Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Haskins-Week-5 Title A name given to the resource This Week in Reconstruction, February 1-8, 1868 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mallory Haskins Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 1-8, 1868 Description An account of the resource Never has there been a more appropriate time for the growth of railroads than now. Railroads take over as the form of communication between Virginia, which is still politically isolated from the Union, and the rest of the nation. As punishment for white Southern rebellion, an act passed by the House of Representatives allows Congress to reclaim southern land that is currently used for railroads. The Dispatch interprets this event as another unjust Northern aggression. White Richmonders no longer identify as rebels and are certainly not worthy of this punishment or stripping of property during such hard times. The conflict surrounding railroads provides a physical embodiment of Southern and Northern tension. As the North rips away land from the white Virginians, represented by the irate language of the Dispatch, they only grow more frustrated with their current state. These Northern "monsters" disrupt the economic and social progress white Southerners cultivate through these railways. Once again Northerners find ways to belittle these white Southerners in all of their efforts to better themselves and their beloved state. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE DEMOCRACY SOUTHERN CONVENTIONS- IMPEACHMENT EXCITEMENT-PUBLIC DEBT, ETC. Washington, January 31, 1868. Johnson's chances for receiving tire nominations of the Democratic Convention for the next Presidency are looming up in more formidable proportions now than any of those who have been mentioned. His iron principles domitable will in defence of the principles upon which the Democracy in this country intend to fight the next campaign have shown most conclusively that no fitter standard-bearer could be chosen, and the indications are not few that he will be chosen. The most extreme members of the Radical party have among them those who admit that the persistent course of; the President alone has brought Congress, with its revolutionary majority, to the position it now occupies, and which is causing the members of that majority more, trouble and anxiety than they have experienced in the whole course of their political existence. Mr. Johnson's views as to the nomination have not been expressed. It is well enough known that his ambition does not tend further than the success of the principles he has advocated and urged so forcibly. The proceedings of the Reconstruction Conventions in the several southern States have not inspired the leading Radicals in Congress with much respect for their legislation, notwithstanding the extreme partisanship displayed in all of them. Congress will not allow these Conventions to regulate matters as they are disposed to do, and it is a great waste of time and talent for the members to propose, in writing and otherwise, their various schemes for disfranchising and enfranchisement, voting qualifications, militia laws, and other requirements, which the prominent lights of Congressional Radicals intend themselves to attend to. The Conventions will exceed the limits of their prerogatives unless very careful, and thus get into bad repute with Congress. It is not thought that the flurry of yesterday about impeaching a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States will amount to anything beyond the expenditure of several hundred dollars in the exercise of a special committee's functions. Some of the members of the House of Representatives are rabid on the subject of impeachment; but it is very safe to assert that there will be no impeachment of any one, either during this session or the next. It has been stated that should the Radicals nominate Grant for the Presidency Butler will stump the South in opposition to his election. In this case it is assorted by some parties that the influence of the Freedmen's Bureau will be exerted among the negro voting population in order to counteract Butler's operations and sustain the nominee of the Convention. The public debt statement will be ready about the 6th of the month, as usual, and as the payment of interest on the fivetwenty bonds and the bonds of 1847 has been very heavy during the month, there will be shown a considerable increase in the debt. Timon. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18680203&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1868-02-03 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context HaskinsMallory-18680203-PresidentJohnsonandtheDemocracy-SouthernConventions-ImpeachmentExcitement.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource President Johnson and the Democracy-Southern Conventions-Impeachment Excitement