The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-14 00:00:00

TVIIA7 THE PRESIDENT SAID.

There is an extraordinary statement in the letter
of the Standard's correspondent, dated Washington,

Jan. 21, and several American papers allude to the
same subject :—" The President said yesterday to a
friend of the writer, ' I believe in the people. They may
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sometimes be deceived—it sometimes takes a bloody

revolution like that through which we have j ust passed,

or like that which may be before us, to set a country

right upon principle: But I hope that these dis-
orders may be settled without bloodshed. . . . I
am glad to say that there is a better feeling in the
army. Thesp Radical destructives fancy that they
can do what they please ; but, if they go on in this
way, with their attacks upon the Supreme Court
and upon the Executive—all aiming at the liberties
of the people, the people may find it necessary to
take the work of correction into their own hands.

. . Congress abuses me worse than a pickpocket.
I desire to preserve the decorum due from one de-
partment of the Government to another ; but 1
don't know but the time has come to handle them

(the Congressmen) without gloves.' I may be
pardoned for repeating the President's exact lan-
guage, and for adding that when Mr. Johnson
speaks of correction by the people he does not allude
to the peaceful remedy of the ballot. And here
one may refer to an interview between the Presi-
dent and a correspondent of the New York World.
Mr. Johnson said that, :though ' for a long time

it required firmness to act up to the conviction that
the demands of the Constitution are more imperative
than those of Congress, and it was like breaking
thick ice to break through the crust of prejudice
that intervened between the perceptions of the
multitude and the President's real motives,' the
country had become better advised, and the Presi-
dent's duty much lighter. The Radicals in Con-
gress, he thought, were desperate. They were aware
that they were losing ground in the North ; they
hoped to retrieve their loss by the full conquest of
the South. They were ' capable of employing any
means—constitutional or unconstitutional—to get
rid of the President, or shear away his powers.'
Their evidence' in support of impeachment had
been obtained by the person Ashley' and
others, by ransacking brothels and low slums,
and accepting testimony from the lips of a felon.'
The President proceeded at length to denounce the
revolutionary measures' of Congress : he de-
clared it to be his duty to defend the Constitution
'from and every assailant.' He considered
the Executive
utive Department at the present time su-
perior to Congress. At all times its power was
equal to that of Congress. The President was
elected as directly by the people as Congress, and
was therefore as much a representative of the
people. Representatives were chosen once in two
years, to be sure ; but Senators were chosen once
in six years, and the President once in four years.
If the frequency of elections were an argument
for superior power, the President had more
power than the Senate. Mr. Johnson consi-
dered the Supreme Court equally independent
with the Executive, of legislation by Congress.
Ile was fully aware of the partisan object of the
important bills now before Congress. The Pre-
sident then dwelt upon the effect of theßadical policy
upon the country. The North was suffering great
commercial depression ; in the South ' the cot-
ton interest had nearly died out;' the Congres-
sional policy was making paupers of the Southern
people ; the South was able to support no part of
the public burdens, the cost of collecting the re-
venue in the South being actually greater than the
amount of revenue received. Mr. Johnson pointed
to Tennessee—where 70,000 black and white voters
control the destiny of 800,000 white persons repre-
senting the intelligence and respectability of the
State—as a model' of Congressional reconstruc-
tion. Of Congress Mr. Johnson said, further—
' I consider the Extremists, who have violated their
own express declaration of the object of the war,
and who are dishonouring the Constitution every
day that they proceed with this damning policy
towards the South—l consider these men, I say,
far more inconsistent than, and quite as treason-
able as, any rebel who fought in the Southern
armies.' If a proper policy of moderation had
been adopted, Mr. Johnson said, long ere this the
South might have been set on its legs again,'
and peace and prosperity restored. The President
concluded his remarks by saying that a new revo-
lution would be far more disastrous than the late
civil war ; that he would ' leave special measures
for special occasions ;'; and that he believed in the
young men, who would not permit a revolution to
be accomplished, even though it might be neces-
sary for the people to take the matter into their
own hands."

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