Year: 1866

. WASHINGTON, March 30, 1866.


The decease of Mr.. Foot, Senator from Vermont,
has postponed the discussion on the Presldentes
Veto The delay will not, in all probability, eurtai
the speeches much. The honorable gentlemen who
viii have the floor, will be busy massing their
forces for an intellectual attack as soon as the
occasion will present itself. leading radical
senator remarked, last night if two of their side
had not gone to dinner yesterday when the veto
came in, they would have had the necessary two
thirds to put the bill through over the veto. A
very careful count gives the bill 81 and the other
side Is. The radicals will gain another recruit
from New Jersey, to take the place OF Stockton.
The expulsion of Stockton from the Senate has
caused good deal of speculation among public
men here. They begin to see how near the coun-
try is getting to the brink of the precipice in the
radicals having control of two-thrds of both
Houses. The moment that point is attained, moth


ing is between the radicals and their objective
point, but their own discretion.


Some think they will impeach the President
and thereupon declare that he cannot exercise the
duties of the Presidential office, while the appeal
is pending. Undoubtedly the President would de-
cline and most ustifably, to recognize this declar
alton as good law, and then what might come, no
one could predict. But one would hope that 1t
would be impossible for two-thirds of the Congress
to present an unbroken front in carrying out such
a programme. But this much may certainly be
hazarded that the condition is critical. When the
earth trembles it is said you may look out for an
earthquake. There are portentous signs about,
but we may escape the worst. ~ zs-s.


There is general interruption of all business in
the departments to-day, on account of the death
of Mr. Foot, the Senator from Vermont. He has
been longer in the Senate than any other member.
| The question has recently been raised whether
persons from the seeded States could take out
| patents. And the commissioner of patents has
been instructed that no one applying from the
Southern States can be permitted to take outa
patent except upon proof of loyalty, or producing
the original oath Of amnesty or a certified copy
thereof; and if the party applying was within one
Of the excepted classes he must produce pardon,


The public are immensely exercised over the
subject of the Connecticut election. The radicals
claim the election but the opposition won't yield
it, Mr. jefferson, in one of his letters, says that
he had an unfailing way of foretelling what Lord
Norths administration would do in the revolution
that he always reflected as to what it was wise
they should do, and then took it for granted they
would do the very opposite. 1t is said by some
people that this is good way of judging as to
what the people will do According to this rule,
the radicals are pretty safe in Connecticut.


heard one of the radical officials talking to-day
andhis great complaint against the South was that
the people did not send men to Congress who
could take the oath. He said all such men should
be admitted. But several of the very kind of
men have been elected; yet they are no more ad-
mitted than other people. So there seems to be
no real open sesame to the congressional doors.


The question is constantly discussed whether
the radicals or the President will be sustained by
the people. Some persons argue that the radicals
will certainly carry the North, and that the South
will be kept out; that the next presidential elec
tion will run the hazard of precipitatng the coun-
try into war again. And in this wise: They say
suppose the radicals refuse to count the votes of the
| Southern States: suppose by these votes Mr.


johnson is elected, what then2 They say the


President will insist those votes being counted


and his being Presidents that the radicals vii


refuse to agree to this; that there is arbter o


such dispute, and that nothing remains but force
| It is true we are rapidly approaching the edge o
| the precipice. No one can say absolutely wha
4 the future will bring forth but all may feel tina


the future is full of danger.


| The Treasury department is disposed to retract


its steps and recall the numerous agents who have
| been abusing its confidence South. It was Ger


tainly time for that, for never have more infamous
frauds been perpetrated on any people than by
these agents on the people of the South.


The President, for the last two months, has
been meditating a proclamation declaring the
Southern States restored to their political rights
and the writ of habeas corpus no longer sus-
pended; but the proclamation has not been issued.
Some think it is owing to the fact of Texas not
being ready with her congressional delegation.
Some think it is because the difficulties thicken
in the Presidents path to this policy. ,


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