New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-14

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Especial Correspondence of the New Orleans Crescent
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, March 7 1866
II IS not thought that the resolution introduced
from the Committee of Reconstruction providing
for the admission of the Tennessee delegation, will
lead to any practical result in the direction of the
protested OBJECT OF the resolution; because it is
drawn up so as to imply that Tennessee is not in
the Union, and cannot be admitted without the
passage of a law by Congress. The President
cannot approve of this resolution without repu.
dating the principles on which his own policy of
reconstruction rest The result will be that the
Tennessee delegation will remain out in the cold
for some time yet. If the measure fails through
the veto of the President, then the responsibility
will be thrown upon him of keeping Tennessee
out of Congress. There is very little doubt but
that the radicals desire the failure of the effort to
admit Tennessee. For party purposes to gain an
advantage over the President, they have not
pressed the condition of negro suffrage on Ten
nessee but it is well known that this is their favor
lite measure. This is the panacea that is to cure
all the ills of the body polite South And the
very fact of their pretermittng it for the instant
in the case of Tennessee, unmasks their design in
this particular. They do not desire or expect to
succeed in their resolution for the admission of the
Tennessee delegation.
1t has been reported in the papers that Captain
Semmes was discharged from prison. This is not
true. But | am satisfied Captain Semmes will
never be tried. He was first arrested on the ground
that he had violated the rules of war in making his
escape after the surrender of his vessel But after
examining Captain Winslow, it was impossible to
proceed with this charge, as Captain Winslow
could not say what Captain Semmes did in the
matter of surrender and escape, as he did not re-
cognize Semmes personally in the combat. 1t was
then determined to try him for cruelty to pris-
oners, and the order for the assembage Of the
military court was actually prepared and laid be-
lore the President for his signature, without which
the court could not meet; but the President de-
cllned to sign 1t. Since then it has appeared sew
eral times as if the Captain was on the eve of be-
ing discharged from prison, but always some screw
has got loose. His case has, however. lost all its
threatening aspect, and his deliverance is only a
question of time.
Of all the demonstrations OF this Congress of in
capables, the most remarkable and the most
stupid the action of the House on the proposi.
ton for the United States to guarantee Mexican
loan to the extent of $4,000 900. This would be
nothing less than the beginning of French.Mext.
can war. few capitalists would make vast for
tunes out of such a loan, but it would cost the
United States something before it was done with.
But the President will veto any scheme precipi-
tating the country into war before the Southern
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nal peace is secured, the President would not 90
out OF his way to avoid foreign war, as such war
would cement the restored Union. A foreign war
would hasten the forgetfulness of our own war
The smoke of Lodi and Marengo obscured La Ven
dee and Lyons France forgot the horrors of in
ternal war in the glories of foreign conquest.
A very elaborate argument is now going on in
the Supreme Court as to the power OF military
commissions acting during the war. In the case
OF eN-parte Vallandigham. the Supreme Court de-
clined to interfere to relieve party from the SEN
tence of military court. Unless the court retrace
their steps in Valandighams case, it would seem
that the authority of these military tribunals
would be left unimpaired.
The Cherokee Indians are here with two adverse
delegations-the John Ross delegation and the
Boudinot and Stand Waitey delegation The Ross
delegation have tried to claim all the benefits of
loyalty, alleging that they acted on the Confede-
rate side through duress. The other delegation
has shown from the publications of the Ross party
at the time that they took the Southern side very
The government will not discriminate
against Boudinot and Stand-Waitey part of the
nation, though they stuck to the Confederacy until
it went down. The antagonism between the Ross
party and the Boudinot and Stand-Waftey party in
the Indian nation is such that the intelligent chiefs
say the two people cannot live together. It is
probable the country will be divided between
them so that part Of the nation will live to itself
The political situation here is quite chaotic as
yet; for example, take the fact that a few DAVIS
since some one of Thaddeus Stevens constituents
is appointed to office his recommendation, then
again Dennison, Postmaster General, writes a
letter desiring the Republican party to carry the
elections in Connecticut and New Hampshire
then again the Presidents organ says that to vote
for the Republican candidates in Connecticut and
New Hampshire is, in fact, to vote against the
President. Such are the vagaries of modern poll.
tics. OBSERVER