Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-20

WASHINGTON, Feb. II

cans here by the prosecutions OF the
Louisiana Returning Board than by
any one Of the many other untoward
events that have grown ont of the
adoption Of the "conciliatory policy"
This feeling bas assumed very decid-
ed character since the conviction Of
Anderson by the packed jury. The
indifference manifested by prominent
administration officials to the fate of its
members has, under the circumstances, S,
provoked the severest comments not
only among the "implacable" and those
of the ''stalwart' order, but among the
larger number of the leaders who have
carefully abstained, heretofore, from
anything more decided than the mild
est protests. All sort of rumors are
afoat as to the deuunciation of the
President by Republican Senators dur
ing the executive sessions of the past
few days. The failure to withdraw
billiards name as Minister to Brazil,
after, it is claimed, his offensive record
as one Of the most pestlferous OF origin
al secessionists had been exposed in
committee and executive session, and
his moral unftness had been demon
strated, has intensified this feeling Of
dissatisfaction. 1t would be quite
needless to specify wherein Wade
Hampton has utterly ignored his word
and "honor," never more solemnly
pledged than here last spring to let
"bygones be bygones." 10 the estima-
ton of large majority ofour Republi
can population, where he has not open.
ly violated the spirit of the promises
then made, he has continued in the
proscriptive acts of the mob legislature,
recognized as legal when he was ac-
knowledged Governor by the Federal
Government. He is charged with
having tacitly encouraged placing un-
der ban, large majority of the citi-
zens of the State so that, at the present
time, they really are worse off than a
like number of aliens would be under
the laws of South Carolina. If Mich
oils regrets his virtual repudiation of the
promises be made in behalf of the Bull
Dozers of the Pelican State, and Of
which he has been so guilty in the case
of the Returning Board, be evidently
shrinks from indicating it for fear of
losing caste With the mob rabble which
compelled his recognition last spring,
nominally as Governor, but really as
the instrument of their malice and re-
lentless hate of political opponents.
With such harvest of the aftermath
of the "conciliation policy" it is no
longer possible to give it even an ap-
pearance of popularity among Republi-
can members of Congress-; and there
appears growing disposition among
those who have advocated the greatest
latitude for experiment to hold every
one who have exercised to right, to a
stern account of the fruits that have
resulted.
European affairs have been more
discussed during the past week than
during all the preceding months of the
war; and among neither Of the two
parties to our late civil conflict is there
observable any marked degree of sym
pathy for John Bull now that calamit-
les threaten and fear cometh. 1t
seems to be felt that if he has at last
fallen victim to his game of duplicity
and double dealing, it was fate be
had provoked by a foreign policy die
tated by no higher interests than th ose
of the most groveling avarice and
heartless sel6shness. Some Of the
chickens incubated and hatched during
our rebellion are evidently getting
home to roost.
The reconciliation question has
dragged its slow length through anoth-
er week and it is still unsafe to predict
when vote will be reached. Its de-
cided opponents and those not classed
as friends have occupied most of the
time during the week.
The close vote on the proposition to
substantially revive the income tax law,
with subsequent indications, leads to