The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-16

at the Result In MaFylRnd..-Gr rant
on the baltimore TroubIes----The
Puts This and ThHt 5rOEether...Re.
eetVes the Radicals COFIifnllY...sEn.
the Amendment TO the Constitution.
Special to the Boston advertiser.
Ihave made some effort to find out
what view the President takes of the
recent elections. Very few of the So
called leading politicians of his party
have yet appeared here; and it may be,
therefore, that he has not shown his
deepest convictions and intentions. Of
the opinions he has expressed in OrCli-
nary conversation since Tuesday noon,
have heard something whereof shall
now make note.
Election day was cabinet day, and the
President saw but few persons that aE-
ternoOn. He received telegraphic
dispatch or a verbal message from Bal.
timore just before dark, saying that the
Conservative vote in the city was very
heavy. In the early part of the eVen-
ing dispatch was sent him by Gov
ernor Swami or one of his near friends,
stating that the Radicals were badly
beaten in Baltimore and that the State
had gone conservative by large ma
jOrity. This news from Maryland gave
him much satisfaction. He spoke of
the difficulty between the Governor
and the Police Commissioners, remark
ed that he had promised to give the
Governor troops as soon as they were
called for, said General Grant had con-
stantly insisted on non-interferenCe by
the military, and observed that he had
been amused at the Governors chagrin
when he found he was flRnked by the
Radicals under Judge Bond. The Balti-
more matter had given him serious trOu-
BILE, and he was heartily glad the Radi-
calls had been defeated-they were bad
fVsi0N ID
this juncture would have very de-
pressing effect on the Southern people.
have no doubt that the President
really believed he would carry the
State of New York. 1 judge that Mr..
Weed had not SO advised him-in fact,
hear that the Old Man said when over
here the last time that FentOn was sure
to be reelected. The democratic poll
ticians, however, had all assured the
PresidentthatH Hoffman would certainly
carry the State, and that the radicals
would lose at least half dozen mem-
bers of Congress. He knows so little
about the real sentiment of the coun-
try that he put faith in the assurances
of these politicians. 1t so happened
that one of the earliest dispatches he
received on Tuesday evening gave Hoff-
man over 6O, coo in New York city and
Brooklyn. Preposterous as this figure
was, he believed the assertion; and in
rectness of the report, he claimed that
everybody had admitted that the city
would give at least 30, 900. Itshould be
understood that he is no great reader of
newspapers.
In conversation during the evening
he put the victory in Maryland and the
unusually large majority in New York
city, together, and theretrom drew n
happy augury of the future. That the
commercial centre ofthe country should
be SO decidedly against the radicals
was an evidence that the true interests
Of the nation required an immediate
restoration of the Southern States to
their rights in Congress-; and that the
high-toned people of Baltimore and
Maryland had found it in their hearts
to forgive and forget was proof that his
policy could not but be sound. These
things were admonitions to him, telling
him to go on in the path marked out.
The President has received several
so-called radicals with unusual cordial-
ity since the elections. To 0One of them
he remarked that he reckoned things
would all come round right by next
March. To another he said in substance
that he was glad the elections. were over
bitterness and personality, and such.
things were not good for the country.
Toanother he expressed the idea that
he expected to find much less difference
between the new Congress and himself
when 1t came together than there now
appeared to be.
1 find but one man who has heard.
him speak lately about the amendment
to the Constitution. It was a few days
before the election, and the CONVERSE
ton began with the hypothesis that the
radicals carried about as many Con-
gressmen as they now have. The
President said he had nothing to do
with the Aman6Dlants bin OFNinfNn Cf
was well known; 1t was both cruel and
unjust, and Congress was heartless and
tnstncere In prOpoAing 1t; he had ex-
pressed his Judgment that 1t ought to
be promptly rejected; he had urged, and
should continue to urge, the Southern
people to deal fairly with their freed
men; he had recently written to the
Governor of Texas on this point; he
wanted the freedmen given all their
rights in the courts, but they were not
ht to vote and 1t was outrageous to try
to drive the South into giving them the
ballot; the amendment was before the
people; he did not think the Northern
people generally favored it; il The
Southern people wanted 1t they could
take 1.-The had no recommendations TO
make on the matter.
A gentleman who saw the President
last evening says he was not in very
good humor at first, but became more
cheerful when one of the party under
took to show that Colonel Forney has
no chance OF being elected to the Senate.
The conversation finally. turned upon
the future, and Mr.. johnson quoted the
idea of Mr4 Seward-in his letter en-
dorslng THO call of the PHILADELPHIA
| Convention, L sbelieve-that the work
of the hour was to induce Congress to
act. That's what we want, said the
President; tho executive and the Judi
cial departments have done all they
can to restore the Union, and now we
want Congress to do its part. He be-
lteVed the result of the elections would
enable Congress to act; they wouldn't
act last session because they were figur-
ing for the elections; these were now
over and he hoped to find them acting
promptly. This would be the final tri-
umph of the views he advocated.
The people, he snid to another gen.
tleman, don't feel so rampant as the
radical politicians pretend; he didn't be-
lteve that the majority of them favored
the amendment; he felt confident thew
| agreed with him in wanting the South
restored; and he thought the Fortieth
Congress wouldn't be near so radical as
its members now believe they will be-
reason would resume her sway before
Ihat Dody met. DIXON.
INsPTRED ELoQUENCE.-Inio one of the
most Populous of the western towns of
the commonwealth, resided two ortho-
dox deacons; one, Deacon Biddle, a
wealthy resident of the principal VIII
laga, and Deacon Crawfoot, q plain far
mer, and living in the outskirts upon
the mountain side. During protract-
ed meeting held in the village, Deacon
Crawfoot came in to attend It, and re-
ceiVed and accepted an inVitatiOn to
dine with his brother deacon. The lat
| ter (it was a good many years ,ago)
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