The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-09
From Washington.

We find the following important letter
from the Baltimore Gazette, copied in the
Hast Sentinel The Sentinel now begins tore
alize the truth of what we have been saying
for some time past:- &
Especial Correspondence of the Bait Gazette ]
WASHINGTON, February "a few days
ago 1 referred to the fact that many truly
representative men of the South were on a
visit to the metropolis, for the purpose of
canvassing the possibility of maturing some
plan by which the present sectional difficult
ties might be adjusted in a manner promis-
ing the return of harmony and fraternal re-
lations to the whole country. now learn
that this matter has since assumed definite
shape, so far that I ain authorized to say,
that proposition will be shortly made in
form, by the Legislature OF North-Carolina
and submitted to Congress, offering as i'm
atty the adoption of the Constitutional
amendment, with the substitution for the
second and third sections provisions guaran-
teeing impartial suffrage and representation
| according to the voting population.
| need not add that the proposition, in
my Judgment, will be rejected by the Radi-
GALS the purpose of the leaders of that party
being to protract indefinitely any settlement
i
| to far more stringent measures than any yet
proposed, and the means to be employed are
holder and infinitely more reckless than
the public seem willing to believe. Many
members of Congress who have had, up to
within the past week, hopes of final adj
justment upon some satisfactory basis, now
undisguisedly express themselves without
hope, and admit that their calculations, bas-
ed upon the ultimate resistance of that class
of Republicans whose votes have on some
occasions been cast against ultra measures,
have turned out to be utterly fallacious. No
better proof of this could be furnished than
the votes in the House upon an amendment
to the "tenure of Office" bill yesterday. 1t
prohibits the President from removing
Cabinet officer without the consent of the
Senate. Itwas at first substantially defeated,
but the party lash was applied, and upon
with it Incorporated as provision, passed
by strict party vote. 1t will go to the
Senate, be feebly opposed by the "more
moderate Republicans" who will finally
yield, and by the time it comes back with
the Presidents objections the party will
have become a unit, and the bill become
law by the vote of two thirds of both Houses.
Under existing circumstances, this bill is
of vital consequence. No man doubts that
the purpose OF making the CaDlneC lnOepen
dent is to tic the hands of the President in
view of his election from the position he oc-
cupies. In truth, the whole legislation of
this Congress has been but piece of net
work to environ the Executive, prepar-
atory to the utter demolition of his authori-
ty, and placing in his stead Lord Protec-
tori already selected. The restraints of the
Constitution are utterly condemned even by
such pretended Conservatives as Raymond,
and that instrument held to have been, in
fact, abolished by the results of the war
He who imagines, therefore, that the funda-
mental law presents the slightest barrier to
the destructive course marked out by the
revolutionists, indulges in delusion which
is directly at variance with every word and
every act of the dominant party.
1t is a fact which cannot he too soon fully
understood by the people and duly ponder
ed upon, that Andrew Johnson is at this
moment upon his trial that the witnesses
such as Detective Baker, are upon the stand;
that his case has been prejudged, and that
he is liable at any moment to be dragged to
the bar of the House and deposed.
understand that Gen. Grant has indefi-
nitely postponed his visit to Europe He was
to have left in April. This is very signif-
cant fact