The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-11-20
From WASHINGTON.

From Washington.
"Leo," the Washington correspondent
of the Charleston Courier, writes as fol-
lows:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.
The rout ofthe radicals is complete in n.
York and in New Jersey. The issue in Mas
sachusctts was local, in application to that
State, BUT still of general character, so
far as it was, upon q Radical attempt to
subject citizens to unconstitutional re-
straints. The prohibitory laws were the
chict and vital issue, and upon this both
parties exercised their efforts. The re-
suit is that the anti-prohibitionists carried
two-thirds of each branch OF the Lcgisla-
ture.
Negro suffrage was defeated whenever
it was brought into the canvass, except in
Michigan.
Kansas was permanently an abolition
State. 1t was enacted by the ant-sl;ve-
ry interest. 1t was the field of the great
battles for negro supremacy. 1t was al
ways the most fanatical community in the
country, and it gave birth TO the John
Brown raid. But, lo Kansas has rejec-
ted negro suffrage! Minnesota has also
secuted and defeated the proposition 10
embrace negro equality at the polls:
Prominent Democratic leaders tele-
graph to US that the triumph is due not
to t the old Democratic party alone, but to
the cordial cooperation of Old Line
wings and of conservative Republicans
T6e President, as 1 am we'll assured,
comprehcnds the new situation. lie re-
coenizcs the Conservatives, both OF Re
publicans and Democrats, as having long
ed for the safety of the country.
His counsels will be shaped in accor-
dance with that idea. He may now look,
with a confidence formerly felt. but then
deridcd, for an entire redemption OF the
country from the thraldom of Radlcallsm
He was not more sagacious than others:
and his precision would hardly have been
made real, had not the Radical run so
mad career. that the people were obllg-
ed to check them.
General Grant appears to be managing
his lwo offices very well. lie goes tor
economy in his branch of the service
He Will as I learn, not only disarm and
disband negro military organizations IN
this vicinity, but in all places where they
arc not authorized by law.
:. People came to pump him to-day
g General.n they said "what do you
tbinl, of the elections 2" ''Therc are
two subjects" he replied; "that l never
talk about-cne is elections"
WASHINGTON; Nov. 10.
It isa grave and important question
whether the South has gained anything
practically by the recent Northern elec-
lions. But there is one idea that is
rather favorable 10 the South, and that is
one of n compromise of extreme opinions
between Conservatives and Radicals upon
the reconstruction question. The very
first favorable sign Tor the oppressed
South comes to me from the Admlnlstra-
tion cirrles I know. to-day, that the
President and his Cabinet would gladly
avail themselves of an opportunity to ia
vor q compromise between conflicting
sectional and party interests and views,
Nothing is moro certain than the tact
chat. if neither section nor party yield
something of extreme opinion, tue Soutl,
and the whole country will be aSltatcd
TO the great dctriment of all sections
In the Cabinet, then, it has been sug-
gested that the Presidents plan of recon
structon should be so modified as to en-
brace enough of concession to the equal
riphts party as to satisfy the conscrva-
tive Of its members. The proposition
will be to conceclc the principle of equal
RIGHTS. but to defer it's practical applica-
ton and enforcement till the freedmen
shall be prepared for political cnfran-
chisement.
1t is suggested ih the Cabinet that the
Federal Government may propose to the
ten Southern States that, by constitu-
tional or other agreement, the blacks OF
the Southern States should be admitted
to the suffrage as soon rs properly fitted
for it by education and industry and
property. Those freedmen who are now
freeholders, or tax payers, or who can
read and write arc to be Immediately re-
cognizcd as voters. TIE States arc to be
required to constitute, at once, systcms
for the education Of the blacks, in com
mon schools, so that the voting class will
be gradually increased, in proportion 10
the increase of the numbers, industry,
and intelligence of the blacks
Some believe that Congress, after r, q
while, will be willing thus to modify the
Reconstruction laws. Congress WIZ Io
this ttiso when they sec that the people Of the
North demand it. If it could be tairly
and nUIti, fnlIy w brought to the Northern mind,
T NV ,vonld not doubt its favorable consider
ation and acceptance. IF The President,
in his annual message, should venture to
throw himself, with all his force, upon
that measure, as compromise, he will
find hearty support in the North. The
conservative mind Of the North is pre-
pared for some ncw project of reconstruc-
ttion. But the time has not yet come
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