The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-11
The following paragraph is from
Washington letter to the Louisville

The following paragraph is from q
Washington letter to the Louisville
Journal:
A member from Tennessee assured
me yesterday that the Democrats
would accept negro suffrage, and the
Republicans oppose it, before the
expiration of two months. The gen
tleman referred to was neither May
nard, Stokes, nor Cooper. I hear
this idea so frequently repeated that
am led to believe that the conseN
vatlve party will assume negro suf-
frage in the whole South.
The correspondent of the New
York World says:
| Most important rumors prevail here
respecting the relations of our Go
vernment to the de facto Government
in Mexico. It is stated that an un-
derstanding has been arrived at with
the French Government, and that to
all lntents and purposes the difficulty
between them is settled. It is true
that the French are about to leave
Mexico, but it is also true that the
United States Government have
waived any intention to enforce the
Monroe doctrine. There will proba-
bly, be no recognition of Mexico, but
there is pledge, express or implied,
that the United States will take no
overt means to depose Maximilian
and put Juarez, or any one else, in
his place. While it is not likely that
formal diplomatic relations will be
opened with the Empire, quasi
recognition will result from the
present understanding-that is, con-
suls will be appointed and employed
in their proper function of protecting
American trade in Mexico.
It is probable that the Government
would have taken much more de-
cided measures than have been deemed
polite, had the radicals permitted the
Southern States to return to the
Union; but, according to report,
President Johnson thinks it the
height of folly to take measures
which m'"-1t provoke q war with
t'r"'' ;, while the dominant majority
in Congress are endeavoring to en-
bitter the people of one-third of the
States against the rest of the Union.
If there should be virtual abandon
ment of the Monroe doctrine, the
country must understand that it is
due wholly to the sense of insecurity
and feebleness in the Union, induced
by the endorsement of the extreme
notions of Sumner and Seward by
the Senate and House. It is not
likely that the French will leave
Mexico before the close of the year,
and while they are going their places
will be supplied by Austrians. Bel
gians and such Mexicans as accept
the empire.
There was printed, some days
since, a statement of agate" the
well-informed correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, on the position of
the President. The editor of the
Indianapolis Herald, referring there
to, publishes the subjoined letter:
WASHINGTON, January 80, 1866.
Ny DEAR JUDGE: I enclose here
with a marked article. I called on
the President, and asked him if he
had seen and read it. He said he
had. asked him if it correctly pre-
sented his views. He said that it
substantially did, and that he had no
material criticism to offer. He then
went over the various points of his
policy, as he had often done with me
before, all in harmony with the views
set forth in the letter of ssAgate."
You ''guess," see in the Herald,
that he will sign the suffrage bill. 1 |
Will risk my future political existence
on'his veto. When you see it stated
that there is no rupture between him
and the radicals, do not believe it. I
know better, and they know better,
and are only whistling, like boys in O
graveyard, to keep up appearances.
The President talks freely, and to
everybody alike, and I never held q
conversation with HIM that did not
please me. He says that he does not
wish to seem the aggressor, but that
he will meet all issues that are made
against his declared policy.
A rumor has gained circulation in
Washington that if the Freedmen's
Bureau bill shall pass in the House
of Representatives in the same shape
that was received from the Senate, the
President will issue proclamation
declaring the privileges of the writ of
hoI L