Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1866-03-31

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\ eousissen, course. and he even has failed
to elEectually bridge the vide ehasm be-
tween the tone OF that paper Of the Sd
Instant and that Of Saturday last. Then
its sympathies were plainly a'rayed for
the Radical party in Congress. 1t then
said, 1--WE have always doubled the Pres
id-n,'s policy Of Reconstruction" The
policy is SIMPLY this: President johnson
regards the rebel States as etill in the I'm
ion; that no act Of theirs could discover
their connection with the family Of States;
that loyal representatives Of these States,
Is such men as are in fact loyal. and can
give satisfactory evidence Of it," should be
admitted to seats in Congress. This is
the policy" which our contemporary had
always doubted being sound mp TO about
three weeks ago. But with the new light
lately received, hear what it now says:
every State, North and South, on pre-
seutiug loyal representatives constitution
ally qualified and legally elected and re-
turned, is entitled to its quota OF repre-
sentation in both houses Of Congress"
And mark how emineutly "conserva-
tive" the following Paragraph reads:
1.-THE whole work of " reconstruction"
then. consists in gathering up and setting
in motion the old machinery Of govern.
mentt as it existed in the seeding States
before the war and before the ordinances
of secession, subject however to such
changes and notifications as have been
made in the organic law Of the Nation.
without attempting to introduce the new
and untried contrivances OF recent political
inventors. With the elective franchise
outside ofthe District Of Columbia, Con-
eres. and the Executive have nothing to
do. Subsequent experience, the ameliorat-
ing influence of time and the steady pro-
gress of liberal thought will dispose Of that
question better and more safely than any
hasty action of the present hour"
This :s the true doctrine, and il enun.
ciated At former period. might have been
received as candid conviction. and not
the result of prevailing popular senti.
ment too strong to b. resisted. But the
chief sponsors were not yet prepared to
show their hands. and with their sympa.
thies all wrapped up in Thad. Stevens &
Co. and their heads At the mercy Of the
President, they saw no course to pursue
but . medium ono until the "logic Of
events should indicate the road to sue
cess. We thought oil along that breed
and butter would win, and sure enough It
has. A change has como over the spirit
Of their dreams. A new light frUm the
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