The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-12-19
LATEST NEWS BY MALL.
Southern Representation.
The Ses7. $ correspondence says:

w,srIxaroN. December IA prominent
Western Republican Congressman will this
week Introduce series OF resolutions in favor
-, admitting all the southern representatives
Who can take the test oath and whose States
have abolished slavery and rcpudiatcd the re-
ITl WAR debt also declaring that the right of
suffrage should be regulated by the States
themselves.
The Presidents policy. looking TO the early
elee tion of 4 Senator in Georgia. and while APP
uYoviug the act of Governor Johnson, recon-
fnruiing him to leave the subject of commits
sioning congressman to the Governor elect by
the peope--Mr. Ienkins---shows that he is not
con. 10 take any step backward in his line of
Ir,.ciure When Southern States come up
t4irIv and squareiy in substance TO the posi-
lions he has suggos ted 10 them in the character
Of an Executive, who counsels on all hands
Union, coEciliation and concession in consist
,ute with the iron logic of events. he will un-
outstionablv stand by them and for th0m, as
he has done by Georgia.
This being the policy Of the Government or
adm nistration, it mus, begin to be practically
rs."' early after Christmas, But If the
va Committee should prove to be the grave
al such mai ;ors-if from them there shall pro
ocrd no voice nor sign, then the Presidents
policy viii be wrecked for the time and if for
ihe time or the next session, then possibly
until after The Presidential election, per-
haps forever.
am far from disinclined TO do the Justice to
Speaker ColtaN of saying, that in constituting
the House portion OF the joint committee upon
the representation of the Southern States,
that he has SO designated them to give
pTepondcrauce against the extreme ideas of
stevens. Sumner Y Company.
MesSrs Stevens and Boutwell, are very ultra
Mr.. Bingham not altogether SO. Mr.. Conk-
ling, probably, less radical still. MIR. Morrill,,
being a rational practical man, much may be
expected OF him. Mr.. Washburne is openly
for the admission of the Tennessee members
and he, ~ the head Of Il Northwestern party
that dI>likcs the New England ascendancv in
committees and in policy. and also as the close
friend of General Grant, who is humane and
liberal in his views, WILL probably, go to Il
considerable extent for the Sou ,hern represen-
iatiycs. II will be RENE mbered that his brother,
General Washburne, is generous and libe-
sentative. and Mcssrs. Rogers and Grider GER
taiuly are. This view is rather couleur de
rose, but let hope for the best
Tomorrow viii probably hear the an
nouncement of the Senate committee. and then
we can the better see how things are drifting
Speaker ColfaX has made an utterance on
the subject which can commend as being
susceptible of two Interpretation as the re-
spouses of any oracle of ancient Greece. Ina
speech made in Baltimore last Friday night he
said:
In the minds of all. the foremost subject of
thourht-the policy Of reconstruction-re-
qnires some attention. / would say, AS was
written by the great dram fist,
II 'twcre done when It's done,
Then twcre well ii We're done quckly''
II we are certain that it We're we'll done
when It's done. then 'twere Well if it We're
done quickly. But if it were not well done
when lis done, then We should make haste
Slowly. [General app!ause.]