The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-02-13
The Chronicle, Tribune and Herald on
the New Plan.

The Chronicle, Tribune and Herald ON
the New Plan.
Mr. Dixon having introduced the "new
plan," gotten up by Messrs. Sharkey and
Orr, (&c, from the Old North State') into
the Senate of the United States, the WASH
ington Chronicle says:
"The Presidents proposition for what he
calls impartial suffrage, made through Senator
Dixon yesterday, has been received with great
Indignation by his immediate personal friends.
Senator Salisbury took issue with it at once
The value of this testimony consists in its tardy
vet significant recognition of principles repeat.
edly and Extensively denied by his Accidency.
The Radical majorities in Congress may felicitate
themselves on being thus encouraged to renewed
unity and resolution, although with such a mis-
sion as theirs to discharge they cannot be expect
ed to move rs rapidly as single man who has
nothing in view but the qualification of resent
ments and the restoration of treason. The fact
that he has been forced to accept large part of
their recommendations, and has thereby cOntri-
buted to the creation of new discussions among
his political friends, is well worthy of felicita-
ton"
The New York Tribune says that it can
not see how this new scheme should be ex-
pcCtcu W give ttIiSiaCtloh. luht IL Slops
halfway and will settle nothing" and is
more likely to intensity agitation than to al
lay it." We also insert the following, frou,
the Tribune, for the encouragement of the
"dirt-eaters :"
1--WE are heartily glad that the Southern whites
| are taking hold OF the subject of reconstruction
| They might have started better; but it is better
to start faultily than not at all. They will i'm
1 prove in time"
| The Herald holds President johnson re
| sponsible for the "new plan" which it de-
| dnominates "a tub to the whale" We clip
| the following from its article on the subject
| "By the property and reading and writing quail
| iication, on the other hand, which Mr.. johnson
proposes to grant, the Whole black population lex
| cepting the few taught to read and write by til,
| Frcedmcn's Bureau and most of the poor white.
1 would be excluded from the suffrage, so thai
| South Carolina would be more close corporation
1 under her old rebel oligarchy than ever before
| And so of all the other rebel States, more or
| less.
| To make this thing sure Mr.. johnson pro
| poses no equivalent or substitute for the tlirt
| section of the amendment of Congress, excludin!
certain classes of rebels from Office State or fed
| eral, until absolyed by twothirdS vote of eacl
House of Congress. On the contrary, he propo
ses to give the rebels full swing US fnothing ha
happened He does not yet seem to comprehen,
the fact that the very strongest section ofthe Con
| gressiona amendment in the North is that which
| proposes to make tie master spirits of the rebel
ion take back seats in our political affairs unit
| they can be safely absolved by Congress. No
long since Horace Greedy, in his benevolent desir
| TO cOnciliate the South, issued, at venture, hi
manifesto in favor ola general amnesty. The da
before he did this he was good for the Unite,
! States Senate; The day after he was as dead q
Raymond or Thurlow Weed. The idea that tn
North shall b. hadgered again in Congress by suc
| Southern reb e. leaders as jeff Davis, BENJAMIN
Mason, Sliae,l, Wigfall and company, is just o
| odious in the loyal States as was the Chicago
ValIandighan1 platform of peace at any price
Mr. Johnson's substitute for the pending. eonsti
| tutional amendment, in short, is dead failure