The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-03-11


must Recognize them No Chance Tor Packed
gpuVeutions-The Execution OF the Recon.
structiou Law-No Radical OHice.Seekers TO
he I'm Cam neutrality-suspicious. Looking Less
Formidable, Etc.
WASHINGTON, March 9, 1867.
The Hunnicatts and others Of that party
who are legislating in the South may mol
hone to accomplish their purposes. Ihey
vii, fnd that there is power enough In
Congress Notwithstanding the violence o'
certain Radical member TO carry OUT .ne
recent reconstruction law acco.uS han
o,yoinai nronositions of Senator sherman.
A nacted negro convention in virginia, or
a. a., o,hor State south OF the Potomac,
cannot n-sme measures for the degradation
oS,bese States, in accordance with the views
nc adyenturers who have temporarily
souatted among people whom they aim
to destroy, and have their plans adopted
in preference TO those Of the citizens Of the
State. Let Virginia 60 ahead in the good
work Of organizing under the provisions OF
the Sherman bill-trhich is mild in con,po-
risop 9th chat could be offered should she re-
ject that. Her sons and daughters are TOO
high advanced in the scale OF devotion .o
her honor and welfare ever TO be accused Oh
hone of the South now is in an early repre-
senta,ion, and when they have complied
with the statute now presented, they mast
have Il Prominent senator's and represen-
fatives in Congress assert this, contrary to
Tho evil designs of Sumner, Chandler, and
others Those who would reject consti-
tuition adopted by convention called by
the nresent Legislature are few in number.
II cannot be claimed that that is the crea-
,ion of President Johnson and its action
must he recognized. There is certainly
light beyond the present gloom. The end
of persecution is nigh at hand and only let
the South be true TO her people and to
herself, as she ever has been, and there
need be no fear about daybreak. The
General-in- Chief and the President OF the
United States will soon have, upon consul
tation, completed the list of the officers
who.are TO hold command in the military
districts, and both of these will act well
towards the South in the execution of a
law which it is beyond their control to pre-
vent. There will be no applicants for poll
teal favor in the North among the list.
1t is evident that there is not so fierce q
disposition now manifested in favor of i'm
peaching the President as there has been.
The very Incorporate speech of Represen-
tative Ashley, and the sensible position OF
Messrs. Bingham and Spalding, his col
leagues in the House, together with the
certain fact that several other members
are inclined not to allow themselves to be
made tools OF in opposition to their better
Judgment, is working a reverSion on the
side of the President. For all that, how
ever, the impeachment men are working
theoretically to accomplish their schemes
In the Senate the subject is not broGrhed
Ii may be on account of the constitutional
provision that the President would have to
be tried before that body should the House
present an indictment against him. but it
does not appear that the majority of the
senators are disposed to endorse all that
Mr.. Ashley or Butler may say against the
Chief Magistrate. Some of the members
of both Houses among the dominant party
propose to wait and see the result of their
legislation towards reconstructing the
southern States and the pare the President
takes in the execution of the law before
proceeding to extremities and altogether
there are many indications that impeach-
ment is not held so favorably as it has
been. Prominent Radicals, high in posi-.
ton, assert that that is the main principle
which now holds the party in its strength
and that no matter how the question may
be disposed OF, its finality will be the
means of weakening their party to very
great extent.
The President is now nominating seve-
raj very prominent local Radicals for Off
cial positions, and its effect tends to lessen
much Of the antagonism expressed towards
him. TIMoN.