The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-04-28
Aithmond 1ispatth.
SATURDAY, APRIL 2s, 1866.
More Good Results OF the l'residents
Eirmness.


mass of radicalsm which has hitherto
rested like an incubus upon the country.
Every day develops additional reason for
this hope. The Washington star tells us
of two very significant facts bearing upon
this point One is, that - the Republican
members of Congress from the State OF
New York held Il meeting on "Wednesday
night 10 consider the general subject OF re-
construction, and came to the conclusion
that il was requisite for Congress to speed
ily adopt some affirmative policy OF lihc-
raj character with which to 60 before the
people. 1t was agreed that the question
of regulating suffrage must be ignored by
Congress and left to the people of the States
to decide. \ third point ofpolicy decided
upon was the admission OF the State OF
Tennessee" The other is related as fol-
lows:
1T has tranSpircd that the proceedings
of Yesterdays sitting of the Reconstruction
Committee were of Il character to seriously
alarm the Radicals who have been disposed
10 fight il ont To the bitter end against the
Presidents policy. Report has ii that Mr..
Boutwell,, ui Massachusetts, broke ground
bv opposing the whole scheme of enforced
negro suffrage, and urging the adoption OF
a plan oi reconstruction haSing representa-
tion upon population, excepting from repre-
scutatiun such males above twcnty-onc
wears of age rs are not voters, and leaving
the whole question of suffrage 10 the States.
Mr.. Boutwell, alleged that two or three
New England States were all that could bc
counted Oh to sustain enforced negro Snt-
iragc. Mr.. Thad. Stevens opposed the
proposition of Mr.. Boutwell, with conSidc-
rablc heat, declaring that if the committee
commenced 10 rcccdc, they might rs well
give the whole thing up. Senator Howard
and others took part i'll the subsequent de-
bate, and finally the committee adjourned
until Saturday without action"
As GOLDSMITH said Of woman, so we say
Of these northern miSchirf-makcrS, The
Radical who hc>itatcs is lost "Thcir
breath is agitation" They cannot live in
a country at peace. " The whole or none, s"
"G,t cesar ant 1mlluS these are the
right notices for them: and whenever they
stop to think, they are no longer dangerous.
The >tor'> report is fully sustained by
"l"ta," the Washington correspondent Of
the .>,ut, who says upon the same point
"Thc Committee ON Rccon>tructionha have
found unexpected obstacles To an agree
mcnt among themselves upon every con
Stitutional amendment relating 10 repre-
scutation and suffrage. Not even a ma
ioritv of the whole number can agree.
That is, eight of the fifteen members can
not bc brought 10 the same conclusion.
The Committee will. however, report some
thing next week upon which each House
NAV wranglc and divide. 1t was proposed
at the last meeting Of the committee that
it should be- dissolved; that is, that they
should report t. the House that they were
at Il dead lock, and beg to be discharged" :"
One more witness and We Shall have done
The New York Tunes publishes thc fol
lowing:
.lt i, known that General Banks and
Thaddcu> Stevens are both opposed 10
making negro suffrage feature oi the con-
grc>Sional restoration policy; and very
radical member of the Reconstruction
Committee remarked to-day that Mr.. Ste
venS was really becoming con>crvativc.'
Think of that-StcvcnS Il Conservative, ,
Fmncy will hc the next. The Times also
says:
The near approach Of the summer and
fall election campaigns is causing many
members to calmly consider the chances
for their return To the next Congress. A.
a consequence. there is very perccptiblc
increase of moderate comSclS; and within
the past week nearly all the great Middle
and Western State delegations have con-
stitutcd themselves sub-rcconStructlon
committees, and have held caucuScS to
ascertain what line of policy could he
agreed upon and sustained by the full
Republican delegation OF the respective
States. The result has been to satisfy
these members that the extreme views of
some of the New England men must be
abandoned or voted down; that any policy
OF reconstruction intended to compete with
that of the President before the people
must be plain, fair, and free from compli-
cation, and TIT the attempt to force negro
suffrage upon the States by congressional
action must also be abandoned"