The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-25

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TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER Is, 1866
From the Federal Capital.
TspRmA1 CORRESPONDENCE CHARLESTON DAILY NEWS.
WASHINGTON December 21.-The dobate in the
Senate on the bill to admit Nebraska has revealed
tho fact or rather confirmed it, that the Radicals
have no intent on Of adhering to their plea for
sshuman rights" when it is for their interests to
resort to e1pedients.
GRATz BnowEs amendment TO the bill makes ne
gro suffrage fundamental condition to the ad-
mission Of Nebraska State. It requires tho
people Of Nebraska TO allow Congress to dictate it's
constitution, and to submit tic reserved rights Of
the State.to its keeping. But This extraordinary
doctrine, strange as it may appear, does not meot
IN unanimous response even from those who have
embraced the ialatic i faith.
There is division of sentiment upon this
question When considered with reference to the
Southern States, excmpliticd in the speeches of
those members Who have defined negro suffrage
condition precedent to the admission of the rep
resentatives OF tnoso States in Congress-; but as
applied to tho admission OF the Territory of Nc
braska it is held by Howard OF Michigan, who op-
poses Browns amendment, that to exact saf-
haGe condition is a dangerous precedent. They arc
for admitting ScbiasAa upon tho plea that tho
thoy assent TO the charge OF partizan motives
upon the ground that it is patriotic to augment
tho Radical strength il order to resist the gigantic
admission OF Senator II ward, Of Michigan, and it
was endorsed by Wilson, Of Massachusetts,, who
was wiling to forcso his ari,nosity to the wor'
sswhitc' FOR the purpose Of achieving an addition
to the two-thirds power OF the Senate. Nado, Of
Ohio, has also commit, ed himself to this ques-
During the protracted discussion which took
place on Wednesday, Senator Doolittlo, of Wiscon-
sin, materially discomDoscd tho Radical members
by alu ion 70 Of the work Of the last scs-
sion. briet aEusio;s to tliis point in the debate
may not be unn!ercsting,
For to purpose OF smoking OUT Wilson and
Wade, he put the plain inquiry whether the filth
of Congress was peugydto the admission Of the
Southern States on tho adoption OF tho Cons!itr-
tional Amendment a.#:5"
Wilson denied that Congress had made any
pledges, and affirmed that he would so to the utmost
verge il insisting that the South must respect the
nights Of hie: liberty and property, and The only
way TO 90 this was to give the. ballot to the ne
grOos.
Wade was silent, notwithstanding he had ave1r,d
previously that five Of the Southern States had re-
jected Silc Constitutional Amendment thus rcfus-
ing the terms proffered BY Co gress.
Mr.. Doolittio read from the ELL reported BY tho
right Of the South to vote on tho amendment was
recognized-that The faith of Congress was pedg-
cd to the adlnisson Of tl,c Southern States. Oh
their adoption Of the amendment, and that pecu-
mary consideration was held out to them to gain
their assent: BY postpoicment of the payment Of
taxes for ten years.
no othor effect than to produce present annoyance.
The plan is to admit new States in order to add to
cause it needed at this time but to guard against
thu possibility of . political change that may be
or1nght 1,s about during the next two years.
But Nebraska may have to wait. Even the ia
NAUTICAL forces, who have exclusive control of the
situation cannot agree as to the Details Congress
has adjourned for the recess and the merits Of the
half discussed. Wade, whose patience would not
brook delay dared not push the question to a test.
could not at this time have passed the Senate BY q
two-thirds: vote. This fact is known and appre-
ciated, as well as that more important considera-
same reasons that lie refused to assent to the ad-
mission Of Colorado. Nebraska must wait
One of the charges which the Radicals prefer
lustfes their contemplated effort to i1npeach him
is that he has made an unjustlfabe or corrupt use
Of aS ace aPofRng p fResag wad the benefits
extent that he has appropriated this prerogative,
he has used it in accordance with the custom Of
his predecessors. He has not claimed that ex-
traordlnary virtue Of loving his political revers:
and while some Of them have been removed he
has exercised more than ordinary forbearance to-
war; War?s large prop triton who have placed no r.
stralnt upon thclr hos llNy nor circunscribed the
limits of abuse.
Tho acts Of Nj. Lincoln, it has been claimed by
the enemies Of the President, were in ali respeot
worthy Of his intuition, and they have re-
Gently referred to thcn as having direct bearing
t[p upon This subject It vas during discussion il
4AoSoS,
Abraham Lincoln permitted nor acquiesced
IN any transactions of proscriptive nature To
this h1r. Randall, Of Pennsylvania put in o very
effective rojonder He affirmed that during his
administration, the late President had written an
autograph letter to be read to the workmen in the
Navy Yard at Philadelphia, demanding that he
M 4Mr Randalp, should be beaten at ali hazards.
That during the same administration secret com
m1ttees had been organized in that Navy Yard,
to inquire into the politics Of the employees and
that every woman who had brother, or father. or
husband who was a Democrat, had been denied tho
privilege OF serving in the United States arsenal
II the Radicals do finally vindicate their courage
by carrying out their threatened plan Of attempt-
ing to impoach the President it win result in some
revelations that viii show how their power has
been attained and sought to be porpetuated The
investigation will be retrospective, and bring 70
Light transactions that have never been exposed to
the searching test of legal tribunal It will not
be well for those who seek to depose the present
executive to forget TINT, until very recently, he
mas been in the confidence Of the Republican party.
and that something may be exposed in the way Of
contrast; that s. will make his official acts appear
Puro and spotless by comparison. vIDEX
:CITY COUNCIL.
EXTRA MEETING,
COUNCIL CHAMBER, December a. 1886.
Present-The Mayor; Aldermen Ravenel Gerdts.
Willis ;Enston, Steinmeyer, Pringle, Cakes and