Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-02-08
From Our Own Correspondent.
New YORK. Jan'y SO, ]

New YORK, Jsny so, 1866
Henry J. Raymond's speech in the House @
Representatives yesterday is regarded with grea
favor by his Republican friends here Mr.. Ray
nond Republican friends are not the half-craze,
fanatics of the Sumner school. They are mostl,
to be found among the commercial and genera
business classes. They the practical men 0
the Republican party. and though on some point
they sympathize and work with the opposite fac
| ton of theorists, yet on questions of such grea
1 Importance as that which elected Mr.. Raymond
flows yesterday, they may be relied Oh to supper
the moderate side. It is because the Radicals w11t
want to zevolutionize the government are such
noisy set that they manage to keep the affairs O
the country disturbed. They are constantly max
/ ing intenlperate speeches, proposing mischief
working resolutions, Offering destructive amend
ments to the constitution, and by these means they
succeed III keeping public attention rivited on
their prssecdings. But they do not represent even
a ,a.,,e minority OF the Republicans of this
city, }nd their course in Congress and elsewhere
is condemned by at least two-thrds of the sound
thinking, Intelligent men of the party which they
claim to represent.
Whatever may be the result of the vote on the
Constitutional amendment in the lower House to-
day it is morally certain that if that amendment
were submitted to the Northern people, it would
be promptly defeated I make a distinction be-
tween the people and their State Legislators for
the latter mostly of that noisy class who secure
preferment by stilted defamation. They can
make what called good speeches, and that
questionable qualification is usually sufficient to
secure them success at the polls on election day
particularly IN the rural DISTRICTS where oratory
and craftsmanship are too often cOnfounded. But
let the negro franchise question be submitted
directly to the people; give each man fair oppor
t1lnity to examine it for himself, and its defeat
would be certain as its submission. The CON
servative Republicans, and they form over
whelming majority Of that party in this city, are
becoming tired of this interminable talk about the
negro They want the political affairs Of the coun-
try settled just possible, and they stand
on the same platform with the President on all
questions affecting the interests of the whole
country .t'
In the present unsettled condition of Southern
industry all right thinking men see the positive
effect of the exclusion of Southern representatives
from Congress, and Of the agitation of the negro
suffrage question by the Sumner Radicals The
President has frequently declared in unofficial con-
versations that the South should be admitted to
full representations in Congress at once, and that
her exclusion therefrom by the Internal spirits
who engineered the select committee of fifteen,
amounts to positive crime, when viewed in it's
political aspect. He would have every Southern
but as he cannot do that, he is determined to do
the next best thing he can for the South. He will
give no countenance to any measure designed to
place the South in a disadvantageous position as
regards its rlghtful power and influence. He will
stand between the South and it's Radical enemies
not because he loves the South better than any
other portion of the country, but because he will
not sanction what IS WrOng--and when the time
comes for him to move IN that direction, he will
do II by yetonG such measures as have been franz
Al ,1,4.x,
the Southern people Let those who complain
that Mr.. Johnson has been too exacting in his
conditions OF reconstruction reflect that he is the
best friend they have III authority, and rest assur-
ed that he will do what he believes to be right,
regardless of the slurs and insults which the Radi-
Gals have already begun to put upon him.
The people of this city seem to be recovering
from the lunacy into which they were lately pre-
cipitated by the agitation Of the Monroe doctrine,
and there is good ground for hope that their re-
cence is due to a compound OF second-sober
thought and Mexican dispatches Tie first of
these ingredients has enabled them to work off the
prepOsterous idea that it is the duty of the Gov
eminent to supervise the political affairs of the
whole American continent, and the second is
Just beginning to clear their brains Of the notion
that Republicansm IS the only form Of gove' i
ment worth living under The four leading pa.
rers Of this city-the World, Tribune, Times and
Heymld-have capable ana efficient correspondents
in different parts Of Mexico, and these writers
keep us well informed the military and political
ituation in that country. No one read their
letters without becoming convinced that the Lib
eral cause is hOpeless and furthermore, that Re-
publicanisln, III its American sense, is not the
proper form of government for the Mexican peo-
pie. They want strong hand to control them to
protect their lights, compel obedience to the laws,
enterprise, foster industry and promote
the material interests of the whole country. Most
of the Northern correspondents now in Mexico
went there imbued with all the popular preiudices
against Maximilian; but notwithstanding they
now admit that Republicanlsm is failure there.
They represent the people as being in constant
dread of the marauding forces which still carry
the banner of Juarez and say that the intelligent
and industrial classes loyal to Maximilian and
anxious for his recognition by the United States.
And indications are not wanting that the Empire
will be recognized in Washington. The Havana
correspondent of the World writing on the 23d
inst, says that during Secretary Stewards brief
soiourn there he had private interview with an
a.d-de-camp of the Emperor Macmillan. This
has given rise to the surmise that Mr..
Seward is paving the way to a recognition of the
Empire, and I assure you that such
on the part of the Washington Government would
not be at all distasteful to very respectable por
ton of our population
The colored element had what the vulgar would
call a high old time last night About three
Thousand vari- -colored dandies and damsels assem-
bled at the Cooper Institute to hear some musical
notes from the @' Black Swan" alias Miss Green
field, and they were as proud and gay any col
lection of peacocks ever seen strutting abelt
farm yard The Black Swan has been starring III
Europe for some time past, and her return to the
land of the contraband was hailed with exnberant
delight by the entire winter-colored population -
She has a very good double voice, and some
of the critics were enchanted by it last
night that they Immediately wrote long articles in
English, French and Italian about it, which articles
they had printed in this mornings papers. I un-
derstand that some enterprising colored gentle