The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-01
OUR WASHINGTON connnspoNDENon

OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS
| WASHINGTON, November 27.-Gonoral GRANT has
never boon accused Of meddling in political mat
tors, and his rotcenco Oh all public questions hes
| boon generally commended, for it has givon the
leaders Of both sides m opportunity to claim hin,
| for party effect. Tho President, however, during
! tho past few days. has solicited tho individual
yiews Of each member of his Cabinet tho political
situation, and has called Gen. GRANT to tho Whito
House twice of late for tho special purpose of 30
curing his opinion am enablod to state, proper
authority, that tho General earnestly advised tho
President to recommend in his annual message tho
| adoption Of tho Constitutional Amendment by tho
South; but tho President has not boon convinced
to that effect and Will not yield his position to
favor tho amcndmont. The Radical programme,
however, will bo to persist in tho amendment Tho
Radical leaders hero, among whom is THap. STE
VEINS, declare that Congress must not abandon at
this session what it insisted at tho last session.
The Chronicle of to-day sounds this Keynote. It
saws that Congress should insist upon tho ratif-
cation of tho Constitutional Amendment before
| anything else is brought up. IF tho Southern
States rooct it, it may bo necessary for Congress
to adopt means whereby it Gun become part of
the Constitution without them. Impartial suffrage
is either right 1t is not. If it is right thero is
no occasion for our brbing the South to adopt it,,
and, if it is wrong, we ought not to urge it upon
them in any manner. We cannot SEQ what suf-
frago has to do with amnesty, or amnesty with
suffrage" I :i1
AS regards this now project of restoration alluded
to by the Chronicle, it may be added that it has
fallen through. The President has not decided to
issue an universal amnesty proclamation or to
recommend the South to adopt impartial suffrage.
Tho few Southern men WHO wero urging this
scheme havc coased to trouble tho President with
it, and have, themselves, doubtless abandoned it.
The great Radical leader, the vindictiyo and
cynical TnAD. STEVENS, kns been in town for q
week, and his quarters on Capitol Hill have been
thronged with Radical Senators and members and
politicians. He is silent on the question of I'M
peachment, and probably will take no step in that
direction. The leaders have decided to abandon
that feature of the programme wholly impract-
cable. BRIGHAM Of Ohio, who thundored i'm
poacLment from tho stump in the campaign, also
writes here advising the contrary. Gen. LOGAN is
in the same category. MIR. STEVENS, to ono gentle
man who ondelvorng to sound his opinions
remarked that as he was conservative last session
he proposed to be radical at thls ono. We may
look, therefore, for nnumerablo confiecaton bills
and plans to reduce the Southern States to terri
torial condition. Ono OF MIR. STEVENS favorte
schemes is to SECURE ratification of tho Const;-
tutional Amendment by two-thirds of the Northern
States, claiming that it will be constitutional
ratification. Ho maintains that if tho amendment
nr Is equally as legal to have ae t M rat
aaal ssl,s 4ipss st tea thst were ropluseutode
fur as it furnishes tho argument for tho other side
that the amendment never has passed two-thirls
of each House of full Congress.
democratic congressman and politicians do
not taiu any stock in tho impartial suffrage movo-
ment started bs the Chicago Times, and followed
BY ono or two ether d.. pemoGf1c poicans The
to adopt negro suffrage one of their cardinal prn-
| cpos, and the prominent men of the party know
Tho Mexican muddlo' almost ceases to excite
interest. There never was state question so COW
cred up with diplomatic facts and 1ancies. NApo-
Icons procrastination in tho withdrawal Of tho
French troops oxcites suspicion on tho part Of hi
Government, and very Imperative inquiry has
gono out III the last steamer to know tho reason
why the troops do not retire according to the terms
proposed by the French Minister of State in juno
| last, and accepted by Minister BIdELow OH behalf
| of this Government.
| up precedents for the passage OF law changing
tho time for tho meeting Of Congress. Il has boon
generally supposed that the time named in tho
Constitution had always been adhorcdto to, but the
fact otherwise appears. On several occasions in
the history Of the Government, q Jaw has been
tWo months from the d dissolution Of an old one
| In 1918 Congress mot in May There is q very
strong probability that the moeting of tho Fortoth
GssagF''' fss7g will be changed from D'''n'0'r to May
Newspaper circles are very active here ALI Of
the leading journals North and South are repre-.
sented hero for the session. Tho European and
United States News Association" at tho head Of
| which is d. n. CRAIa late General Agent of the
Associated Press, has opened an ofice hore, but
oil of the Washington Journals have decided to ro
main with tho old association, having moro faith
in its stability and news facilities than in tho old
| one.
Congressman eloct JonN MoRn1ssEY has paid
Washington visit and obtained Oil interview with
| the President, creating, on the whole, most
favorable impression among those who had formed
q prejudice against him.
| The sale Of seats for RIsToB1's appearance has
commenced. The price is three dollars.
The snow storm to the North is sensibly fell
| here-the weather being olenr and cold.