Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-10
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

The HumOr Of an Amnesty Proclaim
IiOn-Chief SusfIee Chase Formally
AbandOms she Radical E'arty-StOses
Denies tae BrownIOw- Stokes Dis
pasehes-The National InteIIigencer
and the Democratic f'IatfOrm-Wash-
IngtOn Municipal Affairs - Two
Mayors and Two Sets of boards in
the FIeld-WOOIIey Purges Himself
Special to the Louisville Journal.
WASHINGTON, June S.-Rumors are
prevalent here that s proclamation of
general amnesty is to be issued by the Presi-
dent on Wednesday. / know that he has
been strongly urged by many Of his friends
TO adept this measure, and that many Others
have made earnest efforts TO dissuade him
from il. / understand that his practice has
been TO listen attentively TO all arguments
and suggestions upon the subject, seeking
information as to facts but not committing
himself
In my opinion, and, think, in the
opinion of most Democrats, it wonld be
most impolitic on the part Of the President
10 proclaim general amnesty while Con-
gross remains IN session. 1t would be sure
90 raise another row. A second impeach
ment would at once be inaugurated You
| are aware that a law OF Congress- puTports
20 take from the President or to deny 10
him the power of pardon. That law, 10 be
sure, is palpably unconstitutional, still Is a.
a law, and Congress, You know, holds that
the President Is hound TO execute any and
every Congressional law, whether constiu-
tional or not, until the Supreme Court shall
| have declared il unconstitutional.
The Senate, il Is true failed 10 convict
the President for having, as IL was al
legged violated the tenure Of Office law,
but one Of the defenses set up for him was
| thai he had not violated it, or that, if he
had violated il, he had done so uninten-
4 tionally. No such defense, however, could
be made if he we're 10 set al dehanc,
7 the law that by lie terms deprives him OF
the mower Of pardon. Therefore, his un.
scrupulons enemies might prevail against
him, however just, and right, and patri
otto his action might be.
The friends Of the Chase movement seen
pretty we'll satisfied with the progress they
have so far made. The Chief Justice
thoroughly disguised with the unblushinl
, raacaliiy Of Rsdicalism, has shaken tbs
: dust from his feet and abandoned the party
altogether. He authorizes the Statement
d that he will henceiorth oppose the Rsdica
, party, aud acknowledges "a his own th,
sentiments recently attributed 10 him IL
the New York Herald. The sentiment
referred to were in the main such as ar
held by a majority Of the Democrat
party. The most striking exception wa
, the doctrine Of universal manhood suffrage
? 10 which Mr. Chase still clings.
i, In the National lateiiigeHtef Of Saturls
= appeared the brief and pointed telegraph
q dispatches which were said to have passe
|. between Brownlow and William b Stoke
> | in reference 10 Senator FoEler's vote on Oh
+ impeachment question, and which weT
: ! published in the journal while that que
: | ton was penAing. To-day Stokes com,
|. | out in a card denying the authenticity
The dispatches. Then the question COM
M. II those we're hot the dispatches whic
8 nssaed between BroWnlow and Stokes
what particular do they differ FROM tho
which did pass between them2 This que
tiop. however. Dc. Stokes is not expects
% M answer. unless Butler should sumFn'
N him before the smelling committee AZ
threaten him with a corner OF Wooliey
, The National IRiciiigeaceT OF this NOR
\. ing insists that the platform whica Is TO
4 adopted by the Democratic haiional 70
venIion shall acknowledge as vital issues
the campaign the supremacy Of the vi