The Conservative

Falling Back,

The most unerring of all the signs of speedy retreat, is the wonderful relaxation or softening of the late granite hardness of the Radicalism of Chief Justice Chase, the avowed candidate of the extremists. Formerly all the most violent advocates of negro suffrage were citing him as a respectable endorser of the atrocious schemes for Africanizing the South. Now any number of moderate Republicans swear themselves black in the face that this "most conservative statesman has been shamefully traduced," and that "he has no sympathy in common with such Radical rattlesnakes as Phillips and Stevens"

Indeed "the first swallow of summer" in the shape of a Southern man has appeared to vouch for the Conservatism of the Judicial brother of "dear Judge Underwood." And the very air is thick rumors of how, during a late electioneering excursion in his official robes to this city, Judge Chase declared himself opposed to negroes holding office, and administered thirty-nine lashes orally to the unmobbed Hunnicutt for his atrocious doctrines. We have also seen the Alabama gorillas, now in session at Montgomery, arrested by orders from Washington, in the midst of their mad war-dance, and compelled to send a committee to ascertain whether their extreme doctrines would be countenanced by their Congressional keepers.

Mr. H. J. Raymond, a most judicious teacher, whose faculty of snuffing danger at an immense distance, and of also dodging it, is almost miraculous, now clearly intimates that the damage done to the Congressional scheme of reconstruction by the late elections will require important changes in that measure. He, and that portion of the Republican party which co-operates with him are preparing to sacrifice "universal" for "impartial suffrage." with the noble fortitude with which the late Artemus Ward declared he would sacrifice all of his wife's relations for the sake of the Union,—Richmond Examiner.