Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, March 2.

WASHINGTON, March 2.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times states that the Radicals have opened vgor-
Gus and practical campaign against PRESIDENT john
son. At the caucus which assembled on Friday
last the determination TO break with him was tho
rough and intense. A large sum OF money Is to be
raised by levy upon ofice-holders, and by private
subscriptions, TO carry on the war. POLITICAL speeches
are to be circulated and FOrney's paper is to nave
the printing of the Senate.
1t is reported. on the authority of the Constiia-
tiORGl Union, that ut secret session OF the Radicals
the question of impeaching President johnson was
agitated.
The editor of the Springfield Massachusetts, Re
publican, whohas an office at Washington and Is
deep in the secrets of the Republican party, states
that the Conservative wing OF that party conesses
that all the schemes of reconstruction thus far pro-
posed have utterly failed and that matters cannot
go on any longer as they have been doing for the
mast three months. Ii is now conceded that Con-
gress must either admit loyal Representatives from
the Southern States or establish the terms on whlc
il will admit them. The attempt to secure negro
suffrage is, we are told. an admitted failure.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing
from Washington, says
Il pass to other matters. Cabinet rumors are rife
No one knows what day may bring forth. men,
Der of the House told me- few days since, that the
reason McCulloch's bill was about to fail was be-
cause there was no knowing how long he would re-
main in the Cabinet They did not want to give
strange Secretary, Humphreys or Parsons for in
stance the power they would gladly give him.
Nothing but want of confidence IN johnson made
them pause Stanton's doom is recorded. lie had
written his resignation, and was about to forward
it, when he understood that the President had en-
pressed particular wish for it. 1t was thought best
to put npOn Mr.. Johnson the burden OF removing
the Secretary of War. Secretary Harlans days are
numbered. His place has been promised they say
to A. W. Randall, of the POstofice Department, ana
il is thought will 20 in ten days. Speed Harlan
and Stanton are among those who will surely GO
Stanton has become very sweet and pleasant. lie
coos and chirps rs amiably as Il dove and men VINO
90 TO see him, with recOllcctiOns OF 1867 and 1868
are surprised to find the bear the mildest and most
tractable of animals. You may 90 as near 10 MN
as you please, and he will neither snarl nor bite
The Washington correspondent OF the New York
Times gives an entirely different statement. He
says:
1.-THE air has been thick with rumors during the
past few DAYS of decided differences between the
President and Secretary Stanton. There is the high
est authority for stating that Mr.. Stanton fully APP
proves the Presidents action and it is also true that
the entire Cabinet are unit on the same question
The President is fully sustained by his Cabinet,
The Times itself says:
1.-THE postpOnement of yesterday, in the House OF
Representatives, by an immense majority OF the pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution, is looked upon
as an admission on the part of the Radicals THAT
dition to this we are assured from good authority
that the Cabinet is nearly quite unanimous in
support of the Presidents policy"