Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-03-26
Facts and Speculations.

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Virginia, which was appointed to visit Wash:
ington, andeonfer with the government there,
have made the following report:-
Iothe Senate of Eirginio:
. Il our, committee; acting under resolution
appointing them to confer withtheG Government
at Washington as to whether the convention
! proposed to be called by the General Assem-
ply OF Virginia, be considered and recot,nIzed
as a legal mode of holding convention under
the act of Congress passed March 2, 1867.
nave the honor to report that they repaired to
Washingtons were politely and kindly receiy
ed by the athorItlcs, and invited by prominent
members of Congress to make suggestions of
amendments to the pending question before
Songress-bei supplementary bill to the
act aforesaid which suggestions they made,
and if adopted will materially soften its terms
and render them more conciliatory.
Your committee entertain the opinion that
convention bill passed by the General As
sembiy of Iirgtnia-so far as in conformity
to, and not in conflict with the act of Congress
aforesaid-would be recognized by the author
tiles as tending to produce harmony.
Your committee are NSAlE satisfied from
their interviews with the authorities at Wash.
lngton that the demonstration made by tho
Legislature OF Virginia. in favor of framing
constitution as required by law promptly
and in good faith, is having the salutary ef-
feet in softening the asperity of prevailing
opinion, and changing the tone Of sentiment
towards the people of the State; and that
the desire expressed was, that we should at
once, comply with the conditions imposed and
thus be restored to our rights in the Union,
with representatives in Congress. (Signed.)
GEO. W. Boiling. Chairman.
Z. L. KEEN,
JOHN II. LEE,
A. S. GRAY,
= The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says, that the debate in the
Senate on the Reconstruction bill "sbowed
some of the widest vagaries of the run. mad
radicals. MIR. Upton, for instance, one of
the new Senators from Nebraska, who is a
minister OF the Gospel, is not satisfied with
the entranchisemento of the male negroes. but
declared that to break forever the rebel now
err he was in favor of giving the ballot to the
African women. Mr.. Nye knew that re-
bel could not be washed clean of his sins in
hundred years, nor in all time, and thew
should never again be admitted to share in
this government. MIR. Fowler, Of Tennessee,
was equally as decisive on this point. The
old leaders OF the republican party, such as
Messrs Trumbull and Fesscnden Of the SEN
ate, and Bingham, of the House, never i'm
aglned, when they inaugurated the crusade
against State rights that such doctrines as
are now boldly advocated would ever be whig-
pered. They have sown the wind and must
now reap the whirlUind." There are hun
drcds of men in private life, who have en-
couraged the Radical movements, who will
yet bitterly repent theif course when thew
see, as they will sec, the results to which they
will lead:
= The Charleston Nercury comes to the
following conclusion upon the present status
OF affairs: "There is no need to give up an
atom of our selfrespect !; there is no need to
give up one memory of that blessed past. to
which we have so long clung; but the mill
tary law is the law for US and, until that law
be repealed or modified, it is the law which
the people of the South must obey. No onc
but madmdh would counsel mere physical
resistance to the law, Obey we must and il
is Better to do this without any exhibition of
bitterness DRILL feeling. Our only plan now
the only plan that can avail us-is to make
a merit of necessity"