The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-01-14


his friends under consideration, IL not already ma
tured This whatever may be It's import has been duly
communicated here and IL Is expected viii result In the
contamination Of all the Southern people desirethe
enforcement OF the Presidents policy and the complete
rehabilitation OF the unrepresented States in all their
political rights and mmunties The impeachment pro-
into eIecuon-wi il is said, greatly hasten this much
desired end in the triumph Congress. These
merely the wild and desutory specuations OF people
thing that affords the indulgence OF hope for the sue
cess OF their heartfelt wishes, and while there is no
probability Of the accomplishment OF such designs still
indications the belief that preparations OF
military character are in progress by the Executive
which, leagued as II is with tho Judicial and military de-
parments or the government, gives rise 10 the most
ANXIOUS apprehensons in the minds Of those who stood
by the Union in its hour of trial and adversely.
lately Invested the President by repeating the
section OF the act Of 1862 comforting it upon
ton Of Congress- The liberal and unqualified use made
OF this power by the President has not been productive
OF the good results TO be expected from such cemency
70 the Leading rebels who class with their property
restored found themselves more in a condition to
be Incorporating and defiant This the with
the mass of the people that had little lose and having
lost that became dshearened with the results OF the
war and at once resolved to show q spirit Of harmony
WIN, WIN Inc Northern people ana comply with the best
capital Northern immigration and coured the friend
snip OF that people, which praiseworthy course
only marred oy the ranting, dsreputable and
minded set who chiefly obtained pardons These men
mainly held bomb proof positions under the rebel gov
srnmen., tney nstgated the war which brought ruin
ana desoaton 70 nearly all classes but themselves and
they are now 1.-THE Underwood radical clique, dmigp.
i've as u Is, excepted the only rebelous set p the
South As have frequently said-was the question OF
restoration lett the body polite of the peobe with
out interference the part Of aristocrats we
would % soon have 2 whole and harmonious country.
by the radical party marshalled by Underwood,
cannot DO seriously contemplated by Congress
stood in totally different position from ali the other
states and was acknowledged not only by Congress
but also by Mr.. Lincoln as State still in the Union by
the recognition OF the government formed at Alexandria
by federal authority Virginia had two Senators the
thirty Congress-Messrs Carlisle and Willey-and
had also representatives the other house, and when
the cese of the war Governor Perpont moved his seat TO
Richmond it did not alter the governmen instituted
under the original authority The state represented
until the incoming OF the present Congress organ
ICED state, under loyal government But apart from
these important facts it is not to be supposed that Con-
political adventures where the interests and welfare
Of whole people, the majority Of whom are loyal are
involved.
The Freedmen's Bureau has latterly become
more palatabe to the people OF the South,
the negro has become less TO the officers Of that
institution. One year ago anything like compelling
that dear and interesting creatures negroo perform
his contracts was disloyay and rot at all consistent
with his changed condition But experience has taught
these phlanhropc gentlemen many salutary lessons.
among which are-that Cuee, when left himself is
anything but industrious and thrifty that he not ami
NAL TO be dozed as he In free New England and that
he is by NO means delightful associate They have
learned however, that he will invariably sink into indo.
OF The attendant evils upon freedom TO the which,
II left without some protector will rapidly become
tinct The negro has no better friend than his former
master and Is now obvious that both dependent
upon each other Both beginning realize this fact
but the very nature Of the negro requires that
ncts else there lie possible reliance be placed ON
him as laborsr General Browne who is 10 charge Of
and fortunaieiy for ali parties, is pursuing policy
through his agents in the different portions OF the State
community, which viii mako the negro useful :. mem
Der Of society - well a. protect him against his
vices
Mortality smsng tho race is fearfury on the
ise!sasa y ard around this cisy cemssersss
which before ~ mot exis arc now niied,
knswa as Chinborsso, me rebels estsblsssd -.
hospital capable Of holding two thousand men, which
sss sfssswssds sy The Barsaa in.e ea..s
two hundred yards from the quarters made bury
ing ground, probably with viey 70 It's eonvsniencs
asoas NO acres in sss,s the bodies ws.e bali nssred
some without cons the graves promiscousy scattered
ns dee ssa Sss Ssss 81
riedy buried and numbering about I'VE hundred out Of
apopulaon Of two thousand, in a comparatively short
how rapidly the race have decreased since their
emancipation, without anything Ike the num-
has become sort Of mania with the females and is OF
almost daily occurrence. They have various modes OF
mate as the men, now iSs. marriage nVovss the sun
port OF wife, not readily induced the holy
nonds Streets eulvers gullies ravines and the 10.
for the bodies OF born infants by their
mothers and often discovered afterwards The tor
ture OF abortion s still more frequently mode resored
TO- by means Of poisonous drugs procured dsrepu-
table physicians and druggists and taken various
ways by which the child is destroyed before has time
to develop; while some girls have been known to fall
and nure themselves intentionally shortly before
nnement in order that the infant would come into tho
world still born These are lamentabe facts, and sad
denDg proof that this unfortunate greater suf
ferers by their emancipation than any other
Effect of the Supreme Court nj the SOUTH
Reconstruction nj a Stand Stili--The Feel
ing in Virxinin-The Amendment--The Radi-
calls Secessi0nists and Conservaiives-Hun-
nicutt md Pierpoint-White and Negro Labor
in Virginia. &c.
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 10, 1867
Since the Supreme Court has become the champion of
the President and since the Of various dele
cations who have visited him have been extensively
published that he will strictly adhere to his policy in
which he will be sustained by that tribunal the people
In the unreconstrscted Sates indulging the
extravagant IDEAS 1t asserted here II win be decided
that this State having been out Of the Union BY
secession or any other means, and having had recog
nized during the war; by whose sanction the
State Of West Virginia was organized. they Justly
titled to elect Senators and Representatives Of which
right they have never been deprived, and that Con.
grsss has no constitutional right to refuse such
senaorsend Representatives admission 70 their seats
Other fallacies Of Q wild nature are also ahoat
~ 70 probable future decisions Of this judicial body
the least outrageous OF which Ia that should Congress
dare 10 mpeach the President the Court will once
declare II an unconstitutional and revolutionary body,
on which the President win place the radical members in
durance vile until they become sufficiently reconstructed
TO b set u liberty and that through General Grant, who
supposed to b the side Of the President the strong
arm Of the military win bs used TO suppress, capture
and imprson the frsctsus membsa With such frantic
and ridiculous ideas will be that reconstruction
further Oh than ever and the Congressional plan Of rs
s,oton which heretofore rapidly gaining strength
In all the Southern States 10 now without scarcely an
advocate, among tboss who were as friends and
supporters. In this Stats, where the constitutional
amendment was decidedly In favor among all classes
including re-eater aud It's friends the General As
scmby majority previous 70 the holiday recess