The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-02-01

Special corfespondenss u Ne Baltimore oasstts
The Radical PrOgramme-aov MANY
support it--WhAt the Weaker Radi,
calls Demand-Military Radicals, etc
WASHINGTON, January %, 1851
have frequently, In the course Of this
correspondence, asserted that II was a
known impossibility, constituted as this
Congress now Is, hat any conceivable plan
can DC devised, as a .inality, ,chich could re.
ceipe controlling uote ; and the action upon
the measure Of Stevens simply proves the
total inability Of the dominant party To
dispose of the great question Of pacifica-
tion--nothing more and nothing less.
The programme Of the section Of which
Stevens Is the leader confesscdly demands
three things, namely:
/. Tho removal Of the President, the
setting aside of the present State govern
the Supreme Court. II.
2. That no southern territory shall be
recognized as State until the Federal
Constitution itself guarantees to every
"loyal" citizen within the Union the bal
lot and education, and to the negroes land
besides.
8. The disfranchisement of every man
at the South complicated in any manner in
the late civil war, and the confscation OF
his property, even to the extent of ignoring
the pardoning power Of the President.
This plan, in all its enormity, has the
support Of at least Seuenty.fue members Of
the Radical representation. Those who,
fearful of the recoil of public sentiment,
and the crushing power of popular reac-
ton whenever these measures shall be at
tempted to be practically and forcibly put
into execution, have hesitated to follow
the lead Of Stevens in this instance, never
theless demand:
lst. The reconstruction Of the southern
States IN virtue Of an act of Congress repu-
dating their CriSting status as States, and
an admission Of the power of Congress to
regulate the right of suffrage therein.
I'd. The eternal prohibition to hold even
State offices of at least four-ffths of the
people of those States-and
Sd. The restriction (under test-oaths)
of representation in Congress, and all Fe-
deral Offices to the negroes and interlopers
of the South.
Between these plans confess / can see
but this practical difference: That the lat
ter, from its hypocrisy and insidiousness,
is the more mischieyous as promising o
longer delay in final settlement. The
former, through its more marked and more
honest ultraism, is calculated to arouse
the people TO just appreciation Of the
true political condition of the country, and
the fact, now potent to every one, of the
utter incapacity of the political tricksters
in Congress to deal with the momentous
questions before them.
Besides, many voted with the majority
on this occasion on the ground that the Dill
tcaS too lenient to the southern people. Mr..
Julian, although voting in the minority,
was of this opinion but, like the old or
thodox Presbyterian when told that accord
ing to even Universalsts belief a soul
might be punished with fire and birthstone
5000 years, while Directing to too great
lcniency, reluctantly admitted that it was
"better than nothing"
The Chronicle of this morning claims
Generals Grant, Sickles, Ord, Heintzel-
man, Sheridan, and Thomas as recent &C
cessions to the Radical party. This whole
sale appropriation Of high names, besides
being sign of feebleness, is wholly refer
able to the "recent accession " of General
Thomas as visitor here. 1t was no news
to be informed of his Radicalism or OF that
of General Sheridan. With regard to the
others, the Chronicle knowingly falsifies the
record.