The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-12-10

e rAolitical Review. So
The Warrington Congress. amer reces
Of two days, meets again to-day. the -
dzys or The wcsk were occupied IN pre-
par,ms business, and the sort Of bushes
U,ev srs preparing, We may infer from IN
resolutions and bills already INTRODUCED
.,a referred % committees. That tn
,outhsrn States BE- received " into sefi'
sor,ss-shas the PressdeDts action =
granting apArdons" and exemptins ss'.'s :
stom conascasion be reviewed, caie9
Question, and annulled-that the snd-
rssl6cas,on Of the coassitutlSss n, sfter
meet 3 t,rst insisted upop SOt) begin to
chat. Congress may tOsf amnesty-these,
conaider the qupaee the main features Of
Ne believe. ~ In order. We have no
the bus,sffh that business; tho onsis Is
busp6n rs. Let them 80 ahead, We shall
q the sooner put through. Or, to use
the phrase now very common throughout
the North, In speaking Of the vast power,
momentum, and headlong speed Of the
dominant faction, We may say "Let her
sipls
j. Other business, too, Is being prepared
for the Immediate action Of that singular
Congress, though as yet referred to no
committee. Ballot for the women is going
70 b very soon In order. So much the
better: 1t Ii as well that the whole ultra
radical system should be presented to-
gothor in al its symmetrical parts and fair
proportions; and rs the word "white Is
abolished in law, so the Equal Rights As
vveistfvs,' and Miss LUCY STONE, its prin-
cipal speaker, Insist upap the immediate
disappearance Of the odio6s Yord 'male.'"
5 II was on Friday last that this lkmale con-
vention met In New York to pass resolu-
sacns which are to be submitted to tba Le-
gislature. A gentleman gave in his repoA
OF the result Of the interviews he had mad
IN Washington with prominent state smcn |;
from which 1t appears that Judge CHASE is
favorable to this vital reform, apA said, "as
the men have made such bad work with their
votes, let them stand asid,6 and give the
women chance" Nay, tMr. SUMNER as
sured the agent Of thsf women "that the
House was favorable, lbut that one member
was known 70 hsc wavering, and he would
no doYsSSg Be induced to vote right by his
WIFE," But pretty "Miss Bessie BIsBIE,"
Just out of her teens, hit the nail on the
head when she exhorted her sisters "to
take advantage of the present troubles in
the political waters growing ont Of the
crisis of reconstruction to demand and
obtain their rights" This was received
with applause" says the report. The
Rev. Miss OLYMPIA Brown made her.
self the special advocate of the colored
women: she knew none Of her fellow-citi-
gems, she said, who had SO deep and urgent
need of the ballot as her colored sisters.
The male sex, on the whole, has rather
hard measure in all these proceedings: yet
they do not propose, Notwithstanding Mr..
c. lsE's encouragement, absolutely to dis
franchise men still less to abolish men,
but only to reconstruct them, as it were !;
not to take away his constitution from the
male, but to take away "male" from the
Constitution.
The Radical excitement is likely to be
still more heightened at the North on the
arrival of SURRATT, the man lately arrested
who is charged with participation In the
plot to assassinate Mr.. LINCOLN. OF course
the rumor is at once set on foot that this
man can give evidence to convict Mr..
DAVIS, at last, as an assassin. We appre-
bend that this famous and brutal calumny,
however, has had its day; but Radicalism
is already gloating over the blood of SUR
RAFT, after having Tapped with delight the
blood of his unhappy and innocent mother.
The decision Of the Supreme Court
against the constitutionality Of the "test
OATH by q majority Of one, must not be
taken as more important than it really is.
The matter decided was Its unconstitu.
tionality as applied to attorneys, who are
not officers Of the Government; and all
the arguments were directed to that spe-
cial case. The decision does not expressly
affect the constitutionality of the test oath
% imposed upon Government servants.
Yet, beyond all doubt, 1t is unconstitu-
tional In all respects ard in every one Of
its applications, and will one day be so de-
cided. We see, however, how narrowly,
even Is respects the attorneys, the ques-
ton escaped decision in the sense of des-
potism.
Z In fact, to bring all the lives and actions
Of all citizens under the immediate gui-
dance and control Of Government is now
the leading idea Of dominant Radicalism:
"A seriopa effort he's -besa-alraady com
e1Ienced to place the telegraphic lines Of
the country under the entire control Of .
department Of the Government; that Is to
cay, OF the post-office. The House has
already agreed to resolution instructiug
the Post-ofsice Committee to inquire into
the expediency of such measure. And
the New York Tribune, that jealous adj
yocate Of all governmental interference
when the Government is controlled by the
right party), eagerly calls for its adoption.
So we may soon see the Post-ofice Depart
ment assuming, along with Its present vast
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