Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-23
What Will They DoY

Our Washington correspondent informs us that Senators and Representatives are dropping in rapidly at the Federal Capi- tol to prepare their winter quarters and to open the political campaign of the coming season, The Radicals seem to be first among the arrivals. Among them the blood and thunder Senator from Michigan, Mir. Chandler, has made his appearance. It is said he is full of Radical fire and ready for impeachment We expect to see a good deal of this, both previous to the meeting of Congress and during the first days of the session, but it will be all fuss and fury. and will end in smoke.- These Radicals are making all this noise. like the chinese who hammer away at their tom toms and other noisy instruments, to keep their courage up. The elections that have taken place will damp the Radical fire and make it comparatively harmless. A wide difference exists even among Radicals as to the probable action of the Jaccbin leaders at the approaching session of Congress. As for the matter of i'm peachment, that, we think, with the Her aid, has been decisively settled by the re- cent elections. Such mad-dog fanatics as Thad. Stevens, and blood-and- thunder blatherskites like Chandler, of Michigan, and Ashley, of Ohio. may fret, and fume, and rage about it before the meeting of Congress, and will probably go to the ex- tent of carrying their lunatic ravings into Congress; but the large majority of the Radical members will have sense and judgment enough to understand, after such evidences of the state of fpopular sentiment as we have just had, that the attempted impeachment and the unlawful deposition of the President from his office could only result disastrously to themselves and their party. Whatever other deviltry they in slst upon carrying out, they will studiously avoid anything calculated to bring them into an actual hostile collision in which the masses of the American people will be opposed to them. sAa fi 'n4 r Nor do we fear that Congress will at tempt to carry out, at it's approaching ses- sion, the schemes proposed by Wilson and Stevens for, further serious interference with the reserved rights of those States recognized by the Radicals as still in the Union. In the face of such overwhelm- ing majoritics against negro suffrage as have been given by Ohio and Kansas, a condemnation indirectly but none the less unequivocally .concurred in by all the States except one where elections have been hcld it is scarcely possible that any but fools and madmen should think of insisting upon the enactment by Congress of 'uni- versal manhood suffrage" bill If the l people of the North indignantly repudiate the proposition to place negro suffrage in their State constitutions, it is hardly to be supposed that. they will submit to an unconstitutional act of Congress imposing negro equality upon them. And, if agen eral enactment of the kind we refer to is not under existing circumstances at all probable, neither will Congress, after what has occurred, venture upon imposing so odous thing as negro suffrage upon par ticular States. Had the fall elections gone Radical, or if none had taken place, 1t is certain that Kentucky and Maryland would have negro suffrage forced upon them at the approaching session; but thank God there is now no danger of such an outrage.
 It is significant indication of the effect produced on the Radical leaders by the late elections that we no longer hear any talk of "reconstructing" Kentucky Even Jacobin politicians can comprehend the folly of attempting to "reconstruct" this commonwealth because she elects only Democrats to office, when the great Nor thern States are doing precisely the same thing As the exclusion of the Kentucky Representatives was but the commence ment of proscriptive Congressional inter ference, it is reasonable to conclude that our members| will, when Congress meets, be admitted to the seats to which the peo- pie elected them.
 But if little is to be apprehended from the action of Congress in the matters re- ferred to, it is, we fear, otherwise as regards the so-called reconstruction" of the South crn States. While the recent expression of popular sentiment at the North certainly amounts to a condemnation of the recon struction policy, the Radical leaders com prehend that, if that policy is surrendered, all chance of success at the approaching Presidential election will vanish. The Democratic candidate is certain to obtain . majority of the electoral votes in the Northern and Western States, and the on- ly hope for the Radicals is that they may secure for their candidate such number of them as, added to the electoral votes of 1 the Southern States, will amount to ma iority of the whole. It is probable, there fore, that the Radical leaders will, ifpossi- ble, complete, at the next session, the work of reconstructing the ten States on negro basis. True, in doing so they will still further lose favor with the Nor thern people; but then, by failing to doit, they will lose all chance of electing their ticket It is with them desperate game, and one which we are encouraged to be- lievc they will in no event win I'd We very much regret that relief will be so long coming to the oppressed and per secuted people of the Southern States; but come it will in the end. The whole recon struction business is palpably unconstitu- tional, and will be so treated when the Demo cratic party comes into power. The old State governments of the Southern States are the only legitimate ones, and the pretended introduction of those States under bogus negro constitutions into Union of wh; oh they are already members, will very properly be looked upon ns a nullity by the incoming administration and by the Forty-6rst Congress.
 NEW YORK ELEcTIoN.--Official re- turns from nineteen counties in this State, eleven ofwhich give Republican maiorities, foot up us follows: W
 1867. 1866.
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