Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-08-21
An Interview.

II is reported that Senator GARRET DAVIS,
of Kentucky, has just had an interview with
President JOHNSON, in relation to the recent
election in that State, and expresses full
conviction. from the esult of the inter
viar that the PRESIDENT is irrevoca bly, re-
solved TO so administer the Government as
70 eschew Radicalism of every cast, and
speedily harmonic all arrangements.
If such is the actual determinati on Of the
PRESIDENT, as we feel quite sure 1t is, it
will be hailed by the good sense and patriot
ism of the country with unaffected rejoic-
ings. No man ever had more splendid OPP
portunitv for usefulness than President
JOHNSON. The field is broad and inviting
before him. and if he shall discharge the du-
ties of his high Office, as the better men in
both sections expect him to do, he will not
only re-establish the Union upon impregna-
bic foundations, but will win for himself
name and lame among his cOuntrymen and
with the world, Shich after generations will
not willingly let die" Let him, as has
been his wont through all the chequered
scenes o. his past political life, continue to
rely for encouragement and support upon
the patriotic Instincts aud affections Of the
great mass OF the people, and he may safely
defy the Vaccinations of faction, and the
threatenings and howlings of the whole pack
of trenzied Radicals, VINO would lure him to
his ruin, and plunge the nation in untold and
irretrievable calamities.
We can speak for the people OF Virginia,
for we have known them long and well (;
and we can undertake to assure the Presi
dent that il is their earnest wish and desire
not only to be loyal and law-abiding citizens
of the Union, but to accord to his admins
tration a Jealous and answering support.
As the heart panteth after the water brook,
so do these people long for the return of
real peace and prosperity, and in this, their
dread hour of need and distress, of poverty,
suffering and humiliation, to whom, of earth
~ mould, can they look for succOr and relief
except to him-the exalted representative
head of the nationwide holds in his hands
the issues of political life and death
We appeal to the PRESIDENT, then, in no
servie spirit, but with frank and manly
confidence in his justice and magnanimity,
TO elevate himself TO level with his duty
to rise to the height of the great argument
land to speak the word which shall alleNi-
ate the depressing anxieties Of the people of
Virginia, and assure them that the policy of
his administration will be policy of forgive
ness for offenses past, and of Cancellation
and kindness in their broadcast sense towards
all the erring citizens of the Rep ublic. If
we have sinned, previously already have we
paid the peQalty---for the simple and literal
consequence of secession is the prostratiOn
and ruin of its victims. This all the world
knows. And, yet, suffering and urdone
though we be, there are those who would
still urge the PRESIDENT to drive US TO des-
peration and despair by further enhance
ment of our agony.
But in the hands of President JOHNSON,
we are willing to rest the fortunes and the
fate of the people of Virginia. However
much he may be annoyed By the cruel ex-
postulations of intolerant, jacobinical Radi-
callsm, or assaulted by its venomous denun-
Citations, we put faith in his honesty, his pa
triotism, and his gene rosity, feeling perfect
IL assured that all will be well with US after
awhile.