Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-23


Of DecaPifation Commenced - Resist
:,nep OF Ihe Senaie-Tie civil Rights !
Raw to be TesiesI-JeGerson Davis and
his TriaI-SeerGtary Seward and SANTA
Anna-Mexican Anairs-quantreiI I'm
Mexico -Fcnianisns in Washington
Desired Return of Mr.. Mason-Sccrc-
fary of the Treasury and the Gold
Market-HOn. George w. JOnes-PIain
Talk 10 a Radical.
Special Correspondence of Union and American
WASHINGTON. May 10. lSG5.-Sinee the Presi-
dent and the Radicals have come to know each
other better, Washington is less sensational! The
President has no fear Of being impeached by
Congress, and the Radicals have no fear Of that
coup d'etdt of the President SO much talked OF
before the more genial weather came on. 1t l.
healthy sign that mems nerves are becoming
more steady, and their faith increasing in the be-
lief that free institutions will survive the iollIes
of the extremists. both North and South. The
strong faith of the President in the reactionary
feeling of the people, and their ultimate return to
amicabIe relations. and higher order OF pros
pcrity than we have yet had in the history oil
American institutions, astonishes no less than 1t
delights. many of our depending fellow-country-
men who. coming here, see nothing bat the most
gloomy forebOdings.
had the pleasure Of being present at recent
interview between the President and distin-
guished gentleman Of the South. lie expressed
the greatest confidence that his policy would Ill
timately preyai-that our theory of constitution
al government would be northumberland tina:
those who were warning upon it at the other end
of the avenue would be repudiated by their own
people. Whatever others may think OF his pre-
dictions. no one who listens to him without prcju-
dice can fail to be impressed with the sincerity
with which they arc entertained and the perfect
fraHkness with which they are expressed.
1t will he great relief to the country when the
present Congress shall have adjourned. Passion
will have spent its force and the sober-second-
Thought ofthe people will turn in favor ola speedy
restoration of all the old landmarks Of the
Union.
five may believe Radical accounts, the work OF
decapitatiOn has commenced, and in few days Il
large number of offending officials to be turned
loose upon the cold charities of the world and for
no graver offense than maligning the President
and his reasonable policy" The Senate, 1t IS
said. will refuse to confirm any appointments to
fill vacancies that may be created by the removal
of present ofice-holders, even where the nominees
have served in the army or navy. But in this
there is a good deal of buster. They are not en-
tirely lost TO all sense of the account they must
render to the people behind them.
The constitutionality of the Civil Rights law
will soon come before the courts in various ways.
A suit is now pending in Baltimore, brought by a
freedman against the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road for damages in refusing to sell him ticket
e., tl,a first pla Elsewhere
have been brought for refusing to admit colorcd
people to entertainments. from which they have
heretofore been excluded under State or munich
pal ordinances Upon all questions raised by the
President in his veto OF this it is conf
IDENTIFY believed the majority of the Judiciary will
| be with him.
Notwithstanding the recent Indictment at
Norfolk and the many on dts on the subject.
there is no certainty as to the time of the trial of
Mr.. DAVIS. If Chief Justice CHASE will consent
to preside, it may take place very soon. If he
| does not. the trial may be postponed for some
time. The understanding here is that the prison.
er is very impatient for his trial, which he has
taken occasion to declare to several officials.
We have had much speculation concerning the
purposes of SANTA ANNA in visiting this country,
and the rumored meeting between him and Secre-
| to his home in Albany. ROMERO the sO-called "
| Mexican Minister. has been specially exercised.
| He seems to think that it BODIES his party no
good. Some conjecture that it is a bold and orig
inal stroke of our willy Secretary. who. despair
ing of having the Mexican imbroglio solved
through the fundamentally of the present Juarez
government. is favoring the return of SANTA ANNA
to that country upon terms that will satisfy the
| 1, 6 nd Empp-
ror Macmillan, by withdrawing from him the
| prop upon which he is supported.
| Recent information received here from private
sources advise the Government that the famous
| QUANrRELr was recently with Gen. Price, at Cor
| dova, Mexico.
Fenianism is not one of the isms of this city,
| The dominant party here have been so enthused
| with the great work" of the age-the elevation
! of the negro-that they could not stop TO consider
anything so commonplace the claims of Il ma
| ton of white men. But for this serious iTpedi
ment, [ have very little doubt that the move
ment of our Celtic brethren would assume such
proportions as to cause the English lion to do a
good deal Of roaring if it did nothing more
| JAMES STEVENS has impressed those who have
| seen him as having plan, a purpose and Will OF
his own. lie intends canvassing the country after
| the taSnlOn OF hoScuiu IHloi buudASiSf ~ mas
| none of the genius and eloquence Of the llunga-
| rian He is a dyeriiSed to appear in few days in
! New England. On his return he will start fol
| the West, and will hardly pass by such respec-
| table communities as Nashville and Memphis.
| The friends of Mr.. MASON. the representative
| of Jefferson Davis n Co. in England during the
war. having reached Canada, is understood as
wishing to return to irginia upon the footing of
other gentlemen occupying his relation to the Gen
cral Government. There is ne reason why the ap-
plcation, if made, should not be granted.
The Secretary of the Treasury has again found
| it necessary to take charge Of the gold market
| and control il if he can A large amount of gold
has been disposed Of The Secretary is under
stood 10 have declared that it should not go for
any length Of time above 100. Bonds are coming
| back from Europe so freely that he cannot wei!
| afford to tighten the money market and If he
continues to sell gold he will probably pay por-
] ton of the temporary loan.
| | met on the avenue this morning your worthy
fellow citizen Hon. GEORGE W. JONES. He was
| laboring. with his usual frankness and earnest
ness to convince a Radical friend of his that cen
tra1i-dtion was worse than secession and that un-
| less Andrew johnson is sustained. the people OF
the North rs well as of the South. will lose their
| liberty. CIvIS.
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| PRESBYTERIAN AssENBLY.-ln the Old