The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-22
A HeW Phase Of the FOIitIeaI sl.ua-


The Washington correspondent 9th
Cincinnati Gazet.e writes 70 that paper
that new movement is now going on
in politics. ThuIIoW Weed and others
have been on 70 see Mr.. johnson since
his return home, and have given him
to understand that unless he swings
round the circle in a very different way
in the future from what he has been
doing lately, and takes wafer on The
subject OF the Constitutional Amend
ment, the "new partyo got up at Phila-
delphia is gone to the dogs, and that
very speedily. The correspondent
further writes that,
SIT is thought that Mr.. johnson. in
hneneed by the absolute necessity Of
gaining enough members of Congress
70 protect the veto power and 70 give
his Democratic supporters respecta-
Die minority during the remainder of
Lis term OF ofhce, viii secretly urge
upon Southern leaders the necessity OF
ratify1ng the amendments"
The Cincinnati Commercial, comment
ing upon the above piece Of informa-
lions, makes the following remark:
There is something in this, and per-
haps much more than meets the eye.
/ OF course the stability of the new party
been inserting itself, cannot be any
/ gre alter than that Of the President HIM
! self whose rupture with the Union
party is his recommendation TO the
Democracy. And those who know the
| President well are we'll aware that be-
fore the meeting Of Congress he may
change his base, and be more violent
toward Copperheads and rebels than
any body else. The dead point of dan
/ ger with the johnson party Is Mr..
Johnson himself There is no telling
how long he viii be a Moses for any
body. Il will be no more inconsistent
for him TO accept the Constitutional
amendment than it was for him to OPP
/ pose It; and many persons would not
be any more astCnlshed il he should
accept It than they were when he re-
jected it. BE is an uncertain quantity,
and, therefore, great administration
! party, with him at the head Of affairs,
/ Is an impossibility.
/ As 20 the adoption, by the States of
! the South, of she proposed constitu-
tiOnal amendment, we have reason to
believe that it is being seriously con-
sideTed, in the most Influential political
circles of the South, whether the short
ton after all is not to be found in the
adoption of the proposed amendment.
They know, studying it with the acute
ness that Is given by strong personal
/ interest," and considering its practical
1 application to their affairs, that It is not
/ the horrible and unmixed consuming
/ evil that reckless politicians represent
I il to be, who wish merely to overthrow
/ the party Of Congress, and use the
] South only TO magnify their own i'm
/ portance. II the President had accept
ed the amendment, and urged its adop-
| ton, as he ought TO have done, and as
/ he would have done If he had not been
| driven by his hot-headed resentments
to commit wrong, the foolishness of
which exceeded even its wickedness, it
would have been adopted
The constitutional amendment propos-
ed by Congress, is not the proposition
Of the radicals. Its adoption would not
hang anybody. The amount of rebel
disabilities provided for would not
prove injurious. It is the minimum of
/ punishment for political sin. The Ben.
Butler and Thad. Stevens notion of
conflscatfng all the land in the South
| does not appear in the amendment.
/ BrOwnlow's tuFpentine policy is not
represented in il. Indeed, il is a very
moderate and fair thing.