The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-15 00:00:00

nEE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, IE6E.

DIITCH-RHENISTI.

The receipts for the fortnight ending October 31
amounted to £14,150, and for the corresponding
period of last year to £11,504, showing an increase
of £2,646. The receipts since the commencement
of the present book year on the Ist of May last, in-
cluding the above, amounted to £164,932, showing
an increase, as compared with the corresponding
period of last year, of £19,677. The working ex-
penses for the fortnight amounted to £5,448, or
38.49 per cent. of the receipts, and for the corres-
ponding period of last year to £4,533, or 39.57 per
cent., showing an increase of £915. The working
expenses from the Ist of May to the 31st of October
amounted to £58,996, or 35.76 per cent. of the
receipts, and for the year 1864-1865 to 34.82 per
cent.

Important Statement of President Johnson's

Views.

Mr. George L. Stearns, of Massachusetts, lately
had a long conversation with Mr. Johnson, in which the
President spoke very freely of his views regarding recon-
struction, the Democratic party, negro suffrage, the politi-
cal status of the returned rebels, etc. The following is
Mr. Stearns' published account of what the President said,
endorsed by Mr. Johnson himself. It will be seen that
the President is not at all reticent, but speaks frankly and
intelligibly regarding all those questions which agitate the
American people :

" Washington, Oct. 3, 1865.
"I have just returned from an interview with President
Johnson, in which ho talked for an hour on the process of
reconstruction of the rebel States. His manner was as cordial
and his conversation as free as in 1863, when I met him
daily in Nashville. His countenance is healthy, even more
so than when I first knew him. I remarked that the people
of the North were anxious that the process of reconstruc-
tion should be thorough, and they wished to support him
in the arduous work, but their ideas were so confused by
the conflicting reports constantly circulated, and especially
by the present position of the Democratic party. It is in-
dustriously circulated in the Democratic clubs that he was
going over to them. He laughingly replied—' Major, have
you never known a man who for many years has differed
from your views, because you were in advance of him,
claim them as his own when he came up to your stand-
point ?' I replied, ' I have, often.' He said, So have I,' and
went on : ' The Democratic party finds its position unten-
able, aid is coming to ours. If it has come up to our position
lam glad of it. You and I need no preparation for this
conversation ; we can freely talk on this subject, for the
thoughts are familiar to us ; we can be perfectly frank with
each other.' He then commenced with saying that the
States are in the Union, which is whole and indivisible.
Individuals tried to carry them out, but did not succeed,
as a man may try to cut his throat and may be prevented
by the bystanders, and you cannot say he cut his throat
because he tried to do it. Individuals may commit
treason and bo punished, and a large number of indi-
viduals may constitute a rebellion and be punished as
traitors. Some States tried to get out of the Union, and
we opposed it, honestly, because we believed it to be
wrong ; and we have succeeded in putting down the rebel-
lion. The power of those persons who made the attempt
has been crushed, and now we want to reconstruct
the State Governments, and have the power to do it.
State institutions are prostrated, laid out on the ground,
and they must be taken up and adapted to the progress of
events. This cannot be done in a moment. We are
making very rapid progress ; so rapid I sometimes cannot
realise it; it appears like a dream. We must not be in too
much of a hurry ; it is better to let them reconstruct them-
selves than to force them to it, for if they go wrong the
power is in our hands, and we can check them at any stage
to the end, and oblige them to correct their errors ; we
must be patient with them. I did not expect to keep out
all who were excluded from the amnesty, or even a largo
number of them, but I intended they should sue for par-
don, and so realise the enormity of the crime they had
committed. You could not have broached the subject of
equal suffrage at the North seven years ago ; and we must
remember that the changes of the South have been more
rapid, and they have been obliged to accept more unpalat-
able truths, than the North has. We must give them time
to digest a part, for we cannot expect such large affairs
will be comprehended and digested at once. We must
give them time to understand their new position. I have
nothing to conceal in these matters, and have no desire or
willingness to take indirect courses to obtain what we
want. Our Government is a grand and lofty structure ;
in searching for its foundation we find it rests on the broad
basis of popular rights. The elective franchise is not a
natural right, but a political right. I am opposed to giving
the States too much power, and also to a great consolidation
of power in the central Government. If I interfered with
the vote in the rebel States, to dictate that the negro shall
vote, I might do the same thing for my own purposes in
Pennsylvania. Our only safety lies in allowing each State
to control the right of voting by its owu laws, and we have
the power to control the rebel States if they go wrong. If
they rebel we have the army, and can control them by it,
and, if necessary, by legislation also. If the general Go-
vernment controls the right to vote in the States, it may
establish such rules as will restrict the vote to a small
number of person; and thus create central despotism.
My position here is different from what it would be if I
was in Tennessee. There I should try to introduce negro
suffrage gradually first those who had served in the
army; those who could read and write, and perhaps a
property qualification for others, say $2OO or $250. It
will not do to let the negroes have universal suffrage now.
It 'would breed a war of races. There.was a time in the
Southern States when the slaves of large owners looked
down upon non•slaveowners because they did not own
slaves. The larger the number of slaves their masters
owned the prouder they were, and this has produced hos-
stility between the mass of the whites and the negroes.
The outrages are mostly from non-slaveholding whites
against the negro, and from the negro upon the non-slave-
holding whites. The negro will vote with the late master,
whom he does not hate, rather than with the non-slave-
holding white, whom he does hate. Universal suffrage
would create another war, not against is, but a war of
races. Another thing, this Government is the freest and
best on earth, and I feel sure is destined to last ; but to
secure this, we must elevate and purify the ballot. 1 for
many years contended at the South that slavery was a
political weakness, but others said it was political strength
they thought we gained three-fifths representation by it.
I contended that we lost two-fifths. If we had no slaves
we should have had twelve representatives more, accord-
ing to the then ratio of representation. Congress apportions
representation by States, not districts, and the State
apportions by districts. Many years ago I moved in the
Legislature that the apportionment of representatives to
Congress in Tennessee should be qualified by voters. The
apportionment is now fixed until 1872; before that time
might change the basis of representation from population
to qualified voters. North as well as South, and in due
course of time the States, without regard to colour, might
extend the elective franchise to all who possess certain
mental, moral, or such other qualifications as might be
determined by an enlightened public judgment.'"

B nmsu lloatE FOR INCURABLES. —Th e half-yearly
meeting and election of this charity was held yester-
day at the London Tavern—Mr. C. Hood in the chair. The
chairman said he had much pleasure in being able to an-
nounce the continued prosperity of this charity. Since its
foundation 92 patients in all stages of disease had been re-
cipients of the benefits of the institution, and at the present
time there were 40 residents in the home supplied with
every comfort and all the necessary appliances suited to
their various diseases. In addition to the handsome dona-
tion of £l,OOO from the Marquis of Westminster, and £l,OOO
from Mr. Stewart, previously announced, the committee
had just received another donation of £l,OOO from the
Marquis Townshend, as a memorial fund in memory of his
late father, who took so great an interest in the charity.
This donation would keep one patient in perpetuity on the
foundations. Mr. Banting spoke as to the satisfactory man-
ner in which the home was conducted from frequent visits
he had paid to it. Scrutineers having been appointed, the
election of patients was then proceeded with.

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