The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-19
Our Washington Letter.


| WASHINGTON, FeDruary 10.
! STIR IN THE CAMP
Is manifestly interrupting the secret councils o
the Radicals; and that interruption comes from nj
less source than his E1eellency the President. 1
is as true as fate that negotiations ere now pend
| ing; that emissaries from the White House urge
these negotiations, and that their purport is wholly
OF compromise and concession. I shall not be
surprised if all this mysterious conclave, about
which I know more than will bear printing, ends
in the virtual abandonment Of his policy by MIR
JOHNSON, and for the balance of his Term tacit
acquiescence in the reconstTuctive schemes o1
Congress. It is hard to think this of a man who
has stood out so brayely against the Vaccinations
OF an unscrupulous political party; but "the signs
Of the times" are too pregnant, in Washington at
least, to admit of longer disbelief. Nor is this
consummaton to be long delayed, in my Judgment,
and if not published to the world before the pas
sage Of another fortnight shall be greatly out OF
reckoning, and acknowledge myself no prophet.
know, from the men who have bsen the right
hands and influence Of MIR. JOHNSON in the Admin
istration's good work Of reconstruction, that they
no longer have influence in his councils nor faith
in their strict accord with the principles hereto
fore enunoiated as the line and plummet Of the
Executive. One Of the most prominent movers IN
the Philadelphia Convention of the 18th Of
August last, an ex-member Of the Cabinet, and q
trusted adherent and adviser of Mr.. JOHNSON
nearly up to the present time, confessed to me
to-day that ssthe President had lain like log in
the stream, hindering the current in his favor,
and permitting himself to be flooded with the
abuse Of the opposing party. The truth of this
remark, and it's perfect applicability to thepren-
ises, none can 80 appreciate as those who have
labored these eighteen months past to make the
Administration popular and encompass the de-
feat of it's enemies. From the first it has been all
uphill, thankless drudgeryy defeated most signal
ly by the Executive himself, and now come wholly
to naught by the detection / have chronicled.
There is scarcely night goes by at this time that
the President is not closeted with Messrs. B1Na-
HAM, BANKs, HUBBEIL DELANo, and others of the
Radical party, who, from receiving the missona~
ries Of this new declaration Of sspeaoe and good
will" in their Congressional haunts or in eau
cuses improvised for the purpose, have, within
the last few days, taken to openly waiting upon
the Presdent-a circumstance but too certainly
indicating that MIR. JOHNSON has yielded enough to
insure an easy conquest over all that remains Of
his original policy.
Until very recently these negotiations for recon
citation between Congress and the President, at
such faarfcl cost of the honor and political in
tegrity of the latter, have been conducted with
some degree of secresy: Many knew that Mr..
BANKs and Mr.. BINGHAM had, Of late, taken to On
eccentric way Of lodging in at the Shack door" of
the White House; and remaining, during the pro-
gress Of those visits, strictly ineog. But the gene
raj inference, as far as excited went to the belief
that these gentlemen were only bartering for the
dispensaGon of little patronage in their respect
i've districts, and were merely a trife sensitive
about discovery in the bargain. But now, the
murder is so thoroughly out that even the Radi-
cal lnewspaper organ, published by JHo.: w. For
NEY, could not repress in this mornings issue
the following prenaturely exposed and evident
exultaton in. the success OF the denouemsnt ::
. .sIn case that ANDREW JOHNSON should yield and
save himself from utter ruin, the Copperhead
leaders would be lost forever, and the country
surely saved" And in proceeding to note the ar
ticle of Thursdays New. York World, arraignng the
President, in plain terms, in this very regard the
Chronicle finally remarks s'We have seen no
more powerful proof Of the strength and righte
ousiess Of Congress- than these words of the
World; and Il ANDREW JOHNSON needs "a way out
of!his complications, he has only tostake any other
but that which is oounselled by the paper that de-
nounced him as ssboorish tailor In 1864, and a
disgraced official in 1866. VIII the President
Yields s.,ss
THE FoRTETH CONGRESS-
The incoming Congress- will probably sit until
far into the summer. Nothing as yet has been ac-
complished in the real, wholesome legislation re-
quired by the country, and with an exclusive at
tenion to that line Of work, it will take at least
sixty days to put the commercial interests Of the
people in anything like ship-shape for weathering
financial stresses that may impend at any day.
With the additional presentment of the impeach-
ment question, it is not improbable that Congress
may come to be a perpetual body.
THAD. STEVENS
looks as it he was not long for this world, and lily
satisfied to take his chances in the next. He has
never before been 80 generally feeble and r1nstrung
as at this time, and both action and speech indi-
cate waning strength. It is not likely that he
will again appear in the House this session. Last
Wednesdays effort and nervous excitement in en-
gineering the Radicals up to support Of his Bill
for the military policing of the Southern States,
proved al over-tax that on the following day cul-
minated in his attack with succession Of hinting
fits, that left him prostrate with exhaustion. He
has no very pleasing reflection in the knowledge,
that his desth, even on his own side of
the. house, would be caught at as the proyidential
removal Of impediment to t'vsultng ambition"
that can scarcely restrain at this time desire to