The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1865-12-23
The President and the Radicals--A
Split prODhecied.

Split PrOphecied.
"AGATE' the well-posted Washington
correspondent Of the Cincinnati Gazette
alluding TO the extreme hostility of Mr.
SUMNER 70 the Presidents reconstruction
policy, and the feeling of other radicals
foreshadowed by SUMMERS speech, thus
expresses his views on the probability that
an open rupture viii soon follow. He says
at is not impossible that this opening
for a rupture may close, rs two or three
previous ones have closed; but il Is not To
be denied that the prospects are squally.
II, as II would now seem, the President has
determined 10 force through his reorgani-
zation policy, Il collision Is inevitable.
Congress is really moro determined ON this
point than it was on the first day Of the
season.
"A number Of gentlemen have, it is trde,
sloughed off from the unwicldy majority
and still more under the potent pressure of
executive influence, are sure to do the same
thing. But the bone and sincw of the
Union majority. the men who act from con-
victiOns and not from anxiety for the Sec
ond-hand dispcnsation of morsels from the
White House kitchen, have no notion
whatever of reversing or modifying their
action. They viii prevent the admission
Otany Senators or Representatives from the
seeded States till after the thorough I'M
vestigation and report which they expect
from their Committee. Their course then
must depend on the aspect of affairs thus
presented; but it Is drawing upon no spirit
of prophecy TO say that the chances for the
present southern applicants will not grow
brighter.
1t is hopcd-and with good reason
that the President recognizes this determi-
nation. and like n wise staSman means TO
shape his course accordingly. IL was Caleb
Gushing, | think. who said of John TYLER
that the mistake the Wings made was in
forgetting that his administration was an
established fact. The mistake the Wings
made then, the President would make now,
should ne forget that this Congress. whose
term lasts nearly as long as his and whose
magnificent majority counts far above u
hundred, after all the drift-wood that has
adhered to rather than been a part of it has
been washed away-that this Congress,
thus potent and lasting, can either make or
ruin his place in history. MIR. Johnson win
be less shrewd politician than his record
would indicate, If he should fail to see this ::
or If he should fail to remember the other
fact-that Tylerized. administration can not
be re-eiected.
wiz he succumb? A distinguished Ken
tuckian writes from Washington to the
Lexington Reporter that he will-,oW back
dorm! We give an extract:
"If johnson had been man of courage
and genius he might have made himself
master of the situation. But he has lost his
opportunity forever. If he throws himself
obstinately in the way of the Republicans,
they will either impeaeh him or declare
that, being resident of Tennessee, he was
Ineligible to both the office of Vice-Presi-
dent and President. He lDW succunsb. A.
great and brave man in the Presidency
might have overthrown the radicals: they
will subjugate him. Things will continue
to grow worse and worse until the monster
appears. Negro suffrage will be forced on
all the States"
AS MIR. SALISBURY remarked in the Sem
ate the other day, all that Mr.. JOHNSON
need do in this crisis is to stand firm 3; let the
radicals combine; let the fanatics howl,
t,1o millions of sound men In the North will
stand by and sustain him, without any con-
sideration governing them, whether they
voted for him or not. This can not be gain
said.