The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-01-04

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.gT RrcnnosD, Va, Dec. 26, 1886.
SENATOR WILLIAMS, or OREGON, IN RICHMOND
As set forth in former despatch, the Hon
George H. Williams, Senator Of the. United
Stases from Oregon, and member Of tht
Committee on Reconstruction ofthe 6outherr
States, recently appointed by Hon. IAfayettl
8. Foster, arrived in this city late Saturday
the intelligent discharge Of the duties Of the
Committee Of which he is . member. Up t.
this writing, Christmas night, Senator vii.
Hams has devoted hia whole time 70 au inves.
tigation Of the present sctual condition and
political and social prospects OF the Southern
people, % viewed from the standpoint oftAis,
the most important capital Of the late 90
styled Confederate States, because FIRST in DO.
sition, first in wealth, first in intelligence, and
equal to each and al in al the varied phases
of disloyalty. The views Of Senator Williams
will be held TO be all the more important
when it il remembered that neither the Lien.
tensnt General commanding the armies, nor
Major General and correspondent Schurz in
their recent reports to The President of the
United States, touched upoa TIE condition oi
Affairs in Virginia rslasivo to rsconutsuction,
the former expressly ignoring any conference
with the people of this State. and the latter
asserting in his report that he was directed
not to deal with Virginia upon the snbject ol
his mission. N
APPEARANCE AND MANNERS OF The OREGON
SENATOR.
Senator Williams j. = gentletnAn Of equally
impressive appearance and manners, and "a
the eye fills the measure Of IN American SEN
ator. He is nearly If not quite six feet in
height, slim but proportionate of build, with
an ample forehead, thick dark hair, dark
complexion, and possessed ofa quick, moving
and sharp. penetrating eye. His utterance ID
both intelligent and decisive, and his reason
ing logical, close and convincing. Ia per.
sonal manners he is wholly genial, entertain.
ing, and unusually instructive, and presents
the appearance Of calm, nnimpassioned and
thoughtful man Of public affairs, skilled in
dialectics ndimmovable in his convictions.
He is evidently representative man on the
Senate Comnitiee Of Keconstruct;on; aad tc
this reason is due his presence in Richmond
on this official tour.
RESULTS or HIS OBSERVATIONS on VIRGINIA
LOYALTY.
While it may not be confidently asserted
that Richmond opinion in respect to the M.
ture. breadth aud scope Of the loyalty Of Vir.
ginia bears the same relation to the State Al
large Is the tail of the lion (caxda esf iatiez
teoRil does to that august monarch Of the
forest-up when he is inAamed, and down
when he is subdued-nevertheless il NAV be
safely regarded az the reliable test Of all those
who have held public position in the national
or State councils, the pulpit. the bar, and Al
the more restricted altar OF medicine and Jelte
Iettres, for the last sixty years, as well as OF
those very large aud influential class--who
adhere to the convictions Of these, their rep
men. Senator Williams haa
learned first that Virginia loyalty, as repre-
sented in both H0aSes Of the State Legislature
and in the social circles of Richmond, as well
nigh an absolute myth. His observations
further teach him that the people have en-
larged personal respect for President johnson,
bat are utterly devoid of respect for and toll.
erance of the United States Government
hence this personal regard for the President
by reason Of his liberal course towards them
they look upon as the very exaltatiou of loyal
~. He finds, and says, that they cling with
tenacious fondness, unexampled in all history,
defeat and sectional humiliation. to the ex-
d<ad "a Ia <xf< <hx.G 10
nevolent system of government, and cherish
with righteous reverence the leading spirits,
both dead aud alive, in the late giant attempt
against the integrity Of the Union, which was
completely felled by the prowess of the Fed
eral arms in April last. He also finds the
popular sentiment of the Southern people, as
such, indubitably opposed to the Congress Of
the United States and its functional and legis-
laive tendencies, owing to the persistent re-
fusal to admit the Southern delegates To their
seats in either House at Washington. They
had confidently counted, by virtue of the
couasels Of certain overweening conservatives
at the North, TO enter the councils Of the na-
ton, and, in conjunction with these conserva-
lives, rule with arbitrary and insolent power,
IS Of old-thus realizing by master stroke
of Confederate policy, their balmiest dreams
of the opulent, overbearing, landed and slave
driving autocrat Of other days. ez4-s
THE xRcRo IssuE.
Implicitly supposing, from various repre-
sentations Of the balefnl Virginia press, aided
by the suggestions Of certain men at the
North of bad eminence, that the negroes were
to rise to-day, he had chosen that his first
Senatorial Christmas should be passed here
IN Acknowledgement very charnel house.
wherein II 10 alive only BY the faet of its AMI
mated decomposition-and learn for himself
the whole extent of the negro's ofense. He
Is convinced that q more quiet, orderly and
we'll disposed citizen than the ffAedmsn, in
this fallen capital, does not dwell in all the
pleasant places of thu South. In fine, Mr..
Williams concludes that the great object OF
the war, next to the abolition Of slavery, has
been accomplished in the s,.ccess that is now
established of labor over landed and rotten
oligafchy, and that this combined result
the extrpation Of slavery and the dignifying
OF iabor--is the end. through God, triuni.
phantly stained in the great struggle now
forever solved
Senator Williams returns to, the federal
capital qaits psspafed "a soaaci6ntionly ennn-
ciate thesa views and these convictions to his
brethren Of the Senate and ofthe committee
he representa-. He has had interviews with
unUoI VI utssa 0NQFy p1OIeoss DON II
and out Of power here, and has not faiied to.
relieiousE hear and note the we'll digested
opinions II the chosen Representatives, Of the
masses both blsck and white.
cHRisfn Al IN RIcHMoND.
The day IN Richmond has been one of the
quietest nave ever known here during res
idence commence ng early o. the morning Of
the fedora occupation OF the city in April Last.
The negroes, go far from mdulging in riotous
acts, have been both quiet and respectful,
Among b0h blacks and rhitss Ahere haye
been exceptions 10 this reneral ru1e. but in