The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-10-03
[Correspendeuce of the New York Herald
The Constitutional Amendment.-.The
President disposed to yield to the
Will of the People.

among uclHOCIdeiO "hN oonooA CIV"
poliaicians residing and sojourning at
the Capital by the recommendation OF
the Herald to the Southern people and
the President, to accept and adopt the
constitutional amendment proposed by
Congress has at length subsidized. The
abuse and maledictions showered for a
time from almost every quarter on the
head Of" old Bennett" fer his s'treach-
erv.n for ssdeserting the democracy"
for .selling out to the radicals, y and the
like, are no longer heard, except now
and then from some drunken copper
head or rebel, or ignorant democrat or
conservative who can say nothing bet
ter. The arguments by which the rec
ommendation has been from day 10 day
supported, have demonstrated Its WIS
dom and satisfied many sagacions poll
ticians that it's prompt adoption is the
only course left to head off the radicals
and speedily restore therebellious States
to their proper position in the Union.
Among those who have embraced this
opinion are several friends and advisers
of the President, both in and out of the
Cabinet, including-I have high auth
ority for saying-the Secretary of the
Treasury, the Secretary of War, the
Secretary of the Navy, the Attorney
General and General Grant The Pres
ident himself, if he cannot be said to
concur in views now held by these Off
Gals, cannot, on the other hand, fairly
be said to differ with them. One of the
Cabinet, the Postmaster General, 1
think, as soon as he had read the re-
commentator of the Herald, waited on
the President, and in very depreca-
ting style pointed out to him the article
as heavier blow to the hopes and pros
poets of the administration party, than
the unfavorable result, and example of
the Maine election. The President re-
piled that he had perused the article
very attentively, but had been unable
to perceive that it was calculated to
damage the chances of the party in the
coming elections, inasmuch as it did
not advocate the adoption of the con-
stitutional amendment from convic-
ton of its propriety or business, but
simply as a strategic measure, whereby
the disunionists could be beaten on their
own ground; that the recommendation
was not addressed to the people of the
North, but rather to the people of the
South and his administration in view of
the too probable result of the Northern
elections, and that therefore he thought
its only effect in the North would be to
incite its patriots to more determined
efforts. In the South, he said, the eff
feet of the recommendation could not
tail to be salutary. 1t would prepare
the public mind to make further con-
cessions if necessary, and it pointed out
perhaps the best course for the State
governments and people to pursue in
the event of a radical triumph through
out the North. That, for his own part,
he was not prepared to say but that, if
he could coneede the assumption of the
Herald that even New York, from
which State he expected far less than
he did when he traversed it a few weeks
ago, would follow the course of Maine,
he would, without more ado, accept,
and advise the South to accept the con-
stitutional amendment proposed. But
he expressed strong hopes that his prin-
ciples and plan for restoration would be
vindicated and sustained, and declared
that if it proved otherwise he should
believe, and find consolation in the be-
lief, that the result was ascribable to
the failure of the democratic and con-
sentative politicians to put their best
men in nomination, and not to any err
ror or unsoundness in his doctrine
Then he added, almost petulantly, take
New York had they nominated Dix,
or Wool, or Slocum, or one of several
others who rush OH my mind, for Gov
ernor, success would have been certain,
and my policy would have been vindi-
Gated by that great State; but because
pack Of reckless politicians see fit to
put forth against the present popular
incumbent candidate of local reputa-
ton, because forsooth a good man and
agood Mayor of a city, I and my ma
tional policy must be measured by his
bushel. Still we must not despair, and
it will be time enough to adopt the re-
commentator of the Herald when the
hypothesis upon which it is founded be-
comes an established fact.
But the president had scarcely uttered
these hopes when unfavorable indica-
lions came pouring in from all parts of
the country premonishing him of his
danger, and of the further danger of de-
lay, and deciding him to take time by
the forelock. Accordingly correspon-
dence was opened with the Governors
ofthe lately rebelious States as to the
proprity, in view of the probable sue
cess Of the radicals in the North, of rat
flying the constitutional amendment,
and the Governors ofSouth Carolina
and Alabama have already replied sig
nifyinga readiness to assemble the Leg
islatures oftheir States and recommend
the adoption of the amendment. if the
President adjudges it expedient to do
so, or to cooperate with him ir what
ever course he may deem it advisable
topursue It's believed that the South
ern people are so confident that the Pres
ident earnestly desires to get them re-
stored to the Union on the best terms
possible, that they will unhesitatingly
adopt any course he thinks proper to
advise to that end. It is stated by
prominent Southern politicians here.
that but for the known hostility of the
President to the constitutional amend.
ment every Southern State would have
made virtue of necessity and adopted #
| long ago. but that thev could -. ~