..s.
Washington is full of distinguished
Southern men, who express surprise at
the kindness and generous feeling mani
tested toward them even by the officials
Of the Government
Many of them say that If they had
known how kindly they would be treated
here, the war would have ended before
it did They. attribute the continuance
of the struggle to the Misrepresentation
OF, the radical newspapers in both sec
ti0ns.