Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1866-04-14
SATURDAY MORNING. APR. II. ISt6
Their Waning Strength.

One of the most significant indications
Of the waning lower Of the Radicals is the
position lately ayowed by Henry Ward
Beecher. For thirty years an agitation.
list, and prime-mover in all schemes for
ciping out the "sum of all villainies
e.'h I'll his fanaticism-he still cannot
eal Sc the insane acts of the Radical ma
'aei.v in Congress. In recent lecture
ieivered at the Brooklyn Academy Of
Music, he not only sustained the Presi-
IT'S veto on general grounds, but advo-
lated the immediate reinvesture of the
Southern States with all the rights and i'm
munities of States in the Union.
We have been far from believing that
the prevailing party in Congress faithfully
represented the sentiment Of tue American
people. And this is not surprising. The
popular pulse became quickened amidst he
alarms OF war. The mental and moral
fitness Of men was but lightly considered
or entirely ignored. Duty required sup
por: Of principles the Union party repre-.
sented, and not necessarily those of cor
rupt individuals. who by arts and articles
foisted themselves upon the Union party
to ride into Office. 1t was the seed time
and harvest for p Official demagogues,
which they were not slow to improve
Will it be claimed that men elect. d to
Congress upon the National Conservative
Union Platform adopted at Baltimore, are
discharging their duty to their constituents
and country by making war upon the nom.
inee Of that Convention, and by advanc.
ing the peculiar tenets of their factious
creed, attempting to reverse the decision
Of the Union party as to the political status
OF States in rebellion The question rs
then presented by Stevens, involving the
eligibility Of Mr.. Johnson, was there decid.
ed, and the decision was overwhelmingly
endorsed by the Union masses, which
should forever have set ct rest the absurd
theory Of "dead States" The Union
party declared that States could not sever
their connection with the Government;
that the hope Of the country reposrd in
the conservativism Of the nation, az COM
bined against the Radical elements then
assembled, or about to assemble, at Cleve-
land and Chicago. The only test required
for fellowship in the Union party was, Is
ne true to the Union. The peculiar views
Of the leaders Of the majority in Congress
had 10 sympathy in that Convention.
Their earnest endeavor has ,inee been 10
ootain the sseendenry 10 Coogre.s By
isl'eho"c ana dissinslasioo they have
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