The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-07-04
Special correspondence Of the Herald.
Senator wilson's Views ora TmpcarIt.
,ncnt, demonstrations. ConfiscatiOn.
s,nnrrc.., md General Grant

Congress. md General Grant.
Bo.roS, MASS, July 1.-Iour correspon-
dent las lust had 4 brief interview with
Hon. Henry Wilson, and as his converse
ton WAS mostly upon current political and
reconstruction topics, venture to give the
public the substance Of the Massachusetts,
Senator's views. Concerning the cond.
,;onS OF reconstruction Mr.. Wilson said
that nc held the same opinions now as
when he returned from the South. As to
the matter Of admitting the southern
States 10 their former status, he claimed
that il they complied with the terms laid
downin the reconstruction bill and elected
men who could take the oath, no member
al Congress had any right to say that new
conditions should he imposed: for the law
said that they shall be admitted when they
comply with lis requirements. He would
like 10 have added another condition-that
X should ho obligatory for every State 10
establish m impartial system OF common
schools; but he felt bound TO say that he met
no man, Of whatever party, at the South
who vas not in favor Of establishing such
a system. lie believed that il would be
established. because all Intelligent men
We're agreed tuat now that the negroes
were free il was important that they
should be educated.
IL believed, he said, that all the south
c:n States could be represented in Congress
before the next Presidential election that
They would participate in ii, and that it
WAS very important, both from party and
= national point Of view, that they should
DO so. II the Republican party went into
the campaign with the South under mill
tGry rule it would be charged upon them
with powerful effect in such States as
PENNSYLVANIA and New York that while
III" military leaders had crushed the rebel
ljoi there was not craftsmanship enough
among political leaders to restore those
conquered States to their proper position.
Financially and in the interest OF bust
ness Also it is important that as soon as the
South, on Il basis OF equal rights and pro-
lection Tor all. can be re,torcd, ii should
be done: for then the Republic and the
Republican party, with the southern States
ia Congress, would both be stronger. He
believed that the Republicans would carry
halt 81! the southern States, and he was
quito sure cf onc-thrd and he was
also of the belief that at the next cleo
ton the Republicans will carry the
country overwhelmingly for inasmuch as
they have freed the nation, they ought to
administer it for some time 10 come. He
had no doubt whatever that the speech O.!
General Rawlings is an approved cXposi-
ton OF the political creed Of General
Grant, and he was equally confident that
he will nc the next President Of The
United States. lie had the most perfect
faith in General Grants thorough SYM
plthv with Congress and the principles OF
the Republican party, and spoke Of him as
an out-and out Republican--: Radical
and said further that he had always ad-
risrd the southern men who came to see
him 10 20 in for the Congressional plat
form and not 10 affiliate with the Copper
heads, whom the country would never
again tolcra," in power. General Grant,
/ he said. had declared that all his generals
who 90 south turn Radicals, and that ;hry
I win average more Radicals than the Mas
. >acuusriis delegation. Grant, he sad,
was sguarcly in favor Of manhood sui-
ira@c, and has quietly given all the aid in
his power 10 the Congressional programme.
Congress, he thinks, ought to coniinc IL
S, Il. 1t Tie july session to tic passage OF
an Mnendatory act and then adjourn; and
re further believed that it wOuid 10 50.
In Speahiugof Grants antcccdc":o ho
/ said !. wNs "a error TO report tjiat he was
[ ever Democrat. He was ~ Old Wig,
bat voted for Buchanan on account CT per
s8nll objections TO Fremont. He Sup
/ ported Lincoln in l>Gl with all his heart.
/ He did not ,Aiuk that Impeachment Of
President johnson would occur, Tor tie
nYopo,ition had failed TO take any hold
itpoa the country. He was opposed TO
/ cgAii,ca:iOn. iOr il was too late in the day
! Ior tina, policy. We niSht nave done any
. thingaiicy Lee surrendered but coaiisca-
tiyu nov would produce regular Ireland
in The South. The most intelligent ne
gyoy.s he met were opposed to it, and be
/ lirvcd there was 10 need oi ii. We have
rot iurty-tiye million acres II pGb!lc lands
IN the South to-day which were opened
Tor the whites last January, and for the
negroes six months before. not oEc-fith
OF il IS taken up. Border land IS 50
ch-ap and the wages Of the negroes 50
good On the average that any industrious
negro can buy land today. II is easier for
4 uycro +" get 4 homestead now than lor
an industrious working man III New Eng
land. We could settle two millions OF ne
grocs ca our present public lands III the
South, counting five on every eighty acres,
without disturbing anybody. IN addition
10 this, the land in the South is heavily
mortgaged, and large tracts will soon bc il
the market at cheap rates.
! IL short, The Senator takes hopeful
view ol the situation, and believes that tflc
South Will soon be clothed in its right
mind again, and have a place in the coun'
ellis Of the nation as IN equal compccr O.